Monday, February 21, 2011

Julian Huxley - The New Divinity

"A humanist evolution-centered religion too needs divinity, but divinity without God. It must strip the divine of the theistic qualities which man has antropomorphically projected into it, search for its habitations in every aspect of existence, elicit it, and establish fruitful contact with its manifestations. Divinity is the chief raw material out of which gods have been fashioned. Today we must melt down the gods and refashion the material into new and effective organs of religion, enabling man to exist freely and fully on the spiritual level as well as on the material." - Julian Huxley - The New Divinity - http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/library/jh_divin.htm


Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Places Where the Divine and Mundane meet Axis Mundi, Crazy Wisdom (Magic,Mysticism,Buddhism,Shamenism,Tantra,yoga,Occult)

 Buddha-nature - immortal potential for reaching enlightenment that exists within the mind of every sentient being.

Axis Mundi -The place where heaven and earth meet.


The World Tree - connecting heaven earth and the underworld


Unus mundus - Psychoid Archetype - The idea that a there is a underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and returns to. - Jung


Svabhavikakaya - "It is the ultimate buddha kaya. Its wisdom aspect is called the wisdom dharmakaya. And its appearance as a form kaya complete with fivefold certainty in the perception of pure beings is the sambhogakaya. Its appearance as a form kaya to impure beings is the nirmanakaya."


Henosis - "Is union with what is fundamental in reality."

Apotheosis  " is the exaltation of a subject to divine level "


Mysticism - "is the pursuit of communion with, identity with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate realitydivinity,spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, instinct or insight."


The Twilight Language 


Divine Language - he language of the gods, or, in monotheism, the language of God (or angels) is the concept of a mystical or divine proto-language, which predates and supersedes human phonetic speech.

Language of the birds - "is postulated as a mystical, perfect divine languagegreen languageadamic languageenochian languageangelic language or a mythical or magical language used by birds to communicate with the initiated"

Glossolalia -  "Though some consider these utterances to be meaningless, those that use them consider them to be part of a holy language."

Logos - "The principle of order and knowledge"

Hermes  - "Hermes is a messenger from the gods to humans,of many shifts (polytropos) -  he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them."

The Fool - "The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the childlike ability to tune into the inner workings of the world. The sun shining behind him represents the divine nature of the Fool's wisdom and exuberance, holy madness or 'crazy wisdom'."

Crazy Wisdom - also known as holy madness, is a manifestation of certain spiritual adepts where they behave in unconventional, outrageous, or unexpected fashion. It is considered to be a manifestation of spiritual accomplishment evident in such Dharmic Traditions as Sanatana DharmaTantra,VajrayanaZen amongst other traditions such as SufiBonpo and Taoism for example and is often evident in human cultural spiritual universals such asshamanism. Crazy wisdom is also a modality of communication, in which the adept employs esoteric and seemingly unspiritual methods to awaken an aspirant's consciousness.[1]

Psychopomp - "Psychopomps have been associated at different times and in different cultures with horsesWhip-poor-willsravensdogs,crowsowlssparrowscuckoos, and harts.In many cultures, the Shaman also fulfills the role of the psychopomp. In Jungian psychology, the psychopomp is a mediator between the unconscious and conscious realms. It is symbolically personified in dreams as a wise man or woman, or sometimes as a helpful animal. 

Shamanism  - "Shamanism encompasses the belief that shamans are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds. Shamans are said to treat ailments/illness by mending the soul. Alleviating traumas affecting the soul/spirit restores the physical body of the individual to balance and wholeness. The shaman also enters supernatural realms or dimensions to obtain solutions to problems afflicting the community."


 Amrita - "immortality", and is often referred to in texts as nectar"


Elixir of immortality


Philosopher's Stone


Gnosis - "Gnosis is a transcendental as well as mature understanding.[4] It indicates direct spiritual experiential knowledge[5] and intuitive knowledge, mystic rather than that from rational or reasoned thinking. Gnosis itself is obtained through understanding at which one can arrive via inner experience or contemplation such as an internal epiphany of intuition and external epiphany such as the Theophany."


Imagination


Intuition - "There is often an idea of a transcendent and more qualitative mind of one's spirit towards which a person strives, or towards which consciousness evolves."