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Freaks & Geeks — Issue 005

Joseph Campbell – The Story of Indra from the Brahmavar Upanishad –

Psyche & Symbol - Dionysian Unconscious:

What myths are refering to is you!!! Not jesus. Its an analgoy

Beings that act in terma of compassion. Not the lower three centers

Suppose you have mastered the gross elements without going into the subtler ones. You become the controller of the gross elements of nature. If you had stopped at the practice of sa-asmita samādhi, having reached the very depth of nature, you would have become the Master of Nature. Such people are called the siddha puruṣas, or the gods who control the different phenomena—Indra, Varuṇa, Agni, and so on, according to the Hindu names. Yoga sutras of Patanjali

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intrinsically connected to that recognition.

Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless. They not only had a scent that was delicate and pleasing to humans, but also brought a fragrance from the realm of spirit.

Flowers as Enlightenment

Using the word enlightenment in a wider sense than the conventionally accepted one, we could look upon flowers as the enlightenment of plants. Any life-form in any realm mineral, vegetable,

Humanity’s Early Flowers

The messengers Buddha, Jesus, and others, not all of them known were humanitys early flowers. They were precursors, rare and precious beings. A widespread flowering was not yet possible at that time, and their message became largely misunderstood and often greatly distorted. It certainly did not transform human behavior, except in a small minority of people.

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