November 8-10, 2011: XVI - The Tower
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Exactly. Meaning doesn't mean anything. It's invented by each person as part of how they're playing their game.
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"Exactly. Meaning doesn't mean anything. It's invented by each person as part of how they're playing their game"
BOOM!
Aegis was it you that created a thread asking the question of what it meant to consider every action as a particular dealing of the divine?
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The Tower
I used an extremely powerful and fast acting (legal) psychedelic to propel me into the unknown, Salvinorin-A. With trepidation, I plunged in at my angels behest. Come up is within 30 seconds of inhalation.
The room grew dark, my body feeling like it was getting sucked through realities sieve. Before me I saw hunched childish figures with flashlights peering down the mouth of a great Cave which I was pulled down, down, down. I landed in a strange world standing behind a goddess who looked like my wife; she was dressed as a queen and I was dressed as a knight. Before us lie a crystalline icosahedron castle http://www.mathgoody.com/5-4-Polyhedra/fuller.jpg
In notes Taken, my wife reports that i yelled, "I will follow you my queen!"Suddenly I was torn from this beautiful world and set firmly in a frightening scene of three figures rotating around me. One laughed maniacally, the other was silent and the third had an aura of vengeance. My consciousness shifted from the center of the triangle and shifted among the three. My wife reports in the notes that I laughed maniacally and made gestures as if pointing and yelled, "FUUUUUCK YOU!!!!" I must've been occupying mercury at that moment. A voice then began to speak, saying "ONE! COMBINE!" A multidimensional triangle shape appeared before my eyes and drew all three figures into it's center.
Next, I felt what my notes describe me proclaiming as "THE GOD ATOMIC!" I felt the most pure indomitable power imaginable. This is when I began to come to, recognizing my surroundings. I was very anxious because it was an archetypal overload. In fact, I felt like my personality had been blown to smithereens. That's why I'm attributing this experience to first, the tower, although there are obvious elements of Fortune via the experience of Centrum In Centri Trigono. This experience was NOT fun, but I know from experience that it has laid the groundwork necessary for my next step in spiritual evolution.
ps. I hope I have understood the desire of this thread by posting the above experience with the Tower archetype.
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"ps. I hope I have understood the desire of this thread by posting the above experience with the Tower archetype"
you have
Your share was very relevant -
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"I didn't realize it would do anything other than make me more mindful. But... it can really f with your head. "
"Meaning doesn't mean anything. It's invented by each person as part of how they're playing their game"
Makes sense?
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So many story-lines. So many games.
Honestly?
re-configurating...
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Yeah. Honestly.
Imagine (I'm not saying it's so, but it's a worthy exercise)... imagine that, even though there are billions of people (among other beings), that everybody is only aware of themselves and their own projections.
Imagine... other people exist and move about and have interaction, but aren't seen for themselves. They're only seen as props and stand-ins. Their words (when accurately heard), their actions (when noticed and accurately registered) are seen as supporting or interfering with the play that is already acting out on stage.
And imagine... that everybody is in a different play... a different story... a different part of the story... oblivious not only to other people's stories, but even to the fact that other people are in different stories!
Only something as large and integrated as the universe could coordinate a dance this complex. That it more or less goes off fine most of the time is a tribute to the splendor of the universe and the dullness and ignorance of most of the players. (It helps, in this imagined world, to be really dense and oblivious to the bigger picture... that is, if you just want to get on with your life.)
Now... I'm not saying this is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It's an imagination. Even within the imagined framework, it could be no more than a plot structure in my own play.
But I will assert that the above fantasy is closer to what actually happens, day in and out, than is the picture most people usually have of the world. Connecting with someone isn't just a matter of getting to know some things about them. It's a matter of learning what play they're in, what language it's written in, and being able to understand their words and actions within the context of their story line - not your own.
Intimate connection - really connecting to someone - is profoundly world-shaking because it actually requires the recognition of an entirely different universe. (Not just different ideas about things. Not just some differences in using language. But everything different at the fundamental level.)
Yeah. Honestly.
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I feel like I could write for days and days about the alternatives.
Instead of "The Great Collusion".... attempting to substitute "I *am divided *for love's sake... for the chance of union..."
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Yup!
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Elvis Presley - Walk a Mile in My Shoes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc-YCcP1HrU"You never stood in that man's shoes or saw things through his eyes
Or stood and watched with helpless hands while the heart inside you dies
So help your brother along the way no matter where he starts
For the same God that made you made him too
these men with broken hearts." -
"Imagine (I'm not saying it's so, but it's a worthy exercise)... imagine that, even though there are billions of people (among other beings), that everybody is only aware of themselves and their own projections.
Imagine... other people exist and move about and have interaction, but aren't seen for themselves. They're only seen as props and stand-ins. Their words (when accurately heard), their actions (when noticed and accurately registered) are seen as supporting or interfering with the play that is already acting out on stage.
And imagine... that everybody is in a different play... a different story... a different part of the story... oblivious not only to other people's stories, but even to the fact that other people are in different stories!
Only something as large and integrated as the universe could coordinate a dance this complex. That it more or less goes off fine most of the time is a tribute to the splendor of the universe and the dullness and ignorance of most of the players. (It helps, in this imagined world, to be really dense and oblivious to the bigger picture... that is, if you just want to get on with your life.)
Now... I'm not saying this is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It's an imagination. Even within the imagined framework, it could be no more than a plot structure in my own play.
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Provides a much more stable base from which to experience. There was still a sense of almost "channel-surfing" between different kinds of experience - different imaginings of reality. There were still a few "plotlines" attempting to play-out - resolve, but there was much less tendency to get emotionally invested in any particular one, and it was easier to potentially own each plotline as a psychological projection upon the experience and then return to "base."
That even this "base" is a choice in a vast sea of potential interpretation and experience... That was a big one...
Success is your proof...
Thank you.