Monday, May 1, 2017
Yggdrasil , the tree of life and Walpurgis night, Dia do trabalhador, Tag der Arbeit
In my home area they light fires in the fields in the night before may 1st, and before they erect
a naked and painted decorated tree, the maypole, in the village centers.
This night is called the Walpurgis night, a night when witches used to have their
feasts of union with the devil, riding to collect together on a broomstick.
It is a night connected to spring, to fertility, to sexuality and creation.
In Scandinavia similar traditions exist at midsummer night.
The dance around the maypole is a lost custom here, people from the village
meat around the maypole to eat and to drink beer.
These traditions are old.
As the day of the worker May 1st goes back to the Haymarket Affair, you can google this.
The maypole reminds of the Edda and many old mythologies in which
the tree of life connects sky, water and earth and all the spheres of time and space.
It is not difficult to feel and to imagine the deep truth of trees, rooted in the soil,
reaching and drinking water, growing upwards with life all around and in their high crowns,
breathing with another metabolism than ours through their leaves, photosynthesis,
giving us freely the oxygen we need to be alive.
Today the feasts will really be more about beer and time to waste than anything else,
the sky is grey, rain falls again and again, a constant drizzle keeps going.
a naked and painted decorated tree, the maypole, in the village centers.
This night is called the Walpurgis night, a night when witches used to have their
feasts of union with the devil, riding to collect together on a broomstick.
It is a night connected to spring, to fertility, to sexuality and creation.
In Scandinavia similar traditions exist at midsummer night.
The dance around the maypole is a lost custom here, people from the village
meat around the maypole to eat and to drink beer.
These traditions are old.
As the day of the worker May 1st goes back to the Haymarket Affair, you can google this.
The maypole reminds of the Edda and many old mythologies in which
the tree of life connects sky, water and earth and all the spheres of time and space.
It is not difficult to feel and to imagine the deep truth of trees, rooted in the soil,
reaching and drinking water, growing upwards with life all around and in their high crowns,
breathing with another metabolism than ours through their leaves, photosynthesis,
giving us freely the oxygen we need to be alive.
Today the feasts will really be more about beer and time to waste than anything else,
the sky is grey, rain falls again and again, a constant drizzle keeps going.
First Source Wingmakers, film by James Mahu, comments
so..we stumble around searching and dreaming and end up with some words we like
and behind them we find a bunch of elitarian people probably
"high" on our stupidity- and making money from it? further research
will be done if shown as necessary.
everything is sound and light
“So we imagine space-time is a continuous thing, but because it’s impossible to talk sharply about that thing, then that suggests it must not be fundamental — it must be emergent."
.......................................................................................................................................
= quote from above link- the part i liked at first sight, so i post it. it sounded honest enough:
if we cannot define it, it must be in continuous change..well, this is not reasoning but a suggestive talk.
for me it is easy to see time and space as not fixed: i really cannot fix them.
this is why we call them infinite in everyday conversation.
astrophysicists know the limits of their science very well. i hope these wingmakers do,
but it doesn't look like it.
...well, i don't want to be too "esoteric" and i did not understand the complete article
nor could i just trust the sources.even i was doubtful where all this comes from...the way shown.
so: i looked...
on the wingmakers website: "The philosophy of the WingMakers is difficult to define..", hum, not a good start.
wingmakers
i prefer Zen. Simple way, simple practice, simple being. Here.
as far as i understand the wingmakers see themselves as a superior race, an elite, they are carrying "the" soul, the others don't. quite ridiculous, a kind of fascist pseudo-religion..?
but the above article adds to the richness of imagination..even if this may be all. theory, ways to illumination for oneself and the practice of love, compassion and emotional intelligence are all different ...but none is forbidden-
as long as nobody is forced to be a "believer" or is abused in his/her need and confusion.
and behind them we find a bunch of elitarian people probably
"high" on our stupidity- and making money from it? further research
will be done if shown as necessary.
everything is sound and light
“So we imagine space-time is a continuous thing, but because it’s impossible to talk sharply about that thing, then that suggests it must not be fundamental — it must be emergent."
.......................................................................................................................................
= quote from above link- the part i liked at first sight, so i post it. it sounded honest enough:
if we cannot define it, it must be in continuous change..well, this is not reasoning but a suggestive talk.
for me it is easy to see time and space as not fixed: i really cannot fix them.
this is why we call them infinite in everyday conversation.
astrophysicists know the limits of their science very well. i hope these wingmakers do,
but it doesn't look like it.
...well, i don't want to be too "esoteric" and i did not understand the complete article
nor could i just trust the sources.even i was doubtful where all this comes from...the way shown.
so: i looked...
on the wingmakers website: "The philosophy of the WingMakers is difficult to define..", hum, not a good start.
wingmakers
i prefer Zen. Simple way, simple practice, simple being. Here.
as far as i understand the wingmakers see themselves as a superior race, an elite, they are carrying "the" soul, the others don't. quite ridiculous, a kind of fascist pseudo-religion..?
but the above article adds to the richness of imagination..even if this may be all. theory, ways to illumination for oneself and the practice of love, compassion and emotional intelligence are all different ...but none is forbidden-
as long as nobody is forced to be a "believer" or is abused in his/her need and confusion.
altogether, though i have roots in theosophy from childhood,
so had Krishnamurti who turned into a rebel and decided thinking so much
until all thinking can end should be a good way to freedom,
quite a stressful way..,
i'd rather be a free Jedi
than Krishnamurti and
certainly better than a member of the wingmakers..:-),
but then, i am just me, that's all.
I feel i wasted a bit too much time on this now.
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