SEE CHANGE I SEE I CHANGE SEE
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A Manual of the Short Path to Regeneration for our times
by
Musaios
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6. THE PROCESS OF REGENERATION
It is time to examine the regenerative process—the way out of our limited state of body and awareness—a state that was thought of in this doctrine as "larval" to that which would ensue, just as the effectively one-dimensional or linear caterpillar has the hidden ability to spin a self-made cocoon-tomb and then turn into a pupal case, with future wings already outlined on it—a stage that can again metamorphose into the winged imago or mature form that emerges from the shell of the tomb-egg of the cocoon and flies aloft into the sky.
We thus have an `unawakened' larval or caterpillar form, which incidentally remains so if a certain gland connected to the seat of the central nervous system in the neighborhood of the hypothalamus is not functional.* Then we have the larval form in the stage of building its "tomb" which is really the birth place /Page 34/ of the higher form. When the cocoon is finished down to the hard-varnished inner shell, the caterpillar sheds its skin for the last time and the inert wing-marked pupa is born within the cocoon.
Then all the caterpillar's characteristic organs are dissolved * and changed into others and new organs are added over a course of remarkable transformations lasting several weeks. The Egyptian name for this transforming power is Khepera, the winged scarab.
Finally the pupal skin bursts within the cocoon, and the winged adult emerges from it, dissolving the hard walls with a special solvent from glands in its mouth needed only this once. Now, as soon as its still moist wings will expand, dry and become firm, it will fly off into its new existence after this rebirth.
Ancient peoples noted these remarkable changes (called "holometamorphic" by modern entomologists) and it is not without reason that the higher human entity (that was designed to survive the body's death much as the butterfly survives the caterpillar's disappearance) was symbolized by a butterfly among cultures as widely separated as Grecian and Aztec.
The ancient Egyptian doctrine of the possibilities of human metamorphosis used the same metaphor to explain it simply. The bandaged mummy was like the silk-enswathed larva and the folded wings depicted on sarcophagus or coffin lids were the indicated still folded wing-forms embossed on every lepidopteran pupa or chrysalis case. The outer cocoon was also symbolized by the Mes-khent or "birth-tent of skin" placed around the /Page 35/ mummy or in the funeral chamber which in Ancient Egyptian was called "the birth chamber." One of the very words for cemetery meant "Place of Births."
Words like regeneration and transformation have been too thinned down and so almost voided of any living meaning or feasible attainability as many words have been in overintellectualized, and hence all too frequently unintelligent circles. The context for regeneration in the ancient Egyptian teaching is biological and psychophysiological; little known processes within the brain and body trigger, when activated, a supra-biological, transformational and higher embryological development — our too rarely claimed birthright.
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The Egyptian name for this transforming power is Khepera, the winged scarab.
Finally the pupal skin bursts within the cocoon, and the winged adult emerges from it, dissolving the hard walls with a special solvent from glands in its mouth needed only this once. Now, as soon as its still moist wings will expand, dry and become firm, it will fly off into its new existence after this rebirth.
Ancient peoples noted these remarkable changes (called "holometamorphic" by modern entomologists) and it is not without reason that the higher human entity (that was designed to survive the body's death much as the butterfly survives the caterpillar's disappearance) was symbolized by a butterfly among cultures as widely separated as Grecian and Aztec.
Finally the pupal skin bursts within the cocoon, and the winged adult emerges from it, dissolving the hard walls with a special solvent from glands in its mouth needed only this once. Now, as soon as its still moist wings will expand, dry and become firm, it will fly off into its new existence after this rebirth.
Ancient peoples noted these remarkable changes (called "holometamorphic" by modern entomologists) and it is not without reason that the higher human entity (that was designed to survive the body's death much as the butterfly survives the caterpillar's disappearance) was symbolized by a butterfly among cultures as widely separated as Grecian and Aztec.
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JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM,
VERILY VERILY I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN,
HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD
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Our minds [i.e. consciousness] are thus tuned… to multiple realities. The freely associating mind is able to pass across time barriers, sensing the future and reap-raising the past. Our minds are time machines, able to sense the flow of possibility waves from both the past and the future. In my view, there cannot be anything like existence without this higher form of quantum reality.
All this sounds highly abstract, remote from the kind of consciousness you and I experience now. So let me
bring the message closer to home. Think back again to a moment when you suddenly felt you really understood something you had not understood before.It may have been a mathematical problem you had been a mathematical problem you had been wrestling with for days. Suddenly, after hours of frustration, the answer was there-complete and perfect.
This is the essence of insight. Things hitherto separate and unconnected suddenly 'click together'. The pieces of the jigsaw slide into place. As I have stressed, this integrative faculty is the hallmark of consciousness The understanding that follows a 'Eureka' moment is not a surface comprehension; it is a 'deep knowing' with you for life precisely because it is part of a wider multiform consciousness, of which your mind is but a single unit. In deep knowing you become part of the self unfolding of the cosmos.
Think about this in terms of time.The answer you sought existed prior to your discovery of it. What happened in your flash of understanding was that your individual consciousness suddenly 'caught up'with a truth already 'known'. It tapped into the completed, unitive consciousness that underpins the closed feedback loop of becoming . What you experienced was a faint fore-taste of the final act in the evolution of
Consciousness, a memory of total togetherness, when the distinction between observer and observed vanishes completely.
One of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Werner Heisenberg, said of his subject 'The common division of the world into subject and object, inner world and outer, body and soul, is no longer adequate'. In saying this he, a scientist found himself using
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the language of mysticism. Compare Heisenberg's words with those of the Dominican monk Meister Eckart, 'the knower and the known are one'. or the words of the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti, 'consciousness is its content'and ' there is neither the outer nor the inner but only the whole. The experiencer is the experienced… the thinker is the thought'. "
Here then is the longed -for end of the age old road. Here science and religion speak with the same voice, each subtending and validating the other. Here confusion ends and contradictions cease. All things are one.
Even the distinction between the inner and outer, singer and song fades in the full light of completed consciousness.
Even now, today, here, still trapped in time, if we strain our ears to their limit, we can just hear the strains of that different music'from the far shore the final chorus sounding' as Whitman said Awhisper of tomorrow reaching into today. More than a beacon of hope, more than a promise of things, a commitment from our higher selves to their lowlier foundations, a conviction that the creative evolution which fashioned man from microbe will fashion God from man,no, has fashioned God from man.From round the closed arc of time, the time free God speaks to his time trapped children, who are both his parents and his heirs.
VERILY VERILY I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN,
HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD
https://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/colou ... ton/42.htm
Our minds [i.e. consciousness] are thus tuned… to multiple realities. The freely associating mind is able to pass across time barriers, sensing the future and reap-raising the past. Our minds are time machines, able to sense the flow of possibility waves from both the past and the future. In my view, there cannot be anything like existence without this higher form of quantum reality.
All this sounds highly abstract, remote from the kind of consciousness you and I experience now. So let me
bring the message closer to home. Think back again to a moment when you suddenly felt you really understood something you had not understood before.It may have been a mathematical problem you had been a mathematical problem you had been wrestling with for days. Suddenly, after hours of frustration, the answer was there-complete and perfect.
This is the essence of insight. Things hitherto separate and unconnected suddenly 'click together'. The pieces of the jigsaw slide into place. As I have stressed, this integrative faculty is the hallmark of consciousness The understanding that follows a 'Eureka' moment is not a surface comprehension; it is a 'deep knowing' with you for life precisely because it is part of a wider multiform consciousness, of which your mind is but a single unit. In deep knowing you become part of the self unfolding of the cosmos.
Think about this in terms of time.The answer you sought existed prior to your discovery of it. What happened in your flash of understanding was that your individual consciousness suddenly 'caught up'with a truth already 'known'. It tapped into the completed, unitive consciousness that underpins the closed feedback loop of becoming . What you experienced was a faint fore-taste of the final act in the evolution of
Consciousness, a memory of total togetherness, when the distinction between observer and observed vanishes completely.
One of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Werner Heisenberg, said of his subject 'The common division of the world into subject and object, inner world and outer, body and soul, is no longer adequate'. In saying this he, a scientist found himself using
/ Page 224 /
the language of mysticism. Compare Heisenberg's words with those of the Dominican monk Meister Eckart, 'the knower and the known are one'. or the words of the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti, 'consciousness is its content'and ' there is neither the outer nor the inner but only the whole. The experiencer is the experienced… the thinker is the thought'. "
Here then is the longed -for end of the age old road. Here science and religion speak with the same voice, each subtending and validating the other. Here confusion ends and contradictions cease. All things are one.
Even the distinction between the inner and outer, singer and song fades in the full light of completed consciousness.
Even now, today, here, still trapped in time, if we strain our ears to their limit, we can just hear the strains of that different music'from the far shore the final chorus sounding' as Whitman said Awhisper of tomorrow reaching into today. More than a beacon of hope, more than a promise of things, a commitment from our higher selves to their lowlier foundations, a conviction that the creative evolution which fashioned man from microbe will fashion God from man,no, has fashioned God from man.From round the closed arc of time, the time free God speaks to his time trapped children, who are both his parents and his heirs.
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So the principal price to be paid for development leading to a higher body and life is the price every imminently pupating caterpillar pays: principal and regular dedication to that process and project. But if a caterpillar's metamorphic glands are tied off or blocked, it will simply live out its life as a caterpillar and never change. Thus, many human beings will not choose to activate themselves transformationally. But those who do and will, will inspire and help the rest, just as even our material, technological civilization rests upon the inventions, dedication, and genius of a comparative handful. The average Bardo experience is passionate and dreamlike, releasing the full force of a Freudian type of unconscious. In fact, never having read Sophocles' Oedipus Rex or Electra and also incredibly anticipating Freud, the great Tibetan commentator Drashi Namjal wrote that one who will be born as a man already begins in the Bardo realm to hate his future father and love his mother:(9) mutatis mutandi for one who will be born a woman. (10) The powerful unconscious drives released with full impact in the Bardo must sooner or later be dealt with and sublimed, there or here (in the alchemical sense).
So the principal price to be paid for development leading to a higher body and life is the price every imminently pupating caterpillar pays: principal and regular dedication to that process and project. But if a caterpillar's metamorphic glands are tied off or blocked, it will simply live out its life as a caterpillar and never change. Thus, many human beings will not choose to activate themselves transformationally. But those who do and will, will inspire and help the rest, just as even our material, technological civilization rests upon the inventions, dedication, and genius of a comparative handful. The average Bardo experience is passionate and dreamlike, releasing the full force of a Freudian type of unconscious. In fact, never having read Sophocles' Oedipus Rex or Electra and also incredibly anticipating Freud, the great Tibetan commentator Drashi Namjal wrote that one who will be born as a man already begins in the Bardo realm to hate his future father and love his mother:(9) mutatis mutandi for one who will be born a woman. (10) The powerful unconscious drives released with full impact in the Bardo must sooner or later be dealt with and sublimed, there or here (in the alchemical sense).
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Chrysalis
We found it on a bunch of grapes and put it
In cotton wool, in a matchbox partly open,
In a room in London in wintertime, and in
A safe place, and then forgot it.
Early in the cold spring we said "See this!
Where on earth did the butterfly come from?"
It looked so unnatural whisking about the curtain:
Then we remembered the chrysalis.
There was the broken shell with what was once
The head askew; and what was once the worm
Was away out of the window, out of the warm,
Out of the scene of the small violence.
Not strange, that the pretty creature formalized
The virtue of its dark unconscious wait
For pincers of light to come and pick it out.
But it was a bad business, our being surprised.
Muriel Spark (1951)
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We found it on a bunch of grapes and put it
In cotton wool, in a matchbox partly open,
In a room in London in wintertime, and in
A safe place, and then forgot it.
Early in the cold spring we said "See this!
Where on earth did the butterfly come from?"
It looked so unnatural whisking about the curtain:
Then we remembered the chrysalis.
There was the broken shell with what was once
The head askew; and what was once the worm
Was away out of the window, out of the warm,
Out of the scene of the small violence.
Not strange, that the pretty creature formalized
The virtue of its dark unconscious wait
For pincers of light to come and pick it out.
But it was a bad business, our being surprised.
Muriel Spark (1951)
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