"If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart, but if they come
from the tongue they will not pass beyond the ears."
-Shihab al-Din Yahya al-Suhrawardi (1154-91)
Hermes Trismegistis: Asclepius III (trans.Walter Scott)
Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven, or, to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the powers which rule and work in heaven have been transferred to earth below?
....the Kosmos will once more be deemed worthy of worship and wondering reverence, and God, the maker and restorer of the mighty fabric, will be adored by the men of that day with unceasing hymns of praise and blessing.
CAIRO (Reuters) - "Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Wednesday that talking to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was "the right thing to do" but Egypt and other parties were best placed to do it.
In an interview with Reuters in Cairo, where Hamas and the rival Fatah group prepared on Wednesday for a national dialogue on a new Palestinian government, Miliband said Egypt was acting on behalf of the whole world in its dealings with Hamas.
Egypt, the only Arab state bordering the Gaza Strip, has taken the lead in trying to mediate a long-term truce between Hamas and Israel after the Israeli assault on the enclave which killed some 1,300 Palestinians in December and January.
It is also the host for a dialogue of Palestinian political groups formally opening in Cairo on Thursday.
Miliband said: "Egypt has been nominated ... to speak to Hamas on behalf of the Arab League but actually on behalf of the whole world. Others speak to Hamas. That's the right thing to do and I think we should let the Egyptians take this forward.""
The March 2 donors conference in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort aims to raise humanitarian and rebuilding funds for Gaza after Israel's invasion at the end of last year, which killed 1,300 Palestinians.
Preliminary estimates put the damage in Hamas-run Gaza after Israel's offensive at nearly $2 billion.
The only certainty is that there is no certainty. No infidel I, certified by the Indiana State Library & endowed by Hermes personally with ceremonial vestures; Last of the True Believers (somehow I just can't believe it...): Marquess of Make Belief, Vizier of 'Alam al-mithal
"The imaginal world is the realm of the symbolic, the alchemical, the visionary, the wonderful."
"Many centuries ago, the philosopher Suhrawardi coined the term "Na Koja-Abad" (Nowhere Land) to refer to a mythical, but nevertheless real place, situated in a kind of interworld between the realms of the senses and those of the intellect. Later Shi'ite traditions referred to it as "Hurqalya" and mentioned its two emerald cities (Jabarsa and Jabalqa) capable of being perceived solely by the Creative Imagination. (This is not the "imagination" of fancy or of wish-fulfillment, but the "Imaginatio Vera" of the medieval philosophers: a kind of organic mirror where -- according to certain Ishraqi philosophers -- images from the material world and archetypal forms from the sphere of the intellect are able to come together and react). Hurqalya was believed to be the real theater of life, bubbling up images into the conscious mind in the form of myth and legend."
http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2005/October/Iraq/index.html
(Suhrawardi) "saw himself as heir to a philosophia perennis begun with the wisdom teachings of the Prophet Idris (sometimes identified with the Egyptian Thoth, the Prophet Enoch of the Old Testament and Hermes Trismegistus), transmitted to his son Seth (possibly the Hermetic figure Agathodaimon), the Persian Priest-Kings known as the Knosrawani sages...".
"It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land."
-Sitting Bull (1831 – 1890)
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thunder road, white lightning and the one radiant truth @theendofallthings
When Nixon asked Golda Meir if Israel would ever consider returning land to the Palestinians, she replied, when you return the land you stole from the "Indians".
"I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."
-President Barack Obama
( photo of Geronimo driving beneath his top hat taken in 1904 by Walter Ferguson)
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Thing # 23
After taking Phil's survey and maybe selling him a car, here's
questions to prompt you:
- Go back to your thoughts/ideas about Library 2.0. Has anything changed as a result of this experience?
- I am currently pondering the enigma of the number 23
- What were your favorite Things and discoveries?
- raindrops on kittens and bewhiskered roses, rss & blogging
- How did you connect with others doing the 23 Things?
- Survey monkey! And my disciples: how they follow!
- Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
- my diminishing shock at having time away from the frontline trenches- I could get used to a life like that!
- What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or content?
- uh, MORE time to improve our minds, and neurological therapists for remedial trauma. Rename It: The Stimulus Phil.
- If we offered a 23 More Things program like this in the future would you participate?
- could be. could be.
- How would you describe your learning experience in one word or in one sentence, so we could use your words to promote 23 Things learning activities to others?
- Sitting Bull never had it this good.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Chol & Ash Wedneday
O, the dying of the day, where's when the Easter Egg?
Ash Wednesday's tav cross upon the forehead is made from the ashes from the burned palm crosses from the previous year's Palm Sunday. Ash Wednesday occurs 46 days before Easter and the hunting of the Egg.
Chol is the Hebrew word for the phoenix as well as the palm tree
" I am the last four days of yesterday, four screams from the edges of earth- beauty, terror, truth, madness-the phoenix on his pyre. "
-Normandi Ellis: The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Phanes Press, 1988
"There is another sacred bird, too, whose name is Phoinix. I myself have never seen it, only pictures of it; for the bird seldom comes into Egypt: once in five hundred years, as the people of Heliopolis say. It is said that the Phoinix comes when his father dies. If the picture truly shows his size and appearance, his plumage is partly golden and partly red. He is most like an eagle in shape and size. What they say this bird manages to do is incredible to me. Flying from Arabia to the temple of the Helios (the Sun), they say, he conveys his father encased in myrrh and buries him at the temple of Helios (the Sun). This is how he conveys him: he first molds an egg of myrrh as heavy as he can carry, then tries lifting it, and when he has tried it, he then hollows out the egg and puts his father into it, and plasters over with more myrrh the hollow of the egg into which he has put his father, which is the same in weight with his father lying in it, and he conveys him encased to the temple of the Sun in Egypt. This is what they say this bird does."
-Herodotus, Histories 2. 73 English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
"This egg is similar to Geb's egg that was laid on the primordial hill and gave birth to the sun, the egg within which the whole alchemical process of transformation is effected."
http://www.phoenixmoon.org/bennu.html
"...builds itself a nest of myrrh twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)
Dark star crashes
pouring its light
into ashes
Reason tatters
the forces tear loose
from the axis
Searchlight casting
for faults in the
clouds of delusion
shall we go,
you and I
While we can?
Through
the transitive nightfall
of diamonds
-Dark Star words by Robert Hunter; music by Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, and Weir
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing
-Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris-
Ash Wednesday's tav cross upon the forehead is made from the ashes from the burned palm crosses from the previous year's Palm Sunday. Ash Wednesday occurs 46 days before Easter and the hunting of the Egg.
Chol is the Hebrew word for the phoenix as well as the palm tree
" I am the last four days of yesterday, four screams from the edges of earth- beauty, terror, truth, madness-the phoenix on his pyre. "
-Normandi Ellis: The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Phanes Press, 1988
"There is another sacred bird, too, whose name is Phoinix. I myself have never seen it, only pictures of it; for the bird seldom comes into Egypt: once in five hundred years, as the people of Heliopolis say. It is said that the Phoinix comes when his father dies. If the picture truly shows his size and appearance, his plumage is partly golden and partly red. He is most like an eagle in shape and size. What they say this bird manages to do is incredible to me. Flying from Arabia to the temple of the Helios (the Sun), they say, he conveys his father encased in myrrh and buries him at the temple of Helios (the Sun). This is how he conveys him: he first molds an egg of myrrh as heavy as he can carry, then tries lifting it, and when he has tried it, he then hollows out the egg and puts his father into it, and plasters over with more myrrh the hollow of the egg into which he has put his father, which is the same in weight with his father lying in it, and he conveys him encased to the temple of the Sun in Egypt. This is what they say this bird does."
-Herodotus, Histories 2. 73 English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
"This egg is similar to Geb's egg that was laid on the primordial hill and gave birth to the sun, the egg within which the whole alchemical process of transformation is effected."
http://www.phoenixmoon.org/bennu.html
"...builds itself a nest of myrrh twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)
Dark star crashes
pouring its light
into ashes
Reason tatters
the forces tear loose
from the axis
Searchlight casting
for faults in the
clouds of delusion
shall we go,
you and I
While we can?
Through
the transitive nightfall
of diamonds
-Dark Star words by Robert Hunter; music by Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, and Weir
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing
-Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris-
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Fear & loathing @ Mardi Gras
no, it never happened, Wenner's pet project for HST was probably co-opted by an early Raccoon Tribe contingency, namely the elusive thunderboyscouts... but that is an old an antiquated run-up into the mysterious and arcane recent past. Actually, Hunter, Bill Dixon, Monty Chitty & Jimmy Buffett attended Mardi Gras at Rolling Stone's expense in 1977? according to Outlaw Journalist by William McKeen, p.247. Well, there's indubitibly a story there unfit for print but it IS Fat Tuesday; tomorrow there will be a rusting willowed Pan collecting alms for his pawned pipes in the foyer of your fine establishments, so let's filch fun facts whilst fun facts may be filched. Ok, nevermind the facts, picture thee this:
"l've got an idea.
Let's go outside.
We'll all go to Mardi Gras.
What's that?
What's that?
Never mind.
Just shut up and take it.
Yeah, right.
What do you do with it?
Give it to me.
-Just shut up and take it.
-Put it on your tongue.
l believe in God...
...Father Almighty...
...creator of heaven and earth.
Going up for the last time,
the last time, the last time..."
Death only closes a man's reputation and determines it as good or bad"
-The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - 1889
Thing # 22: surfing the edge with Phil
Nearing the end of our storyhour sessions with Phil, here in MCPL room 2B, we have before us the carrot dangled. I snatch at it, going for Thing # 3 (even though I am merely a Nine Thinger, in the lowly clerical deployment of techtoys) I attempt to keep abreast of events via new RSS! How did I get from #22 to #3? Is that like Illuminati Lodge initiation algebra? Maybe the secret to the Prisoner TV series? Who WAS # 6? Clueless, but what did you expect from a clerk...
edited 3/12/09 to report embedding 2 videos from youtube: vive la planet GONG. JM
edited 3/12/09 to report embedding 2 videos from youtube: vive la planet GONG. JM
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Penny dreadful putting chapstick on a chipmonk = 2¢ for your thoughts
Another sleepless Sunday morning, the tequila & tylenol circling one another like buzzards eying my rotten winter gourd down below, wrestling the Angel in the snowy sheets of Indiana quarreling thus: what if Israel just said "nishbar li ha'zayin!" and packed up the carnival, split for New York with a return engagement say in 200 years- see how things had settled down in the neighborhood? 'Well', the Angel countered (going for half-nelson & a nuggie), 'what if Abraham Lincoln came back here after 200 years; how would he be welcomed'?
The Angel had me there, splayed all candid camera against the Incongruity of It All.
See, I kinda know this hyena in the witness protection program who, subject to the fits and unpredictable spasms of rabies, sprayed a small American flag black & hung it on the aerial of his car; protesting Barack's presidency. I've been encouraging him vigilance with his wolfbane suppositories and also to sleep with 2 pennys on his eyelids in efforts to recall boyhoods past, when every kid wanted to grow up to be president; wise and revered as Honest Abe. That was, of course, before gangsta rap & X-Box.
How I knew, deep in my Johnny young gut even then, I had to live in a log cabin someday, if not the White House.
My son Finn tells me science has recently discovered it possible to draw diamonds from cheap tequila, but at my age I'd be a fool to drink anything except Patron; last night's 50 ml vial now filled only with invisible ink; cork neat in its neck. What the hey, its the end of February and all I can offer are those two pennies. Maybe in March.... there is always hope.
Selah & amen.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The Angel had me there, splayed all candid camera against the Incongruity of It All.
See, I kinda know this hyena in the witness protection program who, subject to the fits and unpredictable spasms of rabies, sprayed a small American flag black & hung it on the aerial of his car; protesting Barack's presidency. I've been encouraging him vigilance with his wolfbane suppositories and also to sleep with 2 pennys on his eyelids in efforts to recall boyhoods past, when every kid wanted to grow up to be president; wise and revered as Honest Abe. That was, of course, before gangsta rap & X-Box.
How I knew, deep in my Johnny young gut even then, I had to live in a log cabin someday, if not the White House.
My son Finn tells me science has recently discovered it possible to draw diamonds from cheap tequila, but at my age I'd be a fool to drink anything except Patron; last night's 50 ml vial now filled only with invisible ink; cork neat in its neck. What the hey, its the end of February and all I can offer are those two pennies. Maybe in March.... there is always hope.
Selah & amen.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Thursday, February 19, 2009
A Desert island dozen celluloid daydreams
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
polo is my life
Titannic yet uncapsized as his embouchure contracted from marching trombone to fox-hunting horn and burdened with armorial pharmaceutical diligence; Hunter Thompson resorted to the Bulletin Board to marshall his prodigal brass. I need me one of them things....
http://www.gonzo.org/books/pl/pix/pololeft.jpg
http://www.gonzo.org/books/pl/pix/poloright.jpg
http://www.gonzo.org/books/pl/pix/pololeft.jpg
http://www.gonzo.org/books/pl/pix/poloright.jpg
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Thing # 18 Survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kztVM00kNHhxV9iRqd_2b0gw_3d_3d
SurveyMonkey was corrupted by a cheroot smoking cannibal chimp chasing grandmothers through the foyer of this fine establishment. O, the shame & degradation. Such is the purview of Civ-il-I-Zation, sirs and madames. The National Stimulus Package must regard this as the # 1 priority to remedy!
SurveyMonkey was corrupted by a cheroot smoking cannibal chimp chasing grandmothers through the foyer of this fine establishment. O, the shame & degradation. Such is the purview of Civ-il-I-Zation, sirs and madames. The National Stimulus Package must regard this as the # 1 priority to remedy!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Thing # 9 collaboration tools
Turns out Aubrey & I were editing the draft of the "Declaration" at the same time - I was at home at the time. I was using google doc . Now, that's a surrealist manifesto of the new millenium. Currently, my colleague for research into esoteric domains, Christine Payne-Towler & I are hatching plans to utilize zoho or google doc to co-create... something yet to be determined.
I think the Founding Fathers would be relieved to know someone is finally attending their Achievement. Seems like it was neglected far too long...
I think the Founding Fathers would be relieved to know someone is finally attending their Achievement. Seems like it was neglected far too long...
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Thing # 13 : My Library/ library thing
Thank the gods there's a collection limit of 200 (w/o a subscription...)! I could spend YEARS in there trying to tweak out from past perusal the massive tomes whose concussions impacted my memory most momentous & with asteroid fists did bludgeon affect... -suurrre, blame it on the books. Like a hog gone wild in the acorns 'neath hoary Druid oaks, hear my squeal.
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