Monday, June 30, 2008

Stirring the pot of memories


(Painting : Mito in the 80s, found in the vaults of my memory)

Once in a while a series of thoughts trigger the connections that open doors to a distant past ...
I have been peering into the 80s ...

It is a calming gaze, almost like watching a movie.
Detached of emotions I am better suited to see nuances that would otherwise be shrouded in my feelings.
In this ritual, the mind seeks to disperse in the winds of time the memories that no longer serve.

Other memories remind me of the 20-year old that was ...
- The essay for the phi 101 class - what boldness, what imagination !
I see the clear connection to Mother Nature emanating from my youth, a product of my upbringing ... I long for that connection now.
- there are snippets -blood drops - of a love that wasn't ...
and there too I glimpse the innocence lost.

I release you to the flames and to the wind and close the doors...

Sunday, June 29, 2008

In search of the "God particle"















It sounds ambitious but Man's search for the ultimate answer, for the "simplest" particle is anything but simple.

The stage is being set for an experiment this summer at the CERN laboratory. 
The 17 mile subterranean ring in the French-Swiss border houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The goal - provoke particle collision at nearly the speed of light in
hope that matter will be transformed and God will show it's "face" if only for a infinitesimal small amount of time and be recorded (the so called "God particle) is  Higgs boson and is believed to give mass to matter).

The fear (by some outsiders) - that a black hole will be created that will swallow the Earth.

The cost - $5-10 billion and counting (or not).

Here is an interesting detail of what might possibly happen.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

my own


If you meet the Buddha,
kill the Buddha !
- Zen proverb

My take on it:
I need to kill all the idols that are crowding / clouding my path and carve my own.
Don't be a follower, be a leader.
Be the observer and the observed.

Crack open the head ;-)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Mar y Oregano



SONETO XXXIV

Eres hija del mar y prima del oregano
nadadora tu cuerpo es de agua pura,
cocinera, tu sangre es tierra viva
y tus costumbres son floridas y terrestres.

Al agua van tus ojos y levantan las olas,
a la tierra tus manos y saltan las semillas,
en agua y tierra tienes propriedades profundas
que en si se juntan como las leyes de la greda.

Nayade, corta tu cuerpo la turquesa
y luego resurrecto florece en la cocina
de tal modo que asumes cuando existe

y al fin duermes rodeada por mis brazoz que apartan
de la sombra sombria, para que tu descanses,
vegetales, algas marinas, hierbas: la espuma de tus suenos.

-PABLO NERUDA

Monday, June 23, 2008

Quieting the waters

Last night I tried again to quiet the mind and go deeper.

The first time I tried it did not last long, 
I recall the cough of the kids in the background making me feel guilty for my idleness ...

however, the few minutes that I did manage to sit - pain and all -
transported me to a magical place of my childhood -

TARRAFAL !

A place with the most beautiful natural painted stones that I have ever seen,
a place I was taken to by my seamate, my mermate if you will,
someone that I had lost contact with for years and the pain of that separation,
the anxiety of not knowing of his whereabouts came up (or went out seeking).

I finally gave in to the pain in the limbs, restlessness and all.

A few days later I got an email from my friend
- yes, the seamate !!
I couldn't believed it, I barely contained my joy
- he had visited me in my dreams !

(when I was a child I believed that dreams were the realm of the gathering of souls)

You see it when you believe it !
(Foto: Tarrafal of my youth - mid 70s)

Labor Pains

Image: Gaia by Oberon Zell
... for the MOTHER will awake ... to see it is too late.

Earth, Mother, 
raped ... nipples sucked dry.

What more do we want from you Mother ?
----

I was listening to one of Villoldo's accounts of the gathering of the Elders and he told that the Women / Mothers present referred to this era as the
 labor phase of mother Earth, 
the pain that comes before the birth.

What child will be born of you this time ?

PS> I am struggling with this post and I think I have to rephrase it, it is deviating from my adherence to the positive ...

Friday, June 13, 2008

Obama Black Eagle - One Who Helps People Throughout the Land















On May 19th Obama was adopted into the Crow Nation.

... Members of the tribe wore colorful traditional clothing and feathered head-dresses -- Obama addressed some issues of serious concern not only to the 12,100-member Crow Nation but to many Native American tribes around the country.

(extract from the Washington Post blog)

May you soar to great heights and lead us in a path with heart. God Bless you !

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Something to ponder














Is there a relationship between these news ?

1- British Ministry of Defense releases UFO files. There are more details at the National Archives.

2- A new isolated Amazon tribe has been discovered by Brazil's National Indian Foundation

(6/30 update - The news of the tribe discovery was a hoax intended on drawing attention to the continuous displacement of the Indians tribes of South America, let's hope it works.)

I can't help but see the irony in these events. 
The danger of exposing these isolated tribes to all the ills of our society equate to extermination. 
As for E.T. it should call home asap because this place is not for aliens (pun intended).