my mind begins to hum...

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

Once we had left the company of the drummer at the fountain,
we heard the sound of more drums playing around us. .
My friend and I followed these drumbeats
and ran into a crowd of people.
We were handed live, long-stemmed calla lillies
- in the middle of the desert - in the middle of a dust storm!
Then the crowd started moving.
We found out along the way that it was a wedding procession.
As the procession moved on,
I decided to dance along to the drum beats.
I thought the procession would stop at the Man,
and that wouldn't be too far to dance.

We headed out onto the Playa
and caught up with the lamp lighters.
Every evening as the sun sets,
groups of white-clad people balance poles of lit lanterns on their shoulders,
directed toward the Man and around the Playa.
They hang the lanterns on positioned light poles.
Every morning, they take them down again.
We were quite the procession.

We made it out to the Man, the pace quickened,
and continued beyond the formidable structure of the Man.

Once we arrived at the Temple of Joy,
the procession formed a circle around the happy couple
and the dust began to clear.
The ceremony began with singing and a few cooling drops of rain.
The rain intensified just a bit when the priestess began to speak.
Thunder rolled.
The bride looked up into the sky and cried out, "Bring it on!"
and thunder rolled again.
She smiled.
She laughed.
Lightning made a web across the sky.

The two exchanged vows,
had their kiss,
and then were told to look behind them.
There was a rainbow falling from the heavens onto the Temple of Joy!
The dust storm passed,
the rain cleared,
and with the sun setting,
my friend and I wandered off into the desert
- cala lilies in hand.

[the fire elf]

The bride looked up into the sky and cried out, "Bring it on!"

...

[mayavin]

"Bring It On,"
a skill level in Quake III Arena,
between, "I Can Win" and, "Hurt Me Plenty."

A wedding is a ceremony that celebrates
the beginning of a marriage or civil union.



who yells "bring it on" at the sky?

and what if it does?

[the fire elf]

Weather is a term
that encompasses phenomena
in the atmosphere of a planet.

phenomenology is an approach to philosophy
that begins with an exploration of phenomena
(what presents itself to us in conscious experience)
as a means to finally grasp
the absolute, logical, ontological and metaphysical Spirit
that is behind phenomena.
This has been called a "dialectical phenomenology".

phenomenology is
"the reflective study of the essence of consciousness
as experienced from the first-person point of view"
Phenomenology takes the intuitive experience of phenomena
(what presents itself to us in phenomenological reflexion)
as its starting point
and tries to extract from it
the essential features of experiences
and the essence of what we experience.
When generalized to the essential features of any possible experience,
this has been called "transcendental phenomenology".

...expanded phenomenological enquiry
to encompass our understanding and experience of Being itself,
thus making phenomenology the method
of the study of being: ontology.

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM
(Dedicated to Ustad Mahmud Ali Abd al-Khabir)

Chaos

CHAOS NEVER DIED.
Primordial uncarved block,
sole worshipful monster,
inert & spontaneous,
more ultraviolet than any mythology
(like the shadows before Babylon),
the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being
still radiates serene as the black pennants of Assassins,
random & perpetually intoxicated.

Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy,
it’s neither a god nor a maggot,
its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography,
all meaningless aethers & phlogistons:
its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness,
like clouds.

[mayavin]

AND
WHAT
IF
IT
DID!?!

[the fire elf]

They vilify us, the scoundrels do,
when there is only this difference,
they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth,
and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage.
Had you not better make then one of us,
than sneak after these villains for employment?

When the captain replied
that his conscience would not let him break the laws of God and man,
the pirate Bellamy continued:

You are a devilish conscience rascal,
I am a free prince,
and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world,
as he who has a hundred sail of ships at sea,
and an army of 100,000 men in the field;
and this my conscience tells me:
but there is no arguing with such snivelling puppies,
who allow superiors to kick them about deck at pleasure.

[mayavin]

http://spherocity.tkz.net/globals/rig/p ... 02/Wedding
i was very busy;
dreamily manifesting phenomena that year

at "united" i realize she is ignorant of the portent

at "wedding3" i helped bring her on

at "wedding4" ...

[the fire elf]

then i made it more desirable
for me to leave than stay

[mayavin]

A phenomenon
(Greek: φαινόμενo, pl. φαινόμενα)
is an observable event or, quite literally, something that can be seen.
Derived from the noun φαινόμενον (phainomenon, df. appearance),
it is also related to the verb φαινειν (phainein, df. to show).
Its plural is phenomena.
Its antonym is lathomenon,
meaning "something lying beneath the surface".

From the Greek, theo (God),
and phainein (to show forth),
theophany means an appearance of God to man,
or a divine disclosure.

Transfiguration
Dormition
Protection

The Encyclopaedia Britannica
similarly defines this as
"a manifestation of deity in sensible form."

The noumenon (plural: noumena)
classically refers to an object of human inquiry,
understanding or cognition.
The term is generally used in contrast with,
or in relation to,
"phenomenon" (plural: phenomena),
which refers to appearances, or objects of the senses.

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

my mate would have known better

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

be here now

[mayavin]

zen

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

KNOW THYSELF

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

The "White Lady" of Tassili n'Ajjer
in the mountains of Algeria
commemorates a female shaman dancer,
typical of the late Paleolithic cultures
that preceded the age of the sacred megaliths.
Gnosticism derives from archaic practices of shamanism
in which women played an equal,
if not dominant role.
(Rock carving in yellow ochre with white spots in red lines.)

[mayavin]

He is said to have tamed the local deities and demons
through magical powers,
binding them by oath to serve and protect the teachings.
His life story is an extraordinary epic legend
recorded by one of his main female disciples
Yeshe Tsogyel.
He is the archetypel shaman guru.

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

whenever one get's impatient
is the perfect time to work on one's patience

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restless in desire or expectation; eagerly desirous.
an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness 
or annoyance when confronted with delay