my mind begins to hum...

[mayavin]

BUT WHAT TIME IS IT ON THE SUN?

[the fire elf]

...but, what time is it on the sun?

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

without the sun, i never would have seen you...
my, what a glorious sun

[mayavin]

what was erroneously dubbed mammary glands
are actually merely one portion of the larger chi system

[mayavin]

don't you see what shame of chi
would indicate?

[the fire elf]

depression?

[mayavin]

sustainable mania would seem appropriate

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

OR

[mayavin]

make yourself

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

one of those lines was an intentional error
like the rugs of the "east"
(globe's are round)

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

Having awareness of the Aura
Helps to expand one's consciousness

It has Instincts

Engage Them


Many Enlightenment figures sought
to re-establish a "Cult of the Muses" in the eighteenth century.
A famous Masonic lodge in pre-Revolutionary Paris
was called Les Neuf Soeurs ("nine sisters", that is, the nine Muses),
and was attended by Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Danton
and other influential Enlightenment figures.
One side-effect of this movement was the use of the word "museum"
(originally, "cult place of the Muses")
to refer to a place for the public display of knowledge.

"No Muse-poet grows conscious of the Muse
except by experience of a woman
in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident;
just as no Apollonian poet can perform his proper function
unless he lives under a monarchy or a quasi-monarchy.
A Muse-poet falls in love, absolutely, and his true love
is for him the embodiment of the Muse...

But the real, perpetually obsessed Muse-poet
distinguishes between the Goddess as manifest in the supreme power,
glory, wisdom and love of woman,
and the individual woman
whom the Goddess may make her instrument...

The Goddess abides;
and perhaps he will again have knowledge of her
through his experience of another woman...

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

The Psyche was the Greek concept of the self,
encompassing the modern ideas of soul, self, and mind.
The Greeks believed that the soul or "psyche"
was responsible for behaviour.

The verb 'psycho' meant 'to blow',
and psyche is the last breath before death.
This has come to signify the part of life
that escapes a corpse upon death.

I have been compelled,
in my investigations into the structure of the unconscious,
to make a conceptual distinction between soul and psyche.
By psyche, I understand the totality of all psychic processes,
conscious as well as unconscious.
By soul, on the other hand,
I understand a clearly demarcated functional complex
that can best be described as a "personality".
(Jung, 1971: Def. 48 par. 797)

[the fire elf]

Mind refers to the collective aspects of intellect and consciousness
which are manifest in some combination of thought, perception, emotion,
will and imagination.

There are many theories of what the mind is and how it works,
dating back to Plato, Aristotle, Adi Shankara, SiddhÄ

[mayavin]

In popular usage mind is frequently synonymous with thought:
It is that private conversation with ourselves
that we carry on "inside our heads."
Thus we "make up our minds,"
"change our minds"
or are "of two minds" about something.
One of the key attributes of the mind in this sense
is that it is a private sphere to which no one but the owner has access.
No-one else can "know our mind."
They can only know what we communicate.

[mayavin]

Memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall information.

[the fire elf]

Imagination is accepted as the innate ability and process
to invent partial or complete personal realms within the mind
from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world.
The term is technically used in psychology
for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects
formerly given in sense perception.
Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language,
some psychologists have preferred to describe this process
as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive"
as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination.
Imagined images are seen with the "mind's eye".
One hypothesis for the evolution of human imagination
is that it allowed conscious beings to solve problems
(and hence increase an individual's fitness)
by use of mental simulation.

[the fire elf]

Monism is the position that mind and body
are not ontologically distinct kinds of entities.
This view was first advocated in Western Philosophy
by Parmenides in the 5th Century BC
and was later espoused by the 17th Century rationalist Baruch Spinoza.
Physicalists argue that
only the entities postulated by physical theory exist,
and that the mind will eventually be explained in terms of these entities
as physical theory continues to evolve.
Idealists maintain that the mind is all that exists
and that the external world is either mental itself,
or an illusion created by the mind.
Neutral monists adhere to the position
that there is some other, neutral substance,
and that both matter and mind are properties of this unknown substance.
The most common monisms in the 20th and 21st centuries
have all been variations of physicalism;
these positions include behaviorism,
the type identity theory, anomalous monism and functionalism.

[the fire elf]

The terminology for the major divisions of Buddhism can be confusing,
as Buddhism is variously divided by scholars and practitioners
according to geographic, historical, and philosophical criteria,
with different terms often being used in different contexts.
The following terms may be encountered
in descriptions of the major Buddhist divisions:

Early Buddhist Schools
The schools into which Buddhism became divided
in its first few centuries;
only one of these survives as an independent school, Theravada
East Asian Buddhism
A term used by scholars to cover
the Buddhist traditions of Japan, Korea, Singapore
and most of China and Vietnam
Eastern Buddhism
An alternative name used by some scholars
for East Asian Buddhism;
also sometimes used to refer to all traditional forms of Buddhism,
as distinct from Western(ized) forms.
Esoteric Buddhism
Usually considered synonymous with Vajrayana.
Some scholars have applied the term to certain practices
found within the Theravada, particularly in Cambodia.
Hinayana
A pejorative term used in Mahayana doctrine
to denigrate its opponents.
It is sometimes used to refer to the early Buddhist schools,
including the contemporary Theravada,
although the legitimacy of this is disputed.
Its use in scholarly publications is controversial.
In some Mahayana schools
the term is not perceived to be pejorative,
but is used with respect
proper to teachings coming direct from the Buddha.
The main use of the term in East Asian and Tibetan traditions
is in reference to spiritual levels
regardless of school.
Lamaism
An old term, still sometimes used,
synonymous with Tibetan Buddhism;
widely considered derogatory.
Mahayana
A movement that emerged
out of the early Buddhist schools,
together with its later descendants,
East Asian and Tibetan Buddhism.
Vajrayana traditions are sometimes listed separately.
The main use of the term
in East Asian and Tibetan traditions
is in reference to spiritual levels
regardless of school.
Mantrayana
Usually considered synonymous with Vajrayana.
The Tendai school in Japan
has been described as influenced by Mantrayana.
Northern Buddhism
An alternative term
used by some scholars for Tibetan Buddhism.
Also, an older term still sometimes used
to encompass both East Asian and Tibetan traditions.
Southeast Asian Buddhism
An alternative name used by some scholars for Theravada.
Southern Buddhism
An alternative name used by some scholars for Theravada.
Tantrayana or Tantric Buddhism
Usually considered synonymous with Vajrayana.
The tantra divisions of some editions of the Tibetan scriptures
include the Heart Sutra,
a text widely used in most East Asian traditions,
and/or versions of texts found in the Theravada scriptures.
Some scholars have used the term tantric Theravada
to refer to certain practices
found particularly in Cambodia.
Theravada
The traditional Buddhism of Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and parts of Vietnam, China, India, Bangladesh and Malaysia.
It is the only surviving representative
of the historical early Buddhist schools.
The term 'Theravada' is also sometimes used to refer
to all the early Buddhist schools.
Tibetan Buddhism
Usually understood as including the Buddhism of Tibet, Mongolia, Bhutan and parts of China, India and Russia,
which follow the Tibetan tradition.
Vajrayana
A movement that developed out of Indian Mahayana,
together with its later descendants.
There is some disagreement on exactly which traditions fall
into this category.
Tibetan Buddhism is universally recognized as falling
under this heading;
many also include also the Japanese Shingon school.
Some scholars also apply the term
to the Korean milgyo tradition,
which is not a separate school.
One scholar says,
"Despite the efforts of generations of Buddhist thinkers,
it remains exceedingly difficult
to identify precisely what it is
that sets the Vajrayana apart."

[mayavin]

A nazirite or nazarite, (in Hebrew: נזיר, nazir),
refers to a Jew who took an ascetic vow.
The term "nazirite" comes from the Hebrew word nazir
meaning "consecrated" or "separated".
This vow required the man or woman to:

Abstain from wine, wine vinegar, grapes, and raisins
Refrain from cutting one's hair and/or beard
Avoid corpses and graves, even those of a family member

I Took Ishaya Vows, was released,
though the Nazir never inquired into that
and annointed me without anything more than a vow of silence
(unless it's regarding my tasks)

[Toolmaker]

i've come to you from these people:

Do you like to ride motorcycles?

[the fire elf]

i like to see people become wise

The question of free will is whether, and in what sense,
rational agents exercise control over their actions and decisions.
Addressing this question requires understanding the relation
between freedom and causation, and determining whether or not
the laws of nature are causally deterministic.
The various philosophical positions taken
differ on whether all events are determined or not
—determinism versus indeterminism—
and also on whether freedom can coexist with determinism or not
—compatibilism versus incompatibilism.
So, for instance, hard determinists argue
that the universe is deterministic,
and that this makes free will impossible.

The principle of free will has religious, ethical, and scientific implications.
For example, in the religious realm,
free will may imply that an omnipotent divinity
does not assert its power
over individual will and choices.
In ethics, it may imply
that individuals can be held morally accountable for their actions.
In the scientific realm, it may imply
that the actions of the body, including the brain and the mind,
are not wholly determined by physical causality.
The question of free will has been a central issue
since the beginning of philosophical thought.