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Alone
04:28 Nov 26 2007
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Alone.



That is truth of the matter. And there is no way to work around it, for that is the way it should be.



Its cultivated... Its harvested... It is such a complete aloneness that in a crowd of ten thousand others, you would still remain in your own space... your own world.



And it is sad in a way... Sad because we are so few... and sad because we alone can cultivate bonds deeper and stronger than any ever mentioned in lore or text. Love is a simple thing when compared to the way we few can give ourselves. It is beyond obsession, pleasure, and even Ecstasy... And it is ours alone.



And it is also the reason we are so very alone. Once betrayed... the emptiness is complete. Consuming... Who can you trust with such a gift?



No one.



So we walk alone, taking our little pleasures when we can, working with what we have... and being called "cold and manipulative" by others who have no idea what is really hidden behind this fiends eyes.

Joseph Campbell Quote's
19:38 Nov 22 2007
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Joseph Campbell Quote's







The privilege of a lifetime

Is being who you are.



What you have to do,

You do with play.



Life is without meaning.

You bring the meaning to it.



The meaning of life is

Whatever you ascribe it to be.



Being alive is the meaning.



The warrior's approach

Is to say "yes" to life:

"Yea" to it all.



Participate joyfully

In the sorrows of the world.



We cannot cure the world of sorrows,

But we can choose to live in joy.



When we talk about

Settling the world's problems,

We're barking up the wrong tree.



The world is perfect. It's a mess.

It has always been a mess.



We are not going to change it.



Our job is to straighten out

Our own lives.



We must be willing to get rid of

The life we've planned, so as to have

The life that is waiting for us.



The old skin has to be shed

Before the new one can come.



Out of perfection

Nothing can be made.



Every process involves

Breaking something up.



The earth must be broken

To bring forth new life.



If the seed does not die,

There is no plant.



Bread results

From the death of wheat.



Life lives on lives.



Our own life

Lives on the acts

Of other people.



If you are lifeworthy,

You can take it.



What we are really living for

Is the experience of life,

Both the pain and the pleasure.



Opportunities

To find deeper powers

Within ourselves

Come when life

Seems most challenging.



Negativism

To the pain and ferocity of life

Is negativism to life.



We are not there

Until we can say

"Yea" to it all.



To take a righteous attitude

Toward anything is to denigrate it.



Awe is what moves us forward.



As you proceed through life,

Following your own path,

Birds will shit on you.

Don't bother to brush it off.



Getting a comedic view

Of your situation

Gives you spiritual distance.

Having a sense of humor saves you.



Eternity

Is a dimension

Of here and now.



The divine lives within you.



Live from your own center.



On the dragon there are many scales.

Every one of them says "Thou Shalt."



Kill the dragon "Thou Shalt."



When one has killed that dragon,

One has become The Child.



Breaking out

Is following your bliss pattern,

Quitting the old place,

Starting your hero journey,

Following your bliss.



You throw off yesterday

As the snake sheds its skin.



Follow your bliss.



The heroic life is living the individual

Adventure.



There is no security

In following the call to adventure.



Nothing is exciting

If you know

What the outcome is going to be.



To refuse the call

Means stagnation.



What you don't experience positively

You will experience negatively.



You enter the forest

At the darkest point,

Where there is no path.



Where there is a way or path,

It is someone else's path.



If you follow someone else's way,

You are not going to realize

Your potential.



The goal of the hero trip

Down to the jewel point

Is to find those levels in the psyche

That open, open, open,

And finally open to the mystery

Of your Self being

Buddha consciousness

Or the Christ.



That's the journey.



It is by going down into the abyss

That we recover the treasures of life.



Where you stumble,

There lies your treasure.



The very cave you are afraid to enter

Turns out to be the source of

What you are looking for.

The damned thing in the cave

That was so dreaded

Has become the center.



You will find the jewel,

And it draws you off.



In loving the spiritual,

You cannot despise the earthly.



The purpose of the journey

Is compassion.



When you have come past

The pairs of opposites,

You have reached compassion.

The goal is to bring the jewel

Back to the world,

To join the two things together.



The separateness

Apparent in the world

Is secondary.



Beyond that world of opposites

Is an unseen, but experienced,

Unity and identity in us all.



Today, the planet is

The only proper "in group."



You must return

With the bliss

And integrate it.



The return is seeing

The radiance everywhere.



Sri Ramakrishna said:

"Do not seek illumination

Unless you seek it

As a man whose hair is on fire

Seeks a pond."



If you want the whole thing,

The gods will give it to you.

But you must be ready for it.



The goal is to live

With godlike composure

On the full rush of energy,

Like Dionysus riding the leopard,

Without being torn to pieces.



A bit of advice

Given to a young Native American

At the time of his initiation:



"As you go the way of life,

You will see a chasm.



Jump.



It is not as wide as you think."



-- Joseph Campbell

The Beast Within
22:11 Nov 17 2007
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It lives within us... it breathes. Most of humanity buries it so deeply, that they refuse to acknowledge it at all. It is a part of us all, but what part should it play? It is the PRIMAL, the beast that tells us "Be Predator or you will be pray"



That's the Crux of it... to acknowledge that primal, powerful thinking that drug our ancestors out of the dark all those years ago. Every human has that mindset hardwired into it, but we have been moving away for it for so long. Its unacceptable to be a predator now... its considered "evil"



Evil, good, these are the black and white people operate in now, limiting themselves to a boring, empty shell of a live.



So what must we do??? We must awaken our Beast, drag it into the light of day for us to study, understand, and learn how to use. The beast is where our true power lies, within the Darkest part of the heart, and where the memories of the soul are stored.



There are only some who understand that life is built upon the decay of death, in all terms. Without Death, there would be no life. But why does that scare everyone so? Death is an illusion. All life returns, as surly as the earth turns and the seasons change. After death, their is Rebirth... but ONLY AFTER DEATH.... you cannot have one without the other.



This is the mindset of the beast, the shadow of ourselves that lives in the darkness, and therefore knows all of its secrets... and to be truly powerful, and to learn the secrets of the universe, we have to to dig deeply.



Its hard for many people. They want their truths to be beautiful, not scary. But even the bloodiest, and frightening of truths is beautiful... if you learn how to see it, if you change your perspective. That is what the Primal does... it transforms us... the shamanic journey is about the death of the old.



We must learn to embrace the darkness of ourselves, to dance between the worlds of life and death, wake and dream, our world and that of the Gods.



It is what the Beast in all of us demands.