"The World of Change is not only populated by humans, but by various types of souls, the ghosts and spirits or 'guishen.' 'Between heaven and earth there is no place the guishen do not exist.' These spirits of heaven and earth are of many kinds and their identities are constantly changing like the shifting figures in a dream, but they were all once souls and partake of the soul's numinous quality, 'ling,' a direct expression of the Way."
"It is by virtue of their empowered imaginations that souls consign themselves to Hell. Ibn al-ʿArabī writes that a 'wind' drives such souls to Hell, '(the driver) being none other than their own desires and inclinations, and Hell the distance they imagined (to be between them and the Reality).' For Ibn al-ʿArabī, the drama of salvation remains crucially dependent on a proper use and understanding of that empowered imagination that comes to the soul both in the after-life and on this earth in mystical experiences. Ibn al-ʿArabī refers to this faculty of the empowered imagination by the word himmah. Himmah refers to that transfiguration of the mystic's imagination that allows him to do two important things: (1) it allows him to convert the imaginative faculty into an 'organ' that perceives the subtle realities or spiritual dimensions that otherwise lie hidden to physical sense organs and (2) it allows him to endow the creations of his own imagination with objective, extramental existence through a process involving both concentration and mental projection." —via Mysticism: Experience, Response, and Empowerment
“Psychosphere” can be defined as “sphere of human consciousness” and takes its roots in Carl Jung’s concept of the “collective unconscious”. It basically states that all thoughts that go through the human brain are “converted” by the neocortex and projected outwards into ethereal dimensions. Humans therefore live in an “atmosphere of thoughts”, a concept that is also referred to as “noosphere” by Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin. According to them, the existence of this psychosphere causes humans to be compelled to respond to similar ideas, myths and symbols. -http://vigilantcitizen.com
A sacrament performed by the Cathar Perfects on the dying (and also on those wishing to live as Parfaits), which offered spiritual regeneration (thereby freeing them from the cycle of rebirth, sending them directly to God), and absolution from sin.
preferred definition: "deriving from, pertaining to, or reflecting the moral or idealistic striving of the unconscious." As in, "an anagogic refinement of the universe."
via a 1996 NY Times article: In "Walden," the book, Mr. Thoreau celebrated the art of loafing. "Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery," he wrote. "It was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished."
"n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly."
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mount_weary commented on the word cosmoetic
A cosmetic creation of the cosmos, e.g. sun or moon bathing, and its beautifying effects
July 14, 2021
mount_weary commented on the word guishen
"The World of Change is not only populated by humans, but by various types of souls, the ghosts and spirits or 'guishen.' 'Between heaven and earth there is no place the guishen do not exist.' These spirits of heaven and earth are of many kinds and their identities are constantly changing like the shifting figures in a dream, but they were all once souls and partake of the soul's numinous quality, 'ling,' a direct expression of the Way."
May 28, 2020
mount_weary commented on the word himmah
"It is by virtue of their empowered imaginations that souls consign themselves to Hell. Ibn al-ʿArabī writes that a 'wind' drives such souls to Hell, '(the driver) being none other than their own desires and inclinations, and Hell the distance they imagined (to be between them and the Reality).' For Ibn al-ʿArabī, the drama of salvation remains crucially dependent on a proper use and understanding of that empowered imagination that comes to the soul both in the after-life and on this earth in mystical experiences.
Ibn al-ʿArabī refers to this faculty of the empowered imagination by the word himmah. Himmah refers to that transfiguration of the mystic's imagination that allows him to do two important things: (1) it allows him to convert the imaginative faculty into an 'organ' that perceives the subtle realities or spiritual dimensions that otherwise lie hidden to physical sense organs and (2) it allows him to endow the creations of his own imagination with objective, extramental existence through a process involving both concentration and mental projection."
—via Mysticism: Experience, Response, and Empowerment
May 19, 2016
mount_weary commented on the word psychosphere
“Psychosphere” can be defined as “sphere of human consciousness” and takes its roots in Carl Jung’s concept of the “collective unconscious”. It basically states that all thoughts that go through the human brain are “converted” by the neocortex and projected outwards into ethereal dimensions. Humans therefore live in an “atmosphere of thoughts”, a concept that is also referred to as “noosphere” by Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin. According to them, the existence of this psychosphere causes humans to be compelled to respond to similar ideas, myths and symbols.
-http://vigilantcitizen.com
November 12, 2015
mount_weary commented on the word psychosphere
"I get a bad taste in my mouth out here. Aluminum, ash; like you can smell the psychosphere."
-Rust Cohle (True Detective)
November 12, 2015
mount_weary commented on the word consolamentum
A sacrament performed by the Cathar Perfects on the dying (and also on those wishing to live as Parfaits), which offered spiritual regeneration (thereby freeing them from the cycle of rebirth, sending them directly to God), and absolution from sin.
November 12, 2015
mount_weary commented on the word anagogic
preferred definition: "deriving from, pertaining to, or reflecting the moral or idealistic striving of the unconscious." As in, "an anagogic refinement of the universe."
November 12, 2015
mount_weary commented on the word loafing
via a 1996 NY Times article: In "Walden," the book, Mr. Thoreau celebrated the art of loafing. "Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery," he wrote. "It was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished."
November 12, 2015
mount_weary commented on the word chrysalism
via The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:
"n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly."
November 12, 2015
mount_weary commented on the word cryptosphere
Or, as Judee Sill sings in "Ridge Rider":
"He comes from under the cryptosphere
Where the great sadness begins"
November 12, 2015
mount_weary commented on the word guishen
http://www.ichinglivingchange.org/resource-library/07world-of-change-room/guishen.pdf
or
https://2d7jnsqyszo3p749240y14t1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Guishen.pdf
July 2, 2015
mount_weary commented on the word network realism
http://booktwo.org/notebook/network-realism/
December 2, 2014