2/21/09
2/19/09
2/15/09
excerpt from a letter
Thank you for sending me the detailed info regarding this medal!
I, too, have a fascination with these objects.
I was "indoctrinated" in the catholic religion until age 14, when I had had enough of their false beliefs. (I prob. could not have fully articulated that then, but I clearly knew that I was being told things that were not about the truth). Anyway, my father's side of the family was irish catholic and therefore had numerous medals, rosary beads, prayer cards, etc. My mother converted to catholicism, after she married my father, from a "protestant" background... and from this I learned about the contradictions in religion. There is an underlying principle in all the religions that has been subverted. And, I know, at times, the symbols point toward this truth... it is just that it(truth) has been obscured by numerous stories and beliefs, categorized and separated from our true nature. I'm particularly fascinated by Mary because she represents the feminine nature and has been stripped of her sexual/life-giving nature and "her" original status as the Lover/Mother"'Goddess'". (And her mythology involved the figure of Mary Magdalene as the representation of this principle in relation to Jesus). In other words, the human representation of Mary Magdalene and Jesus is the unification of the feminine and the masculine principles as '"God"'. (I don't like the term "God", better, for me, is Universal Love) ... As a child, sitting in church, I could sense that there was something "more"; something that transcended the negativity that surrounded the culture of religion (all religions). I could sense something shining through the forms.:
i have a strong sense that, "originally", the 2 hearts on the reverse side(of a Mother Mary medal) represented Mary Magdalene and Jesus(Jeshua). We all contain both feminine and masculine nature(s) and we are now in the time of integration of the "2". (as well with the "M" on the cross; "she" was "there", too)
I, too, have a fascination with these objects.
I was "indoctrinated" in the catholic religion until age 14, when I had had enough of their false beliefs. (I prob. could not have fully articulated that then, but I clearly knew that I was being told things that were not about the truth). Anyway, my father's side of the family was irish catholic and therefore had numerous medals, rosary beads, prayer cards, etc. My mother converted to catholicism, after she married my father, from a "protestant" background... and from this I learned about the contradictions in religion. There is an underlying principle in all the religions that has been subverted. And, I know, at times, the symbols point toward this truth... it is just that it(truth) has been obscured by numerous stories and beliefs, categorized and separated from our true nature. I'm particularly fascinated by Mary because she represents the feminine nature and has been stripped of her sexual/life-giving nature and "her" original status as the Lover/Mother"'Goddess'". (And her mythology involved the figure of Mary Magdalene as the representation of this principle in relation to Jesus). In other words, the human representation of Mary Magdalene and Jesus is the unification of the feminine and the masculine principles as '"God"'. (I don't like the term "God", better, for me, is Universal Love) ... As a child, sitting in church, I could sense that there was something "more"; something that transcended the negativity that surrounded the culture of religion (all religions). I could sense something shining through the forms.:
i have a strong sense that, "originally", the 2 hearts on the reverse side(of a Mother Mary medal) represented Mary Magdalene and Jesus(Jeshua). We all contain both feminine and masculine nature(s) and we are now in the time of integration of the "2". (as well with the "M" on the cross; "she" was "there", too)
Last night I had a "random" memory pop in at 10:45 pm: Area of Newport Beach, California w/Paul...going to a restaurant, bright evening sun, around summer 1976 (77?, 'would have to look it up). And then the Fortune Teller machine, ocean cliff building, old tourist attraction, in November 1985, San Francisco w/Carl
2/14/09
2/9/09
2/8/09
I love the smell of Nivea....
Everytime I see the small tin I have
I think of the Swedish girls in Ticino
I can't see them, clearly,
I can see the bathroom, I have a sense of it.
A moment.
I am continually reminded of this memory
When I see the little round tin
(Eventhough, I don't think they manufactured these small ones back then,
28 years ago,
Nor was Nivea made in Mexico?)
If I had been any different
then, than I am now
I would not Be Here Now.
If one step could be changed
The entire world changes;
Universes
Everytime I see the small tin I have
I think of the Swedish girls in Ticino
I can't see them, clearly,
I can see the bathroom, I have a sense of it.
A moment.
I am continually reminded of this memory
When I see the little round tin
(Eventhough, I don't think they manufactured these small ones back then,
28 years ago,
Nor was Nivea made in Mexico?)
If I had been any different
then, than I am now
I would not Be Here Now.
If one step could be changed
The entire world changes;
Universes
2/1/09
1/29/09
Where do completely "random" memories come from? And why do they enter our awareness at that moment? The other day I suddenly remembered and thought (and saw with the "mind's eye") about driving on a road, that I have rarely been on, in the area of my hometown. It just popped in and stayed for awhile with vivid detail, as if I had been on that same drive yesterday. But I know the time I, actually, had taken this road was, perhaps, around 8 years ago.
And then there are the synchronicities (big and small?) that, I know, occur all the time but our awareness of them has often been obscured. Or we chalk them up to being just coincidences. Co-Incident. Yesterday, I was watching the Cash Cab, a trivia game show that takes place in a NYC cab. One of the questions was asking for the "media dubbed" name of a serial killer in NY in 1985 (I thought he said "in NY" but realize I "heard" that because this killer had been in California); what came to my mind was Son of Sam. (I said it 'out loud', my daughter was in the room; the answer was: the Night Stalker) A little later I was 1/2 watching an old, November 1993, episode of Seinfeld when the character Kramer says, "Son of Sam." In this episode, Elaine is dating a guy with the name Joel Rifkin (the name of a NY serial killer, caught in 1993). Everywhere he goes his name creates an uneasiness in people. Therefore, Elaine talks to him about popular names she likes without actually suggesting that he change his name (later in the episode he realizes, himself ,that it would be better if he changed his name). She mentions popular names of football players; first she suggests "Dion" and then she says "OJ" (a few months later in 1994 this name would be associated with murder). To me this was a complex "synch" combined with "retro-irony"!
Living in the Now heightens Your perception. "Things" that had been invisible to You before are now clearly in View. For example: the utter beauty of Nature.
And then there are the synchronicities (big and small?) that, I know, occur all the time but our awareness of them has often been obscured. Or we chalk them up to being just coincidences. Co-Incident. Yesterday, I was watching the Cash Cab, a trivia game show that takes place in a NYC cab. One of the questions was asking for the "media dubbed" name of a serial killer in NY in 1985 (I thought he said "in NY" but realize I "heard" that because this killer had been in California); what came to my mind was Son of Sam. (I said it 'out loud', my daughter was in the room; the answer was: the Night Stalker) A little later I was 1/2 watching an old, November 1993, episode of Seinfeld when the character Kramer says, "Son of Sam." In this episode, Elaine is dating a guy with the name Joel Rifkin (the name of a NY serial killer, caught in 1993). Everywhere he goes his name creates an uneasiness in people. Therefore, Elaine talks to him about popular names she likes without actually suggesting that he change his name (later in the episode he realizes, himself ,that it would be better if he changed his name). She mentions popular names of football players; first she suggests "Dion" and then she says "OJ" (a few months later in 1994 this name would be associated with murder). To me this was a complex "synch" combined with "retro-irony"!
Living in the Now heightens Your perception. "Things" that had been invisible to You before are now clearly in View. For example: the utter beauty of Nature.
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