Fruit of the Contemplative Life
Fruit of the contemplative life: => Art of the Mystic => : Alexander March 04, 2023, 11:11:18 PM
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Ancient Babylonian mystery
https://youtu.be/G6TsNmTpGcU
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k_89j5vCGaisPZ9Zz7EQcbXI_SGNDL3D/view?usp=drivesdk
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Ancient Babylonian mystery
https://youtu.be/G6TsNmTpGcU
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k_89j5vCGaisPZ9Zz7EQcbXI_SGNDL3D/view?usp=drivesdk
She has a captivating voice.
When I moved to Boulder in 1991, I started attending a Jungian Archetypal Psychotherapy program that based itself in Sumerian mythology. One of the the main teachings had to do with what they called the "alchemical unfoldment," which I introduce in this article: https://thearchetypalexpositor.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/the-alchemical-unfoldment/
Essentially, within a given archetypal cycle (usually tracked through dream imagery), we pass through four stages, two descents and two ascents. The four stages are represented by different color roses.
1. Black Rose (Level 1): first descent; issues playing out on the ego and physical plane, with unresolved wounds and trauma often surfacing as physical injury or disease; dream images of conflict with the same sex.
2. White Rose (Level 2): first ascent; resolution of ego-plane and physical issues; dream images featuring same sex union.
3. Yellow Rose (Level 3): second descent; issues playing out on the soul or transcendent plane, with deeper levels of unresolved woundedness and trauma expressing as dysfunction in relationship, work, social interactions and life in general; dream images of conflict with the opposite sex.
4. Red Rose (Level 4): second (and final) ascent; resolution of soul or transcendent issues; dream images featuring opposite sex union.
Aside from being an interesting concept, this model provides the Western tradition with something that the East (and shamanic culture) has always offered: a ritual initiatory process that formally guides the individual into and out of the descent.
In the West, the descent is pathologized and feared. We prescribe psychotropic drugs to remove the descent (along with an unfortunate byproduct, the ascent), so that we are able to "function" - until we're not. Many people get "stuck in a descent" for years and years at a time, if not an entire lifetime. We label it "depression." If we understand that we live through a perpetual series of cycles that naturally lead to peaks and troughs, we are better equipped to allow the cycle to unfold, without getting in the way out of fear and ignorance.
Ishtar's visit to the Underworld, like Christ's, indicates that the unconscious is a worthy area of life to explore, that it has something of importance for us to learn. The Buddha's constant parlays with Maya offer another example. We are encouraged to open our eyes and ears to what the unconscious wants to impart to us.
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She has a captivating voice.
When I moved to Boulder in 1991, I started attending a Jungian Archetypal Psychotherapy program that based itself in Sumerian mythology. One of the the main teachings had to do with what they called the "alchemical unfoldment," which I introduce in this article: https://thearchetypalexpositor.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/the-alchemical-unfoldment/
Essentially, within a given archetypal cycle (usually tracked through dream imagery), we pass through four stages, two descents and two ascents. The four stages are represented by different color roses.
1. Black Rose (Level 1): first descent; issues playing out on the ego and physical plane, with unresolved wounds and trauma often surfacing as physical injury or disease; dream images of conflict with the same sex.
2. White Rose (Level 2): first ascent; resolution of ego-plane and physical issues; dream images featuring same sex union.
3. Yellow Rose (Level 3): second descent; issues playing out on the soul or transcendent plane, with deeper levels of unresolved woundedness and trauma expressing as dysfunction in relationship, work, social interactions and life in general; dream images of conflict with the opposite sex.
4. Red Rose (Level 4): second (and final) ascent; resolution of soul or transcendent issues; dream images featuring opposite sex union.
Aside from being an interesting concept, this model provides the Western tradition with something that the East (and shamanic culture) has always offered: a ritual initiatory process that formally guides the individual into and out of the descent.
In the West, the descent is pathologized and feared. We prescribe psychotropic drugs to remove the descent (along with an unfortunate byproduct, the ascent), so that we are able to "function" - until we're not. Many people get "stuck in a descent" for years and years at a time, if not an entire lifetime. We label it "depression." If we understand that we live through a perpetual series of cycles that naturally lead to peaks and troughs, we are better equipped to allow the cycle to unfold, without getting in the way out of fear and ignorance.
Ishtar's visit to the Underworld, like Christ's, indicates that the unconscious is a worthy area of life to explore, that it has something of importance for us to learn. The Buddha's constant parlays with Maya offer another example. We are encouraged to open our eyes and ears to what the unconscious wants to impart to us.
You got all that from a song?? I was just posting it 😁
I’m just kidding 😁 Couldn’t have said it better myself 👍
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She has a captivating voice.
When I moved to Boulder in 1991, I started attending a Jungian Archetypal Psychotherapy program that based itself in Sumerian mythology. One of the the main teachings had to do with what they called the "alchemical unfoldment," which I introduce in this article: https://thearchetypalexpositor.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/the-alchemical-unfoldment/
Essentially, within a given archetypal cycle (usually tracked through dream imagery), we pass through four stages, two descents and two ascents. The four stages are represented by different color roses.
1. Black Rose (Level 1): first descent; issues playing out on the ego and physical plane, with unresolved wounds and trauma often surfacing as physical injury or disease; dream images of conflict with the same sex.
2. White Rose (Level 2): first ascent; resolution of ego-plane and physical issues; dream images featuring same sex union.
3. Yellow Rose (Level 3): second descent; issues playing out on the soul or transcendent plane, with deeper levels of unresolved woundedness and trauma expressing as dysfunction in relationship, work, social interactions and life in general; dream images of conflict with the opposite sex.
4. Red Rose (Level 4): second (and final) ascent; resolution of soul or transcendent issues; dream images featuring opposite sex union.
Aside from being an interesting concept, this model provides the Western tradition with something that the East (and shamanic culture) has always offered: a ritual initiatory process that formally guides the individual into and out of the descent.
In the West, the descent is pathologized and feared. We prescribe psychotropic drugs to remove the descent (along with an unfortunate byproduct, the ascent), so that we are able to "function" - until we're not. Many people get "stuck in a descent" for years and years at a time, if not an entire lifetime. We label it "depression." If we understand that we live through a perpetual series of cycles that naturally lead to peaks and troughs, we are better equipped to allow the cycle to unfold, without getting in the way out of fear and ignorance.
Ishtar's visit to the Underworld, like Christ's, indicates that the unconscious is a worthy area of life to explore, that it has something of importance for us to learn. The Buddha's constant parlays with Maya offer another example. We are encouraged to open our eyes and ears to what the unconscious wants to impart to us.
You got all that from a song?? I was just posting it 😁
I’m just kidding 😁 Couldn’t have said it better myself 👍
;D
I can't necessarily comment on everything, but this one was in my wheelhouse!
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Thanks, Michael, and Alexander, for posting and contributing to this thread. Personally there just aren't enough women on this forum contributing, because I am certain the dialog here would definitely benefit, but this tread reminds me that my daughter has become quite the devotee of Ishtar, and she was raised by two women who were rabid feminists who thought it was OK to brutalize, and demonize their ex-husband. So, I am not big on Ishtar for anything other than speculation over a long-dead culture, and all we have is archaeology to attempt to understand it.
Nice music, and thanks for the poem, Alexander, is it your poem?
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Thanks, Michael, and Alexander, for posting and contributing to this thread. Personally there just aren't enough women on this forum contributing, because I am certain the dialog here would definitely benefit, but this tread reminds me that my daughter has become quite the devotee of Ishtar, and she was raised by two women who were rabid feminists who thought it was OK to brutalize, and demonize their ex-husband. So, I am not big on Ishtar for anything other than speculation over a long-dead culture, and all we have is archaeology to attempt to understand it.
Nice music, and thanks for the poem, Alexander, is it your poem?
I think the gods were responsible for this one ;D