Higher Vistas and Lower

 

Joseph Campbell in Myths to Live By :

"I have noticed . . . when flying -- particularly over oceans -- that the world of sheerly physical nature, of air and cloud and the marvels of light there experienced, is altogether congenial. Here on earth it is to the lovely vegetable nature-world that we respond; there aloft, to the sublimely spatial . . .

". . . with each expansion of the horizon, from the troglodytal cave to the Buddhist temple on the hilltop -- and on now to the moon -- there has been, as there must inevitably be, not only an expansion of consciousness, in keeping with ever-widening as well as deepening insights into the nature of Nature (which is of one nature with ourselves), but also an enrichment, refinement, and general melioration of the conditions of human physical life."

A little commentary on Campbell:

What this means is that our minds are expanding whether we want them to or not, and so our more conventional thoughts are just as doomed to obsolescence as the worldview of medieval people. There is, therefore, no immortality in going along with the crowd and lazily believing what everyone else believes.

If you would avoid becoming a ridiculous little footnote to a worldview that is disappearing even as you continue to dedicate your life to it, if you would avoid being erased and nullified by the continuing evolution of human consciousness, then you have no choice but to rise up above the gravitational pull of the mass culture of your time -- you have to choice but to embrace Antigravity.

 

The Love That Is Not Love

 
The love that is full of light is the hope and glory of the world. It is the love that comes freighted with gravity and egotism that is destructive, the love that is no real love, the love in the name of which endless crimes have been committed.

Henry Fuseli, "The Nightmare," 1781

 

Sunrise with Om

 
When the power of Antigravity is enclosed in a single sound, that sound is symbolized by this Sanskrit letter-word:

There is a special chanting pronunciation for this word, a deep and drawn-out drone that can be represented, if a little ridiculously, by this string of letters in English: Ahhhooohhmmm.

People who repeat this sound correctly or learn to chant mantras in which "Om" holds a central place are well on the way to rising to the highest
realm of spiritual experience.

Om is, in short, a proven gravity-buster, for it was the sound that hummed through the primordial universe before gravity came into being and everything was still light.
 

Don't Worry About the Darkness

 
The very remarkable filmmaker
David Lynch in his book entitled
Catching the Big Fish:
Meditation, Consciousness, & Creativity :

"Negativity is like darkness. So what is darkness? You look at darkness, and you see that it's really nothing: It's the absence of something. You turn on the light, and darkness goes.

"But sunlight, for instance, doesn't get rid of negativity. It gets rid of darkness, but not negativity. So what light can you turn on that removes negativity the way sunlight removes darkness? It's the light of pure consciousness, of the Self--the light of unity.

"Don't fight the darkness. Don't even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes.

"Now you say, 'That sounds so sweet.' It sounds too sweet. But it's a real thing."