Red Book + Chitta Nirodha

 Created between 1914 and 1930, Jung considered the Red Book, or Liber Novus (New Book) to be the central work in his oeuvre.

 

“Every period has its bias, its particular prejudice and its psychic ailment. An epoch is like an individual; it has its own limitations of conscious outlook, and therefore requires a compensatory adjustment” (Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 166)                                                               As language is a function of consciousness, so the unconscious has its own tongue--mythological symbols and archetypes.

"the least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it" (Modern Man in Search of a Soul 65-66)

It took Jungian scholar Dr. Sonu Shamdasani three years to convince Jung's family to bring the book out of hiding. It took another 13 years to translate it.

BBC slide show of pages: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8316000/8316096.stm 

consciousness: Chitta or chaitanya.

1)    A synonym for mind-stuff, chitta; or

2)    the condition or power of perception, awareness, apprehension.

There are myriad gradations of consciousness, from the simple sentience of inanimate matter to the consciousness of basic life forms, to the higher consciousness of human embodiment, to omniscient states of superconsciousness, leading to immersion in the One universal consciousness, Parashakti. Chaitanya and chitta can name both individual consciousness and universal consciousness.

Modifiers indicate the level of awareness, e.g.,

-       vyashti chaitanya, "individual consciousness;"

-       buddhi chitta, "intellectual consciousness;"

-       Sivachaitanya, "God consciousness."

Five classical "states" of awareness are discussed in scripture:

1)    wakefulness (jagrat),

2)    "dream" (svapna) or astral consciousness,

3)    "deep sleep" (sushupti) or subsuperconsciousness,

4)    the superconscious state beyond (turiya "fourth") and

5)    the utterly transcendent state called turiyatita ("beyond the fourth").

CHITTA NIRODHA http://www.omalpha.com/pat.htmlhttp://www.omalpha.com/pat.html

Chitta is one of the four functions of mind (Manas, Chitta, Ahamkara, and Buddhi). Chitta is the memory bank, which stores impressions and experiences. To meditate on Chitta is to cultivate the stance of witnessing the stream of thought patterns rising from Chitta and falling back into it.   http://www.swamij.com/meditationtypes.htm

sublime time

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Explanation: If every picture tells a story, this one might make a novel. The six month long exposure compresses the time from December 17, 2007 to June 21, 2008 into a single point of view. Dubbed a solargraph, the remarkable image was recorded with a simple pinhole camera made from a drink can lined with a piece of photographic paper. The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon River Gorge in Bristol, UK emerges from the foreground, but rising and setting each day the Sun arcs overhead, tracing a glowing path through the sky. Cloud cover causes dark gaps in the daily Sun trails. In December, the Sun trails begin lower down and are short, corresponding to a time near the northern hemisphere's winter solstice date. They grow longer and climb higher in the sky as the June 21st summer solstice approaches.

cant catch moon

Winterson : I couldn’t decide what poem to run with this month, so as I am writing a 10 part series for BBC Radio 4 about the Moon, and all my mind is moon just now, it had to be this one…

The Freedom of the Moon

By Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

I’ve tried the new moon tilted in the air

Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster

As you might try a jewel in your hair.

I’ve tried it fine with little breadth of luster,

Alone, or in one ornament combining

With one first water-star almost as shining.

I put it shining anywhere I please.

By walking slowly on some evening later

I’ve pulled it from a crate of crooked trees,

And brought it over glossy water, greater,

And dropped it in, and seen the image wallow,

The color run, all sorts of wonder follow.

Alchemy + the Moon

Interviews with Winterson

The Flower of Life

The Flower of Life is a visual expression of the connections life weaves through all sentient beings, believed to contain a type of Akashic Record (a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or ether) of basic information of all living things.^[5]

There are many spiritual beliefs associated with the Flower of Life; for example, depictions of the five Platonic Solids are found within the symbol of Metatron's Cube, which may be derived from the Flower of Life pattern. Another notable example of that which may be derived from the Flower of Life is the Tree of Life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci studied the Flower of Life's form and its mathematical properties. He drew the Flower of Life itself, as well as various components such as the Seed of Life. He drew geometric figures representing shapes such as the platonic solids and also used the golden ratio of phi in his artwork; all of which may be derived from the Flower of Life design.

 

Geometry means measure of earth. In ancient Egypt, from which the Greek inherited this study, the Nile would flood its banks each year, covering the land and obliterating the orderly markings of plot and farm areas. This yearly flood symbolized to the Egyptians the cyclical return of the primal watery chaos, and when the waters receded the work began of redefining and reestablishing the boundaries. This work of measuring was called geometry. Many ancient cultures chose to examine reality through metaphors of geometry and music, and in actuality they were very close to the position of our most contemporary sciences.