Entering The Maze

You can learn a lot of things from listening to people who are learned in their own ancient cultures and traditions - and it's very easy to suppose such people to be really vital and awesome.

However what they are doing is repeating only what someone else wrote down a long time ago. So what they are speaking about today, 'teaching,' telling you, is really only the vestiges of something that 'may' have happened a long time ago and when it did, if it did, it was in another form entirely, either more complete and by now lost to time, or in fact less than what time and accretion of myth layered on subsequent to what really took place.

Some elf or other, and 'Seven.'

Even so though, we should give some weight to cultural narratives, and you can see that these still have powerful meaning deep inside people's psyches - Leonard Nimoy says he saw the Shekhinah 'descending' and from which ritual he acquired the famous 'Vulcan hand salutation.'

Looking at the Borg's 'regeneration alcoves' one can once again see a mirroring of Judaic mythology - or let's say even formal religious narratives - about the regeneration of physical material 'life' coming from some literal 'light source' somewhere only accessible through formal and rather secretive ritual. In the mystical versions of Judaism, this 'vital light' is called 'Ohr Haganuz' and part of the narrative gets mixed into the religious festival of lights which is celebrated around the end of the (our standard civil, not the religious) calendar year: 'Hanukkah.' 

Now look - if it really were the case that you should be able to literally 'see,' experience, some form of 'Divine Light' that no one else sees or that is not around at any other time of year, and which cures all of your diseases, worries, concerns, and maybe even your money troubles - then we should all rush to become 'Jews' right away.

Nobody can keep a secret anymore these days - and you will indeed find quite a number of Rabbis, even pretty orthodox ones, with YT channels, explaining all about this 'hidden, secret light.'

This is an actual RL thing that people wear
at Rave Festivals - if the face
beneath all of it was
that of 'Narissa' the Romulan
off Star Trek, you would never know; and,
neither would you 'freak out.'

Well yeah though, it's a secret, and it is hidden, because they don't know what it is or where it is.

...They know about the narrative concerning it.

Tamils have their 'Festival of Lights.' Buddhists do too. Everybody does to some extent: Satanists burn black candles, witches and Chinese people burn red ones... Everybody does something of the kind.

Well, candles look nice, for one thing. Sometimes they sputter away charmingly in the otherwise silent darkness.

Star Trek 'story arcs' all are replete with fighting and aggression of one kind or another; it's all a never-ending 'chase-y/fight/run/hide/blow something up' thing.

You are only supposed to set fire to solitary little candles, alone in the dark, or to Steak Diane or Bananas Foster.

Everywhere there is someone telling you 'you must do it this way' or 'you must do this otherwise' or 'you must do it our way and no other way.'

...I do not even wish to say here 'written between the lines are.' Or 'hidden between the lines,' are/is, something; whatever.

There is nothing particularly hidden here is there? Seriously, friends, no super advanced intelligent species is going to come to our midnight secret supper on the off chance we are going to lash out and 'do violence and aggression' and prove how tough we all are.

Even one very well-informed modern-day but still virtually mystic-style Jewish Rabbi was telling his audience recently about his 'trip to heaven' and he told everyone he was not able to describe what he experienced there. One time he said what he saw was like 'the inside of a particular cathedral in Spain,' and on another occasion he said he couldn't describe 'it' because he wasn't 'seeing' with eyes like we have here.

Nice and quiet...

Oh? Blind then, eh. Of course, what he wanted to say was how he 'experienced' was 'more than vision.' And so why didn't he just say that? Why deprecate human eyesight? It isn't necessary to do that. You see (pun, I guess), but these are all still just 'mystical' visions, they are not presented as anyone actually physically going anywhere for real in a material sense.

All the same, this Rabbi fellow relates that there is a 'drawing of some kind of regenerative power' or 'light' that of course he professes to be able, I suppose, to teach to his students, or maybe even, that he says is part of the standard 'thing' about following the Torah.

I don't know how true any of that is - although, you would think, all of these narratives do have a basis in ancient history somewhere, to do with something of the kind they are all speaking about. I mean - where is the 'Ark of the Covenant' with its 'powerful Glory' ('light' again)? What happened to it? Where did it go?

Sure I know 'the Nazis' found it in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark...' LOL

But for you and me, let's just indulge in a little 'synaesthesia' - which is technically 'the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body, by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.' Sometimes neurologists say this is because of finding ways to 'cross wires' in your sensory system, or sometimes, it is the product of actual 'synergy' effects that are potentially available but not normally developed in humans because there is no reason to have them, to use them.

Any systems analyst will tell you, that synergy is the optimum organised use of otherwise free-running available energy...

Not telling you anything you don't already know. What color is this ambient music, though? Any ideas? I have no fixed position regarding it.