A Case Of Curiosities

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KECAK

And where many of us first saw/heard this:


And then there's this...

Sri Ramakrishna Aratikam at Delhi Ramakrishna Mission

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At Keukenhof Gardens, Holland, NL

With Teeth

You've got the part that's living now
It's a tiny bit nasty
But it's a part now just the same
Have you the time to make it right
Lord knows I'm gonna let it fly
I know it's not very evil
But you've just got to learn to let it go
Sometimes when the heart beats wide
You can take it on the toe
Like siz the well known water
Like siz the well known war

Plauge Demon

Presented with the projection of Steadman’s vivid paintings, PLAGUE and the MOONflower illuminates the hapless waste and destruction we fuel with apathy while a sustainable Earth fades from the futures of our children.

Plague demon is not an alien. The plague demon is the dark side of ourselves – the real enemy. Greedy, consuming, it takes rather than gives and destroys the earth. Once we recognize this, we realize that we are the problem – and that we have to mend our ways.

http://www.ralphfancygoods.com/plague/index.html

MELVINS

MELVINS: live at Webster Hall on their 25th Anniversary "tour". This was what took place right after a 10+ min reproduction of "Spread Eagle Beagle" (last song on Houdini). Video shot and edited by me.

Tanpuraura

One of several new VAR.NA pieces edited down to about half the length.

Drone Monk

Manipulated audio recording from year+ ago added to newly shot and edited footage of driving up Western Run Rd.

More from the Philosophical Research Society

THE VEDIC TRIMURTI
It is proper that the Leader of Universals should be regarded as the head of the world and that its three complexions should be symbolized by faces. Speaking its word of power, each face causes to issue from its mouth a sacred syllable, by which the surfaces of the three worlds are agitated and caused to assume the semblance of creation. MPH


THE INTERPLAY OF THE WORLD
In this figure is set forth the constitution of the Intermediate Sphere, by which the extremes of Spirit and Matter are reconciled and the harmony of the universe preserved. The ancients unite in the recognition of three worlds existing within one eternal and unlimited state. Philosophy is the science of relationships of these worlds. MPH
THE SPHERE OF GRACE
Herein is revealed the mystery of the Universal Soul and the redemption of man through the doctrine of grace. When atonement is understood in its Platonic interpretation as an “at-one-ment,” or reconciliation of the not-self and the Self through the disciplines of philosophy, we come to sense the magnitude of spiritual redemption. MPH

THE ORPHIC EGG
The Universal Germ, stirring within the Egg of Creation, established the worlds and generations by three "gestures." It fashioned the souls of things according to Virtue, the bodies of things according to Beauty, and the laws by which souls and bodies are maintained according to the Necessary. Together these comprise the Work which is called The Good. MPH

THE LADDER OF LIFE
Man is ever ascending from an inferior to a superior state according to a law which was established coeval with the foundation of generation. This law is the philosophic ladder which is treated more in detail in Chapter Seventeen. It is likewise the mysterious Masonic ladder—that ancient symbol of the Secret Work. MPH

THE SPHERE OF THE SOUL
The sphere of the Absolute is here shown centered as a radiant power denominated the Divine Soul. While this Soul maintains its equilibrium, spiritual consciousness remains unbroken; but by the soul inclining toward the extremes is created the illusion of the rational and irrational souls as positive and negative poles. MPH

THE PLANES OF THE GENERATING SPHERE
Assuming the illusion of form, the spiritual life descends out of its own radiant nature and takes upon itself in sequential order a mental constitution, an emotional (or astral) constitution, a vital constitution, and, a lastly, a physical constitution. These four constitutions are united to the non-incarnation spiritual self by a thread of life. MPH

MAN, THE THREEFOLD MYSTERY
In this diagram the divine nature of man is represented by an inverted triangle with its lower point resting in the heart. The spheres of power upon the upper points of the triangle are the Anthropos, or Oversoul. From the spirit in the heart come forth two poles, one ascending to become the mind and the other descending to become the generative system. MPH

Alchemy and Magic

Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus
From Historia Deorum Fatidicorum

Master of all arts and sciences, perfect in all crafts, Ruler of the Three Worlds, Scribe of the Gods, and Keeper of the Books of Life, Thoth Hermes Trismegistus—the Three Times Greatest, the "First Intelligencer" —was regarded by the ancient Egyptians as the embodiment of the Universal Mind. While in all probability there actually existed a great sage and educator by the name of Hermes, it is impossible to extricate the historical man from the mass of legendary accounts which attempt to identify him with the Cosmic Principle of Thought. MPH

Chart showing the Relationship between the Human Body and the Exterior Universe
From Kircher’s OEdipus AEgyptiacus

The ornamental border contains groups of names of animal, mineral, and vegetable substances. Their relationship to corresponding parts of the human body is shown by the dotted lines. The words in capital letters on the dotted lines indicate to what corporeal member, organ, or disease, the herb or other substance is related. The favorable positions in relation to the time of year are shown by the signs of the zodiac, each house of which is divided by crosses into its three decans. This influence is further emphasized by the series of planetary signs placed on either side of the figure. MPH.

The Consonances of the Mundane Monochord
From Fludd’s De Musica Mundana

This diagrammatic sector represents the major gradations of energy and substance between elemental earth and absolute unconditioned force. Beginning with the superior, the fifteen graduated spheres descend in the following order: Limitless and Eternal Life; the superior, the middle, and the inferior Empyrean; the seven planets; and the four elements. Energy is symbolized by Fludd as a pyramid with its base upon the concave surface of the superior Empyrean, and substance as another pyramid with its base upon the convex surface of the sphere (not planet) of earth. These pyramids demonstrate the relative proportions of energy and substance entering into the composition of the fifteen planes of being. It will be noted that the ascending pyramid of substance touches but does not pierce the fifteenth sphere—that of Limitless and Eternal Life. Likewise, the descending pyramid of energy touches but does not pierce the first sphere—the grossest condition of substance. The plane of the sun is denominated by the sphere of equality, for here neither energy nor substance predominates. The mundane monochord consists of a hypothetical string stretched from the base of the pyramid of energy to the base of the pyramid of substance. MPH

The Mundane Monochord with its Proportions and IntervalsFrom Fludd’s De Musica Mundana

In this chart is set forth a summary of Fludd’s theory of universal music. The interval between the element of earth and the highest heaven is considered as a double octave, thus showing the two extremes of existence to be in disdiapason harmony. It is significant that the highest heaven, the sun, and the earth have the same tone, the difference being in pitch. The sun is the lower octave of the highest heaven and the earth the lower octave of the sun. The lower octave (F to G) comprises that part of the universe in which substance predominates over energy. Its harmonies, therefore, are more gross than those of the higher octave (G to g) wherein energy predominates over substance. "If struck in the more spiritual part," writes Fludd, "the monochord will give eternal life; if in the more material part, transitory life." It will be noted that certain elements, planets, and celestial spheres sustain a harmonic ratio to each other. Fludd advances this as a key to the sympathies and antipathies existing between the various departments of Nature. MPH

The Theory of Elemental Music
From Fludd’s De Musica Mundana
In this diagram two interpenetrating pyramids are again employed, one of which represents fire and the other earth. It is demonstrated according to the law of elemental harmony that fire does not enter into the composition of earth nor earth into the composition of fire. The figures on the chart disclose the harmonic relationships existing between the four primary elements according to both Fludd and the Pythagoreans. Earth consists of four parts of its own nature; water of three parts of earth and one part of fire. The sphere of equality is a hypothetical point where there is an equilibrium of two parts of earth and two parts of fire. Air is composed of three parts of fire and one part of earth; fire, of four parts of its own nature. Thus earth and water bear to each other the ratio of 4 to 3, or the diatessaron harmony, and water and the sphere of equality the ratio of 3 to 2, or the diapente harmony. Fire and air also bear to each other the ratio of 4 to 3, or the diatessaron harmony, and air and the sphere of equality the ratio of 3 to 2, or the diapente harmony. As the sum of a diatessaron and a diapente equals a diapason, or octave, it is evident that both the sphere of fire and the sphere of earth are in diapason harmony with the sphere of equality, and also that fire and earth are in disdiapason harmony with each other. MPH

The Four Elements and their Consonantal Intervals
From Fludd’s De Musica Mundana
In this diagram Fludd has divided each of the four primary elements into three subdivisions. The first division of each element is the grossest, partaking somewhat of the substance directly inferior to itself (except in the case of the earth, which has no state inferior to itself). The second division consists of the element in its relatively pure state, while the third division is that condition wherein the element partakes somewhat of the substance immediately superior to itself. For example, the lowest division of the element of water is sedimentary, as it contains earth substance in solution; the second division represents water in its most common state—salty—as in the case of the ocean; and the third division is water in its purest state—free from salt. The harmonic interval assigned to the lowest division of each element is one tone, to the central division also a tone, but to the higher division a half-tone because it partakes of the division immediately above it. Fludd emphasizes the fact that as the elements ascend in series of two and a half tones, the diatessaron is the dominating harmonic interval of the elements. MPH

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Ghee, wonder if it's good?

Maybe this will be worth it

Well I just made a myspace page for my band, HYACINTH, and I already have one for the noise project, VAR.NA, so in order to blend the goings-on of these two things as well as what goes on in my personal life, I decided to make this blog. Guess we'll see where this goes. My only visions are of tons pictures, audio links, videos, links to ridiculous pictures and news articles, and whatever else I can find that interests me. Hope anyone who happens to stumble across this will enjoy. Cheers.