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Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 538
October 7, 2013
WISHES
A wish is a hope or desire for a thing or person to appear, for an immaterial thing to become real, for a condition to change, or any of an unlimited number of desires for change. Traditionally, a wish is request from a supernatural being to cause something to be changed or created. A template for fictional wishes could be The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, specifically the tale of Aladdin, although in the tale of Aladdin the actual wishes were only part of the tale. Classically the wish provider is often a spirit, Genie or similar entity, bound or constrained within an object, like Aladdin's oil lamp for example.
In the case of the Magic Lamp, there are several steps to getting your wish fulfilled:
The first step in wishing is to assume or discover that a "supernatural being" exists!
The next step is to assume that the alleged Supernatural Being is LISTENING to your request.
Then, the magical Supernatural Being must have the ABILITY to make the wish become reality.
Finally, the Supernatural Being must actually WANT to make your wish happen for you.
What are the odds that all of these circumstances will ever exist? You do the math....
However, there are other forms of "wishing" or asking for something from a supernatural being. The most common kind of "wishing" is prayer. Another kind of wishing is daydreaming, or imagination or meditation. Another kind of wishing is figuring out how to make something happen and working hard, and persisting long enough to MAKE it happen!
This is almost always the most reliable way of making a wish come true. And, YOU are a Supernatural Being that can make YOUR wishes come true.
-- Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013.
October 6, 2013
GIRL IN THE VERMEER PAINTINGS
This picture is a modern spoof on the world famous painting by the 16th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The girl in the legendary painting (as well as in several other of his paintings) is his second daughter, Elizabeth! Vermeer never hired models -- he painted only family and friends. It doesn't take a cosmetic surgeon to compare the features of the women in the majority of his paintings to observe that the same women are being painted in their own home, again and again in different poses, settings, lighting and clothing. Most of his paintings feature his wife, Catharina, who was not only his constant accomplice in creating a family, she was his foremost ally in his life as an artist!
The painting named (by others), "Girl with a pearl earring", as well as "The girl with a red hat", and "The girl with a flute", and others, are all of his second daughter, Elizabeth, who was a teenager when they were painted. He used her as the model for a series of very small "tronie" or facial portraits, which were popular at the time.
These miniature "head shots" were especially well suited to the use of the camera obscura to create what we know now to have a photographic quality, rendering the light and perspective differently than the unaided lens of the human eye perceives it.
To learn all of the details about the women who posed for Johannes Vermeer in all of his famous paintings, read the book VERMEER: PORTRAITS OF A LIFETIME, by Lawrence R. Spencer.
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October 5, 2013
WHAT MATTERS
AND, HERE IS A REALLY TERRIFIC VIDEO ABOUT REAL LIFE ADVENTURES!
October 4, 2013
HAPPINESS IS NOT
I have been thinking a lot about "happiness" recently. There are many different definitions of this word. In an English language dictionary defines "happiness" as:
elatedness, elation, exhilaration, exultation, high,intoxication; ecstasy, euphoria, glory, heaven, nirvana,paradise, rapture, rapturousness, ravishment, seventh heaven, transport; delectation, delight, enjoyment,pleasure; cheer, cheerfulness, comfort, exuberance,gaiety (also gayety), gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness,jocundity, jollity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance,jubilation, lightheartedness, merriness, mirth; content,contentedness, gratification, satisfaction, triumph.
Here are a few ideas I have about what happiness is, and what it is not....
October 3, 2013
CIVILIZATION
"Earth is a "ghetto" planet. It is the result of an intergalactic "Holocaust". IS-BEs have been sentenced to Earth either because:
1) They are too viciously insane or perverse to function as part of any civilization, no matter how degraded or corrupt.
2) Or, they are a revolutionary threat to the social, economic and political caste system that has been so carefully built and brutally enforced in the "Old Empire". Biological bodies are specifically designed and designated as the lowest order of entity in the "Old Empire" caste system. When an IS-BE is sent to Earth, and then tricked or coerced into operating in a biological body, they are actually in a prison, inside a prison.
3) In an effort to permanently and irreversibly rid the "Old Empire" of such "untouchables", the eternal identity, memory, and abilities of every IS-BE is forcefully erased. This "final solution" was conceived and carried out by the psychopathic criminals who are controlled by the "Old Empire".
The mass extermination of "untouchables" and prison camps created by Germany during World War II were recently revealed. Likewise, the IS-BEs of Earth are the victims of spiritual eradication and eternal slavery inside frail, biological bodies, inspired by the same kind of craven hatred in the "Old Empire".
The kind and creative inmates of Earth are continuously tortured by butchers and lunatics who are controlled by the "Old Empire" prison operators. The so-called "civilizations" of Earth, from the age of useless pyramids to the age of nuclear holocaust, have been a colossal waste of natural resources, a perverted use of intelligence, and an overt oppression of the spiritual essence of every single IS-BE on the planet."
October 2, 2013
HOW THE PYRAMIDS WERE BUILT?
Coral Castle (shown in the photo above) is noted for legends surrounding its creation that claim it was built single-handedly by Edward Leedskalnin using reverse magnetism to move and carve numerous stones weighing many tons. Edward Leedskalnin (January 12, 1887 -- December 7, 1951) was a Latvian emigrant to the United States and amateur sculptor who single-handedly built the monument known as Coral Castle in Florida. He was also known for his obscure theories on magnetism. The Force of Nature he describe was also understood by Nikola Tesla. And, it may have been used to move and life block of stone weighing hundreds of tons by the builders of the ancient pyramids!
Edward Leedskalnin wrote an technical article in 1945 that describes the natural forces of the universe that he refers to as "Magnetic Current". Apparently, this "force of nature" is are the fundamental particles of energy that cause the planet Earth to rotate on it's axis. It also holds the Moon and Earth in their orbits, relative to each other. This energy is the source of lightning. It is the same energy from the sun that can been seen in the Northern Lights. This energy can be harnessed and controlled.
HERE IS A PDF FILE OF HIS 1945 ARTICLE: "Magnetic-Current_Edward-Leedskalnin_51pp"
"There is only one man in the world who, by demonstration, has supported the claim (that he understood the secret) of how the pyramids of Egypt were built! The man is now deceased. The claim was made by an eccentric Latvian recluse named Edward Leedskalnin. (visit the website for videos and technical details)
An immigrant to the United States of America, Leedskalnin devised a means to single-handedly lift and maneuver blocks of coral weighing up to 30 tons each. In Homestead, Florida, using his closely guarded secret, he was able to quarry and construct an entire complex of monolithic blocks of coral in an arrangement that reflected his own unique character. On average, the weight of a single block used in the Coral Castle was greater than those used to build the Great Pyramid. He labored for 28 years to complete the work, which consisted of a total of 1,100 tons of rock. What was Leedskalnin's secret?
Is it possible for a five-foot tall, 110 pound man to accomplish such a feat without knowing techniques that are uncommon to our contemporary understanding of physics and mechanics? Leedskalnin was a student of the universe. Within his castle walls, built of coral blocks weighing approximately 15 tons each, he had a 22-ton obelisk, a 22-ton moon block, a 23-ton Jupiter block, a Saturn block, a 9-ton gate, a rocking chair that weighed 3-tons, and numerous puzzles. A huge 30-ton block, which he considered to be his major achievement, he crowned with a gable shaped rock. These personal accomplishments have astounded and surprised many engineers and technologists, who compare them with those achieved by workers handling similar weights in industry today. For his miracles of construction engineering, Leedskalnin received attention not only from engineers and technologists, but from the U.S. government, who paid him a visit hoping to be enlightened. Leedskalnin received them gracefully, and they left none the wiser. In 1952, falling ill and on his last legs, Leedskalnin checked himself into the hospital and slipped away from this life, taking his secret with him." -- from the article by engineer Christopher Dunn (read the entire article)
PASSIONS
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
-- Carl Jung
VISION
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakes."
-- Carl Jung --
October 1, 2013
TRANSFORMED
Carl Gustav Jung ( 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation – the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.
Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. Jung saw the human psyche as "by nature religious" and made this religiousness the focus of his explorations. Jung's work on himself and his patients convinced him that life has a spiritual purpose beyond material goals. Our main task, he believed, is to discover and fulfill our deep innate potential. Based on his study of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, Taoism, and other traditions, Jung believed that this journey of transformation, which he called individuation, is at the mystical heart of all religions. It is a journey to meet the self and at the same time to meet the Divine. Jung's pantheism may have led him to believe that spiritual experience was essential to our well-being, as he specifically identifies individual human life with the universe as a whole.
Jung recommended spirituality as a cure for alcoholism and he is considered to have had an indirect role in establishing Alcoholics Anonymous. Jung proposed that art can be used to alleviate or contain feelings of trauma, fear, or anxiety and also to repair, restore and heal. In his work with patients and in his own personal explorations, Jung wrote that art expression and images found in dreams could be helpful in recovering from trauma and emotional distress. He often drew, painted, or made objects and constructions at times of emotional distress, which he recognized as more than recreational.
Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view Jung as a mystic, although Jung's ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.
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