Ninurta: Heavenly Bull, Earthly Lion. Lord of the Land, Powerful among the Anunnaki.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy - Rimanah

Fig. 93

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“Listing all his attributes and heirlooms, Ninurta thus asserted:
In Heaven I am a wild bull,
On Earth I am a lion.
In the land I am the lord,
among the gods I am the fiercest.
The hero of the Igigi I am,
among the Anunnaki I am powerful.

The statement asserts verbally what the depictions, such as we have shown in Fig. 93, have illustrated pictorially: the zodiacal time when the spring equinox began in the House of the Bull (Taurus) and the summer solstice occurred in the zodiac of the Lion (Leo) belonged to the Enlilites, whose "cult animals" were the Bull and the Lion.”

Excerpt From: Sitchin, Zecharia. “When Time Began (Book V).” Bear & Company, 2011-05-22. iBooks Store 

When Time Began (Earth Chronicles #5)

No one can afford to live in New York!

“Whenever people say ‘I can’t really afford to live in New York,’ I say ‘No one can afford to live in New York! You just stay here and as long as you’re not in jail, you’re living in New York. You have no idea how you paid all this rent. If you add up all your rent from 1968, you realize you can be like, a prince from Dubai. How did you pay this? You don’t know. The entire time I lived here, I lived inside. It’s an amazing feat! I don’t know how I did it. I don’t. I don’t know how you do it. Neither do you.”

Fran Lebowitz On New York’s Lack of Affordability

Missed Connections on the New York Subway

"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are." ~ Plato

Missed Connections on the New York Subway

Poster on the New York Subway

Subway Poster

Psychonauts

In his introduction, Thurman also notes Evans-Wentz's misnomer but calls his translation The Tibetan Book of the Dead. And like the Evans-Wentz version, about half of Thurman's work is taken up with his own commentary and glossary. Part of the commentary is taken up by Thurman's interpretation of the Bar do thos grol, a Nyingma text, in light of the antic theory of the great Geluk master, Tsong kha pa (1357-1419). But much of Thurman's introduction is reminiscent of Evans-Wentz. For Thurman, Tibet was a unique civilization. while the West has devoted itself to the investigation and conquest of the material world and outer space, Tibet was an inwardly directed society the produced generations of mystical adepts who studied spiritual technologies and became "Inner world adventurers of the highest daring" he calls them psychonauts" who "personally voyage to the furthest frontiers of the universe which their society deemed vital to explore: the inner frontiers of consciousness itself, in all its transformations of life and beyond death." As a product of this society, The Tibetan Book of the Dead is not a Buddhist approach to death and dying but a scientific description of the death process, derived from the research of Psychonauts. The Tibetan views of death are no more or less religious than modern Western views on the structure of the solar system. In the preface of the third edition, Evans-Wentz had written that the book "reveals to the people of the Occident a science of death and rebirth such as only the peoples of the Orient have heretofore known"

In the 1990 film Jacob's Ladder, a Vietnam Veteran experiences disturbing hallucinations, and the viewer, like the protagonist, is unable to distinguish reality from illusion. In the end, it is revealed that the entire film has been the visions of an American soldier in Vietnam as he dies on the operating table. He is finally led to a light be a child. The director Adrian Lyne explained in interviews that the film had been inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

(p251-252) The Tibetan Book of The Dead ~ Afterword: Psychonauts
 — with Donald S. Lopez Jr

Depression, the secret we share

The Colossus (painting)

"The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment." In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the years he battled depression. That led him to an eye-opening journey across the world to interview others with depression — only to discover that, to his surprise, the more he talked, the more people wanted to tell their own stories. (Filmed at TEDxMet.)

Andrew Solomon: Depression, the secret we share

Every Seven Years You Change

ARE you the same person now that you were fifteen years ago? In fact, are you the same person you were just seven years ago? Most of us have heard the old saying that every cell in the body is changed over a period of seven years; but recent investigation has uncovered facts of far more significance to us as human beings. This concerns the emotional, physical and mental changes that seem to occur in approximate seven-year intervals. Of course there are no fixed boundaries and so one may achieve these levels of maturity at any period of our life. so what follows are simply the general changes you may find.

Rudolph Steiner, the great teacher of Anthroposophy said that the seven-year cycles continue throughout life, and are of the utmost importance to doctors, teachers, psychiatrists and the social sciences. Without some smattering of these changes it is difficult for anyone to understand the relationship of any given individual with his or her environment. So I have tried to summarise what Steiner and others have said about the cycles.

Before the definition is started, I feel it is important to say that as humans, in fact as any life form, we are creatures of great polarities. Or as the philosopher Erwin Goodenough said, “A book on love, loyalty or justice would gain little but pedantry by starting out with a concise definition of the term. Only as we describe the various conflicting elements associated with such words can we finally arrive at a meaning that includes these complexities; for important matters we understand, not as we simplify, but as we tolerate the paradoxical.”

One of the great paradoxes of our lives are that we constantly go through such enormous such massive changes every day. Daily we pass through an extraordinary change that we often take so much for granted we miss the wonder of it. The change occurs between sleeping and waking. For most of us being awake is when we most fully feel ourselves. Compared with this sleeping is a period during which we lose any focused awareness of being an individual, and we sink into what is generally called unconsciousness — the lack of personal awareness.

This swing between waking and sleeping can be seen as the extremes within the possibilities of our experience. Sleeping and waking are the polarities, the North and South Poles of what we can confront. In quite a real sense we can say there is nothing beyond what is included in those polarities. But there is an enormous difference between waking experience and the experience of dreamless sleep. Yes, one can have an experience of what is considered deep unconsciousness. In waking we have a sensation of time, of being in a locality, of separateness and even isolation. But at the other end of that polarity we have a sense of timelessness and non-locality. What was a sense of self merges into an ocean of awareness. See Levels of Awareness in Sleeping and Waking.

http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/every-seven-years-you-change/

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
~ Gail Sheehy

Every numeral of the series of numbers is associated with some interesting facts. The repeating nature of a certain number in different spheres of life can be a coincidence or simply a wonder! What do you think? Read on to know some interesting facts about the number seven.

Limitations of Cleverness

"Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with. It has to change its opinions later on because of what it didn't see when it was forming them. The thing that makes someone truly different -- unique, in fact -- is something that Cleverness cannot really understand."
~ The Tao of Pooh