FB Post 8/21

This topic has 8 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 7 months ago by Drew Huntley.

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    • #22585
       Anonymous
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       photo chapter 4.jpg

      New post on Eclipse day. Please discuss below.

    • #22586
       Jackie
      Participant

      Ironic or planned. I’m going with planned. Love it!

    • #22587
       Anonymous
      Inactive

      My perception of the quote is that a person who has achieved true enlightenment can perceive everything around them with equal measure, including what we would consider darkness or evil. Their mind is open to all things and, in a way, there is no fear.

      Or the orgs want us to blind ourselves while looking in the sun because that’d be fun. I’m joking, but thought I’d throw that out there.

    • #22588
       Meghan Mayhem
      Participant

      Every inspirational quote posting armchair activist asshole on Facebook would have you believe that enlightenment comes from sunbeams and flower paths and holding hands by streams of magical fucking carps made of glitter.

      True enlightenment is seeing and really understanding. Good, bad, beautiful, ugly, happiness, sadness. All.

    • #22589
       Anonymous
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    • #22590
       Cristen
      Participant

      Agreed @mamatato, it definitely plays into themes of embracing a shadow self per earlier chapters. Maybe this references a whole overall picture that’s going to become clearer to us soon. Dusk is encroaching with the Eclipse, after all.

      I also love this other quote from Kazantsakis that seems relevant here:

      “By believing passionately in that which doesn’t exist, you create it. That which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non-existent.”

      (Also: preach, @meghanmayhem. Let’s take it all in.)

    • #22591
       Mike
      Participant

      “Only by removing your ability to see will you truly gain his vision”

      So that quote and the Facebook quote…it’s obvious what’s going on. Anoch wants us to stare into the eclipse to see the darkness and get…enlightenment. Our search for it is over!

      Right? RIGHT??

    • #22628
       Lawrence Meyers
      Participant

      Lots of stuff to mine in quote’s author:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis

      Wrote a ton on spirituality, existentialism, and religion, including LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.

      NINE nominations for Nobel Prizes for Literature.

    • #22722
       Drew Huntley
      Participant

      Since it hasn’t been posted yet, the Painting is Adolph Gottlieb’s “Orb.”
      Don’t have much time to look into the artist further at the moment, but here is his Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Gottlieb

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