'With the birth of consciousness in each of the rational functions, unconsciousness is also born, separating Heaven and Earth or creating the functions of feeling and thinking. These two opposites are portrayed in the Sumerian myth as the Lion-birds'.
The Lion-bird image comes from the Sumerian culture which dates from around 3,000 B.C. It is believed that this is also where Eastern and Western Creation myths both derive from. It is a significant image to appear in a dream and I am a bit overwhelmed by this piece of infomation.
Apparently also:
'Consciousness does not rise up like an island from the sea of unconsciousness, dividing into the island and the sea...or two that are no longer one. Consciousness and unconsciousness arise simultaneously out of the primal sea of undifferentiation, which might better be described as twins born from the same mother. The Self is the Mother, one twin is (soul) consciousness and the other twin is (ego) consciousness. The Self, or Great Mother archetype, remains undifferentiated energy'.
This relates to my Eclipse and Twin Dream as well. Though I am grateful for it, I am trying to write the conclusion to my thesis and this new knowledge is a major distraction. If I ever get this doctorate done, I really think that I need to do another. I have only just begun.
REFERENCE: W. J. Freeman, Professor of Neurobiology, University of Berkeley.
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Awesome Michelle!
...and now am compelled to share this link due to the pine cone synchronicity in that image...sorry to distract you some more from the blessed thesis...
this may just provide a few more pieces to the puzzle, I know it did for me :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CICT3yGZ07w
Now if you could just explain all that? Oh my apologies, of course we need another thesis in order to do so! Yikes!
FUCK! Thanks WY. I have that image of the Platonic solids somewhere, the donuts. Science, religion and art really are coming together at last, but that is no surprise. More surprised it ahs taken this long!
Well, I actually CAN explain some of that.....but trying to compress all the different models into one explanation is a massive challenge that will take a far greater mind than mine.
Joan said:
Very valuable material: explains the paradox in everything.
Yes, I think you will have to write another thesis.
am buzzing MF - I can sniff an excellent paradigm shifting thesis on the wind...cheering you on!!
Thanks, better get this one done first. I will probably fall in a heap after that!
I see a connection here with the Gryphon, for the 25th Dec is the ancient sun god Mithra's birthday. The gryphon is one of
twelve Mithraic degrees: three terrestrial, the soldier, the lion, 5 and the bull; three aërial, the vulture, the ostrich, and the raven; three igneous, the gryphon, the horse, and the sun; and three divine, the grade of fathers, named eagle, sparrow-hawk.
Happy New Year to you !
Thanks Mr Heron, I will have to have another look at Mithraic 'initiations'...is that correct? Are we talking about initians here?
Initiations ! possibly. On a personal level
a sparrow-hawk pitched on one of the shrubs in our front garden and looked me in the eye as it flew off :)
Nice one. I often see the sea-eagles that live at our surf beach. And Kingfisher was on my car yesterday as I was on my way out. I know there is something very special about the Kingfisher.......
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