Stand and deliver … parts 2 & 3
Stories of
Dracula
have
invariably
been
jugular.
Yet if
blood
really was
the Neck-Romancer‘s
favourite tipple …
… then he was
surely
barking
up the wrong tree.
For there’s no bloodier place to hang out
… than the liver
“the liver is an expandable and contractible reservoir of blood“
“The liver is a major blood reservoir“
“The Liver “stores the Blood,” and is responsible for maintaining a smooth and even flow of Blood, Chi, and emotions through the body…“
Nor did this internal blood bath go unnoted by bygone people who noted things;
“The liver has always been an important symbol in occult physiology. As the largest organ, the one containing the most blood, it was regarded as the darkest, least penetrable part of man’s innards. Thus it was considered to contain the secret of fate...
… and was used for fortune-telling. In Plato, and in later physiology, the liver represented the darkest passions, particularly the bloody, smoky ones of wrath, jealousy, and greed which drive men to action. Thus the liver meant …
… the impulsive attachment to life itself.“
Our “Livers” are indeed attached to life in a way that puts our modern comatose approach, to shame.
For they have the power to regenerate.
“The liver is the only internal organ that can regenerate itself.”
“About 75 percent of the human liver can be removed, and it will regenerate into a functional organ“
They are the sublime Livers of life.
Yet today’s world gives them the briefest of brief nods.
“The liver is one of the largest organs in the body, yet it gets very little respect. The brain, heart, and lungs are always described as essential to the body’s health. Without the liver, though, the physical body could not operate.“
While good ‘owl Doctor Hoot Who …
… that famous regenerator, has been shining in the lime light for seven & forty years, the liver has laboured on in the dark;
“… very little attention has been paid to the one organ in the body that plays the biggest role in our health and length of life- the liver.“
“The liver is … most often ill-treated, abused, unappreciated, overworked and ignored.”
This modern blinkering-out of such a vital organ …
… is most curious.
Long ago in a far, pharaohway place …
… it was quite the norm to tip the brain down the drain.
The liver, on the other hand, was a keeper. And it was keep’d in its own pickle jar under the sink, no horse spices no sorry, auspices of Imsety;
“One of the Four sons of Horus … associated with the canopic jars, specifically the one which contained the liver. Unlike his brothers, Imsety was not associated with any animal and was always depicted as human.“
Myth also pointed pointedly to the potency of the liver;
“In some legends in Greek mythology, Prometheus made man from clay, in a godlike shape. In other myths, however, he is not the maker of man, but … the benefactor of mankind.”
“Prometheus was the son of … one of the Titans. He tricked the gods into eating bare bones instead of good meat. He stole the sacred fire from Zeus and the gods … In punishment, Zeus commanded that Prometheus be chained for eternity in the Caucasus. There, an eagle (or, according to other sources, a vulture) would eat his liver, and each day the liver would be renewed.”
“… And him [the Kaukasian Eagle] who devoured the liver of the protector of mankind“
Well what did you think it was about?
Prometheus (bound) bears a rather lancing striking resemblance to another bound historical figure
“Prometheus [was] chained to the mountains where an eagle would eat his liver daily (the liver being associated with the heat of the solar plexus and the ‘fire of living’ and perhaps the symbolism of Christ being stabbed by the soldier’s lance during the crucifixion …)“
“Triclavianism … held that three nails were used to crucify Christ and that a Roman soldier pierced him with a spear on the left side. Pope Innocent III declared this to be a heresy and maintained that four nails were used and Jesus was pierced on the right side“
The artistic view has always leaned heavily towards Longinus being a leftie. What’s more, he seems to have had a very eagle-atarian penchant for the Liver.
“the lance appears in artworks that it would pierce the liver in the body“
Long before CSI were l-eagle-y lancing livers to check on time of death, the redoubtable Thomas was in on the case.
Oh speaking of Holes, I guess we mutton forget …
that flocking Wooded place.
Why was it, that of all the tasty anatomical morsels available in Quiet Sheep, Tongue Tied Ewes, Silence of the Lambs Fry, Meister Lecter elected to tell his listeners that he dined on soul;
“I ate his liver with some fava beans.”
The ever-interesting-internest tells us;
“This is Lecter’s most famous quote“
“In Italy, broad beans (fava beans) are traditionally sown on November 2, All Souls Day. Small cakes made in the shape of broad beans (though not out of them) are known as fave dei morti or “beans of the dead“.”
Yet Hannibal was not as devilishly original as you might think.
For nigh on 20 years earlier, Holy Wood brought another nibbler actor home for to tea.
This Sundancing dinner guest …
…was also very partial to soul food
“Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American western film, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character … The movie was said to have been based in part on the life of the legendary mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson“
This hepatic pecker’s name begs for a little artistic licence -
Red
+
“ford (n.) O.E. ford “shallow place where water can be crossed”.“
Just what was Moses’ parting gesture all about?
Lets recap on ‘that which lives‘ …
“The liver is power … fuse box of the human body …. it stores all patterns and codes for living … all relationship exchanges … food … fluids … touch, are recorded in the liver … pls remember the soul sites 2-inches to the left of the liver …. it can be said that the souls sits in the liver … hence the name “liver” … The liver transforms / transmutes chemical and molecular structure …. re-codes … writes new code … redesigns …“
Ah yes I remember, I remember …
We are digestive creatures.
We seek constant nourishment …
… of which food is a mere piffle truffle trifle.
We absorb & digest our whole wor(l)d -
Each & every experience we are part of.
Each sight, sound, touch
Each taste. Each smell.
Each word.
In the beginning was the word & it must surely have been … digested.
What we are looking at, here & now, is the organ that protects us from that which we, too often, haphazardly ingest.
It is our sacred guardian.
And not one of those …
… wishy-washy-flippy-flappy-touchy-feely types either.
YOUR liver
is one of those …
… “I eat flippy flappy angels for breakfast …
… Burp” … types of guardian.
… And as such it is a wild, wild place.
“As the largest organ, the one containing the most blood, it was regarded as the darkest, least penetrable part of man’s innards. Thus it was considered to contain the secret of fate“
At last, at last, we reach the point where we can set sail to the place that has filled my thoughts for so many weeks.
You are so welcome to come along, but you’re going to have to leave your ‘learning’ behind – it’s far too weighty for this trip.
Just pop it over there in the corner…
Ahem … all of it.
Marvelous, you look taller already.
When I connected to the liver many weeks back, a part of the world seemed to connect back to me.
Well that’s how it felt.
Staring out map from map or globe, I can’t quite remember which now, was a land formation …
… that mirrored the liver so well, that I was awed.
Because of it, my view of the world has changed.
Are we are haphazard creatures
or bodily divinity?
I choose divinity.
However religiously we might have been taught
to endorse spirit,
in
THIS
world
life streams from the body.
So let’s allow divinity of the body here, in this place, on this day & in doing so …
… we must also allow divinity for the larger body that is our hEarth.
Myth tells us that once earth & sky were clasped in an exclusive embrace.
Until that is,
the children born in the no-space between them between,
tore them apart.
Does this tell us that once upon a time, the body of the Lady Earth was ruptured, & her innards were spewed outwards?
Alternatively …
… we have the capability of performing an Egyptian sex-change …
… with a sky mother & earth father. In this version, the tale of the sliced & diced Osiris makes quite literal sense …
a green man
who’s body was
chopped into pieces
& dispersed over the globe.
Is it a living body that sprawls across the globe?
Why not?
And us?
Living, breathing weavers of the liquid fire of life?
Why not?
So let’s remember who we are,
how to live
& get on with the work of healing our hearth.
“…the liver being associated with the heat of the solar plexus and the ‘fire of living’.”
Here’s your question.
Could South America be the ‘liver’ of this world?
“As the largest organ, the one containing the most blood, it was regarded as the darkest, least penetrable part of man’s innards“
“The liver is the most complex and metabolically active organ in the body …
… It performs more than 500 vital functions“
Descriptions of the Amazonian Rainforest found in the world-wide web-forest read thus;
“The Amazon rainforest is a sprawling ecological complex of wonders“
” …the world’s most diverse ecosystem“
“… primary stabilizing factor in the world’s climate“
“… incredibly important to the planet’s health because of its water supply and its plant life“
“One-fifth of the world’s fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.One hectare (2.47 acres) may contain over 750 types of trees and 1500 species of higher plants.”
“… contains about 50% of plants and animals on the earth“
Yes, but give me more proof woman!
Oh ye of little faith & too much luggage.
“The liver pertains to wood and the color of wood is green. … Liver wood has a preference for water and mist“
“The Tao adept saw human body as a microcosm of the natural world. Its anatomy was a landscape with mountain, river, streams, lake, pool, forest, fire, stars a natural harmoniously landscape … LIVER SPIRIT LUNG YIEN ALSO CALLED CONTAINING WISDOM represents the liver, the largest organ of the body as a forest. In Taoism we regard the liver as the controller of the Chi flow.“
“South America is home to the world’s highest waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela; the largest river (by volume), the Amazon River; the longest mountain range, the Andes (whose highest mountain is Aconcagua at 6,962 m [22,841 ft]); the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert; the largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest; the highest capital city, La Paz, Bolivia; the highest commercially navigable lake in the world, Lake Titicaca“
“There is no way that the blood can be purified except by the liver in the body.”
“Thus, the Amazon forests are the Earth’s air purifiers“
“I wanted to be rid of a fear I was carrying. In this ceremony each person runs around a circle stating the thing that that they wish the earth to rid of them of. Then after some time we lay on the ground in the exact middle of the circle with our belly buttons pressed into the earth and feel what ever it is we are getting rid of the flow into the earth. As I lay there feeling the earth take my fear I began to feel my self enter the ground and Mother Earth wrap her arms around me like a mother would do for a child. As my fears left I felt the intense love that Mother Earth has for each us. This experience made me realize the earth is a living breathing soul.“
“During the past decade, Lugovenko’s experimental data has revealed not only that the Earth breathes – with striking similarities to the breathing patterns of human beings – but that her breathing is dynamically affected not only by events in the Cosmos but also by human thought.“
Yes, I too heard of the Amazon described as the the earth’s lungs, but try as I might the liver/South America image would not leave me.
So let’s continue.
We’re playing you know, though its serious play.
Let’s be re-reminded;
“The eye represents the orifices of the liver. When a person closes his/her eyes & falls asleep, the blood returns to the liver. From there it is transmitted to the eyes, & the ability to see results from this.”
The Dream Henri Rousseau 1910
“…besides this, there is the animus in which the spirit shelters.The animus lives in the daytime in the eyes; at night it houses in the liver. When living in the eyes, it sees; when housing itself in the liver, it dreams.”
If there be a land of dreams, it surely must be South America. The very plants themsleves ooze dreams.
“Ayahuasca is revered by the indigenous people of South America as a sacred medicine and a master-teacher, capable of transporting the drinker to other dimensions of space and time, where past, present and future are all equally accessible, both one’s own life path and those of others”
“When we lose our story, we lose our dream and
when we lose our dream, our spirit dies“
(Song of the Stone)“… in our dreams the spirit of the plants presents itself to you“
“Dream-like scenes where personal messages from spirits are received…”
“The boundary between sleeping and wakefulness becomes more fluid and dreams become more colourful, richer, and more potent than before.”
“For over a thousand years South American indigenous peoples have chewed the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, a plant that contains vital nutrients as well as numerous alkaloids, including cocaine. The coca leaf was, and still is, chewed almost universally by some indigenous communities.
But what about the blood?
How does blood travel to the liver?
“The hepatic portal vein is a major blood vessel … acting as a collection point for blood from the digestive tract and routing this blood into the liver. Almost all the blood passing through the digestive tract ends up in the hepatic portal vein before being circulated back into the body, allowing the liver to filter the blood and remove toxins and begin metabolizing substances absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract.”
“The complete flow of blood from the digestive organs to the heart is unusual. Normally, arteries flow into capillaries, which flow into veins. In the hepatic portal circulation, no arteries are involved. Here, capillaries merge to form veins, which branch into capillaries that merge again to form veins. This strange route is necessary so that blood may be altered by the liver. Nutrients may be stored or changed and possible poisons … transformed into less harmful substances“
Introducing the Portal vein to the Liver of South America…
“… acting as a collection point for blood from the digestive tract and routing this blood into the liver.”
The Aztecs of Central Mexico were the supreme masters & commandeers of …
… blood collection & channeling.
“Blood held a central place in Mesoamerican cultures. The Florentine Codex reports that in one of the creation myths Quetzalcóatl offered blood extracted from a wound in his own genital to give life to humanity. There are several other myths in which Nahua gods offer their blood to help humanity“
“… central Mesoamerican belief: that a great, on-going sacrifice sustains the Universe. Everything is tonacayotl: the “spiritual flesh-hood” on earth. Everything —earth, crops, moon, stars and people— springs from the severed or buried bodies, fingers, blood or the heads of the sacrificed gods.”
“The Spaniards who first met the Aztecs explicitly stated in their writings that human sacrifice was widely practiced in Mesoamerica.”
“... the victim would be placed on a sacrificial stone. Then the priest would cut through the abdomen with an obsidian or flint blade. The heart would be torn out still beating and held towards the sky in honor to the Sun-God“
“The Aztecs were particularly noted for practising human sacrifice on a large scale; an offering to Huitzilopochtli would be made to restore the blood he lost, as the sun was engaged in a daily battle … In the 1487 re-consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan some estimate that 80,400 prisoners were sacrificed … Michael Harner, in his 1997 article The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice, estimates the number of persons sacrificed in central Mexico in the 15th century as high as 250,000 per year.”
“The authors of our being, remembering the command of their father when he bade them create the human race as good as they could… placed in the liver the seat of divination.“ Plato, Timaeus 71D
Could the flapping of a blue Mayan butterfly wing in Central America stir up a storm in a future worlds tea cup?
“As the largest organ, the one containing the most blood, [the liver] was regarded as the darkest, least penetrable part of man’s innards. Thus it was considered to contain the secret of fate“
Those most famous of fate sealing yarn spinners, the My Yarns also holed up in the Venus veinous portal …
… where they set up a roaring trade in Divining-Dates & Sealing-Fates, calendars.
They also opened new wounds;
“The Mayans engaged in a large number of festivals and rituals on fixed days of the year, many of which involved animal sacrifices and all of which seem to have involved bloodletting … auto-sacrifice could also be an everyday event, with those passing by an idol anointing it with blood drawn on the spot as a sign of piety“
According to history crooks books, the wider-westerly-world awoke from a deep, dark slumber in the 1500s.
With a very serious case of Consumptive Colon(y) Disease.
Nevertheless, they s-ailed away for a year & a day …
… to the land where the bong trees grow …
And there in the wood … (& on the beaches & the landing grounds & the fields & in the streets & in the hills) began a virulent assault on the liver.
Symptoms included an insatiable appetite for land, a murderous lust for gold
… & highly contagious Catholic dysentry.
I am wondering now if this liver invasion was absolutely essential for the progression of the consumptively dis-eased Western World.
I have also been wondering if Catholicism targets the liver (Sorry Ryan). I was brought up a Catholic – the crippling side-effects I equate with that religion are self-sacrifice & the fear/guilt of living passionately.
So what if religions target specific bodily organs?
Is there a little more spice to The Lord’s Prayer than previously pondered? Certainly there is a word-twist tucked in there, that’s devilishly clever.
Deliver us from evil.
Deliver / De-liver / Live / Evil
Deliver = “To bring or transport to the proper place or recipient” or “To set free from restraint” …
Or then again … de- liver – could be to read as the removal / disempowering of the liver.
Our livers are our guardians - de-livered would = de-ad - aka not aLIVE.
In order to take-over & over-take the body of the world, was it necessary for its liver need to be in-toxic-ate-d?
Incapacitated?
Crippled?
In New Zealand, a new history has been presented to us by a tribe known as the Waitaha. After hundreds of years of silence they said the time had come to tell their story.
Mostly it’s been ignored.
The reason I bring this up will shortly become clear.
“In 1995 a book by Barry Brailsford, Song of Waitaha: The Histories of a Nation, claimed that the ancestors of the “Nation of Waitaha” were the first inhabitants of New Zealand, a pale-skinned people who had sailed there from Easter Island more than 2000 years before Polynesians arrived. It was claimed the “secret” Waitaha story had been suppressed for 200 years and the evidence of their occupation and existence, such as stone structures, had been mistaken for natural formations or Maori artifacts.”
The Waitaha are deeply connected with Pounamu – the Stone of Peace (New Zealand ‘greenstone’).
“The Pounamu (greenstone), helps to set us free. It is like a mirror, it reflects back what we are, feel, etc. Instead of the worry, we need to bring up the feeling, call up the fear. When we can name it, see it, then we can deal with it.”
Barry Brailsford, who recorded the Waitaha People’s story also undertook a mission to take 12 of these stones of peace to North America.
He also planned a trip to South America. Twice he received messages from others, that if he traveled to the south he would surely die.
With the gifting of the last of the 12 stones in North America, he sought advice from the Hopi elders on his way ahead
“I was told my trail was not to South America. The words were …
“That land is like a reptile devouring its own tail. It writhes in such pain it would kill you, even though you go with love.“
In 2001, famed NZ yachtsman Peter Blake undertook an “environmental exploration” trip in South America, “monitoring global warming and pollution“.
While anchored on the Amazon & directly upon the equator, he was shot in the back & killed.
If we look sideways from South America we find something interesting – Easter Island;
“There are several hypotheses about the “original” Polynesian name for Easter Island, including Te pito o te henua, meaning “The Navel of the land“
“In the oldest legends, Easter Island was called “The Navel of the World.“
“The oldest known traditional name of the island is Te Pito o Te Henua, meaning ‘The Center (or Navel) of the World’.”
If you are still playing attention, then the siting of the world’s navel in the vicinity of the world’s liver is a wonderful touch is it not?
Also take a look at this.
Does Easter Island look just the tiniest bit liverish to you?
In the interests
of sanity,
(yours)
it’s time for a break.
Come back for part III…
… when you’re ready
Welcome back traveller.
You did take a break didn’t you?
We’ve still got a’ways to go.
You’re sure?
Ok then.
With so many interesting echoes between the liver & South America, what say you to looking at North America.
Actually … I’ve already done so.
‘Twas a wee while ago.
Back then I incorrectly applied logic.
I went clutching at straws & wondered if North America could be the ‘heart‘ of the world – seeing how centrally powered it is – how much revolves around it.
But it didn’t feel right.
In the end it was my son who saw it.
So damn obvious that …
… you could’ve knocked me down with the left-over angel-feather from a jaguar’s hearty meal.
Of course, of course …
America is the stomach of the world.
She lies at the very heart of every possible type of consumption.
“Americans constitute 5% of the world’s population but consume 24% of the world’s energy.”
” ... eat 815 billion calories of food each day - that’s roughly 200 billion more than needed – enough to feed 80 million people“
” … daily consumption of water is 159 gallons, while more than half the world’s population lives on 25 gallons“
” … buys 53 times as many products as someone in China and one American’s consumption of resources is equal valent to that of 35 Indians”
” … 32,000 elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.”
This is no attack upon America or Americans. Some of my dearest friends hail from there.
Yet whatever America has become …
… it was so damnably,
cleverly,
manipulated
into becoming.
That which we swallow, take down into our stomach, is destined to become a part of us.
“… stomach chi is closely related to nutrition … All levels of nourishment of the body/mind are to be considered here. If we are properly nourished on all levels, we will be strong enough to deal with the invasions of vicious energies in our life (viral and bacterial attacks, the natural seasonal shifts, environmental poisons, emotional drain, other forms of stress, etc.) …“
“… in Nietzsche digestion is a principle of permeable openness to the world, and moreover if the distinction between physical and aesthetic taste is a false and fragile one, it is no wonder that the failure of his digestion is what causes the whole edifice to fall“
“Gurdjieff taught that man takes in three different types of ‘food’ … The grossest form is food and water, taken in through the mouth. A subtler form of ‘food’ is air, taken in through the nose. The most subtle form of ‘food’ is sensory impressions, taken in through the senses. In each case, the organism must ‘digest’ what is taken in … we can see that all three forms of ‘food’ have become polluted in the present age“
Perhaps we can begin to see a reason why America has been so perfectly crafted into this particular shape.
“The stomach is responsible for receiving and ripening food. The stomach functions as a cauldron…“
“The stomach is a seething cauldron of emotions, and is intimately connected to the Gastric Center, or chakra … which governs energy flow and distribution throughout the belly and gut“
“ …( from Latin caldārium hot bath, from calidus warm) …
a large metal pot (kettle) for cooking and/or boiling
over an open fire, with a large mouth …“
... a more common association in Western culture is the cauldron’s use in witchcraft—a cliché popularized by various fictions, such as Shakespeare’s play Macbeth … … In fantastic fiction …
… witches often prepare their potions in a cauldron”
“In … Celtic mythology, the cauldron is associated with the goddess Cerridwen … She had a magical cauldron that could make a potion granting …
… the gift of wisdom and poetic inspiration … The mixture had to be boiled for a year and a day … The first three drops of liquid from this cauldron gave wisdom; …
... the rest was a fatal poison.”
“Digestion, as an autonomic process of the body … it is unavoidably tied to the organic, to nature, to the animal commonality of beings … it also seeks to draw everything into itself“
If there’s one place in the world that’s been called-on to concoct unimaginable concoctions …
… it has to be America.
“The holy grail of Arthurian legend is sometimes referred to as a “cauldron“
“In alchemy, Archeus … is a term used generally to refer to the lowest and most dense aspect of the astral plane which presides over the growth and continuation of all living beings.”
The hermetically zealed Paracelsus “visualized the archeus as the “inner alchemist.” He said it was located in the stomach, the seat of instinct and assimilation of food“.
“… the term “archeus … referred to the human vital force … “each organ had its own specific archeus, with the stomach being the leading factor.“
” … philosophers maintained that the Archeus … blends … the highest vibrations of our physical world … wherein matter … begins to transmute into spiritual energies … the glue which binds the heavens to the material, and so allows the maxim “As above so below.”
“the stomach is an energy convertor …. it digests ingredients, emotions and experience“
“The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.” Albert J. Nock
“The belly rules the mind.” ~Spanish Proverb
“The brain and gut are so much alike that during our sleeping hours, both have natural 90-minute cycles. For the brain, this slow wave sleep is interrupted by periods of rapid eye movement sleep in which dreams occur. For the gut, the 90-minute cycles also involve slow waves of muscle contractions but, as with REM intervals, these are punctuated by short bursts of rapid muscle movement“
If America be the stomach of the world, it most truly is central to the well-being of the entire world.
What’s ‘swallowed‘ there becomes the substances that the rest of the body of the world has to deal with.
Why is it that pretty much everything that finds its way into American society will, before long, find its way around the rest of the world?
“the stomach is an energy convertor …. it digests ingredients, emotions and experience …. inability to digest = inability to accept/process experience or circumstance … this then can manifest as unhappiness … sadness etc …. inability to digest concepts … ideas …. breakdown problems …“
Perhaps if the liver of the world had not been poisoned, polluted, plundered, raped & decimated …
… it could have dealt with much of this toxicity on an etheric & physical level.
“Liver troubles usually also affect the pituitary gland … reflects in poor eyesight … poor perception … when combines with stomach and pancreas can reflect inability to digest life“
“When experience is unable to be digested (stomach) … there is a toxic charge which can build up in the adrenals“
In an interesting correlation with these ideas, Alex the Celtic Rebel, whose work exposes the calculated attack on the “Human Stargate,” previously produced an image …
… depicting the trail of entrails across the USA. Its rectum containering Hollywood.
My personal feeling is that movies / programmes are food & that we could, nay should, relabel them as ‘meals’.
These meals are ‘fast food‘.
Very fast food.
They bypass the oral mastication process & protective digestive juices, by being instantly visually consumed …
… by the soul.
What oh what might it be like to live in a body/world …
… where stomach & liver are allies?
We have seen & yet been blinded to truth for too long.
Remember Prometheus.
Every day an eagle swooped down upon him him & ate his liver.
Above the Promethean liver of the world
hovers the American Eagle
The Eagle has Landed
(daily)
Its beginning to look as if a great deal of the human sickness in the world may be due to terribly toxic-ate-d livers.
What if the land suffers similarly?
Or what if our human livers are reflecting the sickness of the land.
Perhaps the only way we can heal, is by healing the land.
If this article has given you some healing thoughts to take into your (apparently) new year then I’m very glad.
If I have one thing to ask it would be this …
Instead of rushing off to get your own liver flushed,
why not stay put
& send healing energy & clean-sing
to this most wonderful of wild & mysterious of lands.
You thought I was never going to finish you, didn’t you?
I was a bit worried myself.
For those who made it to the end of this South American dream, a gift is offered.
This is/was “Henri Rousseau (1844 – 1910)…
“French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner …
Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius
whose works are of high artistic quality.”
He painted wildly …
like this …
and this.
Remember this?
“The eye represents the orifices of the liver. When a person closes his/her eyes & falls asleep, the blood returns to the liver.“
” … besides this, there is the animus in which the spirit shelters. The animus lives in the daytime in the eyes; at night it houses in the liver. When living in the eyes, it sees; when housing itself in the liver, it dreams.”
You’ve seen Rousseau’s painting The Dream twice in this article
It was there for a reason.
Perhaps what follows is artistic treason, yet I find the vision de-light-filled.
(Big thanks to Sam for Photo-chopping)
The image below is
for you,
if you so wish …
a new vision,
or perhaps
an ancient one,
of
the
wildness & power
of
your liver
& the liver of the world.
Nothing can pass the watchful eyes of its goddess
or the jaws of its waiting lions.
Walk fearlessly.
“The Tao adept saw human body as a microcosm of the natural world. Its anatomy was a landscape with … the liver, the largest organ of the body as a forest.“
Do we have the right or need to individually reinterpret our world?
“This raises the issue of the ultimate meaning of symbols. Groddeck asserts that the symbolic function exists from the beginning – that we are symbolising creatures in our essence.” (from Meaning-full Disease)
End of year show
I spent an evening chatting with Alex, the Celtic Rebel last night.
Its not often these days that like minds get the chance to converse, yet such opportunities feed the soul.
If you’re not familiar with the Rebel’s work, then there is a wHole agenda passing under your nose without your awareness (& it may or may not smell of roses).
Alex has now done a great write-up with link to the show.
(Thanks to Kyle Hunt from Star Theory & after-show-chatters too – some good points were made).
Christmas curfew
Just what is it,
about the
25th December …
… that requires a day long curfew?
Just what’s this strange day all about?
Whats with the curtailing of normal activities?
… the incarceration of the multitudes within family homes
… the glut of headless birds & legless boars
… the scorching of almonds
“Mandorla is the Italian word for almond. According to Biedermann (1994), the almond is an ancient symbol for the closing up of valuable contents in a hard, almost impenetrable shell.”
… the sacrificing of trees
… the selling out of the present
… the gifting of children to pawing clowns
… the stuffing of the body & the emptying of the mind
… the squabbles & dissension
… & descent into squalor
What is about December twenty-five
that requires the hive to retire inside
& stuff themselves senseless
with food that’s relentless
& stir up old wounds
& reopen old strife.
Being re-turned to the old self
that the family requires,
re-clipping the wings
re-herding the soul
& re-signing the contract
with the jolly red fat man
for just one more year…
It’s such a daft event, why haven’t we questioned it?
Who knows, perhaps every year on the 25th December, a ship comes looking to see if there is any sign of intelligent life worth connecting with …
Every year it lifts off at midnight with the same report
“No sign of intelligence & almost no sign of LIFE”
