--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 29, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Rory Goff wrote: > > > > > I believe this is essentially correct; analysis of the letters of > > > the mantra itself shows the mantra to be that of the Archetypal > > > Seeker (Scorpio; Turquoise or Green-Blue Fowler in my system), > > > divine anatomy's "female" navel center and liver: > > > Neptune's "flight," as opposed to the "fight" of Mars's spleen, > the > > > other -- "male" half of the navel center. This Seeker archetype > is > > > often the one explored immediately after one has "exhausted" the > > > temporally-preceding one: Libra; the "male" heart center's Green > > > Caregiver, or Priest of Compassion, which is *the* > > > classic "feminine" archetype in today's patriarchal cultures. The > > > Turquoise Fowler is the one who flees an unbearable situation > (often > > > after feeling as if one has given and given and received little > or > > > nothing in return) and begins to seek, gestate, brood, or look > > > within, in prepration for giving birth to the new Self. This > would > > > clearly be quite a threat to those family-members still relying > on > > > Mom's selfless giving in the Green-Priest archetype :-) > > > > In the Maheshvara sutra, which gives a peculiar ordering for the > > Sanskrit alphabet as the sequence of creation (coming from Shiva's > > Damaru), it begins with a very unusual sequence, > representing "OM/AUM" > > and these are the sequence of letters A-I-U-N. Nadikeshvara in his > > commentary on this sutra describes A-I-U-N as A = Purusha; I = > Shakti; > > U = the accomplished "plan" of the manifested Universe and Mahat; > and N > > = Silence, the > > "Gap" between letters. > > > > AUM also means "A", primordial, non-dual awareness, the "A"-kula > or > > abode of "A", Shiva-consciousness, flanked by the moon and the sun- > -U > > and M...and of course the actual Sanskrit glyph always has the > nada and > > the bindu as a crescent (moon) and a "point" (sun). So it > represents > > the Universe and the microcosm, the individual subtle body > mirroring > > the outer. > > Another interesting interpretation of the AUM-glyph is given (I > believe) by Barbara Walker (maybe in "The Woman's Dictionary of > Symbols and Sacred Objects), who points out it is a pregnant torso: > breast above belly, from which emerges an upswooping umbilical cord > ending in a baby's upstretched arms (crescent) and head (bindu- > point). Though never noticed previously, this interpretation > really "clicked" and now it always appears that way to me. This > would clearly be another example of AUM being the female navel- > center of gestation and birthing of the cosmic egg-Self :-) > > Yet while AUM is on the one hand merely one of the twelve seed- > mantras of the twelve primary Archetypes, it can also be more: the > actual soul-note of a portal to inner "Ascension" (i.e. subtle- body > Ascension, prior to the physical one of "Pleaidean" or Shiva- > Consciousness spoken of earlier on FFL) -- bringing one into > identification with the "council of Masters," wherein one actually > becomes aware of the existence of these 12 personal Archetypes: > Disciples surrounding one's cosmic Christ-Self, or Adityas or rays > of one's personal Aditi. :-)
Your cognition of these different flavors of consciousness corroborates well with what Tom T. said about his experience, being one of infinitely deepening appreciation of the universal creation. Although I personally appreciate these descriptions more on the level of art rather than science, they are much appreciated nonetheless! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
