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That is way out of context @Taoist Texts. I personally don't think it's good karma making such light comments towards other people's favourite scriptures.

Indirect 😁

Reddit and pinterest...not much left though.

This might help.

Had no idea.

Hope you had a lovely time in Bussaco 🙂 The idea that I have is that most Egyptologists are Hermetists 🤔 if not for that what's the point of studying Egyptology anyway 😁

I really love Mircea Eliade's writings and curiously found this passage that just can't avoid sharing: "What we find as soon as we place ourselves in the perspective of religious man of the archaic societies is that the world exists because it was created by the gods, and that the existence of the world itself "means" something, "wants to say" something, that the world is neither mute nor opaque, that it is not an inert thing without purpose or significance. For religious man, the cosmos "lives" and "speaks." The mere life of the cosmos is proof of its sanctity, since the cosmos was created by the gods and the gods show themselves to men through cosmic life. This is why, beginning at a certain stage of culture, man conceives of himself as a microcosm. He forms part of the gods' creation; in other words, he finds in himself the same sanctity that he recognizes in the cosmos. It follows that his life is homologized to cosmic life; as a divine work, the cosmos becomes the paradigmatic image of human existence. To cite a few examples: We have seen that marriage is valorized as a hierogamy of heaven and earth. But among the cultivators, the homology earth-woman is still more complex. Woman is assimilated to the soil, seed to the semen virile, and agricultural work to conjugal union. 'This woman has come like living soil: sow seed in her, ye men!" says the Atharva Veda (XIV, 2, 14). "Your women are as fields for you" (Koran, II, 225). A sterile queen laments, "I am like a field where nothing grows!" On the contrary, in a twelfth-century hymn the Virgin Mary is glorified as "ground not to be plowed, which brought forth fruit" (terra non arabilis quae fructum parturiit). " (...) " The existence of homo religious especially of the primitive, is open to the world; in living, religious man is never alone, part of the world fives in him. But we cannot say, as Hegel did, that primitive man is "buried in nature," that he has not yet found himself as distinct from nature, as himself. The Hindu who, embracing his wife, declares that she is Earth and he Heaven is at the same time fully conscious of his humanity and hers. The Austroasiatic cultivator who uses the same word, lak, to designate phallus and spade and, like so many other agriculturalists, assimilates seed to the semen virile knows perfectly well that his spade is an instrument that he made and that in tilling his field he performs agricultural work involving knowledge of a certain number of techniques. In other words, cosmic symbolism adds a new value to an object or action, without affecting their peculiar and immediate values." 🙂

Same here 🧐

The things that I don't even know that I don't know.

This detail of the whole image is to me one of two things: 1. An analogy of sex with agricultural work, the erect penises symbolize the hoes "fertilizing" the earth/soil. Or... 2. The historian of religion Mircea Eliade in one of his books writes about ancient peoples communal orgies on cultivating fields. This was seen as work done by the community in order to fertilize the fields. Do you know if ancient egyptians where into this @Apech ?

Well, I guess that I've created a reputation of seeing sex references in sacred art where others don't see any of that, so this time I've waited for someone to point it out first. My conclusion is that either you are a pervert like me or there are some erect penises in the image.

It's all right Apech, I've had a wedding today so the same happened with me. Tomorrow then... Enxadas, yes.

Detail of what's inside the "circle"

Blame us, it's fine

Yes, Apech we want to buy the damn vacuum cleaner 😆

Enlighten us...

Why do you say that? It reminded me of one of our most missed members that had cardiovascular disease and other health issues which managed to prolong is life with that regime.

I guess the only thing that makes sense to me as a reply is that faith in the path is needed. As much as we would like to share something that would make it easier for someone else we just can't because things need to be lived. A few can point the way though, that's all. I frequently compare this discussions with a pĺaygroung of teenagers (in modern times children not teenagers I guess) discussing sex. Too many are pointing the way sharing their imaginary experiences and feats having zero experience. This makes others more insecure and lost and terribly anxious towards the experience. Others even read some books and are absolutely shure they have the answers, knowledge as a shield against insecurity. The ones that have some experience know that the truth is intimate and somehow feel unable to share much of the experience that they've had if they were to tell the absolute truth. Yes, they can only say to others "relax, your time will come." , isn't it? The time will come for all of us. If we have some faith in that we will relax and make it easier. No need to rush the seasons.

Hi Daniel Just to call your attention to DDJ 70 where this is referred, "therefore the Sage wears a coarse cloth on top and carries jade within his bosom."

"To speak rarely is natural..." DDJ...23...I'm confused now....is it in the DDJ 23 or The Dao of lurkers ? 🤭

99 lurkers of TDB on the wall... yeah feels like getting drunk and sing all night long...

Chapter 3 of the yoga sutras of Patanjali is all about this matter. You will find it easely online.

Actually it's metal cages