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Didn't know that one. Good luck with taming your dragon 🙂

Maybe you're right. Doesn't really matter to me. I'm interested in the simbology of Michael defeating the dragon, that's all 🙂

Glad you could relate to the image 🙂

Involuntarily visited Notre-Dame of Paris cathedral the past week and found this peculiar representation of St. Michael. Thought of sharing it.

I found this today and this thread immediately came to mind. Enjoy 🙂

Thanks for having me in 🙏

That's happening because when you press "submit reply" nothing seems to happen...and you keep pressing it...and then the system uploads all at once.

I was having the same problem ( UK ). It seems to be solved now.

Thank you, dwai

I have just posted the same topic 4 times. Could please admin. Forgive and help me with this? Thank you.

I've been absent from the bums for quite sometime now. Last night I found myself having a conversation with a relative about symbols that appear in dreams. I gave as an example the biblical vine... believe me it's not something that happens often, maybe once every five years, nor the vine is one of my favourite symbols. A few hours later I find your thread, Bindi 🙂 The synchronicity is indeed fascinating. Slowly I'm trying to read the whole thread. Maybe some information I need to find in this dialogue. Again, thanks for starting it.

You thread is giving me the opportunity to reflect again on this experience. A few good years have gone by meanwhile... At the time it was important for me to realize that the toxic relation I was in was sacrificing the "inner child". That gave me the strenght and determination to end it. A new awareness of having that " pure essence" inside of me and try to respect it and protect it as best I can started and that's it. Life continues to be brutal in the outside world and the "inner child" doesn't seem to have a chance of surviving in that state of purity and innocence in it. The most I think I can due is to try to nurture and respect it as much as possible in me and in others. Don't know if this answers your question.

First of all thanks for the topic, Bindi 🙂 During many years I've resented the term "inner child". For me it was just another appealing tittle on the cover of a bad book written with the intention of making money at the expense of ignorants. The concept, however, made some sense to me. It's easy to understand that subcounsciouly there was a part of me that got very wounded by having negligent uncaring parents. With maturity the realization that I was already old enough to be my own mother and father helped me in moving forward with my life and detach from old resentments. In 2015/16 however, much to my surprise I "dreamed" with my inner child. Not much action happened during the dream but I do remember seeing and feeling him. It was overwhelming. The feeling of purity and innocence of the creature that I once was, was so strong, so undescribable that made me wake up in tears. With the dream came as well the understanding that everything that was built on top of that pure essence was fake and a neurotic construct to cope with the world and that it was my responsability not to let that child be wounded by anyone. It's the second time that I post this experience in this forum. If it helps someone, somehow...Great!

" O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! " Kobayashi Issa

Better find a way to have a laugh with it...and ponder on our limitations as human-machines...

ChatGPT didn't provide me with a recipe for cooking dog even when I asked for a chinese recipe. It stated that cooking dog is controverdial and unethical. However when I asked for a recipe to cook grasshoppers it did, stating that, in its own words, there are delicious grasshopper recipes...

I didn't, found the text somewhere online and sorry if it is inaccurate. The point was to show that the Buddha's conception and birth isn't less strange than the one of Jesus.

Regarding the "imaculate conception" problem I think Meister Eckhart got it. "We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born." I always wondered if in fact Mary wasn't the historical Jesus and the Catholic church new it all along.

I would call that logical linear Egyptian thinking.

Isn't Buddhism a strange religion ? "According to tradition, the historical Buddha lived from 563 to 483 B.C., although scholars postulate that he may have lived as much as a century later. He was born to the rulers of the Shakya clan, hence his appellation Shakyamuni, which means “sage of the Shakya clan.” The legends that grew up around him hold that both his conception and birth were miraculous. His mother, Maya, conceived him when she dreamed that a white elephant entered her right side (1976.402). She gave birth to him in a standing position while grasping a tree in a garden (1987.417.1). " And this was just the beginning of things...

Found this interesting...

I remember checking that one as well yesterday but it's not what I'm looking for. Thanks for trying to help 🙏