Island Universe, William Hays

https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/1075171

There are more of these great prints by the artist there.

I'm reading a book of short stories by J.G. Ballard and I read one last night that I really liked. A scientist that was slowly succumbing to a disease basically did some science magic to himself to activate secret mutations and he developed the sense ability to see and hear time and the stars and the ultimate source of the universe. Really enjoying the author's work, highly recommend.

#art #stars #listen #theStars #time #space #creator #transcendence #alive #undead #magic #mutation

If "becoming God" means:

-more control
-more domination
-more authorship over others

→ then it's not transcendence, it's metaphysical capitalism.

The question isn't whether you become God-
but whether you become conscious enough to stop playing the Demiurge.

#gnosticism
#transcendence

Let me share my favorite in-story welcome message in all of #literature. It's spoken by Pablo in STEPPENWOLF by #HermannHesse (occasionally misquoted in translation):

"'This little theater of mine has as many doors into as many boxes as you please, ten or a hundred or a thousand, and behind each door exactly what you seek awaits you. It is a pretty cabinet of pictures, my dear friend; but it would be quite useless for you to go through it as you are. You would be checked and blinded at every turn by what you are pleased to call your personality. You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.'"

Another guy who upbraids/upbraided his readers a bit, huh? Though not overtly.

#transcendence

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✨ Pure perception ✨

🪷 Clarifying wisdom from Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo 🪷

💛 What changes when you look again with a clearer mind? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo 🪷

✨ It is our basic ignorance which causes impure perceptions to manifest so that everything appears as ordinary, suffering and defiled. We have to “clean the lenses” in order to see that what looks so ordinary is actually a pure realm of utter transcendence. — Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo ✨

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