May 2012
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Rumi
Lover me, cave me, the sweet burn of Love me. Lover you, cave you, Shams protect me. Noah you, soul you, conqueror and the conquered you the awakened heart you. Why hold me at that gate of your secret?
Light you, celebration you, the victorious land you the bird of Mount Sinai you. You carry me on your tired beak. Drop you, ocean you, compassion and rage you, sugar you, poison you. Please...
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Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator....
– Vladimir Nabokov (via nirvikalpa)
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Neurotheology →
Neurotheology, also known as spiritual neuroscience,[1] is the study of correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality and hypotheses to explain these phenomena. Proponents of neurotheology say there is a neurological and evolutionary basis for subjective experiences traditionally categorized as spiritual or religious.[2] The subject has formed the basis of several...
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Dolores by Algernon Charles Swinburne →
Our Lady of Pain.
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“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”
—Baudelaire
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The Double Chamber
A chamber that is like a reverie; a chamber truly spiritual, where the stagnant atmosphere is lightly touched with rose and blue. There the soul bathes itself in indolence made odorous with regret and desire. There is some sense of the twilight, of things tinged with blue and rose: a dream of delight during an eclipse. The shape of the furniture is elongated, low, languishing; one would think it...
April 2012