Today is the 54th anniversary of Meher Baba's passing on January 31st, 1969. "Amartithi" means Eternal Date. I was once in India for this celebration and it was wild -- 2-3 days of continuous music around the clock, bowing down in Baba's Samadhi at 3 in the morning, and the 15 minutes of silence observed at noon. When you have 25,000 people -- now it's probably 50-60,000 -- all observing silence simultaneously, and focused upon one thing -- it is intense and powerful.
The world doesn't yet know who Meher Baba is. But it will. This video contains Meher Baba's message of the New Life.
I've spent the fall and winter studying the ancient cultural origins of the proto-Europeans sparsely populating that frozen continent from about 45,000 BCE until roughly the end of the Ice Age (or more accurately, the 13,000 year interstadial we're currently occupying within the larger cycle of Ice Ages), rather arbitrarily choosing 12,000 BCE as the beginning of the great melting which resulted in the birth of the Holocene.
Without going into too much detail, the Venus figurines which are ubiquitous in the portable art found in ancient Ice Age caves seem to have begun appearing over 30,000 years ago and were made for perhaps 15,000 years. They were found throughout the occupied portion of Ice Age Europe, extending over to what is now the Ukraine.
We don't know for certain what they indicated. One presumes fertility, but also, it seems to me they indicate a way of relating to life as they knew it, or the Earth itself, upon whose bounty they were dependent for everything in their lives. There are a few books I'm about to delve into based on the possibility of an ancient goddess culture in paleo-and-mesolithic prehistory.
But what seems apparent is that at some point we altered our relationship with the divine, and somewhere began to worship or attune ourselves to a different form of deity -- male sky gods, or a male sky god in particular.
This video makes a case for the etymological origin of just such a deity, spread throughout the near, middle, and far east. I'll have more to say about its implications a little further down the road.
Well, here I am, belatedly -- seventy and freezing my ass off in Washington state. Six and a half months into a nine month solo sojourn. You should try it sometime. There's no way to distract yourself from yourself because you're it, and that's all there is.
I heard from somebody at my old school. They said my life sounded "bucolic." I laughed out loud. If they only knew. Months alone is not fun and games, not if you have something -- many somethings -- to resolve. But sometimes you just have to step back from life, slowly heal old wounds, let your mind unwind, let all the stress, fret, hurt, sturm and drang, rattle, steam, seep, yowl, and do whatever it needs to do to finally get out of your system and leave you alone. And then, hopefully with a clear head, you can proceed with your life.
At least I can get in my truck and head off to Starbucks.There are two, one forty miles to the east, the other one forty miles westward, equidistant. I trade off. For variety's sake, you understand.
Dr. Mark Schwartz of Harmony Place Monterey presents a webinar for therapeutic professionals on the topic of "Trauma, Dissociation, and Sexuality." As an interested layperson, I found the information on intergenerational trauma most enlightening, but it all pertains. It rarely occurs to us that we may be unconsciously carrying the trauma of our parents or the preceding generations.
This is a deep mirror. If you listen closely, you will find yourself somewhere in this material. The broad sweep of treatment modalities this man has used in his therapeutic career has given him a unique breadth and depth in his assessment and treatment of various forms of trauma, addiction, and dissociation, leading to the eventual creation of healthy attachment in relationships.
And if you listen even more closely -- and honestly -- you'll begin to see your way out of your own particular psychological dilemmas, because he's plumbing to the roots, instead of focusing on the symptoms. This is not meant to be frightening, it's meant to be encouraging. This is solid ground to stand upon and from which to make a shift in a positive direction in your own life.
