homeypizzle

Been a while since I've written here, huh?

Though at first I had to get out my giggles at the bad-joke-potential brand name of the homeopathic supplement my sweet girlfriend had gotten me ("Wood"), I've been having a lot of fun researching the ingredients. The first few, such as Belladonna, are interesting plants in that if consumed in too large a quantity, they are toxic in downright horrific ways, and yet if consumed in a proper, miniscule quantity, they act as antidotes or medecines. In another sense, I learned about everything from medieval cosmetics to ancient abortion methods. And then there are some minerals (oddly used to make soaps and such) which I eventually figured out just have poeticized names in the homeopathic world, which I guess has a psychological school attached to it? Interesting!

What's really interesting to me, though, is the idea of taking the subtle essences of these things, and then - with some drops of what basically amounts to water beneath the tongue - affecting one's subtle body with it (ie, the bioenergetic, cakra level, closer to the soul, as it were). There's something almost poetic in the delicacy of it, and only compounded by the idea that, say, a flu vaccine is essentially a homeopathic remedy in that essence-sense. It's fun to look at modern medicine on a subtle (in the yogic sense) level.

--sidenote: the top ingredient in the "Fire" supplement is basically "honeybee"
---and another ingredient is essence of venomous pit viper?!

Does this seem a random association to anyone else? Well, I guess one could make a Silk Road reference.

"An Australian abalone diver miraculously escaped a Great White Shark attack in January after the shark half-swallowed him head first.
The diver's lead weight vest saved his life by stopping the shark's teeth from biting him in half and the shark then released the diver."

lingual...linguini....llllollipop

"Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability and constants, about similarities and normal and kinds, about magical transformations, quick cures, simple problems, and final solutions. Yet the world we try to symbolize with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths, interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem."

I wonder if that's why I'm so keyed into a lot of Sanskrit words, which are more specifically geared towards the latter paradigm.

mmm, smashy

bits related from weekend

--Worship is basically paying attention, in a sense. And what you pay attention to, you take on the qualities of, following a meditative principle (re: tratika, the candle flame meditation that maked you focused and clear, lighting up the dark, as it were). So, in that sense, worship in the religious sense is for our sake, not any god's.

--"If our civilization collapses, are you going to continue your yoga? I hope so! I hope you notice the passing, and continue on."

Well, Charlie Victor Romeo certainly sounds disturbing