Mooncat2,
Oh boy, I looked at your image and eek! the first word for whatever reason came to my mind was fossilized!!! Fossilized traditions and customs that have been ingrained in our psyches. One of them of course the oppressed woman......your picture is of a Chinese woman?
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson10/lesson10.php?s=0
The representations of Chinese women in these journalistic accounts bear uncanny similarities to popular conceptions about the “place” of women in Confucian societies today—primarily that they are passive, obedient, and oppressed. A guided critical analysis of samples from 19th-century Western writing about Chinese women is one means of confronting popular stereotypes about Chinese/Asian women that abound in Western culture.
In August, Helvetica was my partner for the Sabian symbol study. An incredible month of healing and lots of eye-openers here.
Snowy Owl.......
Helvetica said:
Have you looked up the owl in Animal Speak? 9 pages! You have some material there
"The yellow colouring of the eyes is very symbolic. It makes the eyes much more expressive, but it hints of the light of the sun, alive in the dark of the night. The sun lives through the owl at night. Meditation on this alone will reveal much about the magic of the owl within your life."
"Owls are the eyes of the night, and they see what is not in the open. They have secret knowledge that they can share."
"The snowy owl hunts predominantly by sitting and waiting. They seem to hunt lazily and often appear to be resting. This is far from true. They conserve their energy, and they and continually observant, going into action when the opportunity presents itself. Theis sens of timing is part of what the snowy owl can teach." This repeats the advice of sitting, waiting, observing, stilling yourself. The idea of conserving energy to release it when the opportunity presents itself reminds me of martial arts: the kung fu adept who meditates for hours and releases his energy in one spectacular move. It's also about getting your facts right, crossing t's, dotting i's, so that no matter how radical and advanced your book ends up being, you can't be picked up on facts and science - only on theory. It's slow preparatory work, done sitting up a tree taking both a broad and a close view. You know owls have telescopic sight? They can see landscapes and pins in that landscape - an encouragement to you to look at detail as well as at the grand theory.
mooncat2's picture......Like this woman, some people have only a superficial contact with their world......they are oblivious of the many dimensions of the universe.....their owl wings clipped, are unable to fly.
Was it us that invented the human identity?
No matter what we do, we are bound to make mistakes....that's how we learn....but some say it would be better to do nothing rather than having to constantly correct and repair their self-image.
Mirrors....to perceive our personality objectively, we need a mirror of some sort in the form of communication, relationships and the community. The mirror is our bridge between our inner world of our mind and the outer world of matter, vibration and sound.
Humanity’s struggle has in the last 2000 years changed from a physical to a spiritual one. In fact, we currently find ourselves in a spiritual war mirrored with humanity fighting for its ‘collective spiritual life’. There is a conflict in the human psyche between awareness and ignorance and the battles it wages are being fought on many levels and realities simultaneously.
What creates a chemical reaction! The present mixed with the potent energies of not only the future but the past.....does the spirit change.....or only the form?
One more thought.....
Have you ever gazed into a crystal ball and out of your perhipheral vision you begin seeing different images and lights dancing around you? But when we move our eyes away from the crystal ball these images simply disappear? Has this happened to anyone?
tink