just fyi : symbols or "the language of birds " ..... is a language unto itself ...... just like any other language ..... a little more free style than most 6900 languages that exist ( imho ) .... it has its own Flow
ponder on this ...... interpreting symbols just using our instinct ( wolf ) will only lead you astray ...... you'll end up looking like the wrong kind of FOOL ..... which i sometimes am too ..... ignorance
+
The Sufis and Francis of Assisi
ps: personally not really into physically spinning ..... i have imagination for that
+
What We Hear And See Can Be Changed By Our Imagination - MessageToEagle.com
+
experienced a religious conversion and became a saint with an uncanny influence over animals and birds
The only people known in this way who were contemporary with St. Francis were the Greater Brothers, an appellation of the Sufi Order founded by Najmuddin Kubra,, "the Greater." The connection is interesting. One of the major characteristics about this great Sufi teacher was that he had an uncanny influence over animals. Pictures of him show him surrounded by birds. He tamed a fierce dog merely by looking at it—just as St. Francis is said to have cowed the wolf in a well-known tale. Najmuddin's miracles were well known throughout the East sixty years before St. Francis was born.
ponder on this ...... interpreting symbols just using our instinct ( wolf ) will only lead you astray ...... you'll end up looking like the wrong kind of FOOL ..... which i sometimes am too ..... ignorance
"I therefore say to you that tiredness and fatigue are effects caused by ignorance of Nature and disobedience to her inexorable law. You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which you do not comprehend. Therefore I also say, ask of Nature that you may be one with her and she will whisper her secrets to you to the extent in which you are prepared to listen. Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her."
Walter Russell - Wikiquote
Walter Russell - Wikiquote
+
The Sufis and Francis of Assisi
The Whirling Dervishes can attain intuitive knowledge partly by a peculiar form of spinning, presided over by an instructor. Rumi's school of Whirling Dervishes was in full operation in Asia Minor, and its founder was still alive, during the lifetime of St. Francis.
Here is the puzzling "spinning" tale:
Francis was walking through Tuscany with a disciple, Brother Masseo. They arrived at a fork in the road. One path led to Florence, another to Arezzo, a third to Siena.
Masseo asked which branch they should take.
"The road which God wills."
"And which is that?"
"We will know by a sign. I command you, by your path of obedience, turn round and round as children do, until I tell you to stop."
So poor Masseo twirled and twirled, till he fell down from giddiness. Then he got up and looked beseechingly at the saint; but the saint said nothing, and Masseo, remembering his vow of obedience, began again to twirl his best. He continued to twirl and to fall for some time, till he seemed to have spent all his life in twirling, when, at last, he heard the welcome words: "Stop, and tell me whither your face is turned."
"To Siena," gasped Masseo, who felt the earth rock round him.
"Then to Siena we must go," said Francis, and to Siena they went.
Here is the puzzling "spinning" tale:
Francis was walking through Tuscany with a disciple, Brother Masseo. They arrived at a fork in the road. One path led to Florence, another to Arezzo, a third to Siena.
Masseo asked which branch they should take.
"The road which God wills."
"And which is that?"
"We will know by a sign. I command you, by your path of obedience, turn round and round as children do, until I tell you to stop."
So poor Masseo twirled and twirled, till he fell down from giddiness. Then he got up and looked beseechingly at the saint; but the saint said nothing, and Masseo, remembering his vow of obedience, began again to twirl his best. He continued to twirl and to fall for some time, till he seemed to have spent all his life in twirling, when, at last, he heard the welcome words: "Stop, and tell me whither your face is turned."
"To Siena," gasped Masseo, who felt the earth rock round him.
"Then to Siena we must go," said Francis, and to Siena they went.
ps: personally not really into physically spinning ..... i have imagination for that
+
What We Hear And See Can Be Changed By Our Imagination - MessageToEagle.com
29 June, 2013
MessageToEagle.com - A study from Karolinska Institutet shows, that our imagination may affect how we experience the world more than we perhaps think. What we imagine hearing or seeing 'in our head' can change our actual perception.
MessageToEagle.com - A study from Karolinska Institutet shows, that our imagination may affect how we experience the world more than we perhaps think. What we imagine hearing or seeing 'in our head' can change our actual perception.
Psalm 36:9 ..... also known as P Funk P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up) - Parliament (1975) - YouTube
9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
Comment