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Astral Projection!
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Warrior1256
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Gee.....wish I had read this back then while I was still young!
Center
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What regret to discover I wasted years of my life trough the regular indian path of the kamasutra-reading to form my most banal prophane skills.
Bird_n_hand
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Omg this is intriguing, I've oft wondered similar topics. I read a story awhile back called the monkey king. Slightly off and on topic. It's about this man, a prince, who endeavored to sit still under a tree for 40 days. While sitting their he was met by the monkey king sounds ridiculous I know. But while with the monkey king he fought off demons for 40 days. Now mind you this man was the progenitor of the novel 8 fold path, one of which is to be honest; right speech; so maybe he did in fact see these things real or not, I suspect something similar to ayahuasca
dfreybur
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Also known from the Ramanyamana, the monkey king is one of many points of overlap between Hindu and Buddhism. The stories clearly have plenty of symbolic meaning, but being a westerner interferes with my ability to get those meanings. Strange as I usually find plenty of symbolic meanings in stories.
Bird_n_hand
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I May be mistaken but I believe before Buddha went on his quest for enloghtment was a Hindu. And as far as you being a westerners. Nothing wrong with that. I like stories of Billy the kid and doc Holliday XD
Warrior1256
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Lol....so do I.
Ripcord22A
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Aren't you also American? Dfreybur meant "westerner" as in from the western world, ie NOT ASIA......not that he was a cowboy.....lol
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Bird_n_hand
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I'm Asian American, and I made a joke XD lmbo
dfreybur
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I got the joke. Even better, I had a mental picture of the Monkey King in one of those old black and white cowboy movies. The Monkey King with his six shooters in a High Noon stand off with someone on a wagon painted to look like a chariot. My image keeps changing focus into a samurai movie, though.
Movies mixing traditions the way movies tend to do. My imagination must be run by Disney!
Movies mixing traditions the way movies tend to do. My imagination must be run by Disney!
Bird_n_hand
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That's so funny! I imagine the monkey looks like a coyote with a cowboy hat, spurs and a six shooter. But he can't seem to hit the road runner lolol maybe cause coyotes don't have thumbs XD
Center
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Really good, the ficus is one of the most beautiful symbols, I think in the rite of the Egyptian primitive rite Memphis Misraim is mentioned, in relationship with the well known for most of us Acacia.
Also in the bible apart the Indian tradition depict ficus threes
Bird_n_hand
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Now this is enlightening, I've been looking all morning to find if the bodhi tree hasany trytamines in it and I could only find unverified info about it.
dfreybur
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Ficus, especially bodhi, grow new trees from shoots in their roots. A central trunk grows from a seed. If the tree flourishes it spreads out its roots and they sprout to form new trees. This means the groves are roughly circular. The new tree being born from the old tree without a seed is symbolic of rebirth. The circle shape of the grove is also symbolic of rebirth.
In America, aspen forests grow this way. But as they grow in the mountains they are too remote for religious symbolism to have formed around them.
Oak groves are also roughly circular. Squirrels bury acorns to store them, but they don't have enough memory to know where they all are. Squirrels bury the acorns a short distance from the parent tree. So oaks grow in groves that are circular. This reminded ancients of tribal family relationships among the trees and the trunks of the trees reminded ancients of the pillars of temples.
Acacia, like ficus, seems to be good at sprouting from roots.
Not sure how I got here from astral projection.
In America, aspen forests grow this way. But as they grow in the mountains they are too remote for religious symbolism to have formed around them.
Oak groves are also roughly circular. Squirrels bury acorns to store them, but they don't have enough memory to know where they all are. Squirrels bury the acorns a short distance from the parent tree. So oaks grow in groves that are circular. This reminded ancients of tribal family relationships among the trees and the trunks of the trees reminded ancients of the pillars of temples.
Acacia, like ficus, seems to be good at sprouting from roots.
Not sure how I got here from astral projection.
Bird_n_hand
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Attraction brought you here lol good 411 too and something I never knew. The symbology is beautiful, the family is the tree of life. Of which I'm only a small part of. Growing from the roots of my elders.
And lol at the squirrels
Golden Dawn is NOT an Appendant Body of Freemasonry. You resurrected a 5 year old dead thread on a topic not even relevant to this forum to give incorrect information.
CLewey44
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It'd be cool if it was haha.