​A Higher Plane "of thinking"
​Excerpts from spiritual reading material  that inspire a higher plane of thinking.

"What is true in space may be true in time, and the law of physics may hold in the spiritual realm. When the soul of man departs out of the body, being released from the grossness of the flesh, it may enter on a life a thousand times more intense than this: in which it will not need the dull senses as avenues of knowledge, because the spirit itself will be all eye, all ear, all intelligence; while memory, like an electric flash, will in an instant bring the whole of the past into view; and the moral sense will be quickened as never before. Here then we have all the conditions of retribution — a world which, however shadowy it may be seem, is yet as real as the homes and habitations and activities of our present state; with memory trailing the deeds of a lifetime behind it, and conscience, more inexorable than any judge, giving its solemn and final verdict." - from An Open Letter to Robert G. Ingersoll.
by Dr. Henry M. Field
http://thebibleisnotholy.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/page/3/

Mars Dragonfly Dragonfly discovered in underground lake on Mars?. Dragonfly Photograph by Rybird from A Natural Thing Collection, naturally.

Above: Mars DragonflyDragonfly discovered in underground lake on Mars?. Dragonfly Photograph by Rybird from A Natural Thing Collection, naturally.
https://www.rybird.com/a-natural-thing.html
And now more nature photography and art at A Natural Thing II https://www.rybird.com/a-natural-thing-ii.html
And A Natural Thing III https://www.rybird.com/a-natural-thing-iii.html

Supreme Doodle - The fabric of space, the infinite circular series of individual components creating the whole. Each one the entire universe and all of them together the entire universe. Each circle created from an infinite amount of smaller circles of which are created out of the same and it continues, just as the infinite number of circles make a universe that is just one circle in an infinite number of circles that create another circle which is just one of another infinite. Infinity in both directions, expanding forever and companding forever. Each part an whole. And arranged that only see the sides facing us, creating our reality.

阴阳 Daoist metaphysics. Art by Rybird of Dabble Bird. Expanding and Contracting, Yin and Yang. Distinctions between good and bad, along with other dichotomous moral judgments, are perceptual, not real; so, the duality of yin and yang is an indivisible whole. Daoist metaphysics.

​The Circle of Alpha and Omega

Where, what, is the beginning  and the end of the proverbial circle?
If one was to draw a circle, the first thing that would be required is the desire to
do so. Thus the answer to the spiritual and philosophic illustration  to the 
question why, how, where is the beginning of the universe, is this: 
The beginning of everything is desire.
From desire, everything
is born.
In the big picture of things, the beginning and end of the universe and  how it why it all became and what will it become all begins with desire,
Desire takes on many forms. From discontent, unrest, dissatisfaction, craving, lust,
love, and everything between, the desire is the ignition source for the birth all
things.  Even nothingness has desire, as it has the most desire of all, infinite desire.
For satisfaction is the death of desire.
A circle has an infinite number of points and so once the universe has experienced
every possibility, then it arrives at the end. The universe is then satisfied and thus dead.
But being dead it  is at the beginning again and has infinite desire. The beginning and ending point of a circle and of the universe is the same, satisfaction and desire.
Where desire stops, satisfaction begins and where satisfaction is reached desire begins. Where one stops the other begins. Rybird 2018


Excerpts of related concepts:
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“Just as a small matchstick can set a huge forest on fire, so does a desire light the
fires of manifestation. ”
and
"And what is death? It is the change in the living process of a particular body. Inte-
gration ends and disintegration sets in. (…) In death only the body dies. Life does
not, consciousness does not, reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after
death."
"(…) Can there be renewal without death? Even the darkness of sleep is refreshing
and rejuvenating. Without death we would have been bogged for ever in eternal se-
nility. (…) When life and death are seen as essential to each other, as two aspects
of one being, that is immortality. (...).
from Nisargadatta Maharaj wikiquote 

“Even in the historic avant-garde's use of geometric shapes as the new language of
abstract art, the circle is described as an extremely complex element: a shape that is
precise and yet inexhaustibly variable; both stable and unstable at the same time. It
has a tension to it that holds infinite other tensions—a synthesis of great contrasts,
united in an equilibrium of the concentric and the eccentric.”
from The Circle Has No Beginning and No End
An homage to the geometries of art,
Google Art and Culture 

“You mention the circle and I agree with your definition.. ..why does the circle fas-
cinates me? It is (1) the most modern form, but asserts itself unconditionally, (2) a
precise but inexhaustible variable, (3) simultaneously stable and unstable, (4) si-
multaneously loud and soft, (5) a single tension that caries countless tensions with-
in it. The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concen-
tric and the eccentric in a single form, and in balance. Of the three primary forms
(triangle, square, circle), it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.”
In a letter to Will Grohmann, c. 1926; as quoted in Kandinsky, Frank Whitford,
Paul Hamlyn Ltd, London 1967, p. 36
Wassily Kandinsky Wikiquote

Astral Rose

There is no beginning or end to life.
Life does not begin, nor does it end. Life just is. It continues just like a forest that loses a tree, the spirit and life of the forest is there.  Just like a lawn is a single organism of grass all interconnected, the universe itself is alive and one.  The universe is one yet built of many spirits, it is a compound life and as such has a compound soul.  When a tree bears a fruit, which contains the seed that leaves the tree and enters the ground, then sprouts into a new tree, this life force never ends and never begins. Humans and conception are like the tree and the fruit and human death is like the death of a tree in the forest, the tree has returned to the ground to decay to dirt, to enter a new seed as nutrients and become life again. At no point is the tree actually completely dead. It appears dead to the unknowing, yet is still part of the living universe and still alive.

Awareness, feelings, consciousness and even soul are all subjective and only relevant to the individual parts of the universe that they pertain to at that moment. That is to say, these virtues or attributes, energies or forces come and go and are from the Universe as a whole and in the long run are not fixed to any fixed set of atoms that make up an autonomous object or living being within this sphere of one overall life force.

To carry this further, as in saying another way, the steak someone eats will be transformed from the animal it once was into many other forms, some of it which will enter the body of the one consuming it and thus parts will become part of the person, or animal, consuming it and become as alive as part of that consuming creature.To say that life begins at conception or birth is difficult argument because the life is already existing before the events of sexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction is merely transformation of existing life. The process of death is the same, yet appears to be one of interruption, it is not. The Universe does not care about time, it cares about process. The process of life continues.   Rybird November 10, 2017
Left:  Astral Rose Bud Rose bud , Photo by Rybird. From Flora at: https://www.rybird.com/flora-ii.html

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Soul vibrations are no less tangible than sound waves, though their nature and medium of propagation are more exotic. They employ the same medium through which light and radio waves  travel but are made of potential waves rather than electromagnetic waves. This means the soul
vibratory field (also known as the aura) consists of fields and waves far subtler than electric or magnetic fields, which is why conventional instruments cannot detect the aura. From Realm Dynamics by Montalk

Light Bud - Flower photographic art of rose bud by Rybird from the Flora collection.

Below: The Living Universe.
Art Created  by Rybird from When Roses Aren't Red photo of Rosetta Nebula. The Rosetta Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles and Mel Helm
Explanation: Not all roses are red of course, but they can still be very pretty. Likewise, the beautiful Rosette Nebula and other star forming regions are often shown in astronomical images with a predominately red hue, in part because the dominant emission in the nebula is from hydrogen atoms. Hydrogen's strongest optical emission line, known as H-alpha, is in the red region of the spectrum, but the beauty of an emission nebula need not be appreciated in red light alone. Other atoms in the nebula are also excited by energetic starlight and produce narrow emission lines as well. In this gorgeous view of the Rosette Nebula, narrowband images are combined to show emission from sulfur atoms in red, hydrogen in blue, and oxygen in green. In fact, the scheme of mapping these narrow atomic emission lines into broader colors is adopted in many Hubble images of stellar nurseries. The image spans about 100 light-years in the constellation Monoceros, at the 3,000 light-year estimated distance of the Rosette Nebula. 

The Living Universe. Art Created by Rybird from When Roses Aren't Red photo of Rosetta Nebula. The Rosetta Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles and Mel Helm

Why does life strive to live?
Primal earth conditions became suited for creating organic material spontaneously.
In the system of physics and chemistry as it existed, there became stable structures, and unstable ones, but at one point a replicator arose in this system, and grew to dominate. These became cellular organisms that, at first glance, seemed to be attempting to "survive", but have really were just been the most efficient replicator from a series of ancestors.
Then  a tipping point' or critical mass of sorts was reached where the primitive self replicators begin to survive. And through the process somewhere, consciousness sprang up as a more successful method to continue replicating and surviving. And upon becoming more complex organisms emotions and thought became the tools for survival. These complex feelings mixed with millions of years of instinct drive humans to question death. Then we try to answer the fundamental question...  continue reading at the blog post here:  Why does life strive to live

Plant growing in the mortar of bricks. Nature Photo By Rybird. Visit A Natural Thing for more nature photography.

Below: Cosmic Tulip 3d sculpture titled Bowing to the Influence "of the stars". By Rybird of Dabble Bird.
Seen the new Cultivations series 3d based art with these trees and more nature themed art models here: http://www.dabblebird.com/cultivations.html

Cosmic Tulip 3d sculpture titled Bowing to the Influence "of the stars". By Rybird of Dabble Bird.

Of and About The Night of Pan
The Universe itself is alive and has its own biological processes that ultimately results in an evolutionary transformation. This process includes that which we call death for the sentient being; that is identical to the process for non-sentient objects.  Liber AL teaching us that “Every man and woman is a star” refers to the same Gnosis that Shakespeare speaks of when he writes: “We are the stuff that stars are made of.” Moving to a higher level of complexity then does not really involve organisms developing or refining internal or external organs, but moving to a greater aggregate of consciousness. As Blavatsky points out in her own writings on evolution, the organ appears first before its use is exploited. Indeed, with consciousness or sentience apparent in both the macrocosm and the microcosm, we are moving in both involuntary and evolutionary directs; simultaneously. The process of becoming is engendered by the process of decay and reorganization. And we must go through these processes on all planes in both body and soul.  From Paul Joseph Rovelli   Scientific Illuminism 

The truly magical operations of Love are therefore the Trances, more especially those of Understanding; as will readily have been appreciated by those who have made a careful Qabalistic study of the nature of Binah. For she is omniform as Love and as Death, the Great Sea whence all Life springs, and whose black womb reabsorbs all. She thus resumes in herself the duplex process of the Formula of Love under Will; for is not Pan the All-Begetter in the heart of the Groves at high noon, and is not Her "hair the trees of Eternity" the filaments of All-Devouring Godhead "under the Night of Pan?" From Night Of Pan In Writings Of Crowley - Thelema and Faith


Within the system of Thelema, the Night of Pan, or N.O.X., is a mystical state that represents the stage of ego-death in the process of spiritual attainment.
The playful and lecherous Pan is the Greek god of nature, lust, and the masculine generative power. The Greek word Pan also translates as All, and so he is “a symbol of the Universal, a personification of Nature; both Pangenetor, "all-begetter," and Panphage, "all-devourer" (Sabazius, 1995). Therefore, Pan is both the giver and the taker of life, and his Night is that time of symbolic death where the adept experiences unification with the All through the ecstatic destruction of the ego-self. In a more general sense, it is the state where one transcends all limitations and experiences oneness with the universe. Wiki
We arrive then at a clear conception of a Universal Mind that is the massive aggregate consciousness of the Universe; the truly divine! We as humans, having the power to interact with particles and waves; participating in their determinism, are clearly the most conscious expression; each of us in singular nodes. In this way, we are truly an expression of divinity; creative gods being omnipotent, omnipresent and omnipotent in by own individual rights. 
 From Paul Joseph Rovelli   Scientific Illuminism 

Rybird Discography

​Music is able to bring humans into the neighborhood of divine experience and can thus carry us up from our personal fate and the everyday circumstances of our life into a higher form of reality. Something much higher, namely the knowledge of the possibility of the soul to enter into a lighter being, and to catch a glimpse of deeper insights and more magnificent visions of the beauty, truth, and the divine than we are normally able to spy through the cracks in our prison cell. I feel that music has the ability to activate, potentiate, and sometimes mercilessly expose everything that a person has in his or her consciousness or buried beneath it and communicate, carry it on a higher plane to and from others.
"Adapted from: American author Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870):The Hasheesh Eater (1857)" 

For a list of music published by Rybird visit the Discography page.

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Speaking of music, it is no doubt that the discipline of learning to play, or even casually playing a music instrument improves the mind.  I have included some dabbling on the acoustic guitar, not composed or written, but rather adhoc or improv and just meditative interaction between man and machine. In this case a simple wood machine with moving strings recorded electronically.  I call this Pro Tempore which is Latin for "in the meantime".