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You all know what an Art Gallery looks like – we’re talking about the big “National Gallery” kind of scale here:
The Gallery is massive. It's been here forever and there is every conceivable painting, etching, photograph and sculpture already installed and positioned. There are thousands of rooms and millions of pictures and millions of people, already here.
There are a number of "professional" people that offer their services as "guides" to take visitors around and point out items of interest and explain what they mean. Most visitors think that this is a great idea and are happy to support this process. Some want to wander off on their own and be completely independent of any group, still others like to appear to be independent while sticking close to the guide and listening in from a distance. The guides have been providing this service for years and have their own favorite routes and stories they like to tell at each of the artworks that they feel are of interest. If they see anyone from the group start to look around or moving away from the group, they quickly gather them back up. It takes a significant effort of will for someone in the group to break away. If someone does break away and insists on
Have you ever been told that we live in a world of Duality?
Positive and Negative (Oh, we’ve been talking about this one a lot), Up and Down, Good and Evil, Tall and Short, Black and White, Sweet and Sour, Hot and Cold, Clever and Dumb, Sharp and Blunt, Dark and Light, Me and You (that’s a good one).
Learning is a strange process. We start off knowing everything, then we forget everything, then we learn something, then we find out we were missing something, then we add the missing bit, then we realise that the thing isn’t really true, then we redefine what we know about it, then we realize that we don’t really know anything about it.
We attended the Dynamic Centre annual picnic last evening. It was lighthearted and fun, and had all the elements of true community.And because we arrived early, we had the chance to see it come together before our eyes. There were busy hands hanging balloons, decorating tables, preparing platters of appetizing and delicious food. The community arrived in random fashion carrying some additional home baked goods, games, chairs, musical instruments and the variety of paraphernalia required to feed and entertain a robust group happy to spend the evening together outdoors. There was a real sense of connection.
Last time we talked about avoiding negative energy. It would be worth reviewing that article before reading this one.
Here is the idealized energy symbol we used in our last discussion. You can see that we have a red vertical line, a blue horizontal line, a circle, some plus and minus symbols and a diagonal line. What does it all mean? You know it means something, right? Wait a minute – there’s another saying – “Nothing has any meaning, except the meaning you give it”.
The Red vertical line represents male energy. It stands upright, tall, singular, alone, strong. It reaches for Heaven but also represents the sword and the spear. Male energy is firmly planted “on” the ground and is hard to move. Its shape is a square and cube and it builds vertically. It is difficult to push over and is so perfectly shaped that many cubes can be piled on top of each other and still remain stable. Red is the colour of blood and fire, active energy, looking to explore and grow, conquer and consume, build and destroy.
