A Clever Retort

When we define the word retort, we think of a quick, caustic or witty reply. In other words, it's a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator. It comes from the Latin retortus, meaning “to be forced to twist back". All...

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Dimensions

Dimensions are challenging for our minds to deal with. We struggle because we can’t process "space" which seems impossible to our sensibilities. Dimension actually means the ability to twist—how many different planes you can move in. In...

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Galactic Proportions

If it takes over 222 million years for our solar system to complete one cycle around the galactic core, we’re obviously talking about periods of time too long to have meaning. Because our solar system travels on a flower-petal shape around our...

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Gæa’s Time

The more advanced the culture, the better the calendar system. Even by modern standards however, cycles that last roughly 26,000 years are too long to gather meaning from or even to measure accurately. Earth's measurement of time is governed by...

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Transition

We live on a planet that revolves around a star every 365.25 days. So time is really a ratio of spin. We could have measured time in linear format, but due to the movement of the planets we interpret time as cyclical. As Earth moves through...

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The Blue Lotus

The blue lotus has been worshipped for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians noticed that at night the lotus closed its flowers and sank into the water and then reappeared in the morning. Because this sacred flower follows the same pattern as...

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Mundane spirits

When you look at a quasar or a galaxy, you are seeing an inverted octahedron with light streaming out the centre. What is across the void? The duat, or dual world. While most of us only resonate here when we go through transition, if you enter a...

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Hathor

Hathor was a goddess often celebrated in joyful music and dance. Once described as The Mother of Mothers she embodied fertility: her bovine face was symbolic of a womb, with her ears depicted where the fallopian tubes enter the uterus. A...

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Cairns

A cairn is a pile of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic càrn. Cairns are found all over the world from mountaintops and waterways to deserts and tundra areas. They vary in size from stone markers to artificial hills...

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The Sacred Stone

Rose granite was revered by the Egyptians. Granite comes from the Latin granum, or "grain" in reference to the coarse structure of this crystalline rock. Granite consists mainly of quartz, feldspar and mica which form an interlocking matrix....

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Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics carried deep symbolic meanings. When picture writing first began, the icons represented the object they depicted. These were called pictograms. Later, images came to represent ideas and were known as ideograms. Thousands of...

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