A "Shameless" Plug

I heard this closing song on season 1, episode 3 of "Shameless" (US version).

It's "November was White, December was Grey" by Say Hi.

Be True to Yourself

"The Guy in the Glass"
by Dale Winbrow

When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that guy has to say.

For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Who judgement upon you must pass.
The feller whose verdict counts most in your life

Is the guy staring back from the glass.
He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,
For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the guy in the glass is your friend.

You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,
And think you're a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the guy in the glass.

Dale Wimbrow 1895-1954

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You can fool the whole world but if you can't look at yourself square in the eyes in the looking glass with true integrity, then your big act to please the outside world was all for naught.

Always be true to yourself and if those around you can't accept you fully for who you truly are, then f*ck them and move on to bigger and better things.

"Grace" by Kate Havnevik

I like this song by Kate Havnevik, sung by Callie on Grey's Anatomy's musical episode ("Song Beneath the Song").

"Nothing comes easily."

Darren Criss Discusses Challenging Preconceived Notions

I found this to be a great interview because Darren Criss delves into how great and how pioneering the Glee episode was to show an accepted homosexual male question his orientation and explore bisexuality and heterosexuality — since the standard is for heterosexual men to be 'bicurious' or 'experiment' but Glee flipped this on its head.

He also stresses how it's important to never accept the status quo and how it's always good to question and challenge accepted dogma. Darren makes a good point that when you are different in any way — whether it's personality, religion, spirituality, what have you — you tend to want to cling to that glimmer of hope that you are indeed just like everyone else but in the end you have to embrace your own personal truth and to live comfortably in your skin truly as yourself.



(The insightful nuggets come late in the interview about 3 minutes in. Darren discusses ignorance and stereotypes around 5 minutes in.)

I'm lovin' this song by MC Yogi

I've been listening to it on my iPod all day and it got me through rush hour traffic, getting lost in Dallas, and running late to my dentist appointment.

On a related note, apparently all this stress is leading me to grind and clench my teeth too =(. They wanted me to buy a nightguard that costs $700, so I opted instead to go to Walgreens and buy one for 32 dollars. Supposedly, it's not as good or maybe potentially be bad for me because it's soft and the dentist said it's like "chewing gum all night" but beggars can't be choosers. I'll try it out and see I guess.

Why is it that every time I think I've taken care of some physical ailment, a new one is discovered by some specialist or expert? I think this is why nobody likes to go to the doctor or dentist or allergist or what have you...sigh.


In the meantime...

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare



Om Shanti.

Ashtanga Yoga Series in under 4 Minutes

So I saw this on the "PeaceLoveYoga" blog and I thought it was neat.  I especially like the cat curling up on the guy during his savasana. =)

(I've only done Ashtanga once in my life. I can't wait to get better acquainted with this style of Hatha Yoga.)

Reverberations from John Dee and Edward 'Talbot' Kelly's Sessions with Uriel

I stumbled upon a brilliant article by Vincent Bridges concerning the 16th century British Royal Astrologer, spy, and occultist mystic — John Dee.

Those with a faint interest in linguistics will have an intellectual orgasm whilst reading about the Ophanic/Enochian language transmitted to Kelly, while he was in trance and recorded by John Dee in his 'Spiritual Diaries.'  The object that allowed for such divine transmission was provided by a 'smoky quartz egg,' which surprisingly is still in existence and on display in the Manuscript Room of the British Museum.  The egg was used primarily as a scrying tool by the two magi.

The most fascinating result of these encounters over 7 years was that the language recorded appears in structure to have underlying resemblance to our own DNA code.  Like the triplet codons of human DNA coding, Ophanic also has a triplet-like quality with three groups of seven letters.  The 'letters' or characters are arranged in a 8 x 8 arrangement so that there is a total of 64 Enochian characters, corresponding to 64 possible codons in the human genome (since there are 4 kinds of RNA (or DNA nucleoteides, there are 4 ^3 or 64 possible codons.  I find the synchronicity of this information amazing, since I just had to study this information for my Anatomy & Physiology quiz, where I read about DNA and RNA protein synthesis).

While, I am not fully convinced of the relationship between human DNA code and this Enochian language, I find this research to be very intriguing and hopes Bridges and others delves into this more deeply.

Bridges continues on to talk about the additional 4th dimension, which is where he loses me.  "It indeed is possible to think of the Ophanic 4D octahedron alphabetic grid as a seed containing all possible DNA derived probability waves; in other words, a model of the literal matrix of creation."

The Sigil of Truth

The aforementioned article by Vincent Bridges.

(Images taken from the "Enochian Handbook" website).