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So what is behind iconography?From: c_howdy
Subject: General
Date/Time 2008-11-09 03:58:22
Remote IP: 137.163.19.99
MessageGrandfather called the world that lay beyond man's prison of flesh the realm of the "spirit-that-moves-in-all-things" or the "force." Grandfather said that the world of the force was where man truly belonged and should live every day. He told us that we should abandon the world of the flesh and forever live in the realm of the spirit-that-moves-in-all-things, never returning to that prison of the flesh. Here in the realm of the force, mankind would become the duality of the flesh and spirit. He would be in direct contact with his deeper self, his limitless mind, his true emotions, desires, and deepest memory.
-TOM BROWN, Jr.
I know personally several persons who have told me that they have started to see "snakes" after smoking pot or ingesting magic mushrooms (neither of which I personally definitely don't do).
Point is how many of those who follow this forum know where these symbols come from.
Various Indian sages like Patanjali or Nagarjuna have this hood of snakes behind their head as well as avatar Krishna. Also I remember that I have seen somewhere especially ugly sculpted version of this theme which was called something like "the punishment of Arjuna." So Arjuna was the one who was riding with Krishna in the Bhagavat Gita and NAGAs are a group of serpent deities in the Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
HELLUREI
It is important for you to remember that in this story, the uncontrolled demon represents the spiritual mind. The controlled demon is the physical mind.
-TOM BROWN, Jr. (with slight adjustment)
http://upload.wikipedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Patanjali.jpg
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