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Seventh episode of the Pro.Gnosis podcast with Àrmunn Rìgh, with Linda Curtis as a guest.

Sixth episode of the Pro.Gnosis podcast with Àrmunn Rìgh, with JReganIV as a guest.

Brief contemplation in which the previous one named "Scripts and Purpose" is revisited and expanded upon.

Scripts and Purpose - https://youtu.be/yJ-7o1YLk1I
Mirror - https://youtu.be/Dp2YSOsu7iM
Miracles - https://youtu.be/YbUcjPA5tp0

Brief contemplation on the duality of Good vs Evil, of their Heroes and Villains, in relation to the reality world mirror reflection, also analysing the movie "Nines" in the process.

"Nines": https://youtu.be/R6oFTMkL4yw

Related contemplations:

The eternal war - https://youtu.be/pydwIpoGDiw

Justice vs Retribution - https://youtu.be/Dt03GEJ4oNw

The middle - https://youtu.be/vD8GMsyQk2A

Stories: Outline vs Details - https://youtu.be/ruQdbVabdVQ

Brief contemplation on the Prodigal Son, or Lost Son parable, from the point of view of the older brother and the potential decision of "leaving into the world" to later return in humility and wisdom.

Related contemplations:
The eternal war - https://youtu.be/pydwIpoGDiw
Stories: Myths vs Hoaxes - https://youtu.be/RQtEmautoKM

Brief contemplation on emotions, images and words as mirror reflections of thoughts and how they establish an alternative view of the psyche.  

Related contemplations:
Role-Playing Game - https://youtu.be/Syh6TiEAg6I
Dungeon Masters - https://youtu.be/U1kGXx3W6V4
Spells and rituals - https://youtu.be/D_8168VcEeM
Alchemy - https://youtu.be/dm97S73rqW8

Brief contemplation on the automatism inherent to mental personas and characters, viewed in relation to the ego and the Essence beyond them.

Related contemplations:
Shame and pride - https://youtu.be/5iokcwq9Iiw
The middle - https://youtu.be/vD8GMsyQk2A
Guilt and victimhood - https://youtu.be/jVOISEku8Rc
Victim and guilthood - https://youtu.be/tlW44xq20Kk
Identification and Expectation - https://youtu.be/LgpEF26yYdQ
Miracles - https://youtu.be/YbUcjPA5tp0

Brief contemplation on innocence as an essential trait of Life and Truth and how nakedness is a strong metaphor for it in myth.

Related contemplations:

Metaphors of Tumours - https://youtu.be/KDr-2qwI6mc

Stories: Myths vs Hoaxes - https://youtu.be/RQtEmautoKM

Identification and Expectation - https://youtu.be/LgpEF26yYdQ

Brief contemplation on the essence and contrast between justice and retribution within the world, in relation to our individual state of being.

Related contemplations:

Dream Therapy - https://youtu.be/ArTcz-VlE6Y
The eternal war - https://youtu.be/pydwIpoGDiw
Metaphors of Alembic - https://youtu.be/8qDMyZBb2fY

My friend Tiber suggested that I make a recording of this poem as there seems to be no spoken English version of it to be found yet, so here it is.

I hope you enjoy and that it is also useful given the poem's rich conveyed wisdom.

Music:

J.S. Bach - Concerto in D Minor BWV1043, Largo played by Daniel Estrem

Time goes by, time comes along,
All is old and all is new;
What is right and what is wrong,
You must think and ask of you;
Have no hope and have no fear,
Waves that rise can never hold;
If they urge or if they cheer,
You remain aloof and cold.

To our sight a lot will glisten,
Many sounds will reach our ear;
Who could take the time to listen
And remember all we hear?
Keep aside from all that patter,
Seek yourself, far from the throng
When with loud and idle clatter
Time goes by, time comes along.

Nor forget the tongue of reason
Or its even scales depress
When the moment, changing season,
Wears the mask of happiness -
It is born of reason's slumber
And may last a wink as true:
For the one who knows its number
All is old and all is new.

Be as to a play, spectator,
As the world unfolds before:
You will know the heart of matter
Should they act two parts or four;
When they cry or tear asunder
From your seat enjoy along
And you'll learn from art to wonder
What is right and what is wrong.

Past and future, ever blending,
Are the twin sides of same page:
New start will begin with ending
When you know to learn from age;
All that was or be tomorrow
We have in the present, too;
But what's vain and futile sorrow
You must think and ask of you;


For the living cannot sever
From the means we've always had:
Now, as years ago, and ever,
Men are happy or are sad:
Other masks, same play repeated;
Diff'rent tongues, same words to hear;
Of your dreams so often cheated,
Have no hope and have no fear.

Hope not when the villains cluster
By success and glory drawn:
Fools with perfect lack of luster
Will outshine Hyperion!
Fear it not, they'll push each other
To reach higher in the fold,
Do not side with them as brother,
Waves that rise can never hold.

Sounds of siren songs call steady
Toward golden nets, astray;
Life attracts you into eddies
To change actors in the play;
Steal aside from crowd and bustle,
Do not look, seem not to hear
From your path, away from hustle,
If they urge or if they cheer;

If they reach for you, go faster,
Hold your tongue when slanders yell;
Your advice they cannot master,
Don't you know their measure well?
Let them talk and let them chatter,
Let all go past, young and old;
Unattached to man or matter,
You remain aloof and cold.

You remain aloof and cold
If they urge or if they cheer;
Waves that rise can never hold,
Have no hope and have no fear;
You must think and ask of you
What is right and what is wrong;
All is old and all is new,
Time goes by, time comes along.

"Glossa", by Mihai Eminescu (1883)