Sunburst II: A creative fire in the mind.

This post will make more sense after you've read my first "Sunburst" post.

...So, I've had this meditation for years, and found it very helpful when I feel uninspired, afraid or even angry.

Then, two years ago we bought a house. A serious fixer, in addition to the interior needing lots of work, the back yard was essentially an uneven slope of weeds with one big tree in the corner.


I was surprised once we moved in how motivated I was to develop the garden, I had always considered myself a brown thumb, able to kill any house plants I neared. But now I was burning with desire, and spent every waking moment either working on it or meditating on it.


The process has been one of the most important "wizard classes" I've had, I feel I have learned a host of new skills (I could use that new vocabulary about now) in both creation and collaboration.

One of the many learning's I had from this process was a new understanding of my sunburst. Without trying, I would find it floating in front of my minds eye.

As I watched it and pondered, I noticed its character became clearer to me, the texture was no longer just undifferentiated glowing light, now I could see that it was made up of something related to flames that are somehow also sparks.

Constantly in motion, its like a jewel with limitless facets that endlessly turn in on themselves. (The motion reminded me of computer animations of theoretical 4th dimensional objects, such as hypercubes.)



I noticed that it came up most strongly for me at the point where I was shifting from "conceptualizing" my garden plans and moved into the physical "action" of landscaping.

One day, a moment of inspiration hit me that set off a series of profound inner experiences. I had the strong sense that this image, was a representation of what I now call the "reality engine".

I have long believed that we create our reality in a sort of subconscious state, and then somehow translate that into three dimensions, I am now convinced that this image is symbol of the process we use to do that.

What's more, I now think that this is not a completely subjective, abstract vision based on my meditation, but instead a universal symbol of reality generation.

You see, I started to realize its uncanny resemblance to the ancient symbol of the mandala. For awhile, every time I would see a mandala, I would say to myself "that's it!"

But it didn't stop there, soon, I began to see how often in nature we experience a burst of life in a similar visual pattern, suddenly they all seemed to be symbolic representations of the reality engine; a flower opening and our sun of course are two obvious corollaries.

The image even came up in my artwork.

Although I knew nothing of the official ideas of what a mandala is, a simple "Googling", found this, which sounds very close to the understanding I came to by myself.

I would love to hear if any of you have had any similar experiences.

CNN's double edge

So, finally a mainstream news org has picked up the story, of all the UFO sightings in UK. But, of course they have to marry it with "alien aircraft".

You know my rant on this.

Funny (and sad) how its the "objective" news media themselves that takes the step from "unknown" to "alien".

Well at least its generating some buzz.

A spoonful of sugar?

Like allot of people, I love science fiction action movies. One reason I love them is for their "edutainment" value.

When done well, they can subliminally "tempt" peoples minds to open, without the viewer even realizing it. It's one of the few media genres that make it "fun" to explore new concepts.


Consider movies like The Matrix and Star Wars, and how many concepts and supporting language they've introduced to the culture.

There are allot of people who would not be so familiar with concepts like a "FORCE that binds the universe together", or the idea of a reality that is an illusion, with our larger selves being part of some completely different "Matrix" of consciousness.


On top of providing these ideas in candy coated form to the masses, these modern popular literary exploits also provided whole descriptive vocabularies that are refreshingly void of religious reference.



I ran across "PUSH" recently, movie buffs have apparently been aware of it for sometime, its a kind of psychic thriller. Here's the "PUSH" movie official site.

I am always happy to see the subject matter covered by mainstream media, (and hope it won't fill our heads with negative connotations of psychic abilities.)

I have no idea if this will be a good picture or not. But at least the trailer is a good romp.

More strange UK lights.

I post about UFOs because I think that media coverage and mass sightings are opportunities for people to push the edges of their assumptions about reality.

This past week has been really strong in that respect.

Like art designed to evoke a feeling, perhaps these displays serve groups of people seeking a non threatening, yet "unexplainable" event, to force themselves to reexamine their assumptions about reality.

Regardless of what they think those lights in the sky were, the experience made them think and question.

UFO sighting sparks worldwide interest

Unexplained lights spotted over Harlech Castle on New Year’s Eve

Could ‘Tentacle’ UFO Have Destroyed UK Wind Turbine?

More seeing 11's

I Googled "seeing 11" again today.

Here's a quick list of what I found:

- This site, on the eleven phenomena has an interesting
radio interview and lots of other info.
- "Seeing 11:11 Everywhere:
Does It Mean You're an Angel Incarnate?"
- This blog seems to think it has the answers.
- Here is a post much like mine,
- and another with many responses.
- A blog with more questions.
- A post from back in May.
- Here's one posted two years ago.

UPDATE: LOL, I just noticed that I had eleven posts in December. ;-)

FURTHER UPDATE: not sure HOW I missed this stie: "NVisable" by "Solara".
She's pretty prolific on the subject.

New Year's New UFO's

Well this year's starting off with an interesting spate of UFO sightings in the UK, while there was this one on New Years Day in Sawbridgeworth, It was Saturday night that apparently lit up the sky.

Sightings in Oxford, also in Ifield, and that same night in Louth, something even damaged a wind turbine! (image via: Louth Leader)

Something tells me it's significant that at the same time over in Ireland., they were busy experiencing their own variety of unexplained phenomena.

UPDATE: Video and more witnesses for New Year's day UFO

Happy (predictions for the) New Year!

Since our attitude during these "interesting times" about where we are going makes all the difference, I was very happy to finally see some positive predictions for the year ahead.

Even more important, I love to see a psychic and an economist make such similar predictions.