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Philosophical Imaginatrix: The Magical Tarot Cards

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Tarot are mysterious cards. The cards of magic and divination. There is no known origin of the 'Tarot' cards. The tarot consists of 78 cards, which is divided into 22 major arcana and 56 minor arcana. The 56 minor arcana are divided into 4 suits. The 4 suits in the modern cards also come from the 'Tarot' system. Simply put, the modern cards are derived from the 'tarot' cards. The 'Tarot' cards represent the human anatomy, the solar system and the structure of universe. The 'Tarot' cards are believed to have inherited the mysteries of 'Thoth' and 'The Book of Enoch'. One must look at the cards and observe these cards with the thought of mystery and magic in mind. That way the cards work. The cards consist of the way to magic and mystery. According to Antoine Court de Gébelin, the word 'Tarot' is derived from Egyptian word Tar and Ro. Tar means the royal and rod means the road. The word tarot hence means the royal

Philosophical Imaginatrix: Beautifully Brilliant Buckminster Fuller

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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.                                               -Buckminster Fuller Richard Buckminster Fuller is one of the most unknown visionary and inventor from the 20th Century. Though unknown, he is easily one of the most important person in the modern history. Fuller is not limited to a field or scope, he expands beyond ideas to find solutions to the global problems and crisis. His ideas are revolutionary. Fuller published more than 30 books in his lifetime. He popularized and used the ideas such as 'Ephemeralization', 'Synergetic' and 'Spaceship Earth'. He is also known for his invention of 'Geodesic Dome'. Fuller basically is a polymath who cannot be defined by few terms.  Fuller believed that world can be a better place not just for a fraction of population, but for everyone in this planet. Fuller is a beautiful example of using tragedies for transformation. Fuller had started a construction company wi

Philosophical Imaginatrix: The Astonishing Theory of Morphic Resonance

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In 1981, Rupert Sheldrake wrote a controversial book called 'A New Science of Life', where he introduced a concept called Morphic Resonance. The word 'Morphic' comes from the Greek word 'Morphe' which means 'Form'. Morphic Resonance according to Sheldrake is the process by which organisms inherit a memory from previous systems. The organism self organizes itself based on the data from the past. A habit of the nature which connects dots of the evolution. The Morphic Fields are responsible for organizing the forms, patterns and structure of the systems. These systems might be amino acids and proteins or plants and animals or crystals and minerals or brains and minds. A field that makes our future possible because of the past. This is similar to the Jungian concept of 'Archetype and the Collective Unconscious'.  Our memories will be present and stored in the biology of our future generations. We inherit biological complexity of our ance

This mutating merger of the ultimate 'chaos' called LOVE !

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As the winter winds caught the howl of his soul in the lotus curves of this windy fire, intuitively whispering the mysteries of your symbol. This twisting fabric of space turned into the boat of time. We are time travellers, we wrap moments into the motions of our thoughts into sophisticated pieces of eternal simplicity, beneath the elliptically formed bones of your silhouette-- that which is mirrored into the fierce friction of rippling echo of your locations electrically connecting the person in my soul, my folded sea of lucid dreams. MY BEING-- wrapped inside a paper plane called your heart. Lets fly. Our ship is a crystalline wings of the long lost dragon, that dragon whose eyes would look at a constellation of your choice, and find the frequency to fly you home. Your solar plexus spinning faster than this galaxy, galaxies- where your paths cross the water of stillness, a mountain of nothingness, into the blueness of a spiraling symphony of your naval synchron

Philosophical Imaginatrix: Transcendental Nepal'ness

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Life.  Nepal is a country of nomadic presence. The very essence is lucid. Psychedelic. The atmosphere is exuberant with euphoria and bliss. It's a country of balance between the polarity of duality. From a gesture of greeting with 'Namaste/Namaskar' to a festival of putting 'Henna in Hands' to the "Colors of Holi' to the 'Songs of Deusi/Bhailo'. The 'Colorful Tika of Dashain' to the 'Nude Sadhus of Shivaratri'. From a lunar vantage point to the solar flare. Every week is blessed with the understanding of meditation, gratitude, blissfulness, observation, awareness and liberation. It's almost like fading into the deepness of universe. A Buddha perfectly fits in a Vishnu temple. A Mohammad or Jesus is always welcome. Dance your dance, have your way. Sing your song. हसिबा खेलिबा धरिबा ध्यानम् .    To be blissful, to be playful, to be meditative. That's what living the Nepal'ness means to me. It doesn't mea

Philosophical Imaginatrix: The Prose of Existentialism

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Existence precedes and commands Essence.                                                                 - Jean Paul Sartre  Existentialism is a collection of abstract theories which looks into the human lives and concentrates on the realities of individual choice, freedom and existence. We cannot absolutely define existentialism. Existentialism puts forth the concept that we must define the meaning to our own life and we must make decisions based on our understanding despite the fact that we live in universe, which is completely irrational. Existentialism destroys the myths that are fed to us. Existentialism is popular because it is based on freedom. An absolute freedom, where one is the only one responsible for himself. No one else can make decisions for him.  The existential philosophy explains that life/existence has no fundamental explanation or purpose. There is no god or higher force. All talks of transcendental force is baseless. To find meaning in life is to emb

Philosophical Imaginatrix: The Mingling of Chaos and Cosmos

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Life is a constant chaos. And in that chaos, life is synchronized with beautiful patterns. Egyptian and Greeks believed that the primordial gods were the children of chaos. The Norse myths talk about Ginnungagap, which means a yawning abyss, from which cold and warmth were born. Niflheim, the cold one and Muspelheim, the warm one. Bible talks about the void. Today surely we cannot understand the deeper concept of chaos. Because we take it as something with negative meaning. Something in panic. But Chaos is a deep space of possibilities, probabilities and peace. Its a little hard to grasp. Its a bit trippy.  Ovid in Metamorphosis explains Chaos in a very beautiful poem. Which reads- Before land, sea, sky, before all that: nature was chaos; our cosmos, all chaos; all the same enormity, all in one; there was no form, no moon to walk the night, no earth to dance with air, no ocean touching shimmeringly the fractal reefs and particulate sand; life and lifelessness

Philosophical Imaginatrix: The Philosophical Understanding of Comics

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The comics is the reality morphing layer of imagination. Some love it and some loathe it. But whatever it is for me it has been a huge source of learning and reinventing myself. (In the physical realm) The word comics means humerous. But we have to understand it with a deeper layer of understanding. I love to understand things based on degrees, And the higher the degree, the deeper the stuff. Comic comes from the Greek word Komos. Which means intentionally funny. Reality is truly funny. Even death is humerous. Life is the best comedian. And we have to laugh at it, find it glorious, see ourselves as super humans, laugh at our stupidity, inspire our souls, feed the devil, walk with gods, plant a tree on Eden, dance with Shiva because life is KOMOS.  Comics is the art of conviction and convincing. It has layers of information coded in each representation. It has myths. It has channelings. It has future and foundation. It has past. And it has singularity. If you read comics, y

Philosophical Imaginatrix: The Brahma Sutras

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  अथातो ब्रह्मजिज्ञासा  The vedic texts can be divided into three parts. Which are the Karma Kanda, Upasana Kanda and Gyan Kanda. The Karma Kanda deals with ceremonial rites or sacrifice rites, this represents the feet of the man. The Upasana Kanda deals with worship, this represents the heart of the man. And the Gyan Kanda deals with the knowledge of the Brahman, this represents the head of the man. Brahma Sutra represents Gyan Kanda. Its also called the Vedanta Sutra or the Sariraka Mimamsa. Brahma sutra deals with various topics, which falls under: 1. Vishaya: Thesis 2. Samasya: Doubt 3. Purva Paksha: Anti-Thesis 4. Siddhanta: The right synthesis/ right conclusion 5. Sangati: Collective agreement The book exclusively discusses about the Brahman. The Brahma Sutras are for those who with their genuineness want to know about the knowledge of the Brahman. The sutras explain that origination of world comes from the Brahman. And Brahman is the only source of the Ved

Philosophical Imaginatrix: Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche, the monk with a big mustache, who died of syphilis was one of the most influential and famous philosopher from the 19th century. His ideas were revolutionary. And unacceptable. He was despised by many and loved by few. But there is no doubt that he was one of the best existential philosopher. Thus Spake Zarathustra is the only fictional book written by Nietzsche. It was his magnum opus. A book for all and none. Nietzsche explains to us how there is an eternal recurrence of the same thing.  The book has borrowed the imagery from Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave' from Republic. Nietzsche was not particularly a fan of Plato. But when we read his works we can know that he was influenced by him. Plato explains that an enlightened thinker is in a gradual struggle like a man who is struggling to free himself of the illusions in an underground cave. Who learns that once he ascends to the world above and views things in the daylight, he discovered