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Kids these days have no idea what this even is

When I was very young in my charter school we had people I guess from the state or the school board come in and they would test children on their read comprehension and I'm remembering some of it was very unusual. We would be asked to predict the content that would come next in the little book

At first this makes sense because its gauging if a child student is learning to connect text and make inferences based on what was read, it it later got a little more unusual like being asked to predict what the next book was about or to read off a page concealed by a large piece of black construction paper. I also remember being asked to visualize images propped up behind a piece of black construction paper.

I remember being instructed to imagine certain things while listening to an audio tape and I didn't like it because I thought they were weird or frightening things to imagine. This went on from Kindergarten to 3rd grade until I had to go to public schooling.

Mary virgin chan

New Lore

Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, manuscript, 1943, Ritman Library

“From the same source it has originated. This eye
can view everything quietly, clearly, purely,
and sharply. It understands where light
and darkness originate. Light and art
are revealed before it. Time and eternity,
visible and invisible, the present
and future, heavenly and earthly,
bodily and spiritual, higher and
lower…

…this outer and inner being
is understood by it. And it is disturbed
by none of these, for it
dwells in central rest. All things outside the strife
in multiplicity it sees; what it sees, it possesses
and has. For in the center of its rest is
the royal throne, from which all is governed…”

"The first necessity for obtaining self-knowledge is to become profoundly conscious of ignorance; to feel with every fibre of the heart that one is ceaselessly self-deceived. The second requisite is the still deeper conviction that such knowledge such intuitive and certain knowledge can be obtained by effort. The third and most important is an indomitable determination to obtain and face that knowledge. Self-knowledge of this kind is unattainable by what men usually call self-analysis. It is not reached by reasoning or any brain process; for it is the awakening to consciousness of the divine nature of man. To obtain this knowledge is a greater achievement than to command the elements or to know the future."

— H. P. Blavatsky

Art: Oedipus and the Sphinx, c. 1867 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

"(Objectless awareness) is a tensile field of vibratory awareness, within which you can be conscious of the whole without having to split the field into the usual subject/object polarity... The Tibetan Buddhists call it rigpa: ‘pure awareness.’ And I have come to suspect that the contemplative masters of our own Christian lineage were also well aware of this state and that this is actually what is intended by the word ‘vigilance’ in the Eastern Orthodox tradition and ‘recollection’ in the West. It doesn’t mean thinking deeply about something, recalling it. Rather, it means that you yourself are gathered – ‘re-collected’ – within that deeper inner attentiveness whose much more powerful energetic vibrancy allows a different mode of perception to unfold.”

~ Cynthia Bourgeault