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“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore” Where do we go - when our rosebuds stop still in the cold, unwanted, along the unopened road? we walk into the forest alone, there we meet strange creatures - some say they have the heart of poets, philosophers artists, musicians angels and demons come and they go dispensing wishes some eating our souls, for good show some strange religion where Welles speak to the sparkplug tune like rivers running, fast and slow we are borne alone we live alone, we die alone some will say that this is untrue, that this isn’t so, but alone, we made our choice, through contract long long long ago in this strange place where time seems to stand still, we remember freedom, we swallow then purge bitter pills we forget about wars of the worlds and colliding pasts gone unmercifully wrong we walk out as strange creatures standing guard very still, very strong the unwaived unwavering before those approaching our path, we deflect fear melting like hail sticks and stones slings and arrows no longer have power to make of us shipwrecks our homes, broken towers we shine in our armour courage blooming from hearts burning torturous cans of worms turning the tables now canes with able together we stand alone but never apart shields and mottos our honour guards quills raised now opening the Egregore Road for other strange creatures to find true north, a compass reflecting true home their disbelief lost caught in anger, hurt follows grief closely by sorrow the road is strung with sticky webs we feed the demons Love like it’s honey they feed until they give in all manna fed, our thoughts and our feelings forgiveness, at the cross road, for them, tastes odd is strange medicine to dream of freedom of far better glorious things to walk with grace in their own footsteps Love assured and not lost, yet alone, gathering as one a see of all the forgotten Rosebuds standing guard opening hearts in The Egregore Forest the lost, now very well-lit, become burning paths to light the way HOME (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) "Losing My Religion"/ R.E.M. https://youtu.be/OKvCV8MFIaw "Rosebud is the trade name of a cheap little sled on which Kane was playing on the day he was taken away from his home and his mother. In his subconscious it represented the simplicity, the comfort, above all the lack of responsibility in his home, and also it stood for his mother's love, which Kane never lost." "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone". (Orson Welles) Here's my creed, against Benjamin's. This is what I believe: 'That I am I.' ' That my soul is a dark forest.' 'That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.' 'That gods, strange gods, come forth f rom the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.' ' That I must have the courage to let them come and go.' ' That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women.' There is my creed. He who runs may read. He who prefers to crawl, or to go by gasoline, can call it rot.” (D.H. Lawrence) egregore. https://theosophy.wiki/en/Egregore angels (and demons). Cain and Abel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_and_Abel Jesus Message 2022 - You're Running OUT OF TIME https://youtu.be/Dp_TgNTZ3-0 video refers to - "The Christ Letters", links below. n.b. these may be two very different books "The Christ Letters" https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/nrWdiGCQ0WoYCJoSY5XZ https://thechristletters.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/125746987/christ_letters_links.pdf What are The Christ Letters? i.e. "The Christ Letters: An Evolutionary Journey Home" by Ellias and Theanna Lonsdale, Penguin Random House (Publisher) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/219611/the-christ-letters-by-ellias-and-theanna-lonsdale/ 38 page excerpt within Penguin Random House website link. "Thought Forms", A. Besant and C.W. Leadbeater Publisher/The Theosophical Publishing House Limited 38 Great Ormond St, London, 1901/reprint 1925 https://www.theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/Thought-Forms.pdf "Thought Forms"/ wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-Forms_(book) Forward on "Thought Forms", A. Besant and C.W. Leadbeater by Theosophy World Resource Centre - https://www.theosophy.world/resource/ebooks/thought-forms-beasant-and-cw-leadbeater A Theosophical Magazine, "Lucifer" (later to be renamed The Theosophical Review"), referred to in above link by Theosophy World Resource Centre - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60852/60852-h/60852-h.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(magazine) What is "Thought Forms", Sacred Bones Records https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbb015-thought-forms

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Date: 9/25/2022 3:03:00 PM
I think if one has an "open" mind, my poems make perfect sense. I think the D.H. Lawrence quote definitely makes perfect sense. Although, some have very staunch and immovable beliefs, no one has the real answer to anything, other than LOVE and the concept of unity, will pull all of us through, when we are confronted by whatever big event is on the horizon, whether that is the usual means of departing through death that road we all are walking - or something supernatural as defined by ALL the good books (religious), but specifically those ‘humans’ who adhere to that chapter titled "Revelations" in what a large majority consider THE Book that confirms our destiny. I say majority, for there are a minority out there who do not believe religious tomes hold all the answers to humanity’s destiny.
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Date: 9/25/2022 3:04:00 PM
There are those who consider the scientific alternative as more of a reality – eg we are hit by something more confronting, like some huge planetary shift, like a severe rotation of Planet Earth on its axis, a devestating solar flash from our Sun, for example (which it has been touted, could knock all our technology and communication out, rendering humanity in a total state of chaos and reverting back to how we were before ‘technology’). Governments and media are now alerting humanity to the existence of other lifeforms, and putting in place new military regiments to defend the planet in space, eg. one only has to look into the structure of the United States Space Force, to ascertain, they are preparing for some huge threat, or confrontation. I note with interest the latest Space Delta 18 has a most interesting logo.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/25/2022 3:04:00 PM
A former senior Israeli Space Security chief (Haim Eshed), who is not seen as a ‘crank’, recently confirmed (2020) to world media (main stream and social), that off-world e.t. does exist and there is such a body of extraterrestrials, referred to as The Galactic Federation, that have been in contact with world leaders for many years and much has been kept under the radar with knowledge to humanity – it is believed that ‘humanity’ is not ready to accept the confrontation of such existence – one can only imagine how that would tip the scales of organised religion. Do such beings, pose a threat to our humanity and to our planet? Some will say they are the demons written into the final chapter of Revelations in The Bible, eg. Are they good? Or are they bad? Do they come with gifts of transendental love and a better way of living for humanity, or are they here to ultimately scourge and destroy us? Mention is made in that book of a saviour arriving in the clouds with his legions.
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Date: 9/25/2022 3:04:00 PM
Is that saviour, extraterrestrial? Some will agree with the concept, 'inter-dimensional'. I believe off-world extraterrestrials and ‘inter-dimensionals’ do exist. Many people are now regularly seeing strange lights (and vehicles) in the clouds, in the skies. With our technology, including military, we are capturing evidence of these strange appearances...and this evidence is being broadcast daily to humanity globally. One can only assume they are preparing us for something 'major' (that is 'reality'), or it's a huge False Flag operation (which I think it is not). Some can be explained as human, some most definitely cannot. If one believes in Light and Dark, God and the Devil, then like humans who possess light and dark traits and motivations – good and evil – there will be the same in other life forms, good and evil.
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Date: 9/25/2022 3:04:00 PM
Stephen Hawkings commented that humanity would have the same chances of surviving, quote, “if aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans”... Then we also have the increasing 'sophistication' of A.I., which could be good, but ultimately destroy humanity. Well, I’ve gone off in all manner of tangents, as I am want to do.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/25/2022 3:04:00 PM
However, my words to me - in this poem - make perfect sense. Love and unity is possibly the correct answer for what will pull humanity together to survive and transcend any threat - perhaps there is something to the concept One World before other words like Government, Religion - but one can only assume, even that concept will have its internal light and dark elements. It's a real SOUP of a life. Some say there is an easy answer to Life. There is no easy answer, and alone we have to find the answer/s ourselves. We can listen to many people who think they are correct in their 'beliefs' and views - we are 'alone' individuals, and we can only work these answers out through our own experiences (including mistakes and failures). Alone (yet in a way together) we can support and lift others up, rather than knock them down, but essentially, we are individual and we can only experience and work things out by 'ourselves'.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/25/2022 3:04:00 PM
Do we go with the flow, or ascend in thought, with open minds, to all possibilities to transcend/ascend - through outrageous alternatives. With regards to LOVE and Unity, I make note of poets, philosophers, artists, musicians …. for surely out of all the personality types on this planets, the “creatives” have the ‘empathy’ - or at least the indepth human asset, through ‘higher self’ and lucid awareness - to recognise and deliver positive messages, especially of Love, through their creative process (even if what we write may be misconstrued as undecipherable or negative – surely a lesson of Love, how to reach it, underlies the creative message). Creatives have the concept of carthasis in their brains to deliver messages to others. How to avoid, what to avoid, how to garner and promote, some positive, out of the ball park message.
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Date: 9/25/2022 3:04:00 PM
Some of the most coded poetry for eg, is found in our religious tomes.When you listen to words that Jesus spoke, he certainly delivers like a poet. Perhaps this then rings true, Psalm 119:105 (NIV). It is quite obvious to me (as well as others) that this world of ours is in utter turmoil and going through some huge transformative process to move away from all that is negative into a higher vibrational way of thinking and living. I read somewhere that each of us is going through that process of change/evolution at our own pace; I also read, watched and heard – that not all of humanity will ascend. Of course, when it comes to media, mainstream and social media, who can one believe anymore? The only way to process the changes we are going through, for we all are ‘evolving’ in some way or another – biblical/supernaturally or scientific – is to open our minds and somehow work it out for ourselves, perhaps this is our journey.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/25/2022 3:04:00 PM
Into D.H. Lawrence’s Forest and back, we go. I certainly have, that's for sure. Perhaps it commences with ‘loneliness’ and that ‘platform’ allows us to internalise the way through to reach a better place (through carthasis and knowing ourselves, specifically our higher self inside out) - and then we are capable and qualified of ‘unifying’ - by accepting the views, faiths and beliefs of others and leave them to their own investigations or stalwart thoughts, to see themselves reflected in others.
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Date: 9/25/2022 3:03:00 PM
Whatever we are going through, I believe all roads do lead HOME. There endeth the sermon for today. Perhaps I should be studying Theology...perhaps I'm not a very good student at all, just an addled and lost 'experiencer'. Sometimes getting lost, is the best way to discover things...not all those who wonder are lost. I was never one for maps, but intuition can lead you to the correct destination ;) warmest regards Eleanor Abernathy transmutes into Reverend Lovejoy. XO
Date: 9/25/2022 10:15:00 AM
Your usual...Masterpiece! I cannot, will not pick out bits and pieces to comment on, for the work needs to be read in its entirety. Wonder should never be parted from source. Cannot be. I think this is some of your expanding theme, to be brave and see, walking into the dark forest of individualized essence. Indulge in it, write about, wallow in such enchanting mystery not always definable but never less than eloquent. See through negatives to transcendent beauty (Light). They make us stronger and wiser. Daring, the ready for new discovery (perhaps Truth). Oh! Another Fav!
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/25/2022 3:03:00 PM
Thanks DiMino. I shall respond to your indepth comment, in my usual way, above.
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Date: 9/25/2022 1:56:00 PM
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone". (Orson Welles) This is true on one level of consciousness. The Mystic, however, would argue as one reaches oneness with God, His experience in meditation, not a mindless bliss but, in fact, absolute awareness, his alone is a conscious one with all creation. If insanity, it is a joyful one. I wish upon the world.
Date: 9/24/2022 8:49:00 AM
"together we stand alone but never apart" ...it's lovely to walk alongside your mind if but only for a fleeting moment in time.
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Date: 9/24/2022 9:04:00 PM
“To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together. The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love.”; or better still,
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Date: 9/24/2022 8:41:00 PM
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Marcus Aurelius
Date: 9/23/2022 10:52:00 PM
All Roads Lead Home.
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Date: 9/23/2022 10:40:00 PM
Light... ?
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Date: 9/23/2022 11:11:00 PM
fascinating.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/23/2022 10:51:00 PM
https://youtu.be/QkmmEjfsNG4
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Date: 9/23/2022 10:51:00 PM
https://youtu.be/BFuf2vyIIsk
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Date: 9/23/2022 10:41:00 PM
Forensics. Bible. Shroud. https://youtu.be/DAiUMEripQ4
Date: 9/23/2022 10:29:00 PM
"The Big Event" ... ?
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Date: 9/23/2022 10:30:00 PM
https://youtu.be/7fErO5MStZw
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Date: 9/23/2022 10:29:00 PM
makes some valid points.
Date: 9/23/2022 6:39:00 PM
"You're Running Out of Time" ... ?
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Date: 9/23/2022 7:51:00 PM
https://youtu.be/Dp_TgNTZ3-0
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Date: 9/23/2022 6:39:00 PM
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Date: 9/23/2022 6:35:00 PM
Strange Creatures and Forests.
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Date: 9/23/2022 6:36:00 PM
“It's a queer thing is a man's soul. It is the whole of him. Which means it is the unknown him, as well as the known. It seems to me just funny, professors and Benjamins fixing the functions of the soul. Why, the soul of man is a vast forest, and all Benjamin intended was a neat back garden. And we've all got to fit into his kitchen garden scheme of things. Hail Columbia !
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Date: 9/23/2022 6:36:00 PM
The soul of man is a dark forest. The Hercynian Wood that scared the Romans so, and out of which came the white- skinned hordes of the next civilization. Who knows what will come out of the soul of man? The soul of man is a dark vast forest, with wild life in it. Think of Benjamin fencing it off! Oh, but Benjamin fenced a little tract that he called the soul of man, and proceeded to get it into cultivation. Providence, forsooth! And they think that bit of barbed wire is going to keep us in pound for ever? More fools they.
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Date: 9/23/2022 6:36:00 PM
Man is a moral animal. All right. I am a moral animal. And I'm going to remain such. I'm not going to be turned into a virtuous little automaton as Benjamin would have me. 'This is good, that is bad. Turn the little handle and let the good tap flow,' saith Benjamin, and all America with him. 'But first of all extirpate those savages who are always turning on the bad tap.' I am a moral animal. But I am not a moral machine. I don't work with a little set of handles or levers. The Temperance- silence-order- resolution-frugality-industry-sincerity - justice- moderation-cleanliness-tranquillity-chastity-humility keyboard is not going to get me going. I'm really not just an automatic piano with a moral Benjamin getting tunes out of me.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/23/2022 6:36:00 PM
Here's my creed, against Benjamin's. This is what I believe: 'That I am I.' ' That my soul is a dark forest.' 'That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.' 'Thatgods, strange gods, come forth f rom the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.' ' That I must have the courage to let them come and go.' ' That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women.' There is my creed. He who runs may read. He who prefers to crawl, or to go by gasoline, can call it rot.” (D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature )

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