Alex LightDecember 23, 2010 at 9:48pm
Subject: New Blog
here you go mark! please include my email for feedback from the wonderful masses: blacklight58@gmail.com
"Iron Man and The Holy Grail"
I've been learning a lot lately about the integration of opposites. The male is completed by the female, the yin is completed by the yang, the left side of the brain needs the right side to fulfill itself, the intuitions and feelings need the choice and action. Visually, I think of the pyramid: a symbol of dynamic change. It's inverse is an upside down pyramid, and when you fit the two together, it creates the three dimensional expression of the Star of David. This six-pointed star is an essential geometry in the formation of space and the universe. You see it in snowflakes, and in healthy water.
The upright pyramid would represent the yang energy, the male energy: the energy of making choices, following through, setting boundaries. The inverse pyramid represents, then, the female, the yin energy: open, accepting, flowing, embracing. Feeling what is good and right, and feeling what is closed, and not right. I remember in the Da Vinci Code (spoiler alert!), the Holy Grail that's being searched for turns out to be the lost feminine aspect of divinity. It's symbolized by the V, the "open chalice", which you can see expressed in the vagina and in my aforementioned inverse pyramid. Religion as we know it is dying, because it has alienated and excommunicated the Holy Grail, the Goddess aspect of God. Hence, the rediscovery of the Goddess (the Holy Grail) is the key to Eternal Life.
Yesterday, I was hearing a friend express the importance of staying heart-centered. He was saying, you know Iron Man? Where's his power core? At heart level!
Totally true! And then I remembered how his suit changed from the circular power core in Iron Man to the *upside-down triangle* power core in Iron Man 2. Whoa. I realized in that moment this wasn't simply a cosmetic change to keep us interested: it was intentional, powerful symbolism.
I don't remember Robert Downey Jr.'s character name, so I'll call him Downey. When he was without his Iron Man suit, he was hugely masculine and egotistical, capable of only making smarmy remarks. When he dons the Iron Man suit, his feminine side is embraced, symbolized by the *upside-down triangle* of his suit's power core. He becomes invincible, powerful, a force for real, positive change. Similarly, *we* become empowered, alive people when we embrace the aspects of our opposite sex that we were previously resisting. Each human being is essentially half male and half female, when looked at emotionally and spiritually. Genetically, there is only a slight leaning, towards one sex or the other, to determine the gender, and we all know there's a whole lot of gray in between.
Embracing the other gender within ourselves is vastly important. We become complete, integrated beings through this process. We become superhuman.
In Iron Man 2 (spoiler alert!), there's a scene of Downey getting belligerently drunk, in his suit, no less, performing stunts for his wasted party guests. You know by looking at the suit's power core that he's recently integrated his feminine side, and you know from Iron Man 1 that he's finally admitted he's in love with a woman, Gwyneth Paltrow. This party scene represents his reaction to this powerful integration. His life is shifting vastly, and he's off-gassing a lot of fear and confusion before he can really accept his new self.
Similarly, big life changes in ourselves can have far reaching effects, shaking the very foundations of what we thought was true. Nevertheless, it's vitally important that we take these steps toward fulfillment, otherwise we'll never see our full potential, and we'll go through life in a less than pleasurable way.
I recommend that we embrace change, and do whatever it takes to fulfill our soul's longing. Our world needs its superheroes, now more than ever.
"Iron Man and The Holy Grail"
I've been learning a lot lately about the integration of opposites. The male is completed by the female, the yin is completed by the yang, the left side of the brain needs the right side to fulfill itself, the intuitions and feelings need the choice and action. Visually, I think of the pyramid: a symbol of dynamic change. It's inverse is an upside down pyramid, and when you fit the two together, it creates the three dimensional expression of the Star of David. This six-pointed star is an essential geometry in the formation of space and the universe. You see it in snowflakes, and in healthy water.
The upright pyramid would represent the yang energy, the male energy: the energy of making choices, following through, setting boundaries. The inverse pyramid represents, then, the female, the yin energy: open, accepting, flowing, embracing. Feeling what is good and right, and feeling what is closed, and not right. I remember in the Da Vinci Code (spoiler alert!), the Holy Grail that's being searched for turns out to be the lost feminine aspect of divinity. It's symbolized by the V, the "open chalice", which you can see expressed in the vagina and in my aforementioned inverse pyramid. Religion as we know it is dying, because it has alienated and excommunicated the Holy Grail, the Goddess aspect of God. Hence, the rediscovery of the Goddess (the Holy Grail) is the key to Eternal Life.
Yesterday, I was hearing a friend express the importance of staying heart-centered. He was saying, you know Iron Man? Where's his power core? At heart level!
Totally true! And then I remembered how his suit changed from the circular power core in Iron Man to the *upside-down triangle* power core in Iron Man 2. Whoa. I realized in that moment this wasn't simply a cosmetic change to keep us interested: it was intentional, powerful symbolism.
I don't remember Robert Downey Jr.'s character name, so I'll call him Downey. When he was without his Iron Man suit, he was hugely masculine and egotistical, capable of only making smarmy remarks. When he dons the Iron Man suit, his feminine side is embraced, symbolized by the *upside-down triangle* of his suit's power core. He becomes invincible, powerful, a force for real, positive change. Similarly, *we* become empowered, alive people when we embrace the aspects of our opposite sex that we were previously resisting. Each human being is essentially half male and half female, when looked at emotionally and spiritually. Genetically, there is only a slight leaning, towards one sex or the other, to determine the gender, and we all know there's a whole lot of gray in between.
Embracing the other gender within ourselves is vastly important. We become complete, integrated beings through this process. We become superhuman.
In Iron Man 2 (spoiler alert!), there's a scene of Downey getting belligerently drunk, in his suit, no less, performing stunts for his wasted party guests. You know by looking at the suit's power core that he's recently integrated his feminine side, and you know from Iron Man 1 that he's finally admitted he's in love with a woman, Gwyneth Paltrow. This party scene represents his reaction to this powerful integration. His life is shifting vastly, and he's off-gassing a lot of fear and confusion before he can really accept his new self.
Similarly, big life changes in ourselves can have far reaching effects, shaking the very foundations of what we thought was true. Nevertheless, it's vitally important that we take these steps toward fulfillment, otherwise we'll never see our full potential, and we'll go through life in a less than pleasurable way.
I recommend that we embrace change, and do whatever it takes to fulfill our soul's longing. Our world needs its superheroes, now more than ever.