RT @nick_routledge: @pauljpastor Taste, relative to task, perhaps. I'll use the symbolic geometer's tools to, say, hypothesize the feasibility of fusing diverse meditation systems; but I'm more a symbolic-conceptual than figurative artist, who's curious in depictions, even prompt-hewn, of planetarian messianism.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201547415670792 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. By ‘Westernizing’ the thangka method in symbolic geometrical form, the images which follow describe a novel, experiential gathering, synthesis and integration of three highly distinct, subtle-body technologies emerging out of Sufi, Daoist and Yogic contemplative disciplines. 7/ t.co/cgZ7NHtB0a
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201556538368006 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Three ‘thangkas’, in chronological procession, then. The first, an effort to paint an experiential picture of ‘Dhikr-i Jaru-b’, the Naqshbandi Dhikr of the Broom; a practice to purify and energize the ‘Lata’if’ or subtle-energy-centers specific to Sufi contemplative practice. 8/ t.co/LuthZkqI6x
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201564205469701 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. The second ‘thangka’, I initially constructed to theorize the feasibility of a further, fuller, inter-spiritual iteration, integrating Sufi Lata’if and Yogic Chakras, and ‘Eight Internal Iron Palms Qi Gong’. The geometric archetype ‘clicked.’ Experientially, it could work! 9/ t.co/FuRVJTgSfQ
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201571029606407 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Indeed, it did. Next steps? Consulting my Teachers of these specific traditions to brainstorm a deeper synthesis. Was my approach coherent? What of possible pitfalls and dangers? Then, several weeks of devoted, early-morning practice-exploration at Dharmalaya in Eugene, OR. 10/ t.co/hgrU0ZAGyJ
Open original document@krumbbumm Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate knowing more about the stupendous spiritual significance of that time and place and, indeed, its contemporary relevance to planetary psychogeography. Visiting Kashmir as a child, I was utterly transfigured by the land, its art and culture.
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Copy of tweet here: Image of Lotus with calligraphy. Ya Fattah. 4/ Cosmic initiation, a land-based, more-than-human experience, grounded. I see now, four decades later, I was awakened to Divine Beauty, as a child, by a pear tree, on the edge of Lake Dal. Image of pear with calligraphy. Pear Now I begin to know at last something you said to me. Orpheus with his lute made trees. Sacred, the wood garden. Hallowed, the impgarth. The soul is made of gold. Image of fruit, with calligraphy. The colors of the grove and the voices of the birds will restore immortality at the time when we shall come into the garden, thou and I. Rumi