The Mystical Lion

The Mystical Lion (see also mysticallionsmind.tumblr.com)

[mysticallion]

We oscillate between hope and fear Between past and present, far and near Good and evil, right and wrong, Low and high, short and long, Fat and thin, black and white, Summer and winter, day and night. We insist on splitting the world in two. That’s why there’s me and why there’s you. But these are words, not real divides. Surfaces change, depth abides.

~The Mystical Lion

[bebs-art-gallery]

The Mausoleum by the Phantom Painter

[charlesdclimer]

PROCOL HARUM - A Whiter Shade Of Pale - promo film #1 (Official Video)

[mysticallion]

This is definitely one of those “Can I please see the lyrics” songs. So:

We skipped the light fandango

Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor

I was feeling kinda seasick

But the crowd called out for more

The room was humming harder

As the ceiling flew away

When we called out for another drink

The waiter brought a tray

And so it was later

As the miller told his tale

That her face at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, "There is no reason

And the truth is plain to see"

But I wandered through my playing cards

Would not let her be

One of 16 vestal virgins

We're leaving for the coast

And although my eyes were open

They might have just as well been closed

And so it was that later

As the miller told his tale

That her face at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

And so it was later

As the miller told his tale

That her face, at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

[marenostrum-ac-dc]

Possibly over 2100 years old, this statue head of the goddess Hygeia is attributed to the Athenian sculptor Attalos, son of Lacharès. It is from a healing sanctuary dedicated to Asklepios, Hygeia's father, at Pheneos, Greece. The head is carved from marble with glass and agate eyes with bronze eyelashes. It measures 80 cm (31 1/2 in) in height. This artifact is now housed by the Archaeological Museum of Pheneos in Kalyvia, Greece.

[todd-like]

[beammeupplease]

Beethoven Listening to Muse

Ludovic Alleaume

[sonjackcarl]

[mysticallion]

Ouroboros is time swallowing itself,

And time swallowing itself is the eternal now.

Here within the belly of the beast of birth and death

We miss the unity of this gesture.

What do fish know of the ocean,

Or snakes of their own skins?

The soul of the world is circular. 

Only in turning about can we see

The little serpent who slumbers, 

Thrice coiled, tail in mouth,

Patiently waiting to awaken.

Offer her the warm breath of awareness.

~The Mystical Lion

[cocorossss]

[wilwheaton]

“These prosecutions — in which former FBI director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and others have been targeted — aren’t simply non-standard, retributive, controversial. They are definitional abuses of power which are themselves criminal in nature. It’s part of the game that we’re supposed to start seeing these as, if not normal, than just kind of what one has to expect or deal with under Trumpism. That’s wrong. This is criminal conduct which absolutely must be investigated with an eye to holding officials criminally accountable for their actions. The same applies to the wild and increasingly open selling of pardons, apparent foreign and domestic bribery of federal officials (Jared Kusher, Steve Witkoff, et al.), all the ways the Trump family has monetized the presidency in the last 18 months. The manufactured presidential immunity doctrine is only as strong as the current corrupt Court majority. But even on its own terms it leaves plenty of room for clawing back the gains piled up by the Trump family’s criminal conduct. This is the complement to killing the filibuster and reforming the Supreme Court. You can’t end this kind of corruption, confirm the illegitimacy of abuses of power at this scale without criminal accountability. Is it challenging? Is it hard? Of course. But there’s simply no other way forward.”

— The Law Is Coming - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[beammeupplease]

Malcesine, sur le lac de Garde

Gustav Klimt

[fravery]

"True generosity towards the future consists in giving everything to the present."

Albert Camus

[1five1two]

'The Blue Pool'. Augustus John. 1911.

[lalulutres]

[mysharona1987]

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze incense burner in the form of a dragon, Japan, circa 1800-1870

from The Cernuschi Museum, Paris

[mindblowingscience]

Asteroid samples NASA brought to Earth suggest life's building blocks may be widespread in the universe

"This confirms that life's building blocks can be formed in a diversity of environments throughout the universe."

The origins of the building blocks of life may be even more widespread than we realized, as per a new discovery from the asteroid sample NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back to Earth from the space rock Bennu. At least 14 of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth, and 19 other amino acids not used by life, have been identified in the sample from Bennu, which was delivered to Earth in September 2023. It had been thought that these amino acids had formed in warm, watery conditions close to the infant sun 4.5 billion years ago. However, a new analysis of the isotopes contained within the amino acids points to a much colder origin for the compounds: in the presence of ice far away from the young sun.

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[bowlby4]