Religious ecstasy, divine inspiration, spiritual enlightenment, psychedelic or altered state experiences and the devotional rituals which surround these experiences, having no logical basis but are inspired by gods themselves, these are included in the activity of the Muses.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The path of the muses is no less valid than that of reason and science, and it too generates a body of work, as valuable as knowledge.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Just as science generates and transmits knowledge about the world, the work of the Muse generates and transmits wisdom about the world, and moreso, about the unknown beyond the world, which science cannot touch.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
And as the scientist reaches towards the unknown with feet firmly in the world, the muse reaches towards the world from her home in otherness, attempting to deliver fragments of eternity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This is the wisdom of Ouroboros, represented by the O<\/a> in P\u03bbosm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n It is a creative energy but it is also destructive, there is life and death and rebirth in it. It is complete in itself\u2014yet it is just a representation of something else.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The harmony is found in the perfect dance, the perfect union, the perfect song, the perfect ritual, the perfect poem. In this dance and movement we travel the path of peace, and this is the step, the Pada which is the P<\/a> of P\u03bbosm. So the M leads us back to the start.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The path of the dreamer cannot be explained very well in rational terms. It serves its own evolutionary purpose – like the dance of a bird of paradise. It contains the essence of life itself.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The M in P\u03bbosm stands for the Muses\u2014including Saraswati and the Gods of literature, dance and music, and it extends to divine madness, and the drunken wildness of Dionysus, and the early forms of Shiva (Sanskrit ‘mada’ = drunkenness, lust; perhaps the same root as English ‘mud’). It contains the power of the tantra, the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plosm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/shiva-1-500x537.png\")
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