Tension brand › Forums › INTERACTIONS WITH THE OOA › FB post – 5/19/2016
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May 19, 2016 at 5:21 pm #7588
Anonymous@mkarrett pointed out that the first image on Facebook today was taken from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. This is probably unrelated but it’s pretty neat so I wanted to share – when I did a search for that painting to look at it in more detail, this link came up. There’s some interaction with the painting including a sound file for the portion that was on FB.
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May 19, 2016 at 6:20 pm #7590
ID the the pic posted roughly 5:00pm PST: Temptation of Saint Anthony by Joos van Craesbeeck
Now you know*!
*or already knew…..
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May 19, 2016 at 6:27 pm #7591
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May 19, 2016 at 7:05 pm #7593
+1 Megan
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May 19, 2016 at 7:02 pm #7592
This is incredibly interesting at first glance the artwork reminds me of The Divine Comedy. We all must take Dante’s journey if we wish to ascend. For some reason it made me think of Zork and the Z-Machine. Its quite peaceful to browse the forums on one device while listening to this story in headphones on another.
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May 20, 2016 at 10:20 am #7597
A couple of other things myself and others have noticed that are interesting. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia page for the Garden (So grain of salt and all that). It indicates that the figure in the picture is referred to by some as the “Prince of Hell”.
Also, the Einstein quote is a misquote, at least according to Wikiquote. (Source)
Here is the section of the article if you don’t want to search:
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Letter to the family of his lifelong friend Michele Besso, after learning of his death (March 1955), as quoted in Science and the Search for God Disturbing the Universe (1979) by Freeman Dyson Ch. 17 “A Distant Mirror”; also quoted at Einstein’s God (NPR)
- Sometimes misquoted as “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
Just for funsies, here is another Einstein quote I found that seems to be relevant to the Tension Experience.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.
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