A high dose of magic mushrooms takes you to the paradoxical heart of reality, which is neither solid nor liquid. Too solid and there is only dry land; too liquid and there is only sea; too muddling and there is only mud.
There are no absolutes here: whether life or death, day or night, light or dark, waking or sleep, present or past, summer or winter, hot or cold, wild or tame, loud or quiet, naughty or nice, messy or tidy, forbidden or accepted, perfect or flawed, open or secret.
It’s an open secret: a sacred sensual dance in the half-light at the still point of the turning world.
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(The T’ai Chi symbol represents a dynamic system of rotating antinomies. Imagine the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet lined up on a ruler with Alpha at one end and Omega at the other. Now imagine that the ruler is attached to a fixed point at the twelfth letter, Mu (M). This acts as a fulcrum around which the ruler turns. Notice that the mid-point between 1 and 24 is 12.5 (in the Latin alphabet there are 26 letters so the mid-point is 13.5 and the letter M is the thirteenth letter). This means that the axis around which the ruler turns is slightly off-centre in favour of Alpha, where Alpha represents the positive pole (life/generation/the beginning) and Omega the negative pole (death/destruction/the end). Therefore the T’ai Chi is weighted in favour of life, and spins clockwise. Now imagine that this is a sliding rule so the fulcrum can be positioned at any of the 24 points marked on it according to the Greek alphabet. The most harmonious yin/yang balance is at M. Any deviation from this (slightly asymmetric) golden median will create imbalance and an irregular turning of the ruler, making for a bumpy ride, as with a misaligned wonky wheel. If the fulcrum is at Omega, the ruler cannot turn but must simply hang vertical and inert. This is death. The same is true at the other end at Alpha. Birth and death are two sides of the same coin. The middle way of balance and equipoise is at M. And what is the letter M but three points on a baseline, representing the beginning, the middle and the end, connected by two mountains (M) or two hills (m)?)
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I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come.
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