10-11-2016, 07:54 PM
(10-07-2016, 07:51 PM)herald -- Q: ".... a simorgh? Wrote: Hello, Herald, I'm glad you found my post's contents of interest. A: Yes. And, as well, a beautifully-executed symbolic depiction of the enigma that is superorganism -- or as Ra calls a certain form of it, social memory complex... the Sufi dervishes have a technical term, 'jam ("concentration", "the state of being gathered" or "collected") for a certain relatively "mystical" melding of balanced, sovereign individuals (who are all on the same spiritual page in an essential way... birds of a feather, don't you know!) into a synergistic co-creative group entity under expert direction, for purposes of expedited guided evolution. Certain kinds of human groupings need skilled outside assemblers and arrangers, who then set the group in buzzing blooming sovereign motion according to its own existential logic, trusting that crucial emergent qualities of serene sentience will spontaneously organically arise in a way that will benefit all. At any rate, it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, and keeps the Seekers off the streets, where they might scare the horses. The term "jamming" was much later taken up by Western jazz musicians (and later, perhaps most famously, by Bob Marley) to describe freely-flowing, in-the-groovily spontaneous-improvisational ensemble playing; is it any wonder that the most vibrantly alive music is made in such a way?
(Of course, not everybody's with the avian program:
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The same kind of e-pluribus-unum surreal-mélange thing has traditionally been done with the figure of the elephant, another symbol of the Sufi Way:
Shades of Arcimboldo! http://jamestownelementaryartblog.blogsp...fruit.html
Related to this mysterious pachyderm in a sort of inside-out way is the Sufi teaching-story of the "Blind Men and the Elephant"...
From days of old, keeping a sharp eye on things.