Raptor Consciousness and familiarity
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Chess game
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Thanks Open and Tigger for your replies.
Indeed Open I can see what you mean about the applying that wolf pack energy in an aligned way, and thank you for pointing it out. And I totally get what you mean about applying it like a game of chess to the revelation of truth. It can actually be quite fun and interesting watching how the game board plays itself depending on what piece you play. And it can be a challenge to know exactly which piece to play in each moment. Sometimes I overstep and become too challenging and aggressive and sometimes I get the feeling I could have gone further. But other times the aggressive move is the right one, or conversely playing your pawn.
Tigger, thank you for your quote on Dr. Ian Malcolm. He does seem to often be the voice of reason in the movie, but you can also see the predator instinct coming out in him in the scene where he is flirting with Ellie.
Indeed, what we can do and what we 'should' do are often not the same thing as the bigger picture is often overlooked in the name of progress or achievement. I guess the key is to trust that we may not always have the answer and that life will unfold how it wants to.
Raptor into softness
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Rich, I really loved this posting about raptor consciousness because I often forget the beauty and familiarity and I thank you for the reminder. It takes me into softness.
My favorite character in the movie is Dr. Ian Malcolm, especially this: "But your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." For me it is a reminder of the terrible consequences of genetically modified organisms being masqueraded as food.
love, tigger
Raptor Consciousness - working with the physical
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Wow Rich - some wonderful explorations for you. Yes, the raptor consciousness does have its beauty. I see as a necessity, there to bind a reality together, so that karma can play itself out. Perhaps the most accurate expression of this energy, is in the Alien series of films with Sigourney Waever and then in the film Prometheus. They're brilliant metaphors, and frequently in the films, you get the odd person trying to preserve it (the raptor consciousness), because of the "majestic purity of it". Strange to say, but it is absolutely perfect in its ability as a predator - to consume. Same as the Veloce Raptors in Juarassic Park. Yes, it is possible to admire that.
You mention the loss of "that wolf-pack energy in team sports - the competitive desire to win". We don't have to lose this as the raptor consciousness is caused to evolve. Consider the martial arts - which I was involved in many times - initially it was perfected as a means of self defense, in brutal, feudal times. Today, the same - perhaps more advanced - skill is applied to sparring; where the aim is to land a perfect technique on one's partner, but without inflicting injury or damage. It takes even more speed, agility and intuition to master this.
And you can take it a step further: you can evolve that 'sparring sense of combat', to the revelation of truth. Like a game of chess, but with ideas and revelations. Absolutely nothing can unwind reality as an accurate idea of truth - a meme - eloquently placed.
That's certainly the evolution of this energy that has occurred in me. I apply it in many areas of my life, in a productive, constructive and motivated way. It can be successfully applied to work with the material, not against it.
Namaste
Open
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