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This is a rather odd insight for me though I'll try to describe it as best I can. It consists of two separate trains of thought that seem to fit nicely together. I'll start with a vision/daydream I had. It's rather explicit... I guess. I was staring up into the night sky and my mind wandered into Thelemic territory. I envisioned the sky as Nuit, the Egyptian sky goddess, but other thoughts intruded.
I saw two gods hovering in a realm of infinite light... and fucking. I realized that the universe was the goddess' womb and the Big Bang was the god ejaculating inside her. Standing there under the night sky, I could almost sense the infinity of the cosmic womb and the power of the invisible cosmic cock thrusting into it. All of the stars were his sperm, looking for the Egg... but what was the Egg? I remembered Crowley's lesson that every man and woman is a star. It was like every center of consciousness was a sperm looking for the quickening of Conception. Conception leads to growth and birth. Maybe mystical experience is that quickening and those godseeds that survive Conception and can gestate in the womb of a goddess become gods themselves. Like I said, a strange vision.
This leads me to a completely unrelated but perhaps not so unrelated notion. This one is born of a comparison of traditions in search of the answer to a question. In science, there is no soul and consciousness is a by-product of the complexity of the brain. Religion and mysticism openly disagree... or do they? In Taoism, it is also believed that we have no soul. Through chi kung, we gather and purify our energies until we give birth to a spirit body that lives after our death. In Tibetan Buddhism, when we die, what we know to be ourselves dissipates but higher energies move on to other realms and then return to quicken the life of a newborn. With enough awareness, we can sense these energies and direct their path through the Underworld.
It got me wondering... what if science is right? In this modern age, we've seen the discovery of enough evidence to conclude that science and mysticism are seeing similar phenomena but from opposite points of view. Not that science isn't subject to dogma, because like any other religion, it has its own holy books, prophets, and dogma. However, if it's right in this case, what does that mean?
Barring ephemeral things like reincarnation, consciousness as we know it, begins at birth and ends at death. What if Taoism and Buddhism also have a glimmer of 'Truth'? Consciousness doesn't have to end at death... maybe it ends at death because it truly is a side effect of the brain and the brain ends at death. Here's the second womb, the brain. As the womb creates the fetus, the brain creates consciousness. Unlike the womb, the children of the brain are stillborn; they remain unborn and die when the brain dies.
So, where science is blind perhaps Taoism can see. It is possible that the brain creates consciousness and in that science might be right. However, science leaves it at that because, in the end, its purpose is completely material. Only spiritual traditions can take us further. Like a child, consciousness needs to develop strength and independence; the cord must be cut and the child must eat and breathe on its own. Perhaps with spiritual work, consciousness develops until it can be born, until the cord can be cut and its mother, the body, can be left behind.
The analogy ends there, I believe. According to Taoist legends, the great immortals had the power to recreate a physical body and return to the world of mortals temporarily. On the other hand, I could be completely off my rocker. The birth analogy is an easy one to tie to the mystical experience. In ancient Celtic culture, Taliesin won the mystical life by dying and given birth by the sorceress who ate him, Ceridwen. In modern culture, we have 'born-again' Christians. Is this Tale of Two Wombs a short story of fiction or a metaphor for Truth?
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