Van Helmont wanted to know where the mass of a tree comes from, and he carefully weighed every gram of soil, but never “weighed” the air and the light. His mistake may look naive today, but it carries an important lesson: we tend to consider real only what we can touch and put on the scales.
The willow experiment reminds us that the most important things in our lives often come from the invisible: from ideas, meaning, relationships, from the “air” we breathe without noticing it. We measure money, possessions, and success, but we hardly ever measure attention, trust, and kindness - even though it is precisely they that, like carbon dioxide for a tree, quietly create our inner “mass.”
Jan Baptista van Helmont carried out one of the first quantitative experiments in biology to measure, rather than guess, where a tree gets its mass. He took a large tub, filled it with carefully dried and weighed soil (about 90–91 kg), planted in it a willow shoot weighing about 2.3–2.5 kg, and covered the vessel with a metal sheet with holes so that nothing except water and air could get inside. For five years, he watered the willow only with clean water. During this time, the shoot turned into a tree, gaining about 74–76 kg of mass, while the mass of the soil changed by only about 0.05–0.06 kg. From this, van Helmont concluded that the growth of the plant is determined mainly by water, although we now know that carbon dioxide from the air and the energy of light also play a decisive role.
What does this mean in practice?
•A restructuring of financial systems and technologies
•Disruptions in communications are possible - but they will be followed by the implementation of new standards
•Society is seeking leaders who know how to “hear the music of the future”
February 17 - Solar Eclipse in Dhanishta: “Initiation of the Rhythm”
Imagine that the Cosmic Drummer has set a new tempo of evolution. Old social and mental structures that do not fall into this rhythm begin to break down.
Murakami reminds us: the most important truths exist in the space between words, in the silence between notes. We’re so busy reading familiar signs that we forget - somewhere nearby, music is playing that no one has heard yet. Maybe that’s where meaning truly hides?
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
― Haruki Murakami
THE CHRISTMAS CODE
On Christmas, the masses are told that we are celebrating the birthday of a Spiritual Master named Jesus of Nazareth.
But the awakening soul knows that the true meaning of this date is not history, but occult symbolism for an external and internal code.
1 - DRAMA OF THE SUN
The external symbolism is a mirror of the sky. "Jesus" is the anthropomorphized Sun (Son of God).
* The Death: On December 22nd, the Sun reaches its lowest point in the sky. Here, it resides in the constellation of the Southern Cross (Crux). The Sun has "died on the cross."
* The Rebirth: On the morning of December 25th, the Sun moves 1 degree North for the first time. The Light is "born again." The days begin to lengthen, saving the world from the death of Winter.
* The Code: We celebrate the victory of Light over Darkness.
2 - THE CHRIST WITHIN YOU
The internal symbolism is a manual for how to awaken your Christhood.
* The Chemistry: The brain produces Cerebrospinal Fluid, a mineral-rich plasma. The brain's Claustrum and Pineal glands infuse this fluid with neuro-hormones. This is the "Christos" (The Anointed substance).
* The Descent: This fluid circulates down the spinal cord (The River Jordan) to the Sacral Plexus (The Manger/Hell), where it powers our animal existence.
* The Ascension: The Master’s work is to preserve this energy and raise it back up the 33 vertebrae (the 33 years of Christ’s life).
* The Illumination: When this potent fluid returns to the brain and strikes the Pineal Gland, it triggers a biochemical phase-shift (creating psychoactive compounds). This creates a flash of electrical light in the brain’s third ventricle. This is the Halo. This is the Resurrection.
YOU AWAKEN TO GREAT TRUTHS OF THIS REALITY
TLDR
Christmas is not a day to worship a Savior outside of yourself. It is the annual reminder that you ARE Christ.
The Manger is your body, the Star is your Pineal Gland, and the Christ is the dormant power waiting in your spine to be raised.
Do not just celebrate the Light. Become it.
But “life” is simply the experience of the limitations and obligations imposed by matter on consciousness.
The coupling of one with the other for a time.
And this coupling can take place in any way whatsoever that the consciousness - which invented this very matter for its own amusement - may desire.
— Pelevin
Persistence without attentiveness is running in the wrong direction. Attentiveness without persistence is "I understand everything," but nothing has been done.
一期一会 — one meeting, one chance.
Ichi-go ichi-e —> one meeting, one chance.
Every moment is a one-time intersection.
No repeats, no second takes.
Only the present - and what you choose to do with it.
Thousands of circles, each a breath, a thought, a moment -
woven into landscapes that never existed, yet feel more real than memory.
Art like this doesn’t depict the world - it remembers it.
One dream at a time.
George Bernard Shaw once said:
«The minority is sometimes right; the majority is always wrong.»
I’d put it more simply:
«Most people are wrong — because most people are idiots.»