Vishnu's omphalos, karmic bonds, sat-cit-ananda, Shiva and Shakti

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From the om-phalos of Vishnu, the vibration of this universe and all that is arises.

            The karmic bonds in which we all dwell and are bound had been growing within me unawares for my whole life, perhaps for incarnations on end, but then these invisible connections began to display themselves conspicuously, at which point it was only through a tremendous act of will and intent that I was able to unwind and then restitch them in a wholly new and yet ancient pattern known well in the old days, when things of that nature were understood and thus more apparent.

            It is important to feel being as real, but also to perceive beyond it, and therefore to not be limited by its every changing actuality; to find the continuity of flesh with all manifestation is to find that the form is also eternal, though ever-changing, as is the eternal spirit, though it strives to imagine itself forever the same

This eternal unity is felt as existence-consciousness-peace, and not, as those divorced from their own souls would have us believe as illusion-consciousness-bliss.[4]

The most manly men I have ever encountered was a gay man in Hawaii, for he had merged his female side completely. He had become Shiva and Shakti, purusha and prakriti,

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.