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Axis Mundi
This nOde last updated January 7th, 2002 and is permanently morphing...
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Personnel: Simon Posford and S. Kempton

• track - _Cyber-cheese_ MP3 off of _Order Odonata 2 - Experiments That Identify Change_ compilation on Dragonfly

Mystical Projection is a religious belief which proclaims that we can pass from our earthly realm into the spiritual realm. That is, it is a belief which states that people living on earth can journey to the celestial or underworlds which lie on the other side of the grave. Of course a persons body does not journey to the spiritual worlds; it is only their soul which makes the journey during a meditative moment. In this religious belief, the soul always remains connected to the body through the 'axis mundi.' It is by way of the axis mundi that the soul also projects from the body and returns to the body. The axis mundi can be depicted using a variety of symbols: a black hole, tree, pillar, staff, cord, snake, door, bridge, stick, etc, can depict the axis which links the soul to its body during Mystical Projection. This religious belief is held by many American Indian  tribes... the Shamans (medicine men) of the tribes, claim to have the ability of projecting their soul from the body and journey to the spirit world through the axis mundi. Many occult schools also hold this belief, or a version of this belief, even today.

In their visions, shamans take their consciousness down to the molecular level and gain access to information related to DNA, which they call "animate essences" or "spirits." This is where they see double helixes, twisted ladders, and chromosome shapes. This is how shamanic cultures have known for millennia that the vital principle is the same for all living beings and is shaped like two entwined serpents (or a vine, a rope, a ladder ... ). DNA is the source of their astonishing botanical and medicinal knowledge, which can be attained only in defocalized and "nonrational" states of consciousness, though its results are empirically verifiable. The myths of these cultures are filled with biological imagery. And the shamans’ metaphoric explanations correspond quite precisely to the descriptions that biologists are starting to provide.

Like the axis mundi of shamanic traditions, DNA has the form of a twisted ladder (or a vine ... ); according to my hypothesis, DNA was, like the axis mundi, the source of shamanic knowledge and visions. To be sure of this I needed to understand how DNA could transmit visual information. I knew that it emitted photons, which  are electromagnetic waves, and I remembered what Carlos Perez Shuma had told me when he compared the spirits to "radio waves": "Once you turn on the radio, you can pick them up. It’s like that with souls; with ayahuasca ... you can see them and hear them." So I looked into the literature on photons of biological origin, or "biophotons."
 
 

...One of the best-known variants of the axis mundi is the caduceus, formed by two snakes wrapped around an axis.  Since the most ancient times, one finds this symbol connected to the art of  healing, from India to the Mediterranean.  The Taoists of China represent the caduceus with the yin-yang, which symbolizes the coiling of two serpentine and complementary forms into a single androgynous vital principle.

In the Western world, the caduceus continues to be used as the symbol of medicine, sometimes in modified form.

 - Jeremy Narby - _Cosmic Serpent - DNA And The Origins Of Knowledge_
 
  

release _Axis Mutatis_  by The Shamen

• _Destination Eschaton_
• _Transamazonia_
• _Conquistador_
• _Mik2A_
• _Neptune_
• _Prince Of Popocatapetl_
• _Heal (the Separation)_
• _Persephone's Quest_
• _Moment_
• _Axis Mundi: Tellos/Xibalba/Nemeton/Eternal Return_
• _Eschaton Omega (deep melodic techno)_
• _Agua Azul_
• _S2 Translation_

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