View this amazing music video by UK artists microscopics.  The video does a really cool zoom from man to space and then back down to the sub atomic.  The video was done as I music video I think, but I really think it kinda illustrates the Anthropocosmic / hermetic theme of all how man fits into the universe, both in the micro and macro relms.

The macrocosmos, the outer cosmic limits of the conceivable space around us, is comprised of the same microscopic forces as those found deep within the subatomic realm.  That is to say also, that everything in space including ourselves, exists as a coagulation of the same force.  Atomic theory.  Further, the forces that hold the microscopic together, unexplainable to this day, are the same forces that expand and contract the universe. 

Out of body, quite literally for some.  A test by researchers at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute have been giving volunteers the illusion of an out of body experience with simple camera tricks.

For some 87% the feelings of touch and sensation grew stronger each time the person was using the camera headset device.  Research is showing that the age old question of how humans perceive themselves in relation to their own bodies, is relative to perception.  And that may shed light on the extensive power of our physical sensations.

With mere vision people began to percieve themselves as outside of their own bodies, even as though they were "in" the body of a maniquin.  

The ramifications of this type of research are immense.  Remember John. C. Lilly, and his isolation tanks in the 60's?  This research could lead us back toward simmilar endeavors, but with 20th century technology to boot.  

What are the limitations of our perception?  Could a well trained individual project themselves through dedicated sensory training?  Whe don't know.  But we are finding out that our perception of "where we are", physically as a person, in space, is relative to our perception of our surroundings.

Hence the saying; perception is reality.  

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Its more than a natural reaction to beauty, it can't be translated well with words; though it can be seen partially in photos. It can be remembered and is most certainly real.  Sacred spots all over the earth manifest such a real presence, could it be mere historical relevance?

There seems to me to be a drawing allure of ancient sacred places, as though they were energy hubs, where some cosmic function is fulfilled by being present in the moment.

I realize that to some, this enthusiasm might be overinflated, that this topic is no more than a childish infatuation in dirt mounds and big rocks.  Or an Indiana Jones type comic book entertainment.  They imagine archeologists digging around with tan shirts and funny hats.  And, not wrongly, sustain all the fuss about "old worlds" and "Atlantis" are more new age and arsty fartsy theories for the same old ruins.

Its not my ambition to convert believers into some new theory for the ages, but the amount of historical questions, in my mind, allows for some creative thinking.  Especially in the day of the internet, eliminating the need to travel to read research documents from around the globe, we can really waste or spend (depending on how you define it) a whole lot of time investigating life; with a library of information more vast than any ambitious human could imagine studying entirely.

And of course, like all ages in recorded history, we can be sure that ours too will be succeeded.  And in the nature of that change, a repositioning of mental perspective will be as clear as the morning sun in the rear view mirror of our minds.  I wonder in which direction we will shift.  I guess that there will be some involvement with the esoteric, a harnessing of the vital energies.  Cosmic principles permeate old world mythology, and science is unveiling a cosmos of forces both in the micro and in the macro realms.

Perhaps tomorrow sacred might mean something quite different than it does today.  Perhaps the more we learn about the past the more we learn about ourselves.  And maybe that old saying "history repeats itself" has a meaning way deeper than we ever imagined; with roots from our own ancestors who knew of this day without even understanding it.  However, in some way they understood it more than we, because dispite our technology, our luxuries and delicate devices, we look at ancient sacred sites see something amazing in ourselves.

According to archeologists digging recently in Zincirli, Turkey, this stele represents an offering by a man named Kuttamuwa to the gods.  He is seated at his funerary banquet offering meat, wine and an acorn in the left hand (representing eternal life in his culture).

Members of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute have unearthed a complex, in which the funerary stele was discovered. It has been known that cremation is practiced in this region, so the most interesting aspect of the stele is in the writing which has only recently been fully translated.  It states that the stele is the resting place of this man's soul.  

This is significant because apparently previous to this it was thought that the soul resided in the body, in particular the bones, which must of course be left unburnt by fire if the soul were to remain eternal.  The idea is also in contrast to the Pharonic Anthropocosmos, which according to Schwaller, believed the residual soul (or seed) resided quite literally in the femur bone of a person.

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