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Synchronicity
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Preon neKaskth wrote:

I don't know if the Ouroboros has significance to the Cyphers as a whole,
but it sure says something to Shunyata. He came down from on high and
said that it had to be prominently displayed on the website. And what
that cat wants, that cat gets, you dig?


Ouroboros = Shunyata = "God" (came down from on high?)

"The endless serpent signifies that all matter is basically interchangeable, and that forms are not absolute. In fact, we have in the Ourobouros the symbol for what is known in Buddhist philosophy as shunyata [Sanskrit] or Emptiness."
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Preon neKaskth
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Synchronicity wrote:
"The endless serpent signifies that all matter is basically interchangeable, and that forms are not absolute. In fact, we have in the Ourobouros the symbol for what is known in Buddhist philosophy as shunyata [Sanskrit] or Emptiness."


That quote indicates that Shunyata = Emptiness, personally I would see God as all-encompassing, i.e. Everything as opposed to Emptiness, just a thought. Although Kevin's email does imply Shunyata is God.

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Synchronicity
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Preon neKaskth wrote:
Synchronicity wrote:
"The endless serpent signifies that all matter is basically interchangeable, and that forms are not absolute. In fact, we have in the Ourobouros the symbol for what is known in Buddhist philosophy as shunyata [Sanskrit] or Emptiness."


That quote indicates that Shunyata = Emptiness, personally I would see God as all-encompassing, i.e. Everything as opposed to Emptiness, just a thought. Although Kevin's email does imply Shunyata is God.


That's where it starts getting deep Wink Shunyata means infinite void, but also means infinite openness and infinite possibility, which takes us into the duality of the universe, where nothing is actually everything and vice versa, and if we're going there, this game is going to take years and years to figure out Wink

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Ultimately shunyata is a phenomenological term for the experience of the Absolute Reality. The Absolute Reality is the experience of total freedom from the distortion and limitations of conceptual understanding (vikalpa), it is "empty" or "void" of all such particular characteristics. This Shunyata, according to the great 2nd Century Buddhist dialectician Nagarjuna, can only be described in terms of a paradoxical series of negations. So for example in Absolute Reality (Shunyata) there is neither Movement nor non-Movement nor both Movement and non-Movement nor something other than Movement and non-Movement. Reality embraces all, includes all and transcends all.


http://www.kheper.net/topics/Buddhism/sunyata.htm
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 		Just joined here and cyphers.

This is going to be fun

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Preon neKaskth
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Synchronicity wrote:
That's where it starts getting deep Wink Shunyata means infinite void, but also means infinite openness and infinite possibility, which takes us into the duality of the universe, where nothing is actually everything and vice versa, and if we're going there, this game is going to take years and years to figure out Wink

Oh dear, I can tell that this is gonna get confusing, ah well.

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 		just found this
http://www.luxefaire.com/firstoff.html

I was looking thru some stuff online and thought this may be something to look at.

The author is from Hachita
and the webpage deal a bit with Alchemy and old and new spirits

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Preon neKaskth
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 		One more thing, has anyone tried to contact Shunyata yet... i.e. via something like shunyataSPLATstudiocypher.com

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Preon neKaskth wrote:
One more thing, has anyone tried to contact Shunyata yet... i.e. via something like shunyataSPLATstudiocypher.com


Nope, he scares the heck outta me. So does the luxefaire.com guy Wink
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 		http://chemtrailcentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75802


I also found that the author is posting about electromagnitic weather controling.

Maybe this is how it connects to the manhattan Project?

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 		Re: More on "zero"
MageSteff wrote:
Hey Nos, here is an answer for your question...

From Chat
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<Synchronicity> "What is a Cypher", Cypher capitalized as a proper noun
<EGo> Cypher is a symbol for zero.
<Synchronicity> Well, then, there's your "O" Smile


And furthermore ....

"The concept of zero also originated in ancient India. It is derived from the concept of a void. The concept of void existed in Hindu Philosophy - hence the derivation of a symbol for it.

The concept of Shunyata, influenced South-east asian culture through the Buddhist concept of Nirvana 'attaining salvation by merging into the void of eternity' ...

In ancient India the terms used to describe zero included Pujyam, Shunyam, Bindu the concept of a void or blank was termed as Shukla and Shubra. The Arabs refer to the zero as Siphra or Sifr from which we have the English terms Cipher or Cypher. In English the term Cipher connotes zero or any Arabic numeral. Thus it is evident that the term Cipher is derived from the Arabic Sifr which in turn is quite close to the Sanskrit term Shubra."

Shunyata = Zero = Cypher

whoops .. here's the link http://www.crystalinks.com/indiamathematics.html
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Sgresso wrote:
http://chemtrailcentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75802


I also found that the author is posting about electromagnitic weather controling.

Maybe this is how it connects to the manhattan Project?


I thoughty it was te philadelphia project

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/philadelphia.html

maybe my memory is just failing me...

but this does seem to fit perfectly into the weird that mustn't be erased

And did I miss a link to the chemtrails?

It seems to be brought up a lot but I don't see the conection other than the conspiracy theory
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The webmaster address is for official business, so I'd recommend sending
future emails to my personal address (kevinSPLATstudiocypher.com). Shunyata
probably wouldn't mind, but why take chances?

I sent an email to Kevin based on his instruction, asking where the Ouroborous was positioned, currently, when he looks at it.
No reply.
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 		This is the reply I got from kevin.

I am not a number! I am a free man!

Just kidding. I mostly think the numbers are silly, but Shunyata insists
and what bossman wants, bossman gets. I... uh... probably shouldn't say
stuff like that through this email. It's the 'official' address, so any
of the Cyphers could read it. They probably won't, but just in case, why
don't you send future emails to my personal address
(kevinSPLATstudiocypher.com)?

The erasers... the erasers...

You know, I don't know. Before I came along, they didn't keep good records
in this place and the others are a tight-lipped group at the best of
times.

I suspect it had something to do with Hachita. Sometimes when I hear them
talking about that place (when they think I'm not listening. Good thing I
have big ears!), they mention the Erasers. But I'm not even sure exactly
who or what the Erasers are. I just know what they want: to destroy what
we want to save.

Hopefully we will find out the details together.

-- K

>
> Kevin, Cypher #75
>
> Hi I have signed up and was just wondering what was the last run-in with
> the Erasers like? is it something that we should know about? what was it
> over?


dunno what he means when he says that THEy dont want HIM to hear? is he not a full Cypher? will mail and ask, will also ask more about what they want to save. Question Question Question

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Synchronicity
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Evertonian wrote:
I am not a number! I am a free man!



Maybe, but Shunyata is a big fat ZERO!!

Sorry, couldn't resist Wink
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 		Just an amendment to the mail I sent him, he seemed to be implying that he couldnt say much on the @studiocypher.com mails, in a roundabout way I asked if he wants to talk in a code! Wink

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