Back to AtD. Shambala p.975

[alice wellintown]

Stand on one foot and listen to this little number from ELO; it works
everytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdRJ3zSZ6vA


On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do think that Shambhala is both a location, and a destination.
>
> I have this severely odd thing going on.  I can';t get out the Doors LA
> Woman from my head.  You know, it's a great tune, it's just that it wont
> leave. I can't get it out of my head.  It';s happened before, and you know
> it's pointless, but it's happened twice before.  Once with Jefferson
> Airplane, and I think once with Nirvana.
>
> Was it Nirvana?  Who cares, right?  He wasn't Shambhala.
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Halfcourt: "For me, Shambala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an
>> absence."
>> How generalizeable (about Shambala) do we all think that might be? Is
>> Halfcourt a
>> vehicle of the authr's vision here?
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>
>
>>
>> OR, whenever I read Halfcourt, I think Full Court and half-wit allusions.
>> Is he not
>> all there, does not go all out?
>>
>> "Whatever its historical basis, Shambhala gradually came to be seen as a
>> Buddhist Pure Land, a fabulous kingdom whose reality is visionary or
>> spiritual as much as physical or geographic. It was in this form that the
>> Shambhala myth reached the West, where it influenced non-Buddhist as well as
>> Buddhist spiritual seekers — and, to some extent, popular culture in
>> general."
>>
>> see full wikipedia article if interested. it is interesting.
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