Back to AtD. Shambala p.975

[David Morris]

It's called an Earworm.

On Tuesday, January 1, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

> Stand on one foot and listen to this little number from ELO; it works
> everytime.
>
> Can't Get it Out of My Head <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdRJ3zSZ6vA>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> 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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