Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)

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[Wood engraving from Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (Paris, 1888), p. 164: "Un missionnaire du moyen âge
raconte qu'il avait trouvé le point où le ciel et la Terre se touchent..." ("A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where heaven and earth touch..."]

.... Wouldn't it be fun to color in the universe? 
.... the work has no accepted name -- can you think of a good one? The illustration ... is used frequently to show that humanity's present concepts are susceptible to being supplanted by greater truths.

"The Universe Next Door", as the engraving is known to some of us in the gnosis biz. (See http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...9#pid79539 for the allusion -- my first post on this august forum, four+ years ago.)

"With respect to the bounds [of the Earth]... some monks of the tenth century of our era, bolder than the rest, say that, in making a voyage in search of the terrestrial paradise, they had found the point where the heaven and earth touch, and had even been obliged to lower their shoulders!" - - C. Flammarion, Les terres du ciel (Paris, 1884), p. 395.

Informative treatment of this illustration's provenance and meaning: http://kvmagruder.net/flatEarth/index.html

For me, the humor of this particular bit of art is its exquisite metaphorical capturing of what might be called the objective correlative of the actual transcendentalizing mechanism, in the real workaday world, of the breathtakingly mysterious process of enlightenment -- a process the perception of which is commonly (unenlightenedly, one might say) quite lost in a desert of misguided and misleading presuppositional beliefs about the concept of transcendence itself, and a fortiori how such an elusive thing is realized in our obdurately material world. Because one must paradoxically use the elements of a world notoriously illusional and transient to somehow build a bridge to the Real, there has to be a point where some everyday thing or activity in fact somehow constitutes a virtual portal to the Other; at some precise point the mundane must become functionally the magical. To someone not imaginatively attuned to the wondrous implications of the design of the crucial-time/place/person/thing/process-complex (notwithstanding its seeming ordinariness), it would appear to be some absolutely unmagical, boringly unexceptionable bit of everyday life -- it would be ignored and passed over in the search for the flamboyantly miraculous-appearing. Thus "the Secret protects itself" (as the Sufis have traditionally put it), as a function of the Seeker's ontological and epistemological blind spots; the true Secret is that there is no "secret", for everyday-reality's elements are as common as common can be, by definition, and "as plain as the nose on your face", as George Orwell would have put it. The trick is to arrange them in the right timespace pattern, with one's intent being part of that pattern. (See http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid209131 for data regarding an incarnate terrestrial social memory complex specializing in teaching the design and overseeing its psychoanthropologically correct application in methodologies of expedited guided human evolution.)

Another multiview of the same point d'appui:





 Works both ways. Naked tiara-ed hot chick optional.


 Ain't technology grand?!


  O exploitable meme!
http://www.secretsinplainsight.com/#TakingMeasure


As to colouring in the world, I think that's in effect what we are already always doing at the deep quantum-mechanical level of constant co-creational cymatic vibe-hijinx-- as evidenced by our reality being just so in line with our beliefs. What a coincidence! Same portal as emblemed in the engraving, looked at from a different vantage point.

Even so, it's nice to know there's resources for those who want to sharpen their skills:
https://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/200...grown.html
https://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/201...n-ups.html
https://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/201...grown.html