Below you will find an overviews of 25 spiritual movements, spread over the course of the year. They are placed in groups of five, corresponding to the 5 seasons. They are grouped according to geography. These 5 geographic regions are based on ancient civilization centers where different groups evolved unique understandings of the world. Here we have also associated them with a sacred Mountain and also assigned them to one of the five Elements of antiquity. But first, a few words on the earliest beginnings of these 5 civilizations:
At the dawn of human consciousness and awakening of awareness of unseen forces, mountains represented the Great Mystery as well as the sources of life via the snow melt that fed the rivers around which humanity flourished and eventually farmed. The rivers flowing from their snowy heights came to represent the feminine mystery of life, and the unassailable heights of certain snow capped mountains came to be associated with male mountain divinities. From these earliest urges evolved the later ideas of gods and spirits that characterized the earliest civilizations of earth and which still linger in some traditions such as Bonpo and Shugendo.
These early nascent cultures, sometimes called River Valley Civilizations, gradually evolved and transformed themselves into the 25 diverse spiritual Paths honored here. These 5 Mts, and their associated River Valley Civilizations and traditions, "represent" the source codes for the 5 Spiritual Traditions honored on Miryai Mt. Much nonsense and encrusted false traditions arose in these areas as well, and so the selection of concepts and practices from each of them has been precise and surgical. Unlike most movements of the past, Miryai-ji uses the synthesis of 5 x 5 different Cultures/traditions in its pursuit of perfection, doing so to increase the diversity and flavor of various periods of practice in the same way that 5 different cuisine's and spice groups are used to enhance the culinary experience on the Mountain. It is thought that thru balanced juxtaposed difference comes transcendence. (Note: These mundane mountains, and the polluted rivers, are not themselves sacred, but are only symbols of the sacred.)
Fire-Star
Yangtze/Han Civilization (S.W. China, Tibet,
India, Nepal, S. America)
Spring - Fortnight 1-5 Mt Kailash
& Indus/Ganges/Yangtze River Civilization
Bon, Naxi, Nyingma, Daoism
The Spring season concentrates on Bon and Daoist mentality, extracting the best of each and discarding the rest. Beginning with the most primitive and formative concepts, progressing into the more refined. Southern China, Tibet, India and Nepal are geographically at the expression of this version of humanity, and Taoist, Tibetan Bon and Nyingma(Ngakpa), Naxi, with some Shaktavism, Jain, Sikh and other minor influences from the region. An introduction into the concept of 5 Elements and internal Taoist yoga are the main themes. The 5 middle days are associated with the 5 Ways of Bon: White Water, Black Water, Land of Phen, Masters Guide & Treasury. The first 2 Fortnights with Bon & Naxi Cosmology & Taoist fundamentals, and the last 3 Fortnights with the 9 Stages of Neidan (Internal Taoist Alchemy). Each Fornight has 3 5 day Nodes (jei) as in the Taoist Calendar. (All dates are plus or minus 7 days and occur on the new or full moon beginning of the lunar fortnight. The 1st fortnight of the year starts on thee first new or full moon after tthe spnng equinox (~Mar 20), all others following every 14.75 days thereafter.)
Note: This system is not guru based, but ffounnded on the principle of "Supreme Medium Grace" - where one becomes spiritually illuminated and liberated on their own, relying directly on the Divine, not needing initiation or instruction from other exterior guru. "
Symbolic Script: Tibetan, Color:
Red Transformation, change.
Symbolic Bread: Buckwheat (China),
Flax (India), Quinoa, Kaniwa, Amaranth (Andes)
Perception of mystery, of unknown
unseen power. Expressing the oneness of everything anad establishing the
subconscious connection between the outer and inner world. Tantric path
of alteration within Bon aand Vajrayana. Inner Alchemy and transmutation.
Respect for Mt Gods, Lake Goddesses and the Nagas (Ecology), field to kitchen
altar associations.Modern man, divorced from nature, benefits from consciously
working at reestablishing this connection.. Honoring mountain gods, lake
and river goddesses, building shrines and altars in various zones is a
way to crystalize their inward and outward connectivity. THe altars being
outward expressions of inward focal points or complexes, bringing all together.
Everything outward is also in us, everything is one...
Indus, Harrapan, Yangtze Cultures, Green Man, Shiva, Shakti, Shaivites, Shaktism | Jains, Mahavira, Buddha, Sidharta | Sikhs, Nanak |
1.
Festival/Mar 27 (+-7
days): First day of the fortnight falling on 1st new or full moon of spring.
Namaskar Sun Prostrations, Shakti (kundalini) internal serpent/dragon fire Pancha Bhuta (5 Vedic Elements) |
6. 5 vows - non-violence | 11. Kundalini Yoga. |
2. Day 2: Shakta Mala beads (108 beads), Mantra | 7. Jain Mala (108 beads) Namokar Mantra, 5 vows - Truth | 12. Pranayama |
3. Day 3: Shakta Tantrism. Bhakti Goddess Adoration, Devotion/Shiva shrines and phallus stones. Shakta & Shaivism. Lal Ded. abhisheka bathingg of statues. |
8. Ahimsa kindness, 5 sense consciousness, 5 sense organs, Jain diiet, 5 vows - Chaste |
13. Devotional Mantras. Statues, yab yums. Peace Lagoon. |
4. 5 external elements, Meditation, Stillness, 5 faces of Pashupati(Shiva) & Shakti. Baghor Shakti stone for 8000Bc for Son RIveer, India. |
9. Jain Encircling Ring. levels of consciousness, Jain restrrictions,
diet. Jain fasting
Stillness. Jain restrictive circle. 5 vows - No Greed |
14. (Fast): |
5. Bathing pools of Mohenjo-daro, dakini/Yakshas, Indus Valley Mikvehs) | 10. water nagas, 5 vows - No stealing, Ganges River Purification | 15. (Fast, occuring 3 out of every 4 fortnights): Sikh Baptism, ( Sikhs, |
Bonpo/Nyingma
Spring - Fortnight 2 (Fire+Wind)
The male-female, yin-yang side of
creation. The perception of two distinct expressions or characters of existence.
Kuntazangpo & Kuntazangmo and Shiva & Shakta union. Aknowledging
the union of opposites in natural phenomenon, human conception, and metaphysical
practice. Devotional; worship. Feeding people. Courage as warriors. (Celibacy
as a deviation away from this reality.)
Zhang Zhung, Old Bon, Tibet, Shenrab Miwo | Padmashambhava, Nyingma, Ngakpa | Yeshe Tzogyal, Ngakma, Mother Lineages, Naxi, Dragon Text |
1. Feast/Apr 11: Shenrab Miwo, White Waters of Bon, Zhang Zung, Fir Branches at sunrise- Burnt Offering, Sweat Lodges, Mt Kailash, Bon creation Myth, 5 Ogne, 5 Elements, 5 Internal elements, oil lamps, sun/moon gazing, 5 External Bon Offerings - Altar Lamps to dispel ignorance | 6. Padmasambhava, Vajrayana, Primordial Base & Pure Light, forming the 5 lights, 5 colors, | 11.
Yeshe Tzogyal, Naxi & 5 Dragons (Bon+Tao)
Tummo (inner heat) |
2. Windhorse Prayer Flags, Mala Beads, Stupa Poles, Gods & Goddesses of Bon; Black Waters of Bon, books, External Bon Offerings - Incense to dispel desire. | 7. 5 Lights produce the 5 Elements, Padmasambhava Mantra | 12. . Mala mantras, 5 passions, 5Malas, incense. Ngagpa Ngondo |
3. Bon Festival Food, grain. Land of Phen of Bon, 5 External Bon Offerings - flowers to end war, yabyum statues. | 8. five consorts/wisdom dakinis | 13. Tara, 5 negative actions. Tormas. Karmamudra Union |
4. Stone Chortens, Master Guide of Bon. nagas, lu mt. gods, 5 External Bon Offerings - tormas to end destitution | 9. Dzogchen, Pureland paradise of Zangdok Palri (the Copper-Coloured Mountain) | 14. (Fast): Tibetant fasting, Stillness. 5 illnesses, Stone Field Altars, salt. 100 peaceful (zhi) and wrathful (khro) tantric deities Mandala |
5. Tibetan Herb Baths, Bon Treasury, External Bon Offerings - water to end enslavement | 10. |
15. (Fast): transmigration “Fivefold Teaching of Dawa Gyaltsen” Ngagpa
Ngondo,
Chang Beer, water offerings. 5 poisons, Dagger RItual for Removing obstacles and destroying the forces hostile to compassion. Abhisheka Washing/annointing of statue. |
Tao/Neidan
Spring - Fortnight 3 (Fire+Zephyr)
Inner Alchemy
Internalizing the twofold oneness
and mystery. Third principle arising from their union and the Golden Elixer.
Awareness of inward energies, breath flow = chi movement within. Tao like
water, yielding but strong. Living in the flow, adaptability. Taijuto
Shuo Diagram.
Wudoumi dao- "Way of Five Pecks of Grain" was the oldest movement of religious Daoism that can be called a "school" or "sect". He is said to have written talismans and charms which he distributed among the population. According to legend, Zhang was instructed by an immoral descending from Heaven. As a healer of diseases, Zhang was able to attract numerous disciples who learned from Zhang the use of 24 so-called "treatment spots". Each of his disciples and followers paid a "tuition fee" of 5 pecksof grain. This custom later gave the school its name. The healing methods of Zhang were influenced by shamanic methods of the local population. He was therefore called the "grain shaman".
The religious practice of the Five-Pecks-of-Grain School was thus characterized by talismans, incantations , praying before an altar, but also by the "preservation of completeness", circulating the breath, and the art of the bedchamber. The Daoist adept was forbidden to eat grain, and instead devoured "breath". Yin and Yang were to be unified to produce spirits (jing), the concentration of sprits would result in a higher form of being (shen), i. e. immortality, or at least, self-preservation.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Weidan | Chang-tzu Tianshi | The Cantong qi (The Kinship of the Three) earliest known book on theoretical alchemy in China; written by alchemist Wei Boyang in 142 AD. |
1. Feast/Apr 26: Inner Neidan. Neidan 1°: Making the Elixir come down....* Qi Gong exercise. Tai Chi. (Martial Qigong) Lao Tzu on Wu. Lao Tzu, Yangtze/Han, | 6. Neidan 2°: Union of heart & Kidney , Taoist Creation Stories, Wu Wei, Ying Yang, 5 Taoist Elements | 11. Neidan 3°: Nurturing the yang, 5 Lesser Internal Organs. Taoist altar, two candles. |
2. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites. Taoist breath. Eye breathing. neidan breath. | 7. 5 Element Destruction Cycle | 12. 5 Major Internal Organs. Incense burner on altar. Talismans, mantras. |
3. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites. Weidan and life extension | 8. 5 Element Creation Cycle | 13. 5 Souls of Taoism. Altar lamp. |
4. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites | 9. 5 Seasons (China) | 14. (Fast): Neidan Inner Work. 5 Fruit plates. Bigu |
5. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites | 10. 5 Seasons (America) | 15. (Fast): Neidan Inner Work. 3 cups water, tea and rice. |
Tao/Neidan/Naxi
Spring - Fortnight 4 (Fire+Earth)
Inner Alchemy
The Nei gingto diagram. Dynamics
of change. Book of Changes. Harmonious flow with life and its fluctuations.
Seasons, farming and attunement with weather. Divination, Yi Chhing.
81 Changes.
Bojiadao School Bo Lineage - (Zongli) taught the way of circulating the breath and living on a special diet - 220-280. The gods in Bo He's religion were "common deities" (shushing ??) and not the higher beings as known in other Daoist traditions. The believers sacrificed living beings and blood to the deities (sha sheng xue shi ????) and used the methods of outer alchemy and diet to obtain a longer life.
Wudoumi (Way of 5 Rice Pecks, Zhang Ling d.156) | (Way of Celestial Masters, Chen Zhuan) | Taiping (Way of Great Peace, Zhang Jiao d.184) |
1. Feast/May 11: Neidan 4°: Nurturing the yin (Spiritual QiGong), | 6. Neidan 5°: Changing the bones, Stems and branches. | 11. Neidan 6°: Changing the flesh, |
2. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites | 7. Neidan Readings, Yi Ching | 12. Neidan Inner Work |
3. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites | 8. Neidan Readings,Yi Ching | 13. Neidan Inner Work |
4. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites | 9. Neidan Readings, Yi Ching | 14. (Fast): Neidan Inner Work. Bigu fasting. |
5. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites | 10. Neidan Readings, Yi Ching | 15. (Fast): Neidan Inner Work |
Tao/Neidan
Spring - Fortnight 5 (Fire+Water)
Inner Alchemy
Nudging the future thru small insignificant
acts. Bigu fasting and 5 day Fasting Mimicking Diet.
Healing, health, fasting.
Bojiadao School Bo Lineage - (Zongli) taught the way of circulating the breath and living on a special diet - 220-280 | Shangqing School (School of Highest Clarity, Wang Bao, Wei Huacun d.334) | Lingbao (Way of Numinouis Treasure,
Ge Chaofu 6.420), Lu Xiujing)
Louguan (Way of the Watch Tower, Xin Xi) Quanzhen, et al (Way of Fulfilled Virtue,Wang Chongyang d.1170 ) |
1. Feast/May 26: Neidan 7°: Changing the 5 viscera and 6 bowels (Health QiQong) moxibustion. | 6. Neidan 8°: Nurturing the fire | 11. (Bigu Fast): Neidan 9°: Flight & Ascension ( Dark Bonpo Retreats) Lu Dongbin, Secret Golden Flower |
2. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites, fumigattion, herbs, plants. | 7. Neidan Readings | 12. (Fast): Bigu Fast Neidan Inner Work ( Dark Bonpo Retreats) |
3. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites | 8. Neidan Readings | 13. (Fast): Bigu Fast Neidan Inner Work ( Dark Bonpo Retreats) |
4. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites, minerals. | 9. Neidan Readings | 14. (Fast): Bigu Fast Neidan Inner Work ( Dark Bonpo Retreats) |
5. Neidan Outer Acts, Ceremonies, Rites, teas. | 10. Neidan Readings | 15. (Fast): Bigu Fast Neidan Inner Work ( Dark Bonpo Retreats) |
Wood-Star
Nile River Civilization (Africa, Pagan Europe
& C.&N. Americas)
Summer - Fortnight 6-10 Kilamonjaro
& Nile River Civilization
Isis Osiris Cult, Gnostics, Pagan
Europe, Monastics, Jung
The Summer season concentrates on Gnostic and Jungian worldviews and from other traditions from the Egyptian, African, Pagan Europe and American regions. These are the areas that the Mayan, Egyptian, Ethiopian, and pagan Europe evolved, as well as Monasticism like that of Thomas Merton, Teressa of Avila and Hildegard of Bingen. Manichaean influenced groups like the Paulicians, Bogomils, Cathars as well, with some worthwhile ideas arising in masonry, Rosicrucianism, Knights Templar, Golden Dawn, OTO and other such esoterics lodges. The major influence is from the Gnostic schools of Egypt (Sethites), Neo-Platonist from Egypt, Jung, a self proclaimed "gnostic", bought many of the original manuscripts from Nag Hammadhi and even wrote a Gnostic scripture. Therapuetae of Egypt. The 5 Fortnights of this season are associated with the 5 stages of Jungian "soul" progression, from Shadow, Persona and Ego levels, up thru the anima and true self stage where Individuation is possible. Jung's Redbook and the Nag Hammadhi and Pistis Sophia are important texts. The symbolic script is Coptic. (Each Fornight has 5 day Nodes and dates are +-7.) Developing psychological understanding of oneself. Linking the unconscious and subconscious elements and archhetypes to the outer world., seasons of the year, and the winter death and spring rebirth of nature. Reaping what we sew, inwardly and outwardly. Deviations, death, darkness andd rebirth. Everything is an illusion, deceptive, corrupt, mind numbing....
Symbolic Bread: Corn (C. America), Sorghum (Africa), Teff (Africa), Wild Rice (N. America), Oat (Europe)
The Shadow, Nile Civilization
Summer - Fortnight 6 (Wind+Wind)
The subconscious mind, sewing seeds
therein. Sewing seeds in the earth. The Shadow, Set and the killing of
Osiris. Scattering of consciousness (Osiris), Isis (Anima) seeking the
lost part. Farming metaphor. Osiris rising and Barley sprouting. Barley
Harvest. Hallucinations of humans and LLM''s.
Set-Osiris Cult, Old Egypt, Set=Shadow, Lychnapsia (Isis Festival of Lights) | Isis-Osiris Cult, Ptolemy Egypt | Roman Isis Cult |
1. Festival/Jun 9: Shadow | 6. Egyptian creation myth | 11. Hymns. Egyptian Isis altar. |
2. | 7. Isis | 12. Isis Statues |
3. Grain reaped (Barleycorn) | 8. The Shadow and Set and Osiris scattered | 13. Osiris grain offerings |
4. Amenite washings | 9. Thoth | 14. (Fast): Nile water offerings |
5. Ra prostrations | 10. Horus hymns | 15. (Fast): Flax Oil lamp |
The Persona, Ptolemy Egypt, Theraputai
Summer - Fortnight 7 (Wind+Zephyr)
Various religious enclaves of first
and second century Egypt as the seeds of later Monastic institutions.
Teressa of Avila and her seven mansions and its theme of the persona of
righteousness vs the actual spirituality of a person. Repentencess of Pistis
Sophia after chasing false light. False light equating with false goodness
and virtue signaling. Carmelite diet reforms. The need to be liked,
to fit in, to conform. Attraction to acceptance, praise, social advancement.
False gods.
Gnostic Sethites in Egypt, Pistis Sophia | Nag | Nag Burial, Desert Fathers, Pachamonius Rule |
1. Feast/Jun 24: The Persona, Pistis Sophia Rites | 6. Pistis Sophia, Theraputai | 11. Pistis Sophia Incense. Carmelite altar? |
2. Pistis Sophia Rites | 7. Pistis Sophia, Basilides | 12. Pistis Sophia Flowers |
3. Pistis Sophia Rites | 8. Pistis Sophia, Cave Hermits, Desert Fathers, Nag Burial | 13. Pistis Sophia Salt |
4. Pistis Sophia Rites | 9. Pistis Sophia, Pachamonius, Coptic Church, Ethiopian Church | 14. (Fast): Pistis Sophia Water |
5. Pistis Sophia Rites | 10. Pistis Sophia, Valentinius, Valentinian Texts | 15. (Fast): Pistis Sophia Fire |
The Ego, Sethite Gnostics, Pagan/Celtic/Masonic
Europe
Summer - Fortnight 8 (Wind+Earth)
Sethite Gnostics of the first few
centuries AD. Thomas Merton and the Cistercians and his insights
into ego submission in monastic scenarios. The search for meaning and purpose.
Sextus/Constatine Rome, Virgin Mary, Saints of old Gods | Tuscany, Medici, Art, Roman/Pagan Christianity | Masonry, Dee, Rosicrucians, Golden Dawn, OTO |
1. Feast/Jul 9: The Ego, 5 Seals, | 1. Feast/Jul 9: The Ego, 5 Seals, | 11. Sethite Incense |
2. 5 Seals, Sethite Sacrament, Bridal Chamber | 7. Gnostic Texts | 12. |
3. 5 Seals, Sethite Alms | 8. Gnostic Texts | 13. |
4. 5 Seals, Sethite Baptism | 9. Gnostic Texts | 14. (Fast): |
5. 5 Seals, Sethite Anointing | 10. Gnostic Texts | 15. (Fast): |
The Anima, Monastic Europe
Summer - Fortnight 9 (Wind+Water)
Guidance from within. Development
of Masonry, Rosicrucians, Golden Dawn in mediaeval Europe. Wicca, witchcraft,
pagan festivals, seasonal atunement, conflation of paganism with
Catholicism. Virgin Mary as Animus. Devil, OTO, Crowely.
Rule of the Master, Benedictine Rule, Terresa of Avila, St John, Carmelite Reform | Thomas Merton, Cistercians | Hildegard of Bingen |
1. Feast/Jul 24: The Anima (Isis) Maypole Circlings, wands, staffs, Golden Dawn rites (truncated) | 6. Norse Creation Myth | 11. Incense burning. Wiccan altar. |
2. Flower wreaths | 7. Pagan Myths | 12. Flower Offerings |
3. Stonehinge, standing stones | 8. Pagan Myths | 13. Crystals, magic stones, stone altars, sacred salt |
4. Sacred Lakes & Springs | 9. Antiphonal Chants | 14. (Fast): Holy Spring Water |
5. Bonfire Leaping | 10. Pagan Myths | 15. (Fast): Candles |
The Self, Jung, Red Book
Summer - Fortnight 10 (Wind+Fire)
Carl Jung and school. German back
to nature movement. Hildegard of Bingen insights. Philoman mandala. Active
imagination and dream work. Individuality. Luminous dreams.
Medeival Alchemists | Jung, 7 Sermons | Jung, Redbook |
1. Feast/Aug 8: The Self, Dream work | 6. Redbook Reading. Seven Sermons to the Dead. | 11. (Fast): Active Imagination, Internal Alchemy. |
2. Dream work | 7. Redbook Reading | 12. (Fast): Active Imagination, Internal Alchemy |
3. Dream Analysis | 8. Redbook Reading | 13. (Fast): Active Imagination, Internal Alchemy |
4. Dream work | 9. Redbook Reading | 14. (Fast): Active Imagination, Internal Alchemy |
5. Dream work | 10. Redbook Reading | 15. (Fast): Individuality Active Imagination, Internal Alchemy |
Zephyr-Star
Tigris-Euprates River Civilization (Byzantine,
Mesopotamian & Persian Empires, Silk Road, Rome)
Late Summer - Fortnight 11-15 Mt
Ararat & Euphrates/Tigris River Civilization
Zarathustra, Tammuz, Sumer,
Mani, Manichaean, Sufi, Rumi
The Late Summer season accentuates the Manichaean Religion of Light, along with earlier Summerian and Zarathustrian and later Sufi influences. Mani tended to categorize many things in groups of 5, and this Pentadization is a focus here. The descent of Innana to the underworld is a theme. The symbolic script is Aramaic. The region is the Tigris-Euprates watersheds, eastward over the Silk Road and northwest thru Eastern Turkey, Central Italy. Texts: Poems of Rumi, Gathas of Zarathustra, Manichaean Hymns, Kephalaia, Cologne, Gospel of Thomas. Ziwaneh Light Sparks is a major theme. The Manichaeans were known for an obsession with food categorization and this season concentrates on that, reworking the outdated Chinese 5 Element color system for a more accurate botanical model. (Each Fornight has 5 day Nodes and dates are +-7.) Being loving, good, doing no harm either to nature or man. Ishtar between two lions. Taming the wild within. Discernment, separating good from bad. Gathering in scatteered light sparks. Descent into shadow, taming darkness within. Dammuzi descent forshadowing Primal Man's descent and dismemberment. There is a war within and without, light against darkness...
Symbolic Bread: Eikhorn, Emmer, Spelt, Rye, Triticale (Italy, Fertile Crescent)
Tammuz, Ishtar, Inanna, Magi
Late Summer - Fortnight 11 (Zephyr+Zephyr)
Summer and Babylon cultures and
calendars. Struggling against chaos (Tiamat). Bringing order. Buried in
the tomb of flesh and materiality. The stinking bag of pus.
Sumer, Inana Descent to Underworld | Babylon & Calendar, Murdok, Ishtar, Tiamat | Magi |
1. Festival/Aug 22: | 6. Babylonian Summerian Creation Myths | 11. Statues |
2. | 7. Ereshkigel taken by Kur. | 12. |
3. | 8. | 13. |
4. | 9. Murdok and Tiamat. Leviathan. | 14. (Fast): Yimki Fast |
5. | 10. | 15. (Fast): Yimki Fast |
Zarathustra, Zurvanism
Late Summer - Fortnight 12 (Zephyr+Earth)
Good thoughts, good words, good
deeds of Zarathustra. Two brothheers, dark and light. Ahriman vs Ahura
Mazda. (Grape Harvest)
Zarathustra | Zurvanites | Zoroasterians |
1. Feast/Sep 6: | 6. Zurvanite Creation Myths, Zoroastrian, Magian, creation myths. | 11. Magian fire altar |
2. | 7. Tiamat | 12. |
3. Sand Cleansing, Zoroastrian Nahan Baptism | 8. | 13. Temple Well Water |
4. 7 Fire Creation | 9. | 14. (Fast): Fire Altar, Yimki Fast |
5. Barsom Twigs | 10. | 15. (Fast): Yimki Fast, Barsom |
(Elchasaites), Western &
Central Manichaean
Late Summer - Fortnight 13 (Zephyr+Water)
The ziwaneh sparks hidden in matter.
Respect for life. Alms growing and giving. 5 Types of botany families.
Heaven, water, oil, salt and earth as Elchasaite 5 element symbols. Elchasaite
rejection of celibacy and meat eating.
Elxai | Mani, Cologn Manuscript | Iranian Manichaeanism |
1. Feast/Sep 21: Book Illumination, |
6. Manichaean Myths, Kephailaia, Cologne Body Text, The swallowing of the
Primal Man.
Nadir of Darkness and materiality. Midpoint of the Liturgical Year and Summer Season. The entrapment of the 5 Living Souls - Ziwaneh. |
11. Ziwaneh. Manichaean altar. |
2. Stupa Ambulations, Prostrations | 7. Vision of Adam, ascent begins. 5 Manichaean Kings of Darkness | 12. Alms Offerings |
3. | 8. | 13. |
4. Sun/Moon Prostrations | 9. | 14. (Fast): Yimki Fast |
5. | 10. | 15. (Fast): Yimki Fast |
Denewar Eastern Manichaean, White
Lotus
Late Summer - Fortnight 14 (Zephyr+Fire)
Separating light from darkness,
pure from turbid, fiber from food. Elxai gardening and food categories.
5 farming groups of food. Balance, rotation, preparation. 12 Elect virtues.
Elect meals to redeem sparks. Respecting sparks in their trapped state.
Walking gently on the earth.
Silk Road Manichaeanism | Denewar Cult | White Lotus Sect |
1. Feast/Oct 6: | 6. Lower Manichaean Hymns to 5 Entrapped Buddhas | 11. Denewar Meditation |
2. | 7. | 12. |
3. | 8. | 13. |
4. | 9. | 14. (Fast): Yimki Fast |
5. Malas | 10. | 15. (Fast): Yimki Fast |
Sufi, Rumi, Hafiz, Rabia
Late Summer - Fortnight 15 (Zephyr+Wind)
Manichaean influence on Shiites,
Sufi and Dervish. Rumi, Hafiz, Rabia poetry. Loving life, seeing beauty
everywhere. Whirling, dancing, happiness. Manichaean fasting. Scattered
soul sparks (Henry Corbin in Iraanian Man of Light) (Olive Harvest.)
Shiites, Crypto Manichees | Rumi | Sufi Orders |
1. Feast/Oct 21: | 6. Rumi Poems | 11. (Fast): Double Yimki (White days Islamic Fast) |
2. Dervish Whirl | 7. Rumi Poem | 12. (Fast): Double Yimki |
3. Sufi Hand Washing | 8. Rumi Poem | 13. (Fast): Double Yimki |
4. | 9. Rumi Poem | 14. (Fast): Double Yimki |
5. Sufi 5 Element Breathing | 10. Rumi Poem | 15. (Fast): Father of Light, Mother of Light reunion. |
Earth-Star
Yellow River Civilization (Northern China, Japan,
Korea, S.E. Asia)
Fall - Fortnight 16-20 - Kunlun
Mts & Yellow River Civilization
Pure Land, Chan, Zen, Shinto, Shingon,
Tendai, Soto, Shugendo
The Fall Season focuses on northern China, Japan, and Korea and the spiritual movemnents that arose there. Shinto, Chan, Shugendom Shingon, Tendai and Soto are all contributers. Bodhidharma, Baizhang and Dogen are major figures and mountain farming, especially monastic farming, is a theme. (Each Fornight, associated with the 5 Ranks of Zen, has 5 day Nodes and dates are +-7.)The symbolic script is Japanese. The Japanese 72 season calendar, with its 5 day periods, is discussed. Properly structuring and balancing life. Natural lifestyle, communal life. Sustainable, ordered, natural, harmonious and peaceful lifestyle. Nature reveals our budha nature.....
Symbolic Bread: Rice (Japan), Barley (Japan), Proso Millet (Japan), FInger Millet (China), Jobs Tears (Japan)
Shinto/Shang
Fall - Fortnight 16 (Earth+Earth)
Purity and power of nature, sensing
the essence (Kami) in everything and everyone. The pre-buddhist pre-tao
animistic traditions of northern China and Japan.
Shang Matriarchal Kingdom | Bone Oracles, Yellow Emperor | Shinto |
1. Festival/Nov 4: 5 tiered pillars. Rock placement. | c 6. Shinto Creation Myth | 11. Shinto Salt, shinto altars. |
2. Koi pools. | 7. | 12. |
3. Moon viewing gardens. | 8. | 13. |
4. Planting, pruning trees and shrubs. | 9. | 14. (Fast): Shinto Paper Offering |
5. Tea huts, gazebos. | 10. | 15. (Fast): Kami Infused Nature |
Chan/Bodhidharma/Baizhung
Fall - Fortnight 17 (Earth+Water)
Chan's transition to "Agricultural
Chan" under Baizhang (720-814). Bodhidharma, and Baizhang who began the
tradition of self sustaining farming in Buddhistt communities. "Agricultural
Chan" in China with self sustaining monasteries. Patience sitting, facing
walls. Farming as meditation.
Bodhidharma, Chan | Baizhang & Agricultural Chan | Empty Cloud, Chaan Monasteries |
1. Feast/Nov 19: | 6. Heart Sutra. | 11. Sitting toward Wall. Chan altars. |
2. | 7. Bodhidharma Texts | 12. |
3. | 8. Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations. | 13. |
4. | 9. Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations. . | 14. (Fast): |
5. | 10. | 15. (Fast): |
Shingon, Tendai, Rinzai
Fall - Fortnight 18 (Earth+Fire)
The taming of nature in the farm
and garden and orchard. One straw revolution. Korean natural farming. Swales,
permaculture ponds. Mt Koyosan. To explore ultimate reality thru ritual,
mantra and mandala. Appreciation of multi-culturalism and multi-religeous
observance. (Japanese Zen vs Chinese
Chan.)
Shingon | Tendai | Rinzai |
1. Feast/Dec 4: Hot Stones, soil enrichment. | 6. Shingon Texts, Kukai, Saicho, Korean natural farming. | 11. Shingon altars & banners. |
2. swales, ponds. Onsens | 7.5 Dhiyani buddhas, Korean natural farming. | 12. |
3. Moxibustion, warm slopes and microclimates. Shingon Fire Rite | 8.5 tastes, colors, etc. | 13. Goma |
4. Wind breaks. Forest Bathing | 9. 5 Japanese Elements | 14. (Fast): Incense, Malas |
5. Old 5 Food Families based on color, New food families baased on botony. Seed preservation. | 10. Shingon Texts, Two Worlds Banners. | 15. (Fast): |
Shugendo
Fall - Fortnight 19 (Earth+Wind)
More evolved farming. 5 Food
groups. Harvesting and storing food. (Shugendo is a mix of Shinto,
Tao, Buddhism) The forest as mystery and Fudo. Hiking, seeking, exploring,
pushing ones limits. Food forests, foraging wild food vs cultivated farming.
Shugendo (Tendai) Enno | Shugendo (Shingon) | Shugendo Wanderers, Korean Zen |
1. Feast/Dec 19: Shugendo forest bathing. Sacred mountains, nature. | 6. Shugendo Creation Myth, En No. | 11. Tied Rocks, Fudo Forest Communion. Shugendo altars. |
2. Waterfall Cleansing, | 7. Shugndo Texts | 12. |
3. Gongs, time, Great Goma ceremony. | 8. Korean wild food foraging. | 13. |
4. Shugendo Hikes | 9. | 14. (Fast): Shugendo Paper effigies |
5. Shojun Ryori. | 10. | 15. (Fast): 5 Fudo Myoo forms. |
Soto
Fall - Fortnight 20 (Earth+Zephyr)
Greenhouses and wapinis. Shojin
Ryori cusine. Respect for growers and cooks, 5 Oryoki bowls, food proportions,
5 tastes and colors and cooking methods. Dogen as lineage holder of Baizhang.
Soto | Dogen | Suzuki |
1. Feast/Jan 3: Mt Farming, Preta Prayers | 6. Dogen as Baizhang heir. | 11. (Fast): 5 day Sesshin Zazen period. Soto altars. |
2. Matcha Tea Ceremony | 7. Dogen Texts | 12. (Fast): Zazen |
3. | 8. Dogen Texts | 13. (Fast): Zazen |
4. 5 wooden Oryuki bowls | 9. Dogen Texts | 14. (Fast): Malas, sutras, mantras. Bamboo Breath. Zazen |
5. Shojin Ryori, Statues | 10. Dogen Texts | 15. (Fast): Zazen |
Water-Star
Eastern Mediteranean (Greece, S.E. Italy (Magna
Grecia), Cyprus, Crete, Antola, & Levant)
Winter - Fortnight 21-25
- Mt Herrmon & Jordan River Civilizatiion
Pythagorean, Canaanite, Mandaean,
Qabbalah
The Winter Season, ruled by the Water Element, concentrates on traditions from the Easstern Mediteranean region, S.E. Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Antola and the Levant. The focus is on Mandaean understandings, but also Pythagorean and Kabbalistic musings. Purification, especially with water, is a major theme. (Each Fornight has 5 day Nodes and dates are +-7.) The symbolic script is Hebrew (Greek). Golden Verses, Plato, Ginza, Yohon, Qulasta. Zohar, Yetzirah, etc. Earliest stirings: Gobeki Tepe, Knossis, Asherah, Elusian Mysteries. Mandaean Creation w 5 Kings of Darkness. Logic, intellect, first principles thinking. Education. Strive to remain clean, washing off the filth often...
Symbolic Bread: Lentil, Beluga Lentil, Fava, Desi Chickpea, Kabuli Chickpea (Mid East)
Pythagorean, Elusian Mysteries,
Greek, Knossos
Winter - Fortnight 21 (Water+Water)
The importance of the mind and of
hidden relationships, mathmatical underpinnings, statistics, A.G.I.
Tetrakytis symbol, greek gematria. Bringing order and logic to the
world, numbering, data, statistics. Taking the road less travelled. Avoidiing
mass hysteria.
Ancient Greece, Knossos, Elusian Mysteries, Pythagoras | Plato | Neo-Platonists |
1. Festival/Jan 17: Elusian Sea Immersion, Pythagorean developments, Golden Verses. Greek Creation Myth | c 6.s Plato | 11. Neo-platonic schools. Nicomachus, tetrakytis, Greek Gematria. |
2. Sunrise walks, gym, asstronomy, Math, Geometry, astronomy, music, diet. | 7. | 12. |
3. Delphic Sulfur fumes? Music. Asherah Treesv | 8. | 13. |
4. Delphic Oracle, Simplistic diet | 9. Demeter Persephone Myth | 14. (Fast): Tetrakytis |
5. Omphallus stones, Delphi grotto, Silence | 10. | 15. (Fast): |
Yohon, Canaanite Myths, Ashtoroth,
Zadokite
Winter - Fortnight 22 (Water+Fire)
Yohon the baptist, his Maswetta
ceremony. vThe abandonment of polluted cities. Secret groups, prepping,
survival. Wise relocation, walled communities. Civilization colapse.
Preservation. Reforrm, renewal, rejecting the norm. Enclaves, withdrawl
from declining civilization. Moraal decay. Repentence. Simple, secret,
sparse. Low profile.
Caananites, Syrians, Phonecians, Hebrew Temple Cult, (Moshe) | Zadokites, Teacher of Righteousness | Yohon Reforms |
1. Feast/Feb 2: Maswetta of John. | 6. Yohon Book, Yohanna. Elchasaites, Dead Sea Scrolls, Temple Scroll, Sons of Zadok. | 11. |
2. | 7. Yohon Book | 12. |
3. Essenes reject bad city air. | 8. Yohon Book | 13. Drabsha pole cross, myrtle wreath |
4. | 9. Yohon Book | 14. (Fast): |
5. Essenes. | 10. Yohon Book | 15. (Fast): |
Nazoreans, Yeshu, James, Miryai,
Salome, Bardesains, Nestorians, Paulites. Greek Christians.
Winter - Fortnight 23 (Water+Wind)
Paradigm shift. Yeshu and Miryai
as a new way. Baptism of fire vs Yohon's water. Miryai and her dream sister,
anima, and being led from within. Thinking outside the box. Open mindedness.
Cultural shifts. Renewal.
Yeshu | James | Miryai |
1. Feast/Feb 17: | 6. Miryai Hymns. | 11. |
2. | 7. Miryai Hymns. | 12. |
3. | 8. Miryai Hymns. | 13. |
4. | 9. Miryai Hymns. | 14. (Fast): |
5. | 10. Miryai Hymns. | 15. (Fast): |
Zazai, Shlama
Winter - Fortnight 24 (Water+Zephyr)
Salome-Shlama preserving texts.
Fleeing to marshes. Colonizing Mars as a fail safe. Purity.
Salome/Shlama | Zazai | Mandai |
1. Feast/Mar 5: Rushama | 6. Qulasta. Ginza Creation 2, Zazai. Ginza Rba. Mandai flee to Marshes of Iraq. | 11.Mambuga |
2. | 7. Qulasta. Ginza | 12. Brihi, Misha Oil |
3. Dawn Wind Worship | 8. Qulasta. Ginza | 13. Incense |
4. | 9. Qulasta. Ginza | 14. (Fast): |
5. Manda Hut | 10. Qulasta. Ginza | 15. (Fast): Pihta, Toriana |
Qabbalah, Luria, Zohar
Winter - Fortnight 25 (Water+Earth)
Climbing the tree,AGI, LLM, nuerolink,
Optimus like golems with kill button aleph. Study, debate, truth.
5 Days of Panja.
Zohar | Luria | Abulafia, Sevi |
1. Feast/Mar 20:Tamasha vs Jewish Mikvah | 6. Luria Creation Myth, . Kabbalists. Luria & his 5 worlds. | 11. (Fast): 5 Kings of Light. Masiqita. 5 Days of Panja |
2. | 7. Zohar. vTree of Life in 5 Worlds. | 12. (Fast): Panja |
3. | 8. Zohar | 13.(Fast): Panja |
4. | 9. Bahir | 14. (Fast): Panja |
5. Gematria | 10. Misc Kabbalah texts | 15. (Fast): Panjav |
*Firstfruits Temple Calendar: 26th
of 1st Month - Barley/Flax; 15th of 3rd Month - Wheat/Fig;
15th of 5th Month - Grape; 22nd of 6th Month - Oil
*Firstfruits MIryai Mt Calendar:
Jun 1 - Barley/Flax; Jul 1 - Wheat; Sept 15 - Grape;
Oct 15 - Oil
* This fortnight overlaps with
the 1st one about every 5th year (combine two Bon Fortnights into one when
this occurs) 368.882 days long, 3.6398 more, thus every 4.05242046 years