Comments on: The Guardian Angel

By: J. Puma

J. Puma — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:17:32 +0000

fight club is definitely a divine twin/evil jinn kinda thing, complete w/a sophia character. most certainly a gnostic film.

By: hester

hester — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:14:27 +0000

In the Buddhist Pali, it is said: there is no Wisdom without Concentration, no Concentration without Wisdom. To become fascinated with the twin is a distraction. A buddhist nun told me when she was meditating, one day, eyes closed, suddenly next to her she saw a white illuminated body, sitting as she was. She thought, “I wonder what time it is” and the body got up and looked at the clock. At that moment, she came out of samadhi. Her teacher told her that if she had not become startled by the body, THAT would have been concentration; jhana. People become fascinated with their other bodies before they have attained wisdom, and spin off into all kinds of samsara.

By: bill

bill — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:16:22 +0000

Is Fight Club a divine twin thing? Joseph Campbell too lists dealing with the ‘brother’ as one way of finishing a quest.
I love the idea of causes in the future, affecting things in the past. Alfred Whitehead wrote on this I think, calling it a ‘confluence’, which I imagined as a sort of allowing cause and effect to flow both ways in time in a way. If you think of a river, a rock up ahead can affect how its flowing up to that point, within a certain area. Maybe the divine twin or guardian angel is our ability to sort of deduce what up ahead based on subtle observations of how things are going around us, and also how things look inevitable in retrospect, all leading up to a certain moment. Did that moment ’cause’ everything that came before it?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:17:40 +0000

What if the Fravashi was actually a product of the right brain, and the soul was contained in the left? The Fravashi would then become something that metaphorically helps our soul, our SELF, evolve and grow.