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significance underlying the transformation of the present world Mandala (the site). Applied to the
individual, there must be a process of dis-information from the Polarities for the purpose
of arriving at the primordial point where wo/men can exclaim: Tat Tvam Asi Thou
art That, or, "I'm not Wintermute
now.' "I'm the Matrix...' ' Nowhere. Everywhere. I'm the sum
total of the works, the whole show.' 'Things aren't different. Things are just Things...
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The tree of life growing out of a figure that has sacrificed
the self is a symbol of Wintermute's
morphosis. In sacrifice nothing is lost, rather something is transformed into an aspect
beyond the original configuration, much as matter is transformed into energy.
The mandala may be regarded as
an engine of change, releasing energy to the extent to which the individual using it and
concertrationg upon it is capable of identifying themselves with it. Ultimately, the
Mandala leads its user to visualization and realization of the source of energy within the
Matrix. This newly organized intergrated whole does not mean that such
self-contained units do not grow, change and become transformed. Quite the countrary, the
more is its capacity for growth and change enlarge.
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"The architects of Freeside went to great pains
to conceal the fact that the interior of the spindle is arranged with banal precision
of...a hotel room...it is a body growing in upon itself, a Gothic folly. Each space...is
some way a secret, this endless series of chambers linked by passages, by stairwells
vaulted like intestines, where the eye is trapped in narrow curves, carried past ornate
screens, empty alcoves...
Molly was trotting along a length of corridor
that might have been the one she'd traveled before...they were moving toward the tip of
the spindle; gravity was growing weaker...the corridor narrowed suddenly, curved,
split."
The divine transformer Shiva, whose
ceaseless dance reflects the ever-changing flow of nature is represented by the
four-spoked cosmic wheel whose hub is eternity, and which transforms everything as it
gradually rolls along its course.
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