"This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar..." ~ Margaret Atwood Art: Elin Manon #HappySolstice

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Credit: Pyramid Consciosness "Dante did not write the Inferno as a horror story. He wrote it as a map. The Divine Comedy begins in darkness, in a forest, at midpoint of life, completely lost. Before Dante can ascend through Paradise, he must first descend through every circle of hell. This was not an accident of narrative structure. It was the teaching. The journey upward is only available to the one who has first gone all the way down. There is no shortcut that bypasses the descent and arrives at the light. Virgil does not lead Dante around the underworld. He leads him through it. Every tradition that has mapped the inner journey has placed this same requirement at its center. The alchemical process begins with the nigredo, the blackening, the stage of putrefaction in which everything the ego has constructed is dissolved. The Sufi path requires the annihilation of the self before union with the divine becomes possible. The shamanic initiation across cultures involves a symbolic death, the dismemberment of the old self, before the healer can return with the capacity to heal others. Jung called this the night sea journey, the descent into the unconscious that precedes genuine transformation. The reason most people do not reach paradise is not that they are incapable of it. It is that they are unwilling to begin in hell. They want the ascent without the descent, the light without the darkness, the resolution without the suffering that makes resolution possible. Hell, in Dante’s framework, is not punishment. It is the honest confrontation with what is. The souls in the Inferno are not there arbitrarily, they are experiencing the full reality of the choices they made in life. To walk through hell is to see clearly. And clarity, however painful, is the beginning of every genuine ascent. The path does not avoid the darkness. The path goes through it. What descent have you been refusing to make, and what might be waiting for you on the other side of it?" #PyramidConsciousness #Dante

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Credit: Thefarmacyreal (Facebook) "A peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science revealed that two out of three dogs diagnosed with certain types of cancer (e.g. lymphoma) had been exposed to benzene at DNA-damaging, genotoxic levels. The research proved that the volatile organic compound (VOC) Benzene is directly genotoxic to canine lymphoid cells, causing measurable DNA strand breaks and oxidative damage that often precede a formal cancer diagnosis. Because dogs live closer to the ground where heavy chemical vapors naturally settle, breathe faster than humans, and frequently lick their paws, they are uniquely vulnerable to absorbing these invisible environmental toxins. In everyday environments, both humans and animals are exposed to benzene primary by breathing contaminated indoor air, or through accidental skin contact. In the home, benzene is continuously released by common items such as household cleaners, synthetic air fresheners, scented candles, paints, glues, and emissions from gas stoves or tobacco smoke. It also enters the household via manufactured personal care products—like contaminated aerosol dry shampoos or deodorants—and outdoor tracking of gasoline fumes, motor vehicle exhaust and industrial pollution. Once absorbed, benzene undergoes metabolic activation in the liver and moves into the bone marrow, where it acts as a known carcinogen for both species. Chronic exposure causes severe hematological damage, including bone marrow suppression, a depleted immune system, and an increased risk of blood-related malignancies like leukemia in humans and malignant lymphoma in dogs. Check out the comments section for the full effects of Benzene on humans and animals and a list of brands of cleaning supplies that are benzene, xylene and formaldehyde free! ❤️ SEE PMID: 42052348" #detox #pets

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#AharmlessJape

“The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity, and arrogance they display. And yet these fools find other fools who applaud them; for the like-minded always flock together, and besides, the more worthless a thing is, the more it is admired by the majority of people.” — Erasmus #MediocreTalent #badArt #Erasmus

#beebalm

#DavidBohm

#freezingblueberries

“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.” Oriah Mountain Dreamer Artist: Catrin Welz-Stein Paired by Whispers from the Heart (Facebook)

#Nature

Credit: Homeschooling for Beginners (Facebook) #parenting

Credit: Homeschooling for Beginners (Facebook) #parenting

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#nature #fledglings