Thought for the Day – August 5, 2026
Thought for the Day – August 5, 2026
Acupuncture. The scene began with an unusual light. It was a kind of white light, soft and highlighting the whole scene. This had never happened before. I then saw a stream of gemstones that formed a cone, with the stones covering it all around. A voice asked, “What do you see?” She was not present, but it was the voice of Orogine. I told her, and she said “no.” The gemstones disappeared, and I then saw nothing. She said that you cannot see the shape of energy until matter takes on the shape. The gemstones appeared again, and I could see the cone-shaped surface covered with them. Orogine said I needed to understand that energy forms in shapes and then attracts matter to that shape. She then said that I would need to work on the obvious questions. What factor or force causes energy to form shapes? What draws matter to the energy shape? What is that forms matter? There was then a sequence of different shapes that could not be seen until matter was drawn to them. Orogine said I would need to think hard about these questions. She said that she and Tonarius would help me but not until I put in some real effort. Then she said I needed to understand the most important thing. That what I had just experienced was also true of thought. Thoughts, like energy, formed in shapes but could not be experienced until the shapes attracted…attracted what? Orogine said: “Guess it.”
Russ, this dialogue with Orogine is truly extraordinary. The directness and clarity of her speech, not to mention the door she is opening for you that appears (to me, at least) to cast light on something foundational to life itself, are amazing. Your interactions with her remind me so much of what Jung said at the end of his life, that he no longer needed to rely on his anima as a mediator or translator for the imagery in his unconscious. However, Orogine strikes me not as either a mediator or a translator, but as some sort of Socratic tutor who asks you probing questions so you can find a deeper truth. Sitting on the sidelines watching this unfold, as I am, is really special.
This seems like a koan . . . .