the end of the world as we know it

toure breaks his sync whole silence...

i wish i was faster with the posts; you guys are really amazing with the flow. anyways...

atlantis with goddess and crab

last night, i got really bored trying to watch a Discovery Channel documentary on the lost city of atlantis. i've been revisiting atlantis [...] both as a historical reality as well as a metaphor for higher consciousness... falling into the c... the sink hole n stuff...

acropolis on a hill, A for Up, touched by zeus

at The Secret Sun, Chris Knowles discussed the idea that Avatar's Pandora mimicked an underwater planet: besides the people being blue [as some atlanteans are shown] the plant life seemed very aquatic, and humans had to wear oxygen masks. 

Avatar's Pandora and blue star jupiter

[masked] atlanteans from marvel comics

"This was not like reality. We were blue. We were having a good time riding in vehicles and even riding backwards in wheelchairs for fun. I and my daughter and our vehicles were blue, including our skin. We were laughing joyously while we were doing this."
-Dee Finney, recounted dream 

http://www.greatdreams.com/myth/blue_man.htm

the blue atlanteans reminded me of a theory i mentioned in a comment from Jake's blue star post; a few different fringe historians have posed the idea that dark-skinned afrikans [of which we are all descendants] descended from a race of blue-skinned people... which could explain the blue god legends scattered around the world. on a deeper level, something about the blue people resonates with our collective akashic memory.

"The look of the Na'vi—the humanoids indigenous to Pandora—was inspired by a dream that Cameron's mother had, long before he started work on Avatar. In her dream, she saw a twelve-foot-tall blue-skinned woman, which he thought was 'kind of a cool image'."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%282009_film%29#Themes_and_inspirations

like the egyptian goddess Nut, Neytiri is covered in stars

analyze this

Also, i've been watching the amazing Magical Egypt series on youtube, and the awesomeness of that civilization clearly points to a strong pre-egyptian influence. i'm thinking atlantis may be it [in some form]. in any case, the conceptual apocalypse i feel here at the Whole resonated with atlantis, seeing as the city "sunk" into the sea [see] in a single day. then james had to go and complicate things with his Acropolis mumbo jumbo...

The Acropolis at Athens

i was unfamiliar with the word Acropolis; had to look it up... both acropolis and apocalypse describe a different Janus face of the sync explosions. acropolis literally means "city on the edge"...

edge of the sync whole, as i see it, falling in. in addition to having the look of the sunken city from the atlantis image at the start of this post, it also reminded me of Lincoln's Memorial cage...

acropolis, apocalypse, atlantis, abe...

Abe Sapien the blue atlantean... man, i wasn't even tryin to go there...

Apocalypse means "revelation"; i was using it in terms of the revelation at the Whole, but it can also represent the other side of the sink hole. i asked a while back in a comment what was on the other side of the [w]hole... here at the edge, we're getting a glimpse. it always feels like a glimpse...

sometimes, it's more than a glimpse. 42 posts in the month of January... that's a pretty clear picture as far as synchs go 'round here. it seems, things happen as they should: we may never have reached 42 posts without the end-of-january explosion of synchronicity revolving around big bad Abe Lincoln, which was most likely fueled by the 1st ever synch whole skype conference call, orchestrated by J. Ratte, and sparked weeks earlier with a weird synch wink pointed out by Will Morgan the Shaman, the same g8tor who initiated the first skype interviews with the famed Merry Men.

In my interview with Will, he asked if i purposely avoided documenting "real-life" synchs or if i just wasnt seeing them... i had to think on that after we hung up. i had been avoiding personal synchs in favor of those in pop, but why? it took some time, but i realized that i still have an "outsider" view of my place here at the whole, and i felt my own personal synchs were less relevant. i'm still dealing with this. personal synchs, to me, are like dreams... the explanation is so much less effective than the experience of it. the meaning feels lost in translation.

"This was not like reality. We were blue. We were having a good time..."

this [imagined] separation speaks to the duality i'm struggling with over at The Patternist and, conversely, the coming together of synch here. makes sense then, that some personal synch should pop up.

after writing most of the above, i took a break from this post to get back to my work... i was in the middle of grading papers for an African American Studies course. the title of the first paper i pick up from the stack starts with "Analysis of the Self".

i almost miss the connection; i'm so not in Love with grading papers, and -for any college students reading this- it's not a great idea to start a term paper title with "Analysis of..."; it's redundant. but i guess i needed to get smacked upside the head with some redundancy. some self-analysis... i graded the last few papers in the stack and got back to the computer. on my way back to blogger, i got distracted by one of my favorite sites for design inspiration, The Webby Awards.

I was greeted by a whole army of blue people [smack]...

...and when i scrolled down, i saw none other than Obama in red and blue right next to a blue cat

[smack, smack, smack]

this post was supposed to be the top 10 sync moments of the Whole. got distracted.

the janus/jupiter/two-face synch patterns here at the Whole are by far the most resonant synchs for me. never before have the musings of the merry men followed so closely with the studies of The Patternist. i think i'm responsible for this synch-up taking so long to happen. i took comfort in having my own little synch world, apart from all this, an alter-ego to call my own...

then came the syncpocalypse.

-toure