Why Don Quixote?

[AmelieJolie]

Can somebody tell me what the significance is of Don Quixote on the Law Of One website and books? I'm curious.

And what about "The Curse of Don Quixote", etc?

Is there some sort of mystical significance to these two things?

[twva]

I did a google search of the llresearch.org site and found this, from a speech Carla gave in 2002:
I’m a Christian. Could you guess? I don’t want you to become Christian if you are not. But what I want you to do is feel the unconditional love that this vibration of Christ offers. I don’t have any desire to make you believe in Jesus. I don’t care if Jesus ever actually got up on a cross and died and ascended to heaven. What I care about, and I think what is very valid, is the energy that put that man up on the cross, willing to give his life so that we wouldn’t suffer, yearning so much to love the world, yearning so much to call the world to love, that he was perfectly willing to lose his life. I don’t care whether he succeeded or not. Our logo is Don Quixote. Don Quixote tilted at windmills. They were all illusions. What I care about in Don Quixote is the passion that he had for good, for honor. What I care about is the passion that Jesus had for the beauty in each one of us. He saw all of us as citizens of eternity, and that’s the truth of us. We are infinite, magical, powerful, amazing beings. We have connections to each other, to the planet, and to that beyond ourselves which we came to serve, the light.

[AmelieJolie]

Good find, twva. :)

[soup]

It may be that the symbols of "christ" and "don quixote" act as icons which trigger specific associations to Carla which can be completely different to other people. This reminds me of the ambiguity within the term "love" and the inherent limitations contained within that abstraction. For this reason, I seem to taking more interest in the honesty of pure vibration, beyond words.
Funny, I think that part of what Carla suggests within these icons alludes to that - to the experience of a pure vibration called love which exists beyond the limitations of icon.


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[MarkM]

Yes, such an icon may be in a way likened to a computer icon, that with one touch, folders brimming with information are instantly accessed. The icon itself bearing no real clue as to what lies within.

A religious ritual can operate the same way, unlocking a channel to certain specifically tuned states of being with the power of such a link increasing with repeated use.

The casual observer may view the outer manifestation of the ritual with distain, not realizing the symbolic-suggestive nature of the ritual.

Here in 3D, pure qualities of intuitive grasping can be entered directly through such mundane icons as words, as a word can so symbolize and conjure forth.

For me, the word 'love' continues to be steeped with a more intuitively grasped range of feeling, all easily accessed by using the word itself.

Sharing of the word with another may be less fruitful than direct sharing of that which is unutterable, as another uses the word to trigger differing associations, although in a highly purpose-focused group such as Carla, Jim and Don, commonly held associations of the rituals there applied served to bear and protect the channel.

[MarkM]

soup, when I saw you on, yesterday, my heart leapt.

[Art]

Welcome back soup! The forum hasn't been the same without you! I look forward to reading more of your posts and gaining from your insightful perspectives.

Art

[soup]

Thanks for welcoming me here - its a seasonal wandering thing.

Sharing of the word with another may be less fruitful than direct sharing of that which is unutterable...

This reminds me of Jim's (silent) role in the Ra contact. Now in retrospect, I can imagine some of the communication content may have weakened Jim's ability to support in this way, as if the strength of the channel was shared between both Carla and Jim and to a lesser extent Don who was running the noisier alpha/beta brain waves.

In other words, it is difficult for me to imagine Don being able to support Carla in the unutterable way to the same extent Jim would be able to from within his focused silence.

I mention this from the perspective of observing distraction from within a trance state and the ability to balance distraction as they occur in efforts to sustain such a state.

This may be one of the reasons why Ra talked slowly - to help Jim sustain a balanced undistracted state and so be able to better support Carla meditatively.


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[litllady]

Something strange happened. Ive noticed the Don Quixote name the last few days on the forum. I didnt think anything of it. But I noticed his name in a strange place today. It was in my grammar page exercise for class. It used a sentence with his name to show a example of grammar. Here is what the example was...."Don Quixote, in Cervante's novel, is an idealist ill suited for life in the real world."

I never would of related Don with who he was and what he did if the name wouldnt have been sticking out on the forum, It would of never rung a bell for me. Reason being I guess that I havent studied the channeling information much. I dont find channeling to be full proof. But still, how strange it was to see his name of all names used in my grammar example today. I assume now Ill have to read up on him;)

[soup]

When I was pondering the Don Quixote icon,
I synchronously came across Linda Eder's Man of la Mancha music,
and then more seeking there, i discovered a great beauty in that.


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[AmelieJolie]

What I find strange about Don Quixote is that every time people tried to make the story into a film, it seemed destined to fail, people then started to wonder about "other" forces perhaps being at work.........

Strange. :rolleyes:

[soup]

...it seemed destined to fail, people then started to wonder about "other" forces perhaps being at work.........


Maybe the greater need here is one of becoming "more humble" somehow.


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[soup]

There's a music hall in Felton called Don Quixote's. On October 9th there is a celebration of John Lennon's birthday given by Drew Harrison of the Sun Kings;
I mention it as somehow significant.


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[soup]

...And what about "The Curse of Don Quixote", etc?...


I think that part of the mechanism of either cursing or blessing is the ability of the written word to invoke supernatural or paranormal influences.

As such, I encourage writers in general to be careful with their use of word such that blessings can better displace less than benign influences so...

blessings,
soup

[3D Sunset]

Earlier today, L&L Research posted this note on their web site. Just thought I keep the thread and the thought of Don Quixote alive here for a little longer.

3D

During my first year in college, in 1961-62, I saw in the University of Louisville Bookstore a print of Pablo Picasso’s drawing of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza tilting at windmills, a sketch which he had rendered on August 10, 1955. It looks to have a stark simplicity at first glance. This impression yields to fascination as the spare strokes of Picasso’s sketch are observed in more detail. It is a powerful drawing by a colossally talented man and I fell in love with it on the spot. Where Picasso’s cubist art was, for me, only of passing interest, this little drawing spoke to me. I tilt at windmills as a life’s work and always have, in one way or another! I bought the print on the spot, using up my lunch money for the month to do so, and put it up over my desk at home. Later, I had it framed, as it was beginning to wear.

Don Elkins moved in with me in November of 1968. The drawing was hanging over my desk and he asked about it. I told him the bare bones of the story of the man of La Mancha and how his skewed vision of the world made it a beautiful place and he, an heroic figure. He mused that it was a perfect image for the work we were then beginning to do, since we were dreaming impossible dreams together. We decided that Picasso’s sketch would be our logo. The image was in the public domain, so we were free to use it.

Since the beginning of our publishing in 1976 we have used that little image as our publishing logo. And we’re still tilting at windmills here at L/L Research with great joy and thanksgiving for the inspiration of that little sketch.

Carla L. Rueckert
July 9, 2008

[soup]

Picasso seems an amazingly Creative person...maybe he sets an example of the idea "to be the creator" in some way metaphoric by his abundance of creative genius expressions....


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