The Poetry of The Point: All of Cosmos and Consciousness in a Little Round Dot

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

Religion & Spirituality, Trance, Mythology, Culture, Society & Culture, Shamanism, Arts, Justice, Entheogens, Spirituality, Cosmology, Art, History

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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What's the point? Well, far from being an image of smallness or insignificance, the single point, the dot communicates a lot. In fact, in India, there are songs devoted to the point, texts that extol its radiant qualities, practices designed to link to it as a focal point of meditative awareness. The importance of little dots takes on even greater significance when we realize that all life forms — and even the universe itself — began as a little round dot. In Indian cosmology, Bindu, the poin...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald,
0:10.2	currents and trends through a mythic lens.
0:13.6	The podcast where we explore an ever-changing world and our lives in it
0:18.1	through the lens of myth, story, and imagination.
0:26.8	The Emerald.
0:28.6	All that's happening on this green jewel in space. Try this. Take a blank piece of paper.
0:45.4	No, really, do it. I'll wait. We've got time. You can pause me if you like.
0:50.0	Or if you're in the car, then follow along with your imagination and try it when you get home.
0:55.3	Place the paper in your field of vision and stare at it for a while. Fix your gaze on it.
1:01.4	What happens as you study its blankness? Perhaps some faint pattern starts to emerge, probably
1:07.5	rather amorphous and vague and not really much of anything, not really leading the mind
1:13.1	anywhere tangible. So perhaps the mind starts to wander a bit, to try to look beyond the page,
1:19.7	or the eyes keep shifting trying to find a focal point, scanning the page to find some feature,
1:25.5	some fibers or distortions to fix on.
1:28.9	But see if you can move beyond that. Just focus on its blankness.
1:33.5	Kind of hard to do, focus on blankness.
1:36.7	Inevitably, the mind starts wandering off.
1:40.1	Now, take a pen and make a single round dot right in the center of the paper.
1:46.5	Hold it up again and take a look.
1:49.5	Where do your eyes go?
1:51.3	Right to the dot.
1:52.9	Immediately.
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