we can paint ourselves as wolves, or come to find out who we are.
here is a puzzle, made more a puzzle, that can be solved by those who have......the fire, and the light, and the heart who make the night worthwhile.
there are puzzles we can only solve alone. there are puzzles that are only solved with others. there are puzzles that are only solved when we are alone with others.
there are puzzles to be solved when someone sees, not the puzzle, but the solution hidden inside.
and always the joy of th journey.
" light and shadow dance beneath the windswept tree
turns a little patch of violets into a spiritual thing for me.
if light and shadow can....
if light and shadow can...."
for those who have oncovered the secret of the shadow the dance is even sweeter.
thursdays, odd thursdays some will join the world dance.

here's teddy roosevelt on the subject of serpent wisdom. teddy roosevelt, like the president, the patriot, the creator of child welsfare laws, honouring the sabbath by reducing thw work week, protecting the rights of all, san juan hill type teddy roosevelt.
anybody wanna argue that he wasn't an example to us all?
serpent wisdom....it's not just for hippies anymore.



:"

All kinds of qualities go to make up character, for, emphatically, the term should include the positive no less than the negative virtues. If we say of a boy or a man, "He is of good character," we mean that he does not do a great many things that are wrong, and we also mean that he does do a great many things which imply much effort of will and readiness to face what is disagreeable. He must not steal, he must not be intemperate, he must not be vicious in any way; he must not be mean or brutal; he must not bully the weak. In fact, he must refrain from whatever is evil. But besides refraining from evil, he must do good. He must be brave and energetic; he must be resolute and persevering. The Bible always inculcates the need of the positive no less than the negative virtues, although certain people who profess to teach Christianity are apt to dwell wholly on the negative. We are bidden not merely to be harmless as doves, but also as wise as serpents. It is very much easier to carry out the former part of the order than the latter; while, on the other hand, it is of much more importance for the good of mankind that our goodness should be accompanied by wisdom than that we should merely be harmless. If with the serpent wisdom we unite the serpent guile, terrible will be the damage we do; and if, with the best of intentions, we can only manage to deserve the epithet of "harmless," it is hardly worth while to have lived in the world at all.

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sooner or later we all have had our fill of sorrow.
when Moses left to return to a City where He was no stranger and no one minded Him being there,
God handled the funeral arrangements.
while They were talking about it, God also gave Moses a good Deal on some real estate.
what's the survey marker for where They were stadning when the Deal went down?
signs of serpent wisdom.

the world's most undiscovered dance band is no more dangerous than the Bible.
Moses danced to serpent wisdom.
now, you can too. just drop your pre-conceptions, since they've all been conceived before.
remember, we come to find out who we are.
some people will be all about proving the Bible is a set of facts about a very weird Dude who has control issues.
others will be all about proving it's all random drama redacted later by people with self-esteem issues.
the wise will wiggle thru the maze, eat the maize, and take flight with the innocence of doves.

couple of times in the past 7 days, almost precisely 7 days, i have had to make the point to someone, uh huh, and now u know who u are. whether u like it or not. God does, becuase She sees what u can be.
over at the main base there will soon enuff be the complete lyrics to "we go."
but these opening lines keep coming up:
we go.
we choose.
no fate--no, man--we make it with our bare hands.
we choose our blessings and our scars.
we come to find out who we are.
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there is a wonder to it all. beyond any possible conception:
from "light&shadow":
making the most beautiful garden...
...
...
...
beyond words.
beyond words.
"if light and shadow can, if day and night, if land and sea can"

can we all get the very hell out of our own drama (which is, after all, what hell is) and see it?
hear it?

in ancient athens, at the time of socrates, a lot of governance was done by allotment. eventually, the idea
that some people were jsut better at some things than others began to be a deomonstrable fact, no matter how much it grated on people.
and thn it tended to go bad, and there began to be an entitlement to the "being better" of the type tht gets slammed in orwell's animal farm.
in the meantime, a word that meant "alotted" began to mean special, different, cool.....clergy.
at the time when people realised it might be their lot in life to be the mayor, or the shaman, or the singer-songwrtier, they took the job, and did it, and went on.
they didn;t mix their ego with the craft.
they could wake up one day and go, o, dang, i'm a poet. o dang, i'm a general.
they never saw a need to think it meant something.
so, did aristotle and his little cruise thru the greek islands of thought and taxonomy take something away?
when blogger restores its pix uload, this spot may contain an image from parthenon times showing the serpent as the comopanion of a greek ideal of wisdom.

after halloween we start Christmas... what a weird calendar the usa has.
ad at&croft did quite well with a song containing the lines "nightingale don't fly away" which re-nforced this same iamge from another direction. the Nightingale inquestion, the perceived Voice of Love.
the Tree becomes the staff, the Serpently growing it's way to sky and sun, roots gnarling, penetrating, shaping, looking curved and bending, but taking the real route to the source.
I stand there to tel us who we are, as we approach It.
"we come to find out how we are" ("we go" lyrcs and music by serpent wisdom, represented by j&b dances, all copyrights reserved.)

This Thursday night, November2, June Carter Cash will be at Air Devils Inn. Along with Townes Van Zandt, francis scott keye, and whoever actually wrote "man of constant sorrow" Johnny will be appearing just below the stage ceiling when
the ken the boxman creates quantum worlds of wonder populated not by the lyrics of Jak, but by authors who have gone onto the next plane.
Others beside Jak Son have reported seeing them. If you are there for the world dance, whether you see them or not, you'll know they are in the room.
Where ever 2 or more of you are gathered in the spirit, Spirit is there.
Join the world dance with serpent wisdom.

according to any number of Bhuddist sources, there was a part of Bhuddha's Message to mankind that man wasn't ready to take.
about the time of Christ, it could be.
in the meantime, it was hidden with the serpents. serpent wisdom.
telling a child that there were treats for him outside a burning house might be wiser than telling him he was in danger if he stayed with his toys inside the burning house.
with the wisdom of serpents, and the innocence of doves.
white lotus, white hand--do we reach for the boquet of the flower, or reach out our hand, into a snake dance reaching across the horison..? how man people does it take to make that happen?
serpent wisdom will be dancing tonite at the oldest running bar in louisville.
will you be there?
can you dance to the star-spangled banner? can you dance to a truth about the magdalene?
come find out.

All human beings want the same 2 things--to get thru the night and have tomorrow be better than today. in a cave 22 thousand years ago, or in a coffee house where u may be a stranger to this city .
u want to get thru the night and have tomorrow be better than today.
the appearance of the system can change. it better, actually. one time u may be dreaing tomorrow's food into existence, another u may be building a nation or a world, or a way to look at things differently than ever before--which means somethins will look alike, some things different.
u'll know by the results.
there is a changeless Cause of God--which might be defined without all the nonsense as just the Bst Advice on how to get thru the night, and have tomorrow be better than today.

a freind and i were talking about the differences in how we all perceive certain moral issus,
as if any of us knew. and about the pain so many of us have from not being willing to admit to ourelves and others
we don;t know. and how we inlict pain on others when we insist we do, and how so many of those injured are young.
using our own sense of nsecurities as a reasonable justifcation to not reach out, form one great snake dance
reasching all across the horison, refusing to answer, "how many people does it take to make it happen ....(one people).

ok,
i looked at Bhuddism.
It teaches that material life is not real.
that would make being "gay" not real. being "hetero" not real.
in fact "being" anything much but spirit is not real.
as is said, "it's in your spirit, that's where it matters. that's where it is it is.
that what it's in it's n it's in. ("spirit" serpent wisdom, c 2006 j&b dances, all rights reserved.)
i also looked at differentiations between Bhuddism and so-called Hinduism.
i found this quote:
"While the two share many of the same ideas and visions, however, they are different and represent different ideals. One is an ideal of perfect self, one of perfect self-less-ness. These are opposing ends, even if their approaches are similar."
perhaps the there is no difference. perhaps one teaches that self is filled with nonsensical roo droppings, and to be perfected must be emptied.
and the other teaches that a perfect self is empty.
if atman, the understadning that we are eternal souls, is false, is this caused by eternity or by our understaning?
if brahman, the eternally changeless universe is false, is it becuase there is no universe, or we are incapable of sensing
the changelsess nature of an organic process?
serpent wisdom would say, ahhh, yeah... "no fate, no man. we make it with our bare hands. we choose our blessings and our scars.
we come to find out who we are." and amongst what we learn is indeed, how little we know.

here's a picture of a Guy, without body, all soul, in sacrifice, in vision trance, in dream,
creating the means to feed His people, and to show them what later Moses would be doing, in a world they could not even begin
to imagine. that's the changeless religion of God.
how much does it resemble the "we're proud" ???
each of us will decide for ourselves. and some will try to decide fo others.
and that too shall pass.

we go.
we choose.
no fate..no man.
we make it with our bare hands.
we choose our blessings and our scars.
we come to find out who we are.

the tree don't curse the sidewalk for covering up her roots,
and the sidewalk don;t talk bad about her when those roots come bysting through.
abstract cracks at the garden gate, puzzling through beneath her shade.
beneath her shade.

we go. we come. we choose.
we choose our blessings and our scars--
we come to find out who we are.
who we are.

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in the Bible Christ says that God could turn rocks into descendants of Abraham...or something to tht effect (simon..called cephas--the blockhead, might be an xample) (luke or somebody talks about it)
so, stones are made ofth stuff th serpent cruises just above, looking closely at the rocks, gettin warmd by them in th sun. but he dosn;t eat the rocks. birds eat rocks to help thm digest that which is too hard to chew (don't see lots of teth on birds) . the Dove uses rocks for teeth--grinding up what must be transformed so that it can become th nergy of flight. th serpent floats just above th rocks, touching them, ignoring them. hiding in them, warming by them, but ignpring them, while keeping his eyes on the prize.
somebody could watch a serpent and say, hey i anna be able to do all that, and act like king of the rocks. that's not th serpent's fault. it's th fault of the one watching a serpent when she soulda been looking for the Dove.
3rd thursday night in september, join the world dance and think for yourself:
http://serpentwisdom.net

are all paths valid to finding truth? to some degree yes. to another, no.
the real question, as we work to form one giant snake dance reaching across th planet, is--can we lie to ourselves?
we come to find out who we are.
God already knows.

where do we go when we die?
the same place we went when we were born--some place new. someplace different, beyond outr comprehension.
people argue and fuss about how to bury the dead, although over the cruise of history the one thing we know is that they will all be forgotten but what they did that made life better will be remembered and lived by.

people spend a lot of time telling others who they are--when they don't actually know.
"we come to find out who we are." they think themselves plumbers, singers, good guys, Christians, Moslems, Jews, scholars, virtuous, evil. they think they are many things. but actually, no. those are just thing they do. thy run from knowing this, and think action is meaning, when in reality, it's--like anything that can be graphed, only an approximation. this cigarillo is not a cylinder, but an approximation of one.
this sentence is not an idea, but a container for the approximation of an idea. for several days a couple of the guys who repreent serpent wisdom have been in discussions at various levels of action about the meaning of children, parents, rights, duties, and the general attempt to have living be about the becoming, not the doing.
travelling thru quantum worlds of wonder, attempting to populate those worlds with stories of context so that at some point, some day, people will stop saying thy have souls, and start saying the are souls.
"it's in your spirit, that's where it matters. that's where it is, it is, is. that's what it's in, its in, its in."
--"spirit" music and lyrics by serpent wisdom, representation by j&b dances.

we'll be showing off the new album here.

www.isound.com/serpent_wisdom
in the meantime, the 5th thursday night (yeah, there is one) is only a few days away at air devils inn.

thurrrrrsday at beautiful air devils inn (ok the inn may not be beautiful, but jennifer tenderheart will be behind the bar ) Serpent Wisdom returns to the stage.
the new album is progressing, according to the populawtor of the quantum worlds of wonder.
what we need there (at least this blogger does) is the ineffable lady "s" to join the world dance.
2x steve needs to work on that....:-)

crusing thruough louisville on river road, coming back from a new class dining place along the river where the west actually started. thinking about Thursday night, 9 p.m. where the ancient myths become modern dance, insrt4ead of a holiday cruise for 2...a world dance for everyone.

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a cruise ship tour that took one to france could be the beginning of a journey to the cavce at lascaux. in this cave is a figure of the one whom joseoh campbell calls the first hero.
these days, heroism is possibly making good profit and helping others enjoy the trip through the world we live in.

"and she parties in the underworld, and she parties in the highlands,

and the bad guys do leave her alone, becuase she's down at the barretone
with the barretone's very own don corleone."
--serpent wisdom, days of barretone.
As we look at the ancient mysteries of the rod and the dove it's easy to get lost in a cruise thru mediterranean majesty or caribbean conspiracy.
and not see the dove right before our eyes. unless we're lucky, or privileged.
two hour phone conversation to say what we already knew.
the new night is thursday's at adi starting tonite.
come join the world dance.
i was dialoguing with a friend who has been missed, who said that often guys were thye talkers, and she the ah, yes, uh ....and this was not so great.
and i laffed when i read that, because the lady v
and i can take turns talking for 15 minutes without the other saying a word, as evidenced by the connection breaking on the material level for 4 minutes before i realised it and called back.
talk is cheap. but communication is a treasure.

Cruising through the Mediterranean or the Caribbean cruise experience may give you insite into what we know now, but it is only voyaging into your heart that will tell you what you already knew.

when did ancient wisdom get organised enough to know that "it's in your spirit, that's where it is" --"spirit, by serpent wisdom, c2006 j&b dances
was a truth??
as shown on the cover of the upcoming live album,


the "dreamer" at lascaux, in 22,000 bCe is not a body, but a spirit. and the staff and the bird get us ready for rumi's comment made, i dunno when, but maybe 1260 aD,



" The Merciful God promised Mustafa,
"You will die but the Qur'an will prevail.
I shall exalt your Book and its Miracle
and protect its face from being changed.
This Qu'ran to you is Moses' staff;
like that dragon it will devour all deception."
As we cruise through time and space, guided by the Music of the quantum worlds of wonder,
it's sometimes useful to recall that just becuase we understand more perfectly than those who walked the new highway before us, this does not mean they did not understand.

and because it is part of an ancient ritual of the real meaning of serpent wisdom, i offer this one to a guy wondering how to keep it flowing.
the title of the pic is, "seriously, what the hell were we looking at?"
and i would offer that it is the serpent wisdom relfectyed in their eyes is what they were seeing, ancient, future, unafraid, nobly created.
and that of both of them for different reasons, i can say, and "she's down at the barretone withits very own don corleone" tho the barretone is there no more.
but then , there are different dons for different days.

for the first time in over a year, Serpent Wisdom will not be playing at Air Devils Inn on 060706.
a medical emergency has intervened to block the 12-string theory from being practiced.
instead, Nate Thumis (known not so well as the rhythm guitar of Dallas Alice, and world famous for his attempts to rhyme "orange" will be playing solo.
How often in the Ville has one group headlined for 54 weeks non-stop? never that we know of.
and next week, Serpent Wisdom will be back.

In Lousiville, one of the cultural icnons in Vin Morreale. Vin teaches many things.
Some of his results were premiered at comedy caravan today

maybe teaching that the dream is the reality.
and idris is creating a song, vibration, geometry, scale, and maybe carrying the best of everything to those who can receive them is something that is Told. and that might be a part of serpent wisdom. on which stands the dove.

and becuase some one asked, here's a pic of me from my myspace.
i had someone else pose for it, but yeah.
sometimes it's hard applying serpent wisdom to a world where people are too willing to pose, and all not ready to deal.
the model for this one is a guy who can do both well.
oddly enuff, this post is not so much showing up, unlike serpent wisdom who shows up just in time to start the weekend.

another serpent site

another serpent site

ahhh, the test.

lest somebody think i would overlook such a sweet smile, from the effervescent "j".

while radomly thinking about pagans, rae dawn chong, pov, and the music of the sfears, which can be sometimes heard @
places like this
whoops, that's not a place that5's a state...
ok. like
it occurred to me that....
well, intoxicants came up....which are like ok, if u get into the critique of pure reason, ur probably intokants, and the ch in chile, and chlili, and whatall is the mayan xi and the mayans pursued serpent wisdom,
so. back to front, like one great snake dance, , one of the "a"s but not the "a" the eternally enchanting "c" contemplating what happens if u don;lt have serpent wisdom, another "a" somehow truning the sky around her into a relfection of her asian eyes, the awesomeness of "v" being, ok, lemme be awesome for a second instread of hiding under her floppy hat, and "c" contemplating in a concrete way bob marley, rasta, and walk the land.