Topic: Tibetan Book of the Dead
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/
look at http://www.hermitary.com/ while ur at it. this place is so cool. id love to live in a hut like a real hermit and do esoteric thinking all day and night long.
which is what i pretty much try to do but in a bigger hut with running water and electricity. some of the abodes here are the coolest and check out the links they have on tarot symbols, and the difft hermits that lived in difft times. particularly interesting the hermits and huts from difft cultures. there's one with the look of being in a cave with about 20 steps all carved out in a sweeping motion thats astoundingly beautiful. i could see many of us living in these huts and gathering at night with torches burning to share the knowledge imparted. neato.
an excerpt from the first link on the left : the hermit symbolizes "introspection, spiritual maturity, discipline or control, protection of the reservoir of wisdom versus dissipation of energy, active cultivation of sagacity, equilibrium between reality and wisdom and between authority and self-confidence, self-enrichment by all things that contribute to wisdom, prudence associated with silence and measure, love as the protection of universal balance, creativity as the life force preserving wisdom and harmony, ability to give as renunciation and as humaneness."
there's more to see on that link that turns me on. i know u will like it. there's even a ditty on "the wanderer"
http://www.hermitary.com/lore/wanderer.html read the poem and be there with it. beautiful thoughtful work on hermits and their lifestyles here. love to the creator of that site. he should be so proud. they have a forum too. way cool.
