The Bardo of Transcendence
Cracking the Riddle of the Rishi Zone
22nd September 2026 I am posting the new material on this unit above what was previously posted.
Overture of the soundtrack for this cinematic sequence in Correction
Missorgsky, “Night on Bald Mountain,” celebrating the Germanic legend of the Witch’s Sabbath. The screaming, whirling vortex of violins presents an auditory rendering of lost souls spinning into oblivion. The tender chimes and slow pacing of the closing passage represent the measured stealth of these who crawl through the chaos and survive. Pour yourself a stiff one, set a moment aside, and listen to it on high volume.
In Tibetan, bar means “middle” or “between,” and do means “two” or “marked,” translating to “between two.” In the Bardo Thödol (The Tibetan Book of the Dead), it is the temporary state where a disembodied consciousness navigates visions and karma before taking a new physical form. Broadly speaking, a bardo is any uncertain gap in life where an old phase has ended and a new one has not yet started—such as deep sleep, meditation, dreaming, or moments of sudden change.
In Correction: the mass psychotic breakdown required as a rite of passage for the human condition to be overcome and exemplars of A-11 to emerge as a directive agency in society
To transcend: to move past a physical or mental barrier. To surpass, to be better or more important than something else. To exist above and apart from the material universe.
In Correction: to carry ahead in time and make viable the epigenetic conversion of the anthropine species, moral regeneration (Pluto at the head of the Goatfish).
In plain English: bottoming out and proving the power moral sanity in action, or not
The need to transcend is the deepest need in human nature. It subtends and supports the deficiency need in the hierarchy. It’s center or pivot is the need to die. Why has this need not been identified and articulated in religion and philosophy? Can it be detected in any key concept or principle of religion or metaphysics?
H. Bosch, human animals in limbo
JLL reading from the Sonnets to Orpheus.
Rilke’s manifold: Uranus :: to initiate, at ECL 143 in the Bardo of Transcendence
Transfigured constellations: the Lion, Lynx, Leo Minor, Great Bear
Preview: Score for entering the Domain of the Black Cat Demon, Cath Palug, Guardian of the Bardo who destroys character armor
The Riddle of the Rishi Zone
Maslow defined four categories of needs, to which I added a fifth set, ultimate needs. The inclusive need framing this set is TO SHARE. Note that 5 is the need to die.
Old Notes (1990s) on Maslov’s Hierarchy of Needs:
One goal in delving into the eclipses was to determine I could find any events in the social drama that might reflect the theme of the eclipse indicated by the celestial engram. The locale of the lunar eclipse was the Manitu, representing the theme of the MORAL COMPASS. I find it reflected in the current controversy over the Lindsay Clancy case which has given a significant section of the population cause to doubt if modern, liberal, feminist women even have a moral compass. I concur strongly with that doubt. (Better still, I would extend it to the entire female gender. Chew on that one for a moment.) In case you are not informed on that case, go HERE for an overview and summary of the controversy.
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I set out in August to investigate the phenomenon of solar and lunar eclipses.
Tuesday 8 September 2026: In Completion with Bhairavi. New moon of 11 September in 18 Virgo @ 168 in the Lion. 12 September = D1 of Shodashi shift, sunset crescent in the face of the Virgin.