Articles #Helios

HELIOS: PRIMORDIAL LIGHT Creation, Catastrophe, & Titanic Forces by Iona Miller, (c)2018 https://ionamiller2017.weebly.com/helios-titan.html Primordial Deities About 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system, the Sun and the Earth were formed. Myth straddles a scientifically false account of the world, and one which never took place as recounted but contains core truths about the universe or human experience. Myths reveal the human condition in relation to the sky, stars, and planets. The theory and nature of myth is related to the sky. The Titan god Helios is one such personification. The ancients naturally worshiped the life-giving sun, the symbol of the Source and origin of all things. The circumpunct symbol has been around for millennia, as "the circle with the dot in the middle". The circumpunct meaning ranges from an explanation of deity,to an explanation of the self. The circumpunct is one of most symbolic of all symbols. An Egyptian solar symbol dates back to Ra (or Re), god of the midday sun. In fact, the circle with a midpoint, plus a vertical line is the hieroglyph meaning "sun". The all-seeing eyes derives from the circumpunct. The most ancient initiatory and healing symbols, the circumpunct, a dot within a circle and/or a cross within a circle symbolizes the inner sun. is all-seeing eye evolved from prehistoric sun-disc images. The solar cross and wheel pendants mark the cardinal directions and the zodiacal houses of the precessional Great Year, a 26,000 years long cycle. Helios symbolizes the order of solstices punctuated by periodic eclipses. Ancient mankind built megaliths, burial chambers, and cave features to predict these cycles and fearsome wonders. Today, we use telescopes, and the heart of each telescope is a mirror which brings things into focus. The primacy of Helios reflects the primacy of consciousness. Solar energy and fire were always natural metaphors of creative power that becomes exhausted, then sinks back into its prior unconscious condition. Helios became the symbol of pure consciousness shining in the darkness of the unknown and the spiritual vision of the seer, described by H.P. Blavatsky: "[The] “opened eye” is the inner spiritual eye of the seer, and the faculty which manifests through it is not clairvoyance as ordinarily understood, i.e., the power of seeing at a distance, but rather the faculty of spiritual intuition, through which direct and certain knowledge is obtainable. This faculty is intimately connected with the “third eye"... All creation stories, scientific or mythic, describe the manifestation of something out of nothing. Beyond our experience of material reality in spacetime, there is a field of infinite potential, of unbounded possibilities, of absolute space, absolute nature. It is the source of naturally arising light. Light arises like consciousness, thoughts, images, and other mental events arise in our field of experience.

HELIOS: The Primordial Light of the Celestial Sphere The Uplifter of Souls by Iona Miller, (c)2018 https://ionamiller2017.weebly.com/helios-titan.html About 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system, the Sun and the Earth were formed. Myth straddles between false accounts of the world, and those that never took place as described but contain core truths about the universe, the sky of our ancestors. Universal patterns in nature have a mystical, cosmological, sociological, and individual function, both divine and subliminal. Every culture questions the nature, structure and order of the Universe -- the context from which all arises. Helios embodies this archaic worldview. Process is a language full of action. Mankind tracks time by its relationship to the sky, to the seasons and the ceremonies. The daily and yearly journey of the sun has been observed and tracked for aeons all over the world, based on the six sacred directions. We seek our spiritual place within it, skywatching astronomical events to find our place in the world. The premise is that psychic reality, psychic dynamism, including the mind turning around to reflect on itself, is as or more authentic than material reality. We can contemplate a more “conscious” universe, beyond human consciousness rooted in energy and information—a worldview in tune with myth and quantum cosmology. We can only pretend to see our own consciousness 'as if' we were outside of it. Our information states are entangled. Entanglement is the key to the dynamics of absolute space. Conscious awareness depends on the profoundly unconscious substrate. We have a cognitive unconscious for mundane and spiritual content that is difficult to access consciously. And, we have a deep psychic unconscious that is creative and imaginal. We might wonder what all that bright light is hiding. In a similar way, the hidden celestial sun is behind the bright rays of the sun. Sol Invictus is invincible self-effulgent flux. Perceptions shape reality. Its magic is the coherence of ritual or ceremony, gesture, art, and symbolic language in dramatic form. The unified psychic field is an immersive experience of dynamic thought forms and metaphorical-emotional resonance. Epiphany is upon you. Enlightenment awaits. The presocratic monist philosopher, Parmenides, is the father of metaphysics. He identifies his guides as the daughters of Helios, who conduct him on an allegorical mystical journey along the same path Helios travels to the halls of Night, toward the light. The metaphorical activation builds with each image as participatory vision. The Heliades took him by chariot along the Sun's path to the citadel of of a sophic goddess, presumed to be Night. This cosmic goddess revealed to him the true nature of existence within our delusional perceptions and illusory senses. She describes a cosmology and reveals “the unshaken heart of well-rounded reality” (fr. 1.29). Archetypal psychologist James Hillman explained that the “heart is the seat of imagination.” All great adventures begin in the heart. This extraordinary dialogical experience is the motif of mystery, initiation, and encounter with divinity. Some suggest the deity is Helios, in a liminal place where night and day are conflated or intertwined by conceptual blending of source and target domain (knowledge) with myth and metaphor. Poetical images intertwine with scenes of a non-metaphorical journey. The Earth and the Sun travel with retinue of planets through the galaxy. Our true self, like the sun gives us life. Parmenides formed his philosophy from his journey to knowledge where he received divine revelation and wisdom. He assembles corresponding metaphors, focusing and emphasizing the correlations between approach, inquiry, and paths. For the traveler and enquirer, knowledge is the destination of a journey. The metaphorical target is the domain of knowledge but described literally and symbolically. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parmenides/ We frame our cognitions into narratives or conceptual metaphors -- an imaginal ecology or metaphorical reality. Helios is the core of the intelligence of the natural world with multiple meanings, ambiguity, and polyvalent symbolism; pre-verbal ‘primary process’ of the unconscious: associative, iconic, timeless. Dramatic-metaphorical structure helps us navigate unconscious psychic dimensions and access subliminal states of individual and natural psyche. Cognitive unconscious reconfigures archetypal states and psyche's dream-like imagery into coherent projections with devotional and healing potential. "Psychological reflections always catch light from a peculiar angle; they are annoying at the same time as they are perceptive. Psychologizing sees things peculiarly, a deviant perspective reflecting the deviance in the world around." (p. 164. Hillman, Revisioning Psychology) "There is the psychological moment, a moment of reflection, wonder, puzzlement, initiated by the soul which intervenes and countervails what we are in the midst of doing, hearing, reading, watching. With slow suspicion or sudden insight we move through the apparent to the less apparent." (HRP, p. 140) https://ionamiller2017.weebly.com/helios-uplifter.html