This, along with many other incidents throughout Thompson s life, including the 1975 Centennial Secondary School shooting at his Brampton high school, led him to process incidents of terror on micro-and macrocosmic levels through his one-man comedy show " The Lowest Show on Earth ".
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That the one undivided consciousness in its microcosmic aspect is called Taijasa; and in its macrocosmic aspect, Hiranyagarbha or Ishvara, the totality because of identification with all subtle bodies of the universe, the former is the consciousness identified with the subtle body of the Jiva, the reflection of consciousness.
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Kirkus Reviews called the work " a truly gratifying book . . . [ w ] hat is satisfying is to see these authors deeply engaged in works of pure tripe and imagination ( Barnum called it hokum ) and watch them emerge with a fish so big ( macrocosmic ) that they become world-renowned.
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On a macrocosmic level, the consciousness of living the dim awareness that we are alive for a moment on this planet as it spins, meaninglessly, around the cold and infinite galaxy gives human beings " the status of a small god in nature, " according to Ernest Becker : " Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms.
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The results range from the macrocosmic ( cutting almost 90, 000 jobs from the civilian work force of 2.1 million, the first step in a planned reduction of 272, 000 positions ) to the microscopic ( reorganizing the New York office of the Department of Veterans Affairs so that a single employee serves as the main contact person for each veteran needing help, instead of shunting the veteran from desk to desk ).
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Tachikawa-ryu practices, just as in orthodox Shingon, is aimed at enacting this esoteric union of macrocosmic ( female ) and microcosmic ( male ) and through their union create an idealized " utopia ", the idealized constructed kingdom of the Godhead ( metacosm ) with the practitioners as King and Gods, self-made gods, in this case Dainichi Nyorai ('Y�e�Yeg ) ( Vairocana ) ( also seen as Amaterasu ) itself . ( White, 2000)
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In the second volume of the " Secret Doctrine ", Blavatsky discusses the " seven nervous plexuses of the body " and the seven rays they radiate, stating that this principle is found in the Rig Veda, in the mythology of Ahura Mazda, in the beliefs of the Incas, the Chinese Yao, and the Egyptian Osiris, who " when he enters the ark, or solar boat, takes seven Rays with him . " She describes the " seven wise ones " of the Veda as " the seven Rays which fall free from the macrocosmic centre ".
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On a macrocosmic level, taking the experience of love as far as humanly possible, to the boundary of the spiritual, Rank compared the artist's " giving " and the enjoyer's " finding " of art with the dissolution and rediscovery of the self in mutual love . " The art-work, " says Rank in " Art and Artist, " " presents a unity, alike in its effect and in its creation, and this implies a spiritual unity between the artist and the recipient " ( Rank, 1932 / 1989, p . 113 ).
