A very interesting video about ancient pyramids, underwater structures and artefacts hinting at our mysterious past. Beautiful cosmic artworks from different South American countries.

Today I was on a staff excursion into the Swiss Jura, which I had organised together with a colleague for the team of our Marketing and Communication department. About 30 persons came for the tour. As the train entered the mountains the clouds dispersed and gave way for a beautiful clear autumn sky. We stopped at Saint Imier, where the world-famous watch enterprise Longines is located.

The Longines building

We had the good luck that the “patron”, the director of Longines himself gave us the presentation – thanks to the good relations of my colleague who knew him personally. A very impressive presentation about how Longines has worked over 160 years building up not just a watch empire, but emotions about watches. He showed us the many stars and sports-people working as “ambassadors of elegance”, high-ranking names from the fields of cinema, sport, adventurers (Lindbergh proposed to Longines the development of a special watch for his first transatlantic flight in 1929…). So glamour is not just a casual emotional result, but the outcome of long-lasting and highly directional strategies.

Later we had a guided tour through the Longines museum – fascinating watches and insights into how chronometers developed over the last 150 years.

A watch-angel from the beginning of last century in Art-Deco style

A golden pocket-watch with masonic symbols and a diamond in the cover

An Art-Deco watch with birds

Every watch since the beginning carries the same logo, a number by which it can be identified, and the details are registered in books with the name of the seller, the date and the price – hundred-thousands of watches – a unique library.

The guide in the room with the watch-registries

Later we had our lunch in the village and then proceeded to the “funiculaire”, a funicular railway driven by solar energy bringing us up to the “Mont Soleil”, the sun mountain – and really, it was very sunny today.

The Funicular

After a 20 minutes walk we arrived at the solar energy park, where they are testing different kinds of photovoltaic systems as per their efficiency.

Two guides gave us insights into the technologies and difficulties of creating energy from the sun.

A beautiful reflection on the surface of a sun collector

In the background and farther away on the mountain there was a park with wind turbines – the only one up to now in Switzerland.

We had a 30 minutes walk along the mountain and stopped at a barn, where a farmer woman had prepared for us a little picnic with different kinds of cheese, bread, water and wine from the area. A bus then picked us up and brought us to Biel, from where we returned by train to Berne.

A friend today sent me this nice parable. Enjoy

It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions. After a while, they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth. Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live with the little wounds caused by the close relationship with their companions in order to receive the warmth that came from the others. This way they were able to survive.

Moral of the story: The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of others and can admire the other person’s good qualities.

The real moral of the story……Learn to live with the pricks in your life.

Photos of a baby porcupine from the mailing

4th of August is Master CVV‘s 143rd birthday (Indian counting: 144th), being born on Tuesday, 4th of August, 1868 (see here about his birth chart and also at the end of the text, and here the ephemerides of 1868). He is known as The Aquarian Master, who, in 1910, anchored the energy of synthesis on our planet.

In the book “Mystic Mantrams and Master CVV” Master EK writes about Master CVV:

The New Era
Evolution is a gradual expansion of consciousness. This expansion takes place from atom to man. As we look around we find men in different stages of evolution. The differences between saint and sinner, between genius and idiot, are only reconcilable with the conception of the law of evolution. This evolution is the heritage of all men. At the zenith of this evolutionary ladder stand some persons whom we call gurus or Masters. They stand as the torchbearers to the humanity only to shed light on the path to assist its evolution.
The birth of Master C. V. V. marked the beginning of a new era of Hierarchical activities. Contact on the personal level increases on a large scale and the activity of personal transaction establishes the soul link. It results in establishing communion of pure human values on international level.
Master EK, “My Light”, 22-7-1977

Photo of a 3-d picture of M. CVV on a blue background: “Multidimensional Expansion of Consciousness”

A video from an Arab TV shows the dance of a beautiful transparent eel larva ballerina (leptocephalus larva).

Wikipedia explains, “A leptocephalus (meaning “slim head”) is the flat and transparent larva of the eel,.. Leptocephali (more than one leptocephalus) all have laterally compressed bodies that contain transparent jelly-like substances on the inside of the body and a thin layer of muscle on the outside. Their body organs are small, and this combination of features results in them being very transparent when they are alive.”

Never seen such a creature – such a delicate, rhythmic movement full of of easiness. Enjoy.

Print Screen photo of the video

An Indian friend sent me the link to this sublime video: “Lotus Flower Images – On White“, by photographer Bahman Farzad. Music by Ahmad Farzad, – a father-son production. There is another video by both: Lotus Flower Images. See also the website. Sublime!

Picture by Bahman Farzad, from the video

This morning on the way to my office I saw the spider in front of the Swiss National Bank building (left) and the Government (right) – a work of art entitled “Maman”, by the New York artist Louise Bourgeois, it is there for 10 days…. Quite symbolic. The artist called her work “maman” because her mother was busily engaged in keeping the family together, like a spider.

The spider with the Swiss Government building at the background

I today came over a nice website called “The World Garden“. There are photos from gardens from many countries, you can send them a picture of your garden to be added to the site. On the page there is an nice intro by Barbara Wolf:

“Long ago Mother Earth was a perfect garden. There was a perfect blueprint for her. Then, fragmentation began and today the garden is far from perfect. Let us turn the imperfect to the perfect.
We begin small; each of us making one piece of a world garden of perfection. We overlay our efforts, our tapestry, on the energies of imperfect Mother Earth. That is how we change the imperfect to the perfect.”

The site made me think of the book “Leaves of Morya’s Garden” from 1924. Here is an extract from the aphorism No 229:

Yes, yes, yes, each word of unity is as the seed of
some fair flower.
To cultivate a garden of beauty is permitted to all.
But where are the gardeners who can judge which seed is best?
We shall teach them to gather the fertile stalks.
We shall pluck out the blighting weeds.
And the ground where God has manifested Himself
We shall adorn with flowers.
But where the flowers of unity are—guard their petals.
Yes, yes, yes!

View from out of our living room

Here are three beautiful videos by Terje Sorgjerd. The first is a sublime film done of a sandstorm at El Teide, Spain´s highest mountain (3718m), where he wanted to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy, but a large sandstorm from Sahara Desert came over, and the result were incredible photos of night sky.
 

The second is a fantastic film of the Aurora Borealis shot in Alaska at Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, temperatures around -25 Celsius. By the way, here is a short extract from H. P. Balvastky’s Secret Doctrine about the Aurora Borealis:
“Sound is the characteristic of Akasa (Ether): it generates air, the property of which is Touch; which (by friction) becomes productive of Colour and Light.” . . . . . . (Vishnu Purana.) Perhaps the above will be regarded as archaic nonsense, but it will be better comprehended, if the reader remembers the Aurora Borealis and Australis, both of which take place at the very centres of terrestrial electric and magnetic forces. The two poles are said to be the store-houses, the receptacles and liberators, at the same time, of Cosmic and terrestrial Vitality (Electricity); from the surplus of which the Earth, had it not been for these two natural “safety-valves,” would have been rent to pieces long ago.

The third is a video of a market in Thailand, where the Maeklong Railway line passes through – 8 times a day. A beautiful flow, also with boats of market people.

A very impressive rap video-clip (in German), by “Thomas D.”: “Gebet an den Planeten 11.0 – Lektionen in Demut” (Prayer to the Planet 11.0 – Lessons in Humbleness). Even if you don’t understand German, there are fantastic scenes with animals and nature. The album was published yesterday.