The World Was Moving She Was Floating Above It, and She Was

Talking Heads – And She Was…

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below

Collective Soul
The World I Know

Light is not only a physical element, it is also a mental and spiritual element and in the temple the disciple is told to revere the invisible sun even more than the visible one; for every visible thing is only an effect of the invisible or causal, and as God is the Cause of All Causes He dwells in the invisible World of Causation. ¹

Manly P. Hall
Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire

There has to be an invisible sun,
that gives us hope when the whole day’s done

The Police
Invisible Sun

There’s a world that was meant
for our eyes to see

Lord Huron
Ends of the Earth

See the lights of a neighbor’s house
Now she’s starting to rise
Take a minute to concentrate
And she opens up her eyes

‘Cause I wanna get high.
But you’re keeping me low

311
Too Much to Think

The world was moving
she was right there with it and she was
The world was moving
she was floating above it and she was
And she was

From the top of the world
every which way is down

311
Too Much to Think

Life is all around
Why you lookin’ down?
Life is all around
So look up, look up

311
Good Feeling

Moving into the universe and she’s
Drifting this way and that
Not touching the ground at all and she’s Up above the yard

I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind

The Alan Parsons Project
Sirius / Eye in the Sky

We’ve got to act fast.
Step one, we reverse the vacuum
and blow the air back onto the planet. ³

Spaceballs

She had a pleasant elevation
She’s moving out in all directions
oh, oh oh

The foundational line of true ethical behavior, its main guiding principle valid across all times and cultures, is the degree of freedom from self-centeredness of thought and behavior, and willingness freely to give up one’s own self-interest on behalf of others. ⁵

George F. R. Ellis
1995 Scientific American

Don’t surround yourself with yourself

Yes
I’ve Seen All Good People

Egocentric attitudes may have been a contributory factor behind
the dominance of the geocentric world-view, but there were other
reasons for preferring an Earth-centred universe to Aristarchus’
Sun-centred universe.

One basic problem with the Sun-centred
world-view was that it appeared to be simply ridiculous. It just
seemed so utterly obvious that the Sun revolved round a static
Earth, and not the other way round.

In short, a Sun-centred universe ran counter to common sense. ⁶

Simon Singh
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

Love myself
better than you.
I know it’s wrong,
So what should I do?

I’m on a plain.
I can’t complain.

Nirvana
On a Plain

What sets the mental-rational structure apart from the previous three structures is that it is the most separated from “Origin.” In it, human consciousness, which had previously felt a fundamental connection to the world around it, was now unattached and “free.” The subject/object divide became firm. Consciousness and the world were clearly experienced as different, radically opposed realities. In the mental-rational structure, for the first time man learned how to think about the world as something separate from himself, and this also meant the growing dominance of the ego, the verbal “I” which, we’ve seen, inhabits the left brain. ⁷

Gary Lachman
The Secret Teachers of the Western World