12. Fire and Ice: The Tower Card Tarot Cure

An exploration of The Tower, an archetype which invites us to explore and consider sudden change, upheaval, and chaos in our lives, as well as a kind of revelation or awakening sometimes associated with the word "enlightenment" as it is sometimes linked to personal transformation.  We take this journey together via the following cultural stepping stones:  Irene Solà's novel When I Sing, Mountains Dance Nichiren and his Soka Gakkai chums chanting of Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice: Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Sessions with my shrink "Magic Mike" discussing the end of a relationship Giant waterfalls Woody Allen's opening monologue to Annie Hall Mumford & Sons' cover of Bruce Springsteen's I'm On Fire Samuel James' cover of Leonard Cohen's Tower of Song Siddhartha Gautama's first "podcast" (The Four Noble Truths, with a focus on his "thirsting" (Second Truth) of Taṇhā Siddhartha Gautama's second "podcast" (the Adittapariyaya Sutta - The Fire Sermon) which has also been turned into the following poem: ALL IS ARDOUR All is ardour burning & blaze Eye is ardour ear is ardour nose lips tongue ardour mind ardour body ardour burning burning burning away. Sound burning scent burning taste burning touch burning incandescent bone fires burning burning pleasure burning pain either neither burning away. Feel the fire that burns through this hour passion fire aversion fire delusion fire all ablaze birth and death & aging fires burning burning burning away. Contact feeling craving takes us calls to the awakened soul know then free your self from ardour find some peace while burning away.