Now that "High Priest" Orion stands erect in the early morning like a Timothy Leary butterfly in the September sky, Leo has joined him in vaulting over the horizon to the East in the Orion Sky we witness overhead. Simultaneously, Leo the Lion seems to vault away to the Northwest over the sniffer scene, to play the pipes of Pan over Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia, while a concerned spirit hand comes down on Florida, also inspecting the Midwest scene from afar. The Pope in Rome is "Benedict XVI", reminding me of the lion in the image, who may have had his 16th mate before bounding away from the instruments of hot pursuit, much as I myself have done of late. I am hoping that the methods I have outlined in my file on anti-aging medicine for approaching physical immortality with rejuvenation included will solve the Papal problem: eventually the Pope dies from old age. At the End of Evolution, when evolution will proceed at quite a different pace, it will be possible to use the papacy to exhibit the "Problem Solved" status of the old Pope-Perishes Problem of the Catholic CPPP. The things that will make the most difference are:

(1) Telomere remodeling with cyclic telomerase activation using astragalus extract to completely eliminate senescent cells in aging specimens, in most cases within 4 to 6 years, treatment which also bucks up adult stem cells, including myocardial stem cells, muscle stem cells, brain stem cells, microglial cells in the brain, and many other types of cells that must be rejuvenated to avoid diseases of old age.
(2) Acetyl L-carnitine with alpha lipoic acid to reverse the mitochondrial aging problem.
(3) Rejuvenation of the vascular endothelium with arginine and exericise to eliminate cellular senescence in the endothelial cells leading to atherosclerosis, disconnecting heart attack and stroke.
(4) Rejuvenation of the thymus gland with 3 grams of arginine per day to restore thymic hormone production and production of T-lymphocytes for a stronger immune system.
(5) B-vitamins such as vitamin B1, benfothiamine, B6, and B12 with folic acid with trimethylglycine added will suppress atherosclerosis by blocking homocystiene, while suppressing the formation of advanced glycation end products.
(6) Vitamin C, 2000-3000 mg/day, will help keep collagen synthesis tuned up.
(7) Improved DNA protection with antioxidants and cats claw extract will fend off DNA damage leading to cancer, while longer telomeres (1) will make tissue inherently more genomically stable.

I note that the appearance of Leo the Lion at about the time that Leo becomes visible in the Eastern sky is typical of the mythic herald function of the cloud cover mythic imaging system, which often announces constellations just arrived in the early morning sky by drawing them in the terrestrial cloud cover. Leo is often so heralded, as is Canis Major, Orion with Gemini, the Andromeda goddess smile of Perseus-Pleiades-Aries, and constellations in or near the 12 constellations of the Zodiac that seem to be associated with "gods": mythic animals, actors, or actresses, including perhaps also Pegasus and Aquarius. The most mythically heralded constellations are the "high-pre-East" constellations, such as Canis Major with its bright star Sirius, who seems to have written the book supporting Orion which Lepus carries forward like a runner, reminding us of the book of Proclus on the back of the moon dog of the New Moon, who may symbolize the god of impetuous youth, the soul most played on by the rays of the Sun after sundown, as its lune forms a smile reminescent of the smile of Perseus-Pleiades-Aries over Orion rising like a Phoenix. Note that the natural progress of a constellation is to "turn on, tune in, and drop out" as it crosses the Eastern horizon, peaks and intensifies at its zenith, and drops out over the Western horizon.
Music: Wondering Where the Lions Are by Bruce Cockburn,
Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum, Magic Man by Heart,
Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot.

Underneath, Puff the Magic Dragon, now resembling a favorite Collie Dog, blows smoke out of his nostrils over the territory impacted by Hurricane Ike.

Of course, the elephant is a symbol connected to the recent Republican Convention, the origin of the trunk terminating over Wichita stemming from an elephant's head over Minneapolis-St.Paul, Minnesota. On the East Coast, a Republican elephant associated with the government seems to pose in profile, as does another elephant on its way to the Northwest coast with its forehead above British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The inverted-V shape over Wichita at the tip of the trunk, a Λ-symbol, may symbolize the "Soviet Union", since I used the Soviet Union term "CPPP" in (51a), albeit in a novel way. That is, the Λ sign may be a typical I-see-you, do-you-see me? signal from Our Father Which Art in Heaven, the Spirit of the Divine Wind, an emissary of Higher Intelligence in the Universe and a Cloud Cover Reporter. It is "mirrorly" responding to a term I chose earlier in an unusual manner that is not usually used in the USA, bringing everything to a focus right at this location with a directed sign, via an interactive process reminiscent of the Ouija Board, as it seems to involve an exchange of symbols with exterior mystic forces. Note that the 3 elephants in the image correspond to the 3 "P"s in "CPPP".

This reminds us of the sort of processes described by Carl Jung [Books, Links, The C.G.Jung Page], concerning symbols emerging from the collective unconscious involving synchronicity. "Based on his study of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, Taoism, and other traditions, Jung perceived that a journey of transformation is at the mystical heart of all religions. It is a journey to meet the self and at the same time to meet the Divine. In Jung's work, "the collective unconscious, where the archetypes themselves reside, is represented in mythology by a lake, or body of water," suggestive of phantasmagoric mists in the clouds, the brain-rain associated with the "firmament" of heaven, or psychedelic hallucinations recognized as sometimes connected with consciousness expansion and a higher plane of perception involving the transactional psychology of the spirit world. The reflexes involved in the exchange of symbols may have been most effectively diagrammed by Timothy Leary with polar charts in his classic on The Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality. Today, with the instrumentality of satellite photography and Internet access, we are in a better position than ever to interactively inspect and record crystal-ball visions associated with the Mysterium Conjunctionis and the mythological imaging associated with the mystic humor of the firmament of heaven, comparing our insights to the progress of experts in psychology with data base tools such as Wikipedia and Google.
Music: the Ghost Busters theme, Heart Full of Soul by the Yardbirds.