How the Universe looks from here for Saturday, July 8, 2006

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Saturday, July 8, 2006

What's So Special About Man?

In the scientific model of Creation, life happened on Earth, and evolved in many, many wonderful ways. The point of that process to focus on here came relatively recently: the point at which Homo sapiens emerged from the animal kingdom as distinct from all other animals. Where to draw that line has been a subject for debate ever since Darwin’s first revelation of the evolutionary process gave rise to the realization that our ancestry did indeed begin among the animals. Man has been variously... Sign in to see full entry.

Number 10 Can of Worms open again: got your spoon?

The Gnostics of early Christian times painted a picture of a deeply stratified, hierarchical, patriarchal Reality of the Divine, with the Great Invisible Spirit at the apex, and a beatific beaurocracy beneath it, and well above the world of physical matter. God and angels, lords and civil servants, and finally, the governed, who are not expected to understand. Consider that time of the world when this was first being put into words and images that a human being could make sense of: Humankind... Sign in to see full entry.

Seed Energies: Core Beliefs in Societies and Cultures

In my previous post, I described some of the differences between the traditions of a couple of different Creator entities-- Gandmother Spider and Jahweh. And this brings me to the topic of seed energies, and cultural core beliefs. A single human mind is filled with uncountable quantities of complexes constructed of the memories of experiences, feelings, intentions, desires, causes and effects, decisions and conclusions: beliefs. Our beliefs exert a constant subtle influence on our conscious... Sign in to see full entry.

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