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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Chimpanzee by Nature

I am amused, thinking about chimps making tools to fish snacks out of termite mounds, while I am sitting here making tools to fish lint out of my lap-top. If you've been following this blog for a while, you know already that I see the world of the wild great apes as the world from which we ourselves emerged: creatures breaking free of the simple life guided by instinct and supported by nature's providence. Our essential humanity, that which truly makes us different from animals, is our... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Pat's comment to the previous post sparks this one:

I can see the inner child/adolescent/adult model. My dad defined those three aspects thusly: a child needs to be cared for; an adolescent can care for him/herself; an adult is able to care for others. Once we have been all three, we have those aspects, those parts of our selves, that come into play. That's a nice psychological model. Then, there is also the outer Self, the one that is not a 'part' but the source and container of the 'parts.' Child, Adolescent and Adult all influence, but the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Shams-i-Heartsong's blog today inspired this:

That blog quotes a philosophy of 'threes' and states that Unity is the absolute goal, if I understood it correctly. ( http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Bowl_of_Saki/ ) There is another 'three' also: the body, the mind/heart, the soul. Some problems, solutions, and philosophies, apply more to one of these parts than to another. Absolute freedom is the ideal of soul, but it is abolute chaos to the body: we drive on roads with curbs, stop at stop signs, obey conventions like all driving on the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Brains are neat!

http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/04/you-are-your-connectome.html#igImgId_36589 Seung is focusing on the brain itself, where what I've studied before is the mind. They are not quite the same, but they go closely together. The mind might be considered the astral body of the brain. I have to think on that some... Anyway, what he calls 'connectome' seems to match up with what I'd call the individual's 'totality of belief systems,' and the key to healing damaged connections is also probably a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Considering Evil

Some of us don't believe in Evil as a thing in itself, only as an effect, a shadow cast by blockages in understanding, that interrupt and distort the Light that flows freely towards us from the Universe. For some of us, it is an entity, sometimes even an incarnate Being, a personality in itself, an actual dark presence, not merely a lack of Light. This is not about which of those scenarios is nearer the Truth. Truth, after all, is as elusive a concept as Evil, with many ideas of whether it is an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Agtheistics 3

So-- we choose. We decide if we will pursue Truth with our own tools, if we will attempt to put together the Great Puzzle with what pieces we find, that we can pluck from the Universe, and trust in our own puzzle-solving skills. Or if we will trust more in someone else to do the heavy lifting and the homework, and get it right enough to get us where we're trying to go. There is a certain emotional insecurity for all but the most hubristic of human beings, in taking the independent path. If we... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Agtheistics 2

All we have, finally, are human-relateable models of what might be: interesting topics for philosophical debate, or a variety of Holy Grails enshrined by fanatics--or something between. We choose the model that suits us, we choose what to do with it. For some of us, the easiest thing is to not give a damn, to write it all off, and never pursue any such ephemerality as Universal Truth--finding it pointless even to seek the best-possible model, since we can't get to any final, certain conclusion... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Agtheism

Just because it is in Man's nature to need and want and invent a God for his own comfort and security, to gain some sense of influence over natural forces and dumb luck, does not mean that there is no Supreme Being, no Greatest Consciousness or Will, no Ultimate Source of our selves and our Reality. But It may not be what we are generally led to believe. We are Flatlanders attempting to envision a Reality of so many more dimensions than we are equipped to perceive! And we are only now generally... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

IQ, EQ, now HQ

We've all heard of IQ--Intelligence Quotient-- and in recent years, of EQ--Emotional Quotient--as ways of measuring and describing what we are as individual mind/personality complexes... of quantifying and qualifying our potential as human beings. The easy trap is to consider these measurements of quality: a high number is a better person. But we can also point to the highest IQ geniuses who are utterly hopeless in society, or high EQ people who really can't deal with the world except through... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Visiting Grandmother Spider

A short time ago, I shared a link to one of my early posts in this blog: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/CLRedding/386053...about an experience I had, a visionary visit with Grandmother Spider. At the end, I said something about The Cannibal Bird, and why it was part of this experience--something I had no conscious idea about at the time. Here is the promised follow-up on that. The Cannibal Bird mask in my vision was unlike the other animal/totem motifs, which all were colored black and... Sign in to see full entry.

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I've been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked specifically how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true.I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason. ///Everything of my own words and/or pictures that I post on Blogit is copyright by CLRedding 1972-present, all rights reserved.///

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