How the Universe looks from here

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Monday, April 4, 2011

Thought and Feeling

I said before, that words communicate conscious thought, or reveal it internally, whereas feelings communicate what our subconscious needs us, or others, to know. But I have been thinking a lot about feeling... and how some of us are so wary of emotion, our own or others' feelings. Why is it that someone who is of higher than average intelligence, observant and appreciative of thoughts, can be in such resistance to feelings that they must shy off them altogether? My father was one such. I have... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Communication

We talk and talk, one person to another, trading information, volleys of conversation like ping-pong--sometimes just enjoying keeping the ball in the air, sometimes seriously trying to score points. Sometimes we just look into another's face, and say, "Hello!" and in that one word, those two syllables, recognize and acknowledge the existence of another soul. I've heard that communication is to the spirit what food is for the body. Communication is one of the three necessities of true love... the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Is loneliness real?

Spiritually, no. Never. But living in a body, where boundaries of time and space, of skin and gender and thought, abound... we experience being apart, alone--and sometimes it is a good thing, solitude. Other times, it is that feeling of being cut off, insignificant to others, even abandoned: loneliness. We can shift perception to the spiritual, and find comfort there, when we are feeling too alone. But I can't help but think that we are here to experience such things, to embrace and use them to... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

How Light Differs from Love

When you perceive everything as energy, each thing vibrating at it's own unique frequency, each and every thing a unique combining of energies, like an image is comprised of many different colors, or an orchestra different sounds, (plus time which makes, for instance, a symphony, a movie or a memory) then you begin to see relationships that were not so apparent before. My teachers' intent was to teach the ability to perceive clearly what distinguishes one energy from another. They taught me to... Sign in to see full entry.

I am by no means an atheist, just to be clear on that. My concept of God is not the one common to most Christian dogmas, however. I have long believed that God cannot possibly be God if It is hemmed in with limits: human thought has tended to perceive It with the limits that we take in our own experience as absolutes, such as gender or desire for power or need to assert authority. How, I ponder, can God be Absolute, and be male, or female? How can God's concept of power be as limited as ours?... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Death

Recently, an adult friend of mine experienced the death of his mother. We got to talking about our beliefs, which tend to be, on some matters, quite different, even opposite. He asked me what my beliefs are on death. ___________________________________ So... my ideas about death... First of all, many of my ideas hinge on a simple turn-around of a basic idea shared by many: I don't have a soul; I am a soul... I have a body. Death is something that happens to bodies. But the soul is eternal. Life... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

IQ that matters

In a conversation recently with someone I have known a long time, who lives, just barely, on the very fringes of what most of us consider normal and tolerable life, the topic came up of intelligence and knowledge, of intellectual education, contrasted with life-experience. The one is powered or supported by intellect, the other by emotion. The IQ of a genius doesn't make him or her a better human being than the average IQ guy whose schooling didn't make it past 6th grade. But the guy who left... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

You Cannot See The Wind

You cannot see the wind. It moves the trees, pushes clouds across the sky, surges waves across the lake; You can hear it-- whispering through the woods whistling 'round windows and chimney pots mourning over hollows in the land; You can witness, as it tears the world by shreds of gossamer and flying signs; sends dust spiraling up into a summer sky; whips leaves, fallen, racing through an autumn field; drives bitter cold and crystals pluming off a rocky mountain peak; nudges nodding budding... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

The thing about aliens...

Strat's post today http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/strat/ got me thinking in this direction... My dad, the astronomer, was quite certain that aliens would never expend the immense resources to cross the vast distances of space to investigate on little boondock planet on the edge of the galaxy. My arguement was, in essence: How could he reasonable assume that we could know what an alien would do, or why? We know why we would travel weeks, months, years to get someplace. We know the reasons... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

"Ironic points of light..."

(wrote this to a friend today, and it seemed a good sort of thing to share) We don't get to know all the good we do: lives touch for a moment, and in that moment fortunes change forever: ideas sprout, things become possible. hazards are evaded, courses are corrected... Then we all move along on our own trajectories... never again meeting that person, never realizing that one thing we did--maybe not even noticing--made all the difference in the world. I think there is a kind of karmic... 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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