How the Universe looks from here

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Friday, June 11, 2010

Smiling, here...

Once again, science has found a way to model an aspect of the universe previously otherwise only modeled by spiritualists. My teachers taught about 'energy cords' that connect physical people in non-physical yet real ways. I've written here before on the topic of energy cords. They are independent of the laws of physics, being unlimited by considerations of such physical world imperatives as linear time and defined space. Quantum physics now recognizes the phenomenon of remote, non-physical yet... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Reprise: Atheists and Theists--all believers!

Reading the Rocking Rector Retired today, she brings up the dialogue between atheists and others, which reminds me of something I posted some time ago on the topic. Here it is again, updated and edited... Is it stupider to believe there is, or is not God? In a comment in the previous post, Gepruitt brought this up: that there is a general idea, even assumption, that people who believe in the reality of God are shallow. I have noticed that people on both sides of the argument frequently have... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Desiderata

There was a time, this particular piece of poetic prose was everywhere, like long necklaces of dyed seeds and fringed vests. It was over-exposed and so finally, by many, dismissed. I think it is worth another look. http://www.fleurdelis.com/desiderata.htm 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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