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Sunday, July 16, 2006

The Past as Muse...

LONG ISLAND SUMMERS I’d go back for just a moment, perhaps as long as one day and a night, enough, I think, to relish what I loved about Long Island summers: Scents of ragweed, seared grasses, almost too-sweet roses in the heavy summer air… Glittering waters, hot, hot sand and tiny shells hiding in the drying seaweed margin of the tide… Early mornings sun rising like a rose, soft-lit hazy cool ’til nearly 10… And thunderstorms some afternoons that bruise the air and break the back of humid... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

"Atlantis: The Holy Grail of Archeology..."

Psuedo-science: the science of theory supported by 'could-be' evidence, that usually, truly, scientifically, simply isn't. It's that thing about explanation over understanding, again. We are wondrous forward in our imagining, and the desire to believe is sometimes stronger than the need to know. I, personally, prefer to believe in the magic of David Copperfield, than to know how the tricks are done: I enjoy his work with an uncritical eye, enthralled by how well he fools me. He convinces the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 9, 2006

Canapes for a philosophic appetite

"When Diogenes the Cynic philosopher saw a country boy scooping up water in his hand in order to driink, he threw away the cup he was carrying in his bag and said, 'Now I can be this much lighter,' " ( quoted by Marvin Meyer in THE GNOSTIC BIBLE) Sign in to see full entry.

"Know what is in front of your face

and what is hidden from you will be disclosed. Gospel of Thomas I just got my hands on a copy of The Gnostic Bible, a collection of sacred and philosophical texts from a great variety of cultural sources, including Pagan, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian and Islamic, and some from specific belief systems labeled heresies by the Christianity we recognize today as traditional, who gained the right to pass judgement by virtue of having won the war between the multitude of early Christian sects. (It... Sign in to see full entry.

Dichotomies and Balance

It's all in where the observer stands, and the filters through which the observer perceives. Balance and lack of balance are perceptions in a Universe where balance is established whether we perceive it or not; things seeming to be out of balance is a matter of looking too narrowly at a situation. What's the meaning of Good and Evil in a world without humanity? T Rex and supernovas are neither good nor evil, but we, believing, make it so. A friend of mine had a vision once, of walking in a... Sign in to see full entry.

Gnostics and Wisdom

Sophia-- a pretty name... the name given in Gnostics writings to the personification of the female principle of divine Wisdom: the Wisdom of Insight, according to the Secret Book of John, one of the Gnostic texts. Sophia messed up. She drew on aspects of her own being--Invisible Spirit and Foreknowledge--to create offspring of herself, without approval of the One, or recourse to her partner. This expression of Sophia’s own will and creativity was a misshapen and deficient entity called The... Sign in to see full entry.

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.

Friday, July 7, 2006

Visions and Visits: Grandmother Spider

Several years ago, I received some energy work that involved channeling energy through the chakras. The healers were a couple who brought together the traditions of India and Pacific NW Native American. They warned me at the outset that sometimes people had visions during this process. So I laid back, closed my eyes and began to intellectualize what that might mean. I began thinking about what I know about NW Native cultures-- having got my degree in anthropology a few years earlier, 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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