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Sunday, July 9, 2006

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.

Saturday, July 1, 2006

There is a universal theme in here... and this is my only blog now, so:

Beverly She made a list a day or two before of cookies, of a meeting and some charity she intended that would have come off busily, no fuss: ticked off, accomplished, if she had not died. When I was 3, my mother died suddenly. Being so young, after a few years I barely remembered her-- I remember a sadness when I was around 6, when I realized I could no longer recall her face. A few years ago, when my dad and step-mom retired and cleared out the house, they sent me the family papers, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 29, 2006

What Could They Be Thinking?

In their ocean, dolphins have developed their large, highly convoluted brains, and through attempts to understand what kind of minds they have, we have attempted to create a connection with them through vocal language. We, being creatures of an intellect tied in with our fingers and opposable thumbs, and using our eyes as a primary channel of data-gathering, have to switch channels, and understand what it's like to use hearing as the primary channel, and to be limited to mostly our mouths to... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

New Wine, New Bottles... more about language

To talk about a new thing or an old thing in a new way, we need new terminology in order to escape familiar associations that can lead participants in the conversation in the wrong direction, or even shut off their thinking altogether. In a society that automatically sneers at anything called 'psychic,' practicing psychics have to find a way to introduce themselves so they will not be stoned or dismissed before they can share what 'psychic' means to them. So-- we try to pin it down to other... Sign in to see full entry.

Speaking of... anything!

Language is being created all the time-- every new word, every new usage expands it; every word forgotten or abandoned -- 'obsolete' and 'archaic,' as English teachers probably still write on high-school poetry-- draws language up tighter. Jargon adds a set of specific vocabulary to one degree or another, but how sentences are put together--syntax is still the same, so I'd say that keeps it from being a whole new language, no matter how it sounds to those who don't know it. Language has to be... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 25, 2006

#10 Can of Worms, Now Open...

One of the fundamentals of Gnostic belief is that the God of the Bible is not, in fact, the One, the Source, the Supreme Being. Personally, I have no trouble with this-- I've had that entity pegged for some time as one of various 'creator entities' that choose a people to be active agents in the material world and set about creating a reality.. I prefer another whose agenda is about co-creating a world with a chosen people, and for them-- rather than Yahweh who is all about creating a reality... 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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