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  • Completeness

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    Completeness is beyond awareness. It is just Being itself. You’re complete without having to know that you’re complete. A.H. Almaas

  • Say What?

    Stop and smell the roses, a few moments never killed anyone.

     Thank God – they were wrong.

     

     

     

    If bottled water was Truth

    Or even, Common sense

    There would be

    More objective hope for the world

     

     

     

    Parasites don’t go quietly

    Down the road to salvation

    It’s one of the great mysteries

    How, with all that sucking

    They can still talk so much

    About their needs

     

     

     

    Lovers aren’t confused

    About what to kiss next

    Whatever appears

    In front of their lips

    Is the next victim

     

     

     

     

     

  • Subtleties

    Elf lovecraft

    George Ellery Hale (1868-1938) founded Yerkes Observatory, Mt Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory. Beginning at age 42, Hale received regular visits from an elf who advised him on numerous matters, including the administration of Mt Wilson and the planning for Palomar.

    All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of  real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.  – H.P. Lovecraft

    There is no such thing as empty space or empty time There is always something to hear or something to see. In fact, try as we might to make a silence, we cannot. For certain engineering purposes, it is desirable to have as silent a situation as possible. Such a room is called an anechoic chamber, its walls made of special materials, a room without echoes. I entered one at Harvard University… and heard two sounds, one a high and one a low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system and the low one was my blood circulation.  – John Cage

  • Holographic Paradigm

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    In his controversial 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist, argued that the brain activity of ancient people – those living roughly 3,500 years ago, prior to early evidence of consciousness such as logic, reason, and ethics – would have resembled that of modern schizophrenics. Jaynes maintained that, like schizophrenics, the ancients heard voices, summoned up visions, and lacked the sense of metaphor and individual identity that characterizes a more advanced mind. He said that some of these ancestral synaptic leftovers are buried deep in the modern brain, which would explain many of our present-day sensations of god or spirituality.

     

    If we were to look closely at an individual human being, we would immediately notice that it is a unique hologram unto itself; self-contained, self-generation, and self-knowledgeable. Yet if we were to remove this being from its planetary context, we would quickly realize that the human form is not unlike a mandala  or symbolic poem, for within its form and flow lives comprehensive information about various physical, social, psychological, and evolutionary contexts within which it was created. – Dr. Ken Dychtwald in The Holographic Paradigm

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  • Source

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    Being disconnected from the Source is not the loss of luxury, of something extra – this loss lies at the very heart of human suffering because this Source constitutes your most real nature, the true center of who you are. –  A.H. Almaas

  • Are We All Here

    This is not so much a question as a topic of exploration. I think it is worth exploring because, in this world, our concern with location seems to touch most of what we do. These days we have GPS to help us pinpoint exactly where we are on planet earth. With the push of a button we can know precisely where we are. And with Twitter and similar social networking tools, we can share our location instantly with our entire network of friends.

    So, we have these great gizmos that can tell us and everyone else precisely where we are, but the question remains –  how do we know this is where we are?

    When we consider location in three-dimensional space, our location is defined in terms relative to other things in three-dimensional space. Our location in any space is usually described in terms of where our body is. I’m here, you’re there. I’m in front of you. The chair is to the left of me. The ceiling is above me.

    Some of the reasons our location seems so important: we can tell others where we are, where we have been and we can often use that to help us get to where we want to be.

    It’s the same in the spiritual dimension only different. For one thing, it’s oriented more toward the internal than the external. It’s more about our subjective sense of location within our experience than our body’s location in our world experience.

    If we examine our sense of where we are subjectively we almost always drill it down to – I am here. Here seems to be the only word that can accurately reflect where it is we really are. Oh, we can give all kinds of relative descriptors, but when we really boil it down, we are simply Here. So where is Here?

    Well, Here is Here. It’s not there or elsewhere – it is Here. Here is where we are. We are always Here.

    Here seems to reflect the nexus of our experience. Here seems to be at the core of our experience.

    Spiritual teachers, mystics and masters seem to think Here has real significance. They continually encourage us to – Be Here Now (three words that mean the same thing). Be, Be, Be. Here, Here, Here, Now, Now, Now. These sound repetitive. Be Here Now sounds profound – is profound.

    When certain people invoke us to, Be Here Now, it seems to draw more of us into Here, into Now, into Being. Most of us have had some experience of that – being more Here at times. For many of us those times when we seem more Here, appear to substantially outnumber all of the other times when we’re – not so much Here. We’re here in the ordinary way, but when we’re really Being Here Now – the experience seems extraordinary – beyond the ordinary.

    Are you getting a sense of the significance of Here to our experience The more we are Here, the richer our experience is. The deeper the sense of Here, the more profound our experience. The more palpable Here is, the more intimate our experience.

    I have yet to meet one person who experienced Here in a deeper, more profound, more intimate way that did not long to Be Here Now more.

    Why is that? Simply put: It is more enjoyable than our normal experience. It is more pleasurable than our ordinary experience. It is more satisfying than our normal experience. It is more fulfilling than our normal experience. It is more integrating and complete than our ordinary experience. In short – it is more positive in many, many ways than our ordinary experience.

    In comparison our ordinary experience seems – ordinary – dull, lifeless, pedestrian and plain. Being Here Now – is more real to us.

    So, if being more Here is a good desirable thing – how do we do it? How do we get more Here, deeper into Here, closer to Here?

    It’s simple. First, we start with where we are. And where are we? Well, we’re all Here. This really shortens the journey! We don’t have to go anywhere to be Here, we’re already Here! But our experience of Here right now, might seem ordinary, might not seem like that deeper Here, that intimate Here, that profound Here that we long for. So how does that happen?

    Well, we don’t go there to get Here. Going there means we leave Here. Doing that takes us away from Here so there is no hope of experiencing the extraordinary Here if we go there.

    No, we start Here, right Here where we are AND we get closer to Here right Here where we are. We do that by getting to know Here more intimately and the easy way to do that is to explore our experience Here and Now. We do that by learning how to BE our experience.

    Most of us, in this culture, have a deep conditioning that leaves us thinking more about our experience rather than experiencing our experience. So, we want to deepen and expand our experience beyond just thinking. The Here deepens and expands as our experience does. Bringing in our feelings and sensations deepens and expands our experience.

    As more of us opens to our experience, the more we feel in touch with our experience. The more in-touch, the more intimacy. The more intimacy, the more we feel Here.

    I am going to leave this exploration right Here, for NOW.

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