Turning JasperEvery living thing that relies on the Spirit of the Earth for sustenance is part of the living energy field that envelops all and responds to all across the universe. In a similar sense, the waters of the world are all connected. A touch of flowing water can bring far places close and allow certain subliminal or subconscious communications. Placing your hand in freshly turned earth is one of the portals to dreamtime. The Spirit of the Earth has given us these gifts for the underlying connectedness of all life in all its manifestations. The spark of life energy binds us as one.
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What a wonderful description. This meditation requires me to stop and touch the water, touch the earth, and not just for an instant, but for at least five minutes. I think about how small I am, and yet, how I just find myself in the world. I did not say, "Oh, OK, Great Spirit, it is time for me to be born. And I want to be born here, with these features, etc." No, I find myself here. Also, I reflect, I have no power to keep myself here. I am here, but a small meteor could come through the roof, hit me as bullet. Where would I be then? I and others tell me they to, find that we are the only ones, we know of, so far, who think about understanding the being here that we experience. Contemplation may be aggressive or passive. What is the hereness telling me?
For our purposes if we remember that Westerners from Greeks to today separate the natural world from the spiritual world. This diffuses throughout thinking like a fish in water. Of the 6 billion people in our world, 1.8 billion see themselves as Christian. If they know their history, Christians, see Jesus Christ in the flesh, fully human and fully divine. Jesus becomes the connection between the natural and the supernatural. Jesus sanctifies all the natural world, and according to the Apostle Paul, all of creation is groaning for a new perfection. If one sees oneself as Christian, like I do, then I accept that God has created the natural world, and sustains it. The world is separate from God. Thinking eschatologically, as a Christian, in the end of time, God will create a new heaven and a new earth. The new heaven and new earth will have a completely different physics.
Now when we think about physics and the new Large Hadron Supercollider, the study of string theory, Heisenberg and Schroedinger, physicists have a hard time not making spiritual statements.
It is wonderful to discuss. Philosophers have often thought that Western society reason and its developed religion, i.e. Christianity, is based on the logical "Either, Or," while Eastern religion (especially) and thought as well, considers the logical, "Both, And."
When the mind has time to contemplate "Truth," I find I often have to disqualify my own testimony. That is, I am so persuaded of the rightness of my judgement as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm it. I must keep in mind that nothing that deserves to be called, "Truth," can ever be arrived at by such means.
Without wisdom the imagination is a cruel taskmaster.
The Fall, eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, left each of us as our own judge of what is good and evil. But without wisdom we don't really have the information of what is good and evil, but we still pursue what we think is the good, whether it is financial security, health, or whatever, and we spend a huge amount of time worrying about what we think of as evil.
Over time what we think is good changes. And then beyond that there are billions of us each judging what we think is good and evil. Inevitably this clashes with what our neighbors think and this leads to fights, arguments, and even war.
Fred where are you?
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