Meditation

In your quiet place, visualize yourself as a compassionate deity who radiates pure love.

There is no need to control; You shine on all creation without judgment.

And, there is no need to be controlled; You create and follow your own path.

True guides await;

Don't seek masters who demand obedience. They are power hungry and want to enslave. They do not have your best interest at heart.

Seek friends who have gone before. They will help you along your path.

Glow

Why turn incandescent?
A little glow will do.
A faithful ember burning,
Deep inside of you.

Holograms

Using computer controlled tunable laser/masers, holograms can be constructed at any frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum. (Holograms can also be constructed using sound waves.) Such a system would be the ultimate mimic/cloaking device. In StarTrek the holodeck was inside the Enterprise. In reality, the Enterprise will be inside the holodeck.

Interesting article about science and faith.

http://partialobjects.com/2011/04/is-science-just-a-matter-of-faith/

Explorers

We are explorers in the wilderness. Moving for weeks, through seemly virgin forest, only to come across an old camp fire. Then we realize that others have come before.

We must learn to travel lightly and avoid beaten paths, less we destroy the very things we seek:

"Improvement makes straight roads, but crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."
-Wm Blake

Our heroes are "Dead Poets", the ancient map makers whose maps leave vast empty spaces: "Here be dragons!"

How to be a true Christian

1. Take the Old Testament out of your bible and throw it away.
2. Memorize and meditate on all the words and phrases in the New Testament that Jesus is reputed to have said.
3. Throw the New Testament away.

"If you know what you are doing you are blessed."

"Seek and ye shall find. Ask and it shall be given."

Or as the Buddha said: "Find your own way."

One William Blake is worth more than ten thousand Sunday morning preachers.

First Sight

The greatest gift to bestow:
To see again with child's eyes.

When eyes turn inward,
and hearts transform,
To see the truth,
and be reborn.

First light,
First sight,
Ancient years,
Wisdom's tears.

~++~

"The kingdom is spread upon the earth and men do not see."
-- Jesus of Nazareth

Some seventies stuff.

I wrote these back in the seventies.


Alone.

I am alone.
Because I am alone,
I create.
And I hide,
In the multitude,
Of my creation.


Schrodinger's Cat.

Pity the fate of Schrodinger's cat.
Where he is, ain't where he's at.
The cat in the box is in a bind,
Is he in or out of time?

At a Torii Gate

At a Torii Gate,
Which side is sacred?
Which side profane?

Which is loss?
Which is gain?

Do we measure fate,
When we choose,
At a Torii Gate?

Misc.

An idea let lose can never be contained. It is out there for all eternity to see.

Blown to this wayside, I watch the travelers and wait for rain.

To God, all suffering is bearable.

Who needs evil when you have greed and ignorance?

A good hunter looks both forward and backward.

After thinking about it a bit more, I have removed: "Artist are God's chosen people. They are the ones doing God's work." We all are chosen and we all are doing God's work.

When we die, we are given "our heart's desire". We go where our heart is. This is why a Christian's NDE experience is different than a Buddhist experience. God is giving us what we want!

Reflections on water

Reflections on water,
sparkles in multitude.
And I think;
Each one is a soul.

Sentinel beings,
with individuality,
and in totality,
reflect the source.

But God is more;
God is source,
reflection,
and water.

Links

Here are some interesting links:

http://www.near-death.com/
Near death experiences. Excellent read!

http://www.nderf.org/
More near death experiences. I just discovered this one this morning! (1:26:10) Hundreds of NDE accounts.

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
What is the nature of global consciousness?

http://www.mufon.com/
Dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs. Wheat and chaff, use your judgment.

I will add more as time goes by.

Thoughts on Aliens

Given the age of the universe and the vast number of galaxies, I am very comfortable in giving the probability of other civilizations existing: 1.0
Probability of civilizations that are more than a million years more advanced than us: 1.0
Probability of civilizations that are more than a thousand million years more advanced: 1.0
Probability of "Bestowers" existing: 1.0

Some Thoughts on Alien Tech

I think that in the case of "morphing" "UFOs", what we are seeing are holograms projected around the vehicle to mimic or confuse. By projecting an image of the background the vehicle could also be rendered invisible. I want to stress that the lights seen are also holographic projections.

http://ezinearticles.com/?id=543293
http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/concepts/901175.HTM

The "fear" that people experience when seeing a "UFO" might be because the "UFO" is putting out "bad vibes" as a defensive mechanism to keep us at a distance. If they can speak to us directly in our minds, they can manipulate our emotions. They can also cause us to forget.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14250

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Many ways

Are we born in the world only to deny the world?

To turn away from the world in an inner quest to find spiritual liberation? To sit alone in some musty cave dreaming of the kingdom of righteousness? To a few this is the right path but to most, isn't it to be fully in the world? To watch a sunrise, a child grow from helplessness to adulthood, to feel the warm embrace of a love one?

Nietzsche says: "We seek not the same purpose here". The Buddha says: "Find your own path". The Bhagavad Gita says: "Many are the ways of men but they all, in the end, come to Me."

I say: Do the work that God have given you: seek knowledge, strive to love as God loves: unconditionally. And in everything that you do or suffer, do or suffer it for God.

Big Head

Less someone get "big headed", I want to stress the communal nature of creation. We are to God as a neuron is to a brain. We are a part of the whole. There is a difference in being "of God" and being God, which mega-maniacs seem not to realize.

In western religions, God creates the universe apart from himself, hence the universe (including us) has fallen. In eastern religions, God creates the universe out of himself. He is the Creation. Above is an image called Nataraj: Lord Shiva as the "Divine Dancer" which I think best represents my concept of God: In Shiva's hand is a drum measuring out the passage of time, while around Him burn the multitude fires of creation. Shiva dances on the dwarf of ignorance.

I came here to dance! (Or maybe, to learn how to dance.)

-OM- The One who is Many, The Many who are One. -OM-

The Creator

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
--Wm. Blake

If God does not exist, why do we love Him so? Truly, if He did not exist, we would have to create Him. This is what we (The Bestowers) are doing: creating God! We create God and God creates us because everything is an on-going act of creation. Everything is holy! This is the gift that God has given us: We are manifestations of Divinity and have the power to create, yes even God. We share communally in the on-going act of creation.

Love and love will exist!

What I believe

I believe that we are "spiritual"* beings who incarnate in these human bodies to experience life. Some of the near death accounts say that we first came to planet earth about 30,000 years ago. We have been born many times in human and other forms. Our purpose here is two fold: 1. To gain knowledge through the experiences of life and: 2. To learn how to love unconditionally as God loves.

When you put knowledge and love together you get wisdom.

*Note: I make no distinction between spiritual and very advanced alien technology!

Thought experiment

I'm 63 years old. In 1952 when I was six, we got our first TV. It had a five inch screen, all vacuum tubes and came in a huge case. I got my first color TV in 1974. It was a hybrid of vacuum tubes and transistors. My first personal computer from 1982 had a Z80 processor with a few thousand transistors. The processor in the computer I'm writing on has around a thousand million transistors and isn't even "state of the art". A hundred years ago, the first canvas and wood airplanes took to the sky. The first radio stations were being built. Two hundred years ago, the first railroads.

Let's turn our attention to the future and try to imagine what it will be like a hundred years from now... Try to imagine our civilization a thousand years from now... What technological wonders will we have? Imagine an alien civilization that is a thousand years more advanced than us. What technological wonders will they have? Now, imagine an alien civilization a million years more advanced! Finally, imagine an alien civilization a thousand million years more advanced! Our universe is old enough to support such advanced civilizations. I'll connect the dots and say that it does. How would such advanced civilizations manifest? As orbs? As spiritual beings? As Gods?

freedom

"You who are on the road must have a code that you can live by."
--CSN and sometimes Y

We do not find our freedom but rather we must create it. Or create the conditions conducive to obtaining it. When we are ready, Divine Grace grants us freedom.

We are builders, building upon the ruins of our ancestors. We can build a shack or we can build a temple. Either way, what we build determines who our tenants will be.

Belief

Science (like religion) is a belief system and is a human construct of how we think the world works. It is only a model of reality. Ideally, when experience doesn't fit the model, the model is modified to fit the experience. But what usually happens is that the experience is denied. Ghosts don't fit the model so they don't exist! UFOs don't fit the model so they don't exist. Etc! In our minds, our models have become the reality and woe to those who tell us otherwise.

The only reality is the on going act of creation! Belief systems like all created things are born, live and die in an endless cycle of creation. They are useful only for a time and a place.

"It is better to believe a lie than to believe nothing at all."

Some say that we are seeking Truth but I think we are only looking for a "clean well lighted place".