Today I became aware of a world-wide rally of demonstrations for Tibetan freedom and highlighting the human rights abuses commited against Tibet by China. The dismaying thing is, that in every country where these rallys are held, the authorities are strongly suppressing these demonsrations. Seems the governments of the world are more interested in appeasing China. But the rallys are schedualed to continue up into the Olympics, so if they happen to come to a town near you, please join them and voice your support... I will.
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I tend to ponder many things... too much I think.
One of the things I ponder most often is the nature of reality. I am fascinated with Quantum Physics, because in so many ways it resembles the cosmological models of the metaphysics of Eastern Mysticism. And like Mysticism, Physics has come to assert that fundamental reality, is not neccesarily the "reality" we perceive.
Like Physics, Mysticism confirms that there are subtle realms of existence beyond the range of sensory perception. Here the distictions of space, substance and energy become nebulous and time becomes permeable... and what is perceived as reality becomes relative. This magnificent universe is composed of numerous dimensions and planes of vibrational frequencies, that coalesce into phyiscal substances and phenomena.
Add to this equation, the nature of conciousness. Conciousness too, vibrates at various frequencies. I firmly belive that the Universe is concious and that our individual conciousnesses are expressions of this universal conciousness. All things are vehicals by which the Universe expresses and experiences itself. Each of us perceive the Universe and life from our own unique perspective.
But we humans tend to think in linear patterns... point A, to point B etc. This tends to limit our perceptions... as does the nature of desire, seeing the Universe from the pespectives of what we want and what we fear. Add to this the conceptuailties of religious dogmas, political ideologies, cultural conditioning and the emotional armoring that comes from life-experience... and our perceptions become so obfiscated and our conciouness so encapsulated, that we lose the ablity to truly experience Life. This encapsulated conciousness is incapapable of experiencing (let alone understanding) refined energies of thought and creativity, because Life is constantly having be to filtered through our predjudices and fears.
If we want to be real... we have to think outside the box.
About desire...
I tend to think of desire into two basic catagories... natural desire and dissolute desire. Natural desire is the desire to experience Life, to create, to love and to explore. Dissolute desire comes from what I call the "having and getting syndrome." Dissolute desire not only leads to the fragmentation of the psyche and the weakening of our wills, but... but combined with the above named conceptualties, creates the horrors that we see taking place in the world.
In a very basic sense our reality (or our perception of it), is of our own making!
My reality has been a complicated thing as of late... I have been watching too much news. I am agast at what takes place in the world. I am amazed how easily people find excuses to kill each other... and worse. It is appalling that humans so quickly resort to violence as if it is a solution to any problem, when indeed our tendencies toward violence is the very problem itself!
I am dismayed that Americans have so easily swallowed the lies of this administration's propaganda machine. Equally dismaying is how easily Americans ignore the atrocities of war, torture and the chaos we are creating worldwide. The USA has aquiecsed to fear and idiotically surrenders their will to this government, thinking it can solve our problems. I am confused that... even after all their lies and evil have been revealed, that Bush and Cheney have not been made to account for that!
But this is not peculiar to America... indeed as a student of history and a world traveler, I have come to see this is a fundamental part of the human condition. And indeed this has become the most fundamental theme of our media.
Our media is inundated with horror upon horror... atrocity upon atrocity. And every day we see new examples of human corruption, greed, exploitation and lust for power... totally disregarding the harm they cause through their avarice.
Even here at SG, our own FearTheReaper regails us constantly with new tales of corruption, atrocities and horror. Don't get me wrong... I like him and for the most part, I agree with his politics and ethics. And I am grateful that he brings things to light, that few have the courage to do. But I do feel that he has stared into abyss too long. And like me... it has become too much a part of him.
By this innundation of negativity the media distorts our perception of reality. Perhaps this is intentional... a frightened populace is a malable populace. Even those of us on the "lunatic fringe" become manipulated by our own sense of rage... letting ourselves get caught up in the game of adversarial polarization. These things keep us distracted from the true experience of reality and realizing our true inner natures. Life is becoming perceived as a horror movie and people seem to just be accepting that!
I for one... am burned out on it!
For awhile at least, I'm going to practice the Merry Prankster's Axiom...
"If you don't like the movie, then change the channel!"
There is indeed so much beauty in the world... the twinkle in a delighted child's eyes, the scent of freshly blooming flowers, the girls here at SG... and indeed the list could go on endlessly. And there can be so much goodness in people.
I think I'll enjoy the breath of fresh air, the beauty of earth and sky, and the warmth of friends. I think I'll slip $20 to the next homeless person I meet. Think I'll drop the hard-assed persona I maintain to keep the idiots at bay. I think I'll let myself fall in love, even though I don't feel ready for it... I thing I'll write her volumes of romantic poetry. I think I'll get back to making pretty pictures. I think I'll go to the woods and frolic naked.
Perhaps these things are the reality of life. Perhaps if we rip away the the cloud of gloom that engulfs the world, we will see that the beauty is what is truly real... what has always been meant to be.
I truly believe that...
There is no hell but our own fears.
But there is love enough to dry all tears.
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On a more whimsical note... there seems to be a new member who came to our site last Oct, one King Louis_XIV of France. Seems his royal engineers perfected a means of communicating through time... and he is communicating with us from the 18th Century. All jokes aside... he is an interesting and insightful fellow, and an entertaining read. I highly recommend checking him out.
Love and Light!
AmLt
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I tend to ponder many things... too much I think.
One of the things I ponder most often is the nature of reality. I am fascinated with Quantum Physics, because in so many ways it resembles the cosmological models of the metaphysics of Eastern Mysticism. And like Mysticism, Physics has come to assert that fundamental reality, is not neccesarily the "reality" we perceive.
Like Physics, Mysticism confirms that there are subtle realms of existence beyond the range of sensory perception. Here the distictions of space, substance and energy become nebulous and time becomes permeable... and what is perceived as reality becomes relative. This magnificent universe is composed of numerous dimensions and planes of vibrational frequencies, that coalesce into phyiscal substances and phenomena.
Add to this equation, the nature of conciousness. Conciousness too, vibrates at various frequencies. I firmly belive that the Universe is concious and that our individual conciousnesses are expressions of this universal conciousness. All things are vehicals by which the Universe expresses and experiences itself. Each of us perceive the Universe and life from our own unique perspective.
But we humans tend to think in linear patterns... point A, to point B etc. This tends to limit our perceptions... as does the nature of desire, seeing the Universe from the pespectives of what we want and what we fear. Add to this the conceptuailties of religious dogmas, political ideologies, cultural conditioning and the emotional armoring that comes from life-experience... and our perceptions become so obfiscated and our conciouness so encapsulated, that we lose the ablity to truly experience Life. This encapsulated conciousness is incapapable of experiencing (let alone understanding) refined energies of thought and creativity, because Life is constantly having be to filtered through our predjudices and fears.
If we want to be real... we have to think outside the box.
About desire...
I tend to think of desire into two basic catagories... natural desire and dissolute desire. Natural desire is the desire to experience Life, to create, to love and to explore. Dissolute desire comes from what I call the "having and getting syndrome." Dissolute desire not only leads to the fragmentation of the psyche and the weakening of our wills, but... but combined with the above named conceptualties, creates the horrors that we see taking place in the world.
In a very basic sense our reality (or our perception of it), is of our own making!
My reality has been a complicated thing as of late... I have been watching too much news. I am agast at what takes place in the world. I am amazed how easily people find excuses to kill each other... and worse. It is appalling that humans so quickly resort to violence as if it is a solution to any problem, when indeed our tendencies toward violence is the very problem itself!
I am dismayed that Americans have so easily swallowed the lies of this administration's propaganda machine. Equally dismaying is how easily Americans ignore the atrocities of war, torture and the chaos we are creating worldwide. The USA has aquiecsed to fear and idiotically surrenders their will to this government, thinking it can solve our problems. I am confused that... even after all their lies and evil have been revealed, that Bush and Cheney have not been made to account for that!
But this is not peculiar to America... indeed as a student of history and a world traveler, I have come to see this is a fundamental part of the human condition. And indeed this has become the most fundamental theme of our media.
Our media is inundated with horror upon horror... atrocity upon atrocity. And every day we see new examples of human corruption, greed, exploitation and lust for power... totally disregarding the harm they cause through their avarice.
Even here at SG, our own FearTheReaper regails us constantly with new tales of corruption, atrocities and horror. Don't get me wrong... I like him and for the most part, I agree with his politics and ethics. And I am grateful that he brings things to light, that few have the courage to do. But I do feel that he has stared into abyss too long. And like me... it has become too much a part of him.
By this innundation of negativity the media distorts our perception of reality. Perhaps this is intentional... a frightened populace is a malable populace. Even those of us on the "lunatic fringe" become manipulated by our own sense of rage... letting ourselves get caught up in the game of adversarial polarization. These things keep us distracted from the true experience of reality and realizing our true inner natures. Life is becoming perceived as a horror movie and people seem to just be accepting that!
I for one... am burned out on it!
For awhile at least, I'm going to practice the Merry Prankster's Axiom...
"If you don't like the movie, then change the channel!"
There is indeed so much beauty in the world... the twinkle in a delighted child's eyes, the scent of freshly blooming flowers, the girls here at SG... and indeed the list could go on endlessly. And there can be so much goodness in people.
I think I'll enjoy the breath of fresh air, the beauty of earth and sky, and the warmth of friends. I think I'll slip $20 to the next homeless person I meet. Think I'll drop the hard-assed persona I maintain to keep the idiots at bay. I think I'll let myself fall in love, even though I don't feel ready for it... I thing I'll write her volumes of romantic poetry. I think I'll get back to making pretty pictures. I think I'll go to the woods and frolic naked.
Perhaps these things are the reality of life. Perhaps if we rip away the the cloud of gloom that engulfs the world, we will see that the beauty is what is truly real... what has always been meant to be.
I truly believe that...
There is no hell but our own fears.
But there is love enough to dry all tears.
------------------ -----------------
On a more whimsical note... there seems to be a new member who came to our site last Oct, one King Louis_XIV of France. Seems his royal engineers perfected a means of communicating through time... and he is communicating with us from the 18th Century. All jokes aside... he is an interesting and insightful fellow, and an entertaining read. I highly recommend checking him out.
Love and Light!
AmLt
p.s. I miss you so much its kinda stupid
hidingunderarock@gmail.com
LOVE YOU !!!