tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post117025766468320705..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: A Cosmos Beyond Our Wildest Dreams and Wackiest PunsGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32978121363184454522007-08-27T21:40:00.000-07:002007-08-27T21:40:00.000-07:00I know who he meant. The name's Apollo Smile, not ...I know who he meant. The name's Apollo Smile, not that it might mean anything to you. And my opinion is, it shouldn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170355140067976682007-02-01T10:39:00.000-08:002007-02-01T10:39:00.000-08:00Jacob ~How about Soleil? I'll take a guess at the ...Jacob ~<BR/><BR/>How about Soleil? I'll take a guess at the surname - Palom?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170350733347315892007-02-01T09:25:00.000-08:002007-02-01T09:25:00.000-08:00Anonymous: Thanks heaps! I'm fiddling with the ide...Anonymous: Thanks heaps! I'm fiddling with the idea of making a NoseHose vacuum - SnotVac for short.<BR/><BR/>Will: The Earth itself backs up your theory on creative birth types. Geophysically speaking, Earth evidences "blow up creativity" via volcanoes, plate movement (resultant civilization destruction/rebirth), subduction zones, quakes & tsunamis (akin to Her "water breaking?" LOL!) that occur violently in any given moment with nary a hint of preamble. Sediment samples tell the tale of such violent births.<BR/><BR/>There is also the other type, smooth births, flowing, not violent in Earth's expression, more fluid like how the sun rises at Dawn & can sets spectacularly. Both are mostly seen & appreciated by Astro & Geophysicist-types & farmers. Earth can be both foul & fine, eh? (Still, Orcs are the worst, more foul than fine!) Thought you'd appreciate that the Earth even supports your theory.<BR/><BR/>- PrincessSpirit -Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170349755173457512007-02-01T09:09:00.000-08:002007-02-01T09:09:00.000-08:00Of course, Will, your cycle of creativity gets an,...Of course, Will, your cycle of creativity gets an, "as above, so below" nod from science:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9098/1066/" REL="nofollow">click!</A><BR/><BR/>Paul G - it could be worse, Duchess Beaglehole could be your mom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170349316609100272007-02-01T09:01:00.000-08:002007-02-01T09:01:00.000-08:00You feel better, too, Princess.Juliec - yeah, I do...You feel better, too, Princess.<BR/><BR/>Juliec - yeah, I do think the non-compulsive type of creativity proceeds not from a need to create, but simply from the fact that it can be done, so why not do it? A certain sense of noblesse oblige, maybe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170347003040196302007-02-01T08:23:00.000-08:002007-02-01T08:23:00.000-08:00Will - Of course everything doesn't have to have a...Will - Of course everything doesn't have to have a reason, but as a raccoon, I feel compelled to ask anyway.<BR/><BR/>As to the types of creativity, you're definitely on to something there. Personally, I tend toward the second, zen-type of creativity. In fact, that's been my biggest struggle; if I don't have an external reason to create something (a class, somebobody's paying me, etc.) I tend not to do it. Also, without some type of deadline even if I start there's a chance I won't get around to finishing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170346949228745802007-02-01T08:22:00.000-08:002007-02-01T08:22:00.000-08:00Will: "Interpreting the dream as you're having it"...Will: "Interpreting the dream as you're having it" eventually happens to peeps in my profession! :) After years of lucid dreams, interpreting a dream I'm having occurs regularly now, prolly due to constant practice of being in touch w/my spirit-Spirit & instincts for long periods during a day while focusing on others. Am aware am in touch w/Him even while dreaming not just during waking-rest-meditative states. The dreamscape & I interact together synergistically, not just standard back-forth or action-reaction linear format. Its not a closed loop unto my self a way normal dreams can be; more divine & mysterious (Other) where I'm an active part even as It Unfolds, inclusive of Spirit-Spiritual realm, not reflexologically passive as is true w/normal dreams. Just the opposite if theres a term for it: Spirit-w/my-spirit interaction (relationship), where Past-Present-Future are mixed w/Spirit + self at once as its a more easily accessed responsive state subordinate to Spirit, where I'm not a victim but I'm not Initiator. I free will initiate responses awake or dreaming, as we do in daily life; but dreams & life also happen to us vs always being willfully chosen, as Will pointed out, so we aren't the big Initiators. God is supraordinate, yet not a Dictator & allows my freewill to impact Him; my liberated self is subordinate to Him yet is not His victim but is a Victor w/free will to initiate creativity & responses. In dream states we're less inhibited, but I can't say we're not rational, rather the rational "becomes the subconscious." I'm not dissociated from rationality during these dreams; but rationality is not upfront either. Its also not a hypnotic state, yet isn't a conscious state, but a mix of both. I call it Nexus Dreams, akin to communion going on in my subconscious rather than waking state, which makes sense to me.<BR/><BR/>Rather than being passive participant a dream just happens to as a victim, Nexus Dreams have a distinct sense of one being able to wholistically "co-create" the dream as It Unfolds in Present, as my choices impact it; yet I'm given Other information & insights during them, too. An unshakable sense of Present, Past & Future is woven all-at-once in Nexus dreams. In contrast, I call lucid dreams Victory dreams, as you're not a victim but can test from a Victor position as Van described, able to choose actions & paths, responsive rather than reactive, able to more willfully participate. The dreamscape throws stuff at u like an unfamiliar computer video game, but as u interact on the fly, outcomes change as u participate each step. But Nexus dreams seem more comprehensive in depth, layers & outcomes. I suspect one is more awake in them than during lucid dreams where you interact mostly w/ur subconscious & its messages. In Nexus dreams, you interact w/all that PLUS God's Spirit; so its Vertically advanced dreaming.<BR/><BR/>(Sorry am poorly conveying between coughing hack-fits & phlegm-hockeys I practice launching into my Trashcan-turned-Spitoon outside in 20-deg Snow every minute as I have Bronchitis, Round #2. Damned bronchitis blocks my Aesthetic senses commensurate w/how much I'm congested! Feel cranky, like I'm a machine programmed to do nothing but Hack + Spit, Blow + Go. No liberty to do much else as HS+BG take all my time & effort! Know how a Leftie or a baby feels & why parents call them P&P-factories. Will be a relief to get back to freely creating art after this damned "robotic recovery duty" is over. Not to mention I'm bereft of my sense of smell & have Zero appetite, a comatose state to a Foodie, so cant even enjoy eating or ale-ing. Sick isnot fun for synaesthetics but I know I've turned the corner when I *think* I want a Guiness.)<BR/><BR/>After studying in-depth Altered, Dream & Sleep States I can say w/certainty its not a Hypnomnemonic or Hypnogogic state. Have noticed in such dreams my subconscious thots register quickly & flow fluidly a moment or two b4 they arrive in the dream itself as is true w/lucid dreams; but lucids become elementary after you've experienced em awhile. Perhaps there's a spectrum? There's a definite sense of Prophetic element (coming from Other) as opposed to a predictive element. Infinite time to choose-create next step-direction takes milliseconds in actuality but in that state time is different. I KNOW in this Dream "the Dream IS Already Written, has its own distinct Past as I'm simultaneously co-creating it in the Present." Thus, it has a Future. Seems I sense & touch all 3 states at once as I'm dreaming & is what makes it advanced over lucid dreams. Coons, feel free to help me out naming it as you're all very capable & creative.<BR/><BR/>Dreams are revealing & leading as Van says, but also linking, connective, finite yet infinite, contained yet expansive, Grace allows me choices, yet Directive & Guiding by Spirit who is active, connective & present in them -> Spirit-spirit dream-sharing? Hmmm. Same way I experience Oneness w/God-Truth here while awake, sumfink Spiritually similar happens in this dreamstate subconsciously. Art created w/Spirit & self, both, which loudly speaks of Relationship being vital to experience, then expressed as Art. Whether explosive/smoothly expressed as you describe, both have validity.<BR/><BR/>Agree w/you its a definite Honor & Privilege to actively participate w/Him in them. Lucid dreaming prolly evolves into this dream state, deeper than our understanding, words & Art convey. Even Vedantics don't do it Justice & they are quite descriptive. Definitely appreciate the Blessing & Enrichment experiencing them adds to my Being. Feels sacred. Suspect sacred gradations exist for judging between dreamstates & spiritual experiences, whether conscious or less conscious.<BR/><BR/>This "co-creation" feeling blows my mind w/its Joy & Spirit insights, no matter if its Dark dream matter or Light. Aware, connective feeling to Spirit while dreaming is phenomenal, perhaps more easily felt than Here. Am less inhibited, freer than waking-meditative states to interact w/Spirit & receive-respond more quickly. Am blessed to understand its yet another level & sacred pathway He, Them & I communicate & share knowing His Will, Mind, Consciousness, Heart, Vision.<BR/><BR/>Near end of Yesterdays post, someone interestingly commented on NDEs recent research & findings (thus, OOBEs by intimation) & wanted to add there's a real otherworld Here. We employ our senses while there, but each sense has manifestational limits. Ex: Here, we talk to communicate; There, you easily use telepathy; talking is slower & not needed. Try telepathy here & you get crazy looks. Its a real dimension & is connected to this one, not separate yet, nor simply a state of mind-being. One can test it as lucid dreams are tested but results & consequences can Evidence Here, whereas lucid dream test results evidence only IN The Dream To Self; they don't manifest Here in Reality. Evidence such as telepathy w/an awake-other, as NDEs report they experience, remote viewing, etc. Yogis speak of same experiences. Definitely OOBEs & not ur normal experience but you have control of your senses & faculties even when your body is lying in bed in the other room. 1st time you pass thru a wall ur brain doesn't forget it due to the non-manufactured quality IMPACTING your brain, rather than coming from brain TO you as would occur in dream/altered states. Food for thot, I guess.<BR/><BR/>Hope you feel better soon, Will. Thank God the Earl is not visiting my humble abode! Hope he expediently departs yours & takes his baggage w/him! :D<BR/><BR/>- PrincessSpirit -Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170345315417253312007-02-01T07:55:00.000-08:002007-02-01T07:55:00.000-08:00Ben, thanks - And yup, you have got the earl down,...Ben, thanks - <BR/><BR/>And yup, you have got the earl down, brother.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170345173196317492007-02-01T07:52:00.000-08:002007-02-01T07:52:00.000-08:00>>I'm glad you summoned the earl to relinquish it ...>>I'm glad you summoned the earl to relinquish it so vomitaceously.<<<BR/><BR/>Thank you. Summoning the earl definitely belongs in the compulsive/build-up/explosive release category. <BR/><BR/>Vanopolis - yes, for a moment there I thought you were channeling Keith Olbermann. Anyway, it strikes me that the compulsive/explosive type simply has something of a personalized ego-base, while the effortless effort type doesn't. The latter bypasses the "I" - Tantra-style, the energies are sublimated into universality, and the artist no longer really "owns" the work. Well, that's probably stating it too simply. Something like that anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170341396079406572007-02-01T06:49:00.000-08:002007-02-01T06:49:00.000-08:00Will-You mean Earl...the head throne god?Earl is s...Will-<BR/>You mean Earl...the head throne god?<BR/>Earl is so full of bile substance, but he has a way of creating a colorful relief, and a portrait of emptiness.<BR/>I hope Earl is banished to burps instead of big bangs soon. <BR/><BR/>And yet, through all of that bileness, you created a teaser of esquisite mystery that has kept me pondering and contemplating for hours.<BR/><BR/>I could actually feel my brain cells smoking from the overload.<BR/>And yes, they do inhale.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170337787950362712007-02-01T05:49:00.000-08:002007-02-01T05:49:00.000-08:00Note to self, don't try to write an extended comme...Note to self, don't try to write an extended comment in the comment box, use notepad or word... can you say jumbled? Besides, that word verification thing is always staring at you, making you think of non-existent words... 'bglfrmp' what the heck is that supposed to mean? Could be a... there you go, doing it again. Notepad! Word! Sheesh.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170337483812626902007-02-01T05:44:00.000-08:002007-02-01T05:44:00.000-08:00Will,"...maybe life itself more readily lends itse...Will,<BR/><BR/>"...maybe life itself more readily lends itself to the "revealing and leading" symbolic aspects than does art. "<BR/><BR/>Yeah I think so, like I said in some ways dreams are something more, and less, that Art. "Ever have the privilege of interpreting a dream while you are having it? A species of lucid dreaming, I'm sure you would agree. " I did with one set of repetitious dreams, and as I grasped it I sort of "Aha!'d" myself into the dream, and it faded to a wisp as I woke, and it never returned. <BR/><BR/>Something more, and something less than Art.<BR/><BR/>Following up on you explosive & flow types of creativity - with the explosive especially showing up early on and the flow type more common in later years. This creativity coming in like a lion, and out like a lamb as (if) the artist matures, I wonder if we gain some perspective on it if we think keep in mind that it isn't only creating something outside the artist? <BR/><BR/>I wonder if it has to do with the explosive bursts being reflections of large, root Truths suddenly, blazingly, being grasped by the artist and channeled into their Art, Beethoven's Fifth for example. And as the foundations for their art become more fully discovered and laid down within them; then the finer distinctions become their issue. These later creations are perhaps less massive and outwardly or obviously impressive in the way that a buildings foundation pilings are, but once that basic construction is complete, then more the way is formed and cleared within them for more functional but less obviously impressive creations to flow from their foundations, like windows and doors...?<BR/><BR/>And yes, thanks to the Earl.<BR/><BR/>("Hello bookie? Yes, I'd like to place a bet on the Bearz for 41. Huh? er... no, I don't know if that's the final score, or the spread, actually it could even be the combined total of both teams... hello?")Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170335033520305772007-02-01T05:03:00.000-08:002007-02-01T05:03:00.000-08:00Will:Your comment about creativity was a keeper. ...Will:<BR/><BR/>Your comment about creativity was a keeper. I'm glad you summoned the earl to relinquish it so vomitaceously.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170331173990534232007-02-01T03:59:00.000-08:002007-02-01T03:59:00.000-08:00It's my job to embarass you... go have your own ki...It's my job to embarass you... go have your own kids and torment them the same way. It's a devolutionary sort of dysfunction that's been handed down for generations in our family.<BR/><BR/>Blame the Prussians. Or the Austrians. Or your father's English/Irish family. It's not like they ever call either.<BR/><BR/>Hey, is that what you're wearing to work? You'll freeze to death! Did you ever get your insurance for your car? Look at you, you don't eat enough. You'd have more money if you didn't spend it on scotch and cigars. What is that music you're listening too???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170316859764607862007-02-01T00:00:00.000-08:002007-02-01T00:00:00.000-08:00Vanopolis - >>the dream seems to be more revealing...Vanopolis - >>the dream seems to be more revealing & leading, than illustrative and instructive<<<BR/><BR/>Am forced to agree with your wisdom. I do think, however, that, to a degree at least, not only can art be intepreted as one would interpret a dream, but life itself can be thus intepreted. Ya know?<BR/><BR/>In fact - maybe life itself more readily lends itself to the "revealing and leading" symbolic aspects than does art. After all, a great deal of the time we have no choice in the content or direction of "how things go" in life. <BR/><BR/>Consider my somewhat mysterious reference to an event of this week that I believe (should my interpretation of this event be correct)is revealing and leading insofar as the outcome of the SuperBowl goes. <BR/><BR/>On a related note - Ever have the privilege of interpreting a dream while you are having it? A species of lucid dreaming, I'm sure you would agree.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170314777630152552007-01-31T23:26:00.000-08:002007-01-31T23:26:00.000-08:00No, juliec - geez, does everything need a REASON?No, juliec - geez, does everything need a REASON?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170314606894070852007-01-31T23:23:00.000-08:002007-01-31T23:23:00.000-08:00Having come to today's OC post late, due to my hav...Having come to today's OC post late, due to my having spent most of the day "summoning the earl", which, if you are unaware of the term, refers to the involuntary relinquishing of the contents of your stomach, I'd like to weakly comment on the dynamic of creativity as it relates to God and His ongoing creation.<BR/><BR/>Certainly the human creative act gives us, by way of divine analogy, insight into the nature of God and Creation. <BR/><BR/>I think there really are two different manifestations of human creativity. The first is that of the artist (of any sort) within whom there "builds up" a creative impulse that seeks release. The creativity exists as a natural force - when the release comes, the artist actually feels relieved, more balanced, the creative tension having been resolved. I think generally we identify this type of artist - the compulsive, "explosive" kind - as the Western standard bearer. The somewhat eccentric, very individualistic human anomaly caught up in creative agony, etc. And of course, after having created, after having released the compulsive creative force, the process begins again, the creative force builds up, and so on. A definite cycle.<BR/><BR/>Certainly, this type of creativity must reflect on the nature of God's creativity. There is indeed an "explosiveness" to Creation, from the evidence of the so-called Big Bang to the primal fire of the stars themselves. <BR/><BR/>There is, however, another type of human creativity that also must reflect on the nature of God and His creativity. This type of human creativity does not involve the sense of "creative build-up and release". In fact, it's almost a "give it or take it" creativity - it's the kind of creativity characterized by the term "not-doing". The effortless effort, not there one second, there the next second, no explosion. Henry Miller's early "Tropic" works, I think, are a good example of the compulsive, build-up and explode type of creativity. His later writings, such as Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch - in which Miller turned to attention fully to spiritual matters - are a good example of the quiet, serene, effortless effort type of creativity. Miller did say in his later years, as creatively fecund as they were, that it really wouldn't matter a great deal to him if he stopped writing all together. <BR/><BR/>Early Beethoven - compulsive build-up/explosion creativity. Beethoven's late string quartets - definitely effortless effort, very Zen. One thing that makes them so beautiful is the feeling that Beethoven could just as easily *not* have composed them. Shakespeare, too - though the plays are replete with fury and emotion, there is something eerily detached about them that suggests that they were "breathed into existence", not exploded into being. <BR/><BR/>Eckhart once said in a sermon - I'm too tired to find the exact quote - something to the effect that when God created the cosmos, He actually didn't *do* anything. Enigmatic, yes, but I think it suggests that the Godhead's creativity was and is, at root, the "effortless effort". On the plane of being, this creativity is the most transcendent. <BR/><BR/>There are those who will tell you that "not-being" informs "being" at every moment, which is what makes existence so beautiful. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I think the transcendent, less ego-individualistic,"effortless effort" artist will eventually become the ideal. That, in turn, will reflect on our perspective of the Creator's divine nature.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170311549697046172007-01-31T22:32:00.001-08:002007-01-31T22:32:00.001-08:00Different strokes, exactly... No worries, tho - I'...Different strokes, exactly... No worries, tho - I'm not offended... Funny thing about the circles she moved in - one would imagine that as people used to the whole bubblegum aesthetic (that's the only words for it that I can think of), they'd ALL be all over her, right? I don't know what happened.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170311529216869772007-01-31T22:32:00.000-08:002007-01-31T22:32:00.000-08:00OK, time to break out the dusty old crystal ball: ...OK, time to break out the dusty old crystal ball: <BR/><BR/>"From the marine city, the ursa head will take the scepter; to chase the soiled man who will be against him. Fourteen times he will breach the wall."<BR/><BR/>In other words, a good day for Rex.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170310136748857562007-01-31T22:08:00.000-08:002007-01-31T22:08:00.000-08:0041, huh?Any particular reason?41, huh?<BR/><BR/>Any particular reason?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170310054237635692007-01-31T22:07:00.000-08:002007-01-31T22:07:00.000-08:00L.A. limos lopepoll email solose a ill mopall soil...L.A. limos lope<BR/>poll email so<BR/>lose a ill mop<BR/>all soil mope<BR/><BR/>Wait. I think i know who it was.<BR/><BR/>No offense, but i always found her kinda annoying. Oh, well. Different strokes for different folks, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170310010829522022007-01-31T22:06:00.000-08:002007-01-31T22:06:00.000-08:00Thanks, Cosa. She definitely needs it.Thanks, Cosa. She definitely needs it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170309772303089772007-01-31T22:02:00.000-08:002007-01-31T22:02:00.000-08:00“This is the way I always go. I like the back way ...“This is the way I always go. I like the back way - we can avoid the crowds.”<BR/><BR/>That's it, Julie, wonderful dream. There are always wolves. :-)<BR/><BR/>Prayer in the air for your sister.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170309672644209372007-01-31T22:01:00.000-08:002007-01-31T22:01:00.000-08:00I'll get off my temporary sickbed to make my Super...I'll get off my temporary sickbed to make my SuperBowl prediction, which is, in a word . . <BR/><BR/>Bearz. No, this is not a heart prediction, I am honorably detached when it comes to local teams. But . . .<BR/><BR/>Bearz. And quite convincingly, too. Well, listen - this week there was a "sign", shall we say, actually an event that symbolically indicated that Indy is going to implode on Sunday. Anybody pick that up? Hah? Well, it was there,it happened. It's like when Clinton's plane got stuck in the mud at LaCrosse, Wisc., and several days later, the Monica story broke wide-open. Yes, that kind of thing.<BR/><BR/>Dunno what the final score is going to be (dammit, I'm a doctor, not a soothsayer!)(actually, I'm not even a doctor)<BR/>But I think there's going to be a "41" involved somehow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1170309374330156052007-01-31T21:56:00.000-08:002007-01-31T21:56:00.000-08:00bubba: Not quite there yet...She was born with an ...bubba: Not quite there yet...<BR/><BR/>She was born with an odd first name (not really a <I>girly</I> name at all until you thought about it and realized how well it fit her), and her <I>nom de piano</I> was her odd first name plus and equally odd surname... <I>(I like the Pelosi crack, though.)</I><BR/><BR/>Our whole circle of friends - her whole posse, we all met on the Net - had some odd mutual interests...comic books, movies and poetry among them.<BR/><BR/>What I said about her loving the <I>sunlight</I> and being perennially <I>happy</I> should give a clue, if you really wanna figure it out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com