tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6469587538750463235..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Stop Time Before it Stops YouGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91575813679007394022008-09-28T15:58:00.000-07:002008-09-28T15:58:00.000-07:00Will - expanding the Now is quite important as far...Will - expanding the Now is quite important as far as the container goes, but it is of course not the content. Rather it allows us to grab hold of more at a time of whatever we turn to. If we expand and strengthen our soul but do not continue to have it filled from the Light, it will get its fill from elsewhere, and our wisdom will do far more harm than our ignorance did. Or that's what the voice in my head claims, more or less.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77338309878178867062008-09-28T13:59:00.000-07:002008-09-28T13:59:00.000-07:00Personally I wouldn't worry about achieving "time ...Personally I wouldn't worry about achieving "time dilation" too much. For one, like so many New Agey pursuits it can become a solipsistic feedback loop, a pain-avoidance self-obsession. <BR/><BR/>Also, time seems to be speeding up for everyone - there's been surveys that indicate that even children and teens are experiencing a sense of accelerating time. Maybe like a tape seems to speed up as it nears the end? End of an age, another soon to begin . . . <BR/><BR/>I think we get to a point - as JWM clearly has - that we just have to take the hit, that nothing stands between us and the ghosts we have accrued. It's an effen' agony, for sure - but it's a spiritual challenge we have *earned*. The Divine-Powers-That-Be trust us enough to handle the challenge. (and as the gnosis-enti inform us, having to deal with the ghosts while we're still corporeal is actually a blessing; it's far far worse having to deal with the ghosts once we've left the building. Of course, there is a chance that the Universal Kundalini will intensify to the point where everyone has to face their ghosts head-on, ready or not)<BR/><BR/>In any event, for whatever we have to suffer, it's a relatively short ride - we're eventually going to get all the time-dilation we can handle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10803497118429886182008-09-28T12:11:00.000-07:002008-09-28T12:11:00.000-07:00TIME of year: autumn...the ruling Archangel: Mi-ch...TIME <BR/>of year: autumn...the ruling Archangel: Mi-cha-el<BR/>& Libra specifically-- musicians who have this swell sign, include [from memory]: Glenn Gould, John Lennon, Marc Bolan, Chuck Berry, T.S. Eliot, F. Nietzsche, Paul Brunton, Ally Crowley [the last 2 mortal enemies! heheh opposite scales?]gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53216829087994415782008-09-28T11:33:00.000-07:002008-09-28T11:33:00.000-07:00I'm letting Magnus' "thief of time" sink in a litt...I'm letting Magnus' "thief of time" sink in a little. There is something in it that ties to Will's post from last night, and hits me where I live. What is the thread? Suffering. Viscosity. The place between the ears where it all takes place.<BR/>(I had some time alone)<BR/>It's the end of the world as we know it.<BR/>Can't say I feel fine.<BR/>The heart episode wiped out my savings two years ago. I've been working for the local elementary school district, subbing for the janitorial and maintenance departments ever since. Lately I've been on the night shift.<BR/>I used to do night custodian in my early twenties. It was a slacker's paradise. All alone on a school grounds. slow. easy. dark. quiet. I could noodle along with the chores of the shift while my mind was free to roam. I loved the freedom I had in my head. It was easy to fill those hours with- I don't recall what. But it was easy.<BR/>It's not so easy, now.<BR/>The work hasn't changed, but the space between my ears isn't the playground it once was. Now it's haunted- a war zone- maze full of minotaurs, and all that. Time on the shift thickens to peanut butter viscosity. Sometimes it just hurts, and I pray out loud.<BR/>I think there's a misconception about gettin' religion. It isn't like free prozac, and it sure isn't any kind of opiate for pain, physical or otherwise. It will not cure your emotional ills any more than it will cure your physical ills.<BR/>So why do it?<BR/>Because there are two paths. On one there is God who suffers with us, and the promise that the mystery is all to a purpose greater than that which we can comprehend.<BR/>The other path leads to The Nothing. And ends there.<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45171408494731709132008-09-28T09:49:00.000-07:002008-09-28T09:49:00.000-07:00Magnus, I think the actual number is probably unco...Magnus, I think the actual number is probably uncountable. It's just human nature. I bet if you switched your wristwatch off after a while, you'd notice when it <I>didn't</I> go off.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48473700539233283642008-09-28T09:32:00.000-07:002008-09-28T09:32:00.000-07:00Morning, Walt!Yes, doing something about the great...Morning, Walt!<BR/>Yes, doing something about the great time robbery is the hard part. The world has seen various useful approaches, from the Asian monks who sweep the floor consciously to the Jews who not only hold a strict Sabbath but also make sure to say prayers before various everyday actions. Any good ideas are of interest, since this matter is so serious and (in my age at least) so urgent. I have done some time dilation exercises through the years, but I did not really take seriously the strength of the undercurrent - that we have to run even to stay in place, so to speak. <BR/><BR/>The last wrist watch I bought had an option to discreetly beep every hour. I would use this interrupt to quickly check up on my consciousness: Where is my mind now? But of course after a while, I stopped hearing the beep. No, my hearing is fine; I became immune. One can only wonder how many other such filters there are in life.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12624988004338727062008-09-28T09:03:00.000-07:002008-09-28T09:03:00.000-07:00Today's news of sanity. Or perhaps I should say, n...Today's news of <A HREF="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063110/BBC-investigated-peer-says-climate-change-programme-biased-sided-polemic.html" REL="nofollow">sanity</A>. Or perhaps I should say, news of the Truth standing up to a big lie.<BR/><BR/>I notice the music selection has taken a more serious turn today. I recommend <A HREF="http://frothfromwalt.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Walt's place</A>, for anyone who hasn't stopped by for the Frothy goodness.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37837964057796313612008-09-28T06:44:00.000-07:002008-09-28T06:44:00.000-07:00Be whare all of ye are Now. Good Magnus/Walt exch...Be <I>whare</I> all of ye are Now. Good Magnus/Walt exchange.QPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15827536245376441948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8803303458430551752008-09-28T03:19:00.000-07:002008-09-28T03:19:00.000-07:00Morning, Magnus!A very succinct description! I agr...Morning, Magnus!<BR/><BR/>A very succinct description! I agree with your entire statement.<BR/><BR/>Although, I would add this, from my own experience: <BR/>Having recognized some years ago the dilemma you described, and having become convinced that it was <I>so,</I> and was <I>truly scary</I>, I have attempted to find what can be done. For there are, as you know, persistent reports and rumors that attaining to some degree of silence, or stillness, or tranquility -- if it can be real-ized, in fact -- provides a basis for modifying your "descent into default".<BR/><BR/>Personally, I believe our "error" is to solely attempt this through the mind. My experience is: that to whatever extent we can re-claim the NOW, we have to approach it via the emotions and the body -- since it is <I>there</I> that it can be "received" and "contained."<BR/><BR/>That's my 2-cent addendum. I applaud your original comment!walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83609165323800025422008-09-28T02:37:00.000-07:002008-09-28T02:37:00.000-07:00When I was a boy, I heard that time flies so much ...When I was a boy, I heard that time flies so much faster when you grow old, but I did not really care.<BR/><BR/>It turns out the truth is even more terrifying. There is a "default network" in our brains that automatically throws up memories, plans and daydreams when it detects slack. And it grows stronger over time, until it is always on and interferes with any attempt to wake up.<BR/><BR/>This is not O. It is an alternative source of slack content. It is the "time thief", and if death had not mercifully freed the ordinary human, they would eventually be completely automated, their bodies running through time with no one at home, their mind trapped forever in the dreamworlds.<BR/><BR/>Time does not merely fly faster because we have so much to do, but because we are not conscious while doing it. <BR/><BR/>A child is painfully present in the Now and cannot escape even if trying. But on the other end of the scale, we risk being locked out of the Now with no way in.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90234826322944958562008-09-27T22:40:00.000-07:002008-09-27T22:40:00.000-07:00Bob, I'm getting scared. Please tell me this i...Bob, I'm getting scared. Please tell me this is not true: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2798679275960015727&ei=sCbZSMXaC5GQ-QHf4uD5CA&q=power+of+nightmares+part+1&hl=enAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46779783284153883362008-09-27T16:44:00.000-07:002008-09-27T16:44:00.000-07:00>>Bob is never doing so much as when it look...>>Bob is never doing so much as when it looks as if he is doing nothing. As I have mentioned before, members of other castes might look at my life and conclude that old Head-in-Clouds has a pretty boring existence<<<BR/><BR/>Yup, boring and useless, they'd say. Of course, it's anything but useless. Anybody who seriously embarks on the Adventure is, via spiritual osmosis, doing more to bring balance and Light to the world than all the world's "community organizers" - all the politicians as well - put together. <BR/><BR/>Fact is, at some point in the Adventure, the pilgrim is most likely to be incapacitated in some way. The incapacitation would probably be physical, but an emotional, mental incapacitation is not out of the question. To undertake the Adventure is to take up one's Cross, which is another way of saying "activating one's karma", which means having to deal with a lot of dross that had previously been buried in the unconscious - and not only in one's personal unconscious, but in the collective unconscious. Obviously, there's a lot of wear and tear involved. It can render one an "invalid" in the eyes of the world. <BR/><BR/>That's a word I don't care for, "invalid". One is "un-valid" - no longer a valid person, ie., you've got nothing to contribute, you're useless baggage. In a generally Spirit-less world, small wonder things are trending toward mandated death by the actuarial table. <BR/><BR/>Not to be a buzz-kill, but in my old 'hood, there's been a rash of attempted suicides lately. As I might have previously mentioned, the zeitgeist has been unusually airless and flat as of late, so I suppose depressions are to be expected. Still . . . I think many suicides are the result of fear of being incapacitated in some way, of being "un-validated", whether by disappointment, emotional loss, etc. Depression itself is incapacitating. If we don't know how to suffer, how to be incapacitated - if we don't understand the meaning of suffering - then I think it's easy to see how suicide would be a logical way out of the mess. Ultimately, of course, suicide is a refusal to pick up and carry one's own Cross. When we do accept the Cross of our own suffering, it doesn't matter even if we are completely physically incapacitated, we add immeasurably to the reservoir of Light that nurtures the entire world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50512035568263566842008-09-27T16:43:00.000-07:002008-09-27T16:43:00.000-07:00Cheers, Bob! You got the taste.At risk of luck-pus...Cheers, Bob! You got the taste.<BR/>At risk of luck-pushing, I'll pop a couple of Osho quotes here:<BR/>"The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. The heart has no time concept." <BR/>"A child lives in eternity; for him, there is no time."gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50603099916358796072008-09-27T16:17:00.000-07:002008-09-27T16:17:00.000-07:00You know, anon- Much as I hate to admit it, that w...You know, anon- Much as I hate to admit it, that was some pretty darn good trolling:<BR/> *A*<BR/>;)<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7731602779381097682008-09-27T16:01:00.000-07:002008-09-27T16:01:00.000-07:00GE:Good call! I love that song. And Gene Clark.GE:<BR/><BR/>Good call! I love that song. And Gene Clark.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21121346030304878842008-09-27T15:54:00.000-07:002008-09-27T15:54:00.000-07:00She Don't Care About Time[Gene Clark, El Mejor]Hal...<B>She Don't Care About Time</B><BR/>[Gene Clark, El Mejor]<BR/><BR/><I>Hallways and staircases everyday to climb <BR/>To go up to my white walled room out on the end of time <BR/>Where I can be with my love for she is all that is mine <BR/>And she`ll always be there, my love don`t care about time <BR/>I laugh with her, cry with her, hold her close she is mine <BR/>The way she tells me of her love and never is she trying <BR/>She don`t have to be assured of many good things to find <BR/>And she`ll always be there, my love don`t care about time <BR/>Her eyes are dark and deep with love, her hair hangs long and fine <BR/>She walks with ease and all she sees is never wrong or right <BR/>And with her arms around me tight I see her all in my mind <BR/>And she`ll always be there my love don`t care about time</I>gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45293364400155983872008-09-27T15:50:00.000-07:002008-09-27T15:50:00.000-07:00I have excitedly seized jwm's "coondom" in my scal...I have excitedly seized jwm's "coondom" in my scaly paws. What can I do with it? There must be something...<BR/><BR/>Yes, yes. Spirit people, better use a coondom when you come to ths blog to ejaculate your god-loving spew. That way you won't inseminate the innocent materialist with your vile ontological gametes... so as not to beget a forlorn brainchild in the hapless existentialist with her legs brutally pried open by your henchmen.<BR/><BR/>Ladies, make sure your coons wear their overcoats before they begin their coonjugal duties. Don't buy in to their madness lest you fall prey too. <BR/><BR/>Having made the lucky find, the lizard melts away into anonymous cyberspace, never to return.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50532187284612722302008-09-27T13:50:00.000-07:002008-09-27T13:50:00.000-07:00Anony: yes. In fact, I would love it if every high...Anony: yes. In fact, I would love it if every high school student was required to read Polyani's 'Meaning' - the chapter on Personal Knowledge explains what you're talking about very clearly. Knowledge is action, fundamentally, and tacit knowledge is, while unreproducable, real. For instance there are degrees - the religious vision being the highest. Can I explain to you how it feels to properly use a hammer? Probably not. And in fact, I can't reproduce for you the facts of experience that I have when skillfully using one, unless I am able to translate it into some common language. But the actual experience itself is not scientifically reproducable in another subject, as how I experience this is subject to me and me alone. When adding the action of an outside, spiritual source - whether good, evil, or whatever, which is a free will, it would be like trying to reproduce the expression in your wife's face when you told her you love her but while blind and deaf and unsure if she's in the room. So add multiple wills and tacit experience and rational scientific explanation is basically utterly useless except as a kind of road sign : "Go this way. Don't go that way!"Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12237033057213188112008-09-27T12:34:00.000-07:002008-09-27T12:34:00.000-07:00I think the fundamental mystery is how "existence"...I think the fundamental mystery is how "existence" becomes "experience," since you could never really derive the latter from the former. Therefore, experience, or being, must simply bifurcate into subjective and objective modes, which is more or less what Whitehead believed.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8244621254140622942008-09-27T12:22:00.000-07:002008-09-27T12:22:00.000-07:00Regardng bran function and religious experience: t...Regardng bran function and religious experience: there are four hyotheses:<BR/><BR/>1. The brain manufactures the experience; it has no reality outside the brain.<BR/><BR/>2. The experience is caused by phenomenon outside of the brain, and is the brain's response to the stimulus.<BR/><BR/>3. The brain manufactures one half of the experience, which is matched by one half generated by an external influence of an as yet unkown source. <BR/><BR/>4. The brain manufactures religious experiences, some of which become reality in the outside world. <BR/><BR/>I favor hypothesis #3. It fits best with observations I have made over the years. <BR/><BR/>We all know our brains; they generate thoughts, and we can imagine experiences. A vivid imagination and the ability to suspend disbelief can produce a faux religiouss experience easily enough.<BR/><BR/>Yet, that there is also an external nonsensory source of experience is incontrovertible; I have had intimations leading to outcomes that could not be self-generated. <BR/><BR/>These kinds of intimations are known to us all; we've all had some. We know their source instinctively. It is not us. Some outcomes: visions of where to find things, what book to read that proves helpful, what person to see that provides an essential bit of help or information, an arrangment of happenstance, etc. Random chance accounts for some of these, but a percentage are of incalcuably small liklehood and must be sensibly taken as non-random.<BR/><BR/>I notice experiences come in response to a need or thought in the mind of an ordinary nature, which is then taken up and completed or augmented by the visiting power. Therefore, I thend to think of experiences as collusive or cooperative in nature; brain and the power outside of it meeting up; call and response.<BR/><BR/>These experiences are not replicable on demand, so although I have adequate proof for myself, I cannot meet the burden of proof for others. There is no methodology for proving out the hypothesis. <BR/><BR/>How about other readers experiences and thoughts on the matter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56936355958163018462008-09-27T11:09:00.000-07:002008-09-27T11:09:00.000-07:00Precisely. It's a -- no, the -- existential choic...Precisely. It's a -- no, the -- existential choice.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1837799193292076272008-09-27T10:48:00.000-07:002008-09-27T10:48:00.000-07:00From the Gerson article:We have seen this debate b...From the Gerson article:<BR/><I>We have seen this debate before. Sigmund Freud believed that a deep, psychological desire for God proved that God is an illusion -- merely the projection of our deepest wishes into an empty universe. But the intensity of a desire or an experience does not make it a lie.<B> And perhaps the frontal lobes and the thalamus and the parietal lobes are responding to a reality, not conjuring it.</B> </I><BR/><BR/>It strikes me that right here we have all of Ray's posts reduced succinctly into this one either/or choice. So, with two paths before you- which will you choose?<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64638345381359030252008-09-27T10:44:00.000-07:002008-09-27T10:44:00.000-07:00earth and moon spiraldna around the sunstarway to ...earth and moon spiral<BR/>dna around the sun<BR/>starway to heavenrobinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82050161845608365662008-09-27T10:20:00.000-07:002008-09-27T10:20:00.000-07:00"The activity of the brain during intense religiou..."<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092601058.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns" REL="nofollow">The activity of the brain</A> during intense religious experiences is often (though not always) similar. The frontal lobes are activated, indicating attention and focus. The thalamus shuts down normal sensory input. And the parietal lobes -- which ground us in time and space -- are less active. In this state, people describe a sense of timelessness, a suspension of self, a feeling of bliss and oneness with the universe."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29751350558654007022008-09-27T10:19:00.000-07:002008-09-27T10:19:00.000-07:00One more note-The first paragraph of yesterday's p...One more note-<BR/>The first paragraph of yesterday's post is magnificent. It'd make a great masthead for the blog. That paragraph is the Gettysburg Address of Coonhood.<BR/>(I was going to say, "Coondom", but I didn't want to leave such a ripe drop of troll bait laying around.)<BR/><BR/>JWM<BR/><BR/>JWMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com