tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8463491000121369321..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: When God Directs Your Lousy FilmGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67752310904279998372010-04-20T07:26:40.728-07:002010-04-20T07:26:40.728-07:00Bob, I just have one objection to something you sa...Bob, I just have one objection to something you said. I think you are being grossly unfair to lice.Diannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16301129417706219603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43631363639569080452010-04-20T06:26:12.875-07:002010-04-20T06:26:12.875-07:00Lance said "...I came to One Cosmos by way of...Lance said "...I came to One Cosmos by way of Van who took, what I felt was, a cheap shot at me on my blog..."<br /><br />Gasp!<br /><br />;-)<br /><br />(what with the price of ammo these days, there are no cheap shots, they're all expensive)<br /><br />"So thanks to both Bob and Van for making repeated cameos in my personal film."<br /><br />Ditto.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74411036405283094092010-04-20T06:20:46.885-07:002010-04-20T06:20:46.885-07:00"And here is the money quote, a good place to..."And here is the money quote, a good place to leave off for today: "Sometimes it happens -- is it not curious? -- that, before we have learnt anything in detail about a person, place or subject, we know with certainty: This is the person I shall love, this is the place where I need to go, this is the subject that, above all others, I must spend my life exploring.""<br /><br />It is the jackpot of realizations... and it holds, should hold, <i>huge</i> implications for those who've tied themselves down to rationalistic deductions... the Whole is there, and no matter the clever connedclusions used to lead away from it, they will leave you out of it.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21786112234231152382010-04-20T04:59:43.155-07:002010-04-20T04:59:43.155-07:00...There’s more, in a sequel
God will ultimately b...<i>...There’s more, in a sequel<br />God will ultimately be writing.<br /><br />He turns the pages of a vast<br />octavo volume, brings forefinger<br />to chin. H’m, that one might have turned out<br />differently, if I’d been paying attention.<br />Let’s revamp the casting call<br />in the sky, see whose talent effloresces. That way<br />there’ll be something to talk about next millennium.<br />The birds hear and drop to the grass.<br />Fireflies communicate spottily, but accurately.<br />The whole project is plain.<br />The rushes look good.<br />It was for this you spun your little web,<br />dear, and have somehow been rewarded. It is written<br /><br />that only the unlikeliest take hold.<br />Tomorrow there will be fireworks, and then,<br />back to the chain of living and dying,<br />pleasing and ornery. The process-shot whereby<br />scenery overcomes tedium, porch-sitting.<br />...<br />Tonight we have tension and oneness,<br />arcane, arousing. Forgotten starlets<br />and minor nobility are apt to turn up in it.<br />And so he said not to go,<br />is standing stuttering there<br />fluffier than a dream in the park setting<br />where we were accustomed to dwell.</i><br /><br />by John Ashbery<br /><br />http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/jan/11/pavane-pour-helen-twelvetrees/<br /><br />momma hully gully <br />poppa hully gully <br />you can hully gully toogehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50161498821123844132010-04-19T22:57:08.035-07:002010-04-19T22:57:08.035-07:00Pardon...Maria *von* Trapp. ;)Pardon...Maria *von* Trapp. ;)Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6681835885797882582010-04-19T22:55:41.844-07:002010-04-19T22:55:41.844-07:00Just finished Maria Trapp's book about their f...Just finished Maria Trapp's book about their family's emigration to America. I had forgotten she was brought up atheist and socialist, but when she accidentally wandered into a Palm Sunday service she was "completely overwhelmed." Reminded me of your post here. There were several moments in her book that really spoke to me...Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64843209421490780322010-04-19T22:37:58.716-07:002010-04-19T22:37:58.716-07:00Well, I am a leftist so there must be something in...Well, I am a leftist so there must be something in this post I can disagree with....<br /><br />But I can't quite get it pinpointed. I'll just say I would have liked Obamacare if it had actually been socialied medicine, but I can see its just business as usual with more profits for private sector...<br /><br />Too bad we can't call each "comrade." I would have liked that.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41456868272418046172010-04-19T20:19:01.698-07:002010-04-19T20:19:01.698-07:00Speaking of cameo appearances, here's a fine e...Speaking of cameo appearances, here's <a href="http://westsoundmodern.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/an-old-square-house/" rel="nofollow">a fine example</a>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12667585648482302162010-04-19T15:54:03.574-07:002010-04-19T15:54:03.574-07:00To debass re:
"Could it be that many liberal...To debass re:<br /><br />"Could it be that many liberals, like narcissistic therapists, are so insistent that others go along with them because they fear being obscure and crave feeling powerful more than they care about whether their solutions actually work?"<br /><br />Secular immortality is what they seek. Funny that they seek it in an arena that constantly changes. I think this is why they hate Reagan, he did what they wanted to do, but couldn't. Worse still is he made it look easy. When you worship the state, becoming one of its saints is the ultimate hat trick. Good thing for libs is that secular sainthood is anointed by the press; this means they are always in the running. Kind of like the Nobel Peace Prize.<br /><br />There was a time when true secular heros won wars and righted big wrongs. George Washington, to me, is the ultimate secular archetype. Today we are ruled by dishonest insurance agents with delusions of granduer.Tigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290914498892961024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9243693445074685052010-04-19T12:34:41.730-07:002010-04-19T12:34:41.730-07:00"Different souls and different planes are vib..."Different souls and different planes are vibrating at different frequencies to which we must entrain our spiritual antennae."<br /><br />It is almost like a developmental conveyor belt; surely Leary wasn't tapped into the profundity of Truth and Realization that our dear Unknown Friend was, yet there is no reason to completely disregard what he was tapped into, which was certainly interesting and thought provoking and weird and funny and playful and, dare I say, genius, but in a worldly, psycho-analytic manner. I especially feel this way about Terrence. That guy was a hoot and a holler and half!<br /><br />What I feel we are dealing with is the exploration of Mind, and its relation to the soul/energy body. Mind is a marvelous tool that is simultaneously an expression of a very real THING/PLACE. I have heard you say in the past the monkey woke up to a very real realm, the realm of Mind. Through practice we can distinguish and differentiate the multitude of experiences/realms that are manifesting within God, and there opens flow from one to the other. <br /><br />Authentic spiritual awakening entails a dis-engaging of the rational, locally-based mind and, when it is attuned properly, we can dance and play and sing in a multitude of dimensions while never loosing of Love of God or of this relative existence.<br /><br />It is as if when one orients (or is oriented by way of Grace, I should say) to the Absolute, the possibilities become endless and fascinating, much like as LSD or psilocybin encounter that one is able to disengage from due to pure Objectivity.<br /><br />(Bows to the sensi.)Jason T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14461929156658839789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41468825215839188432010-04-19T12:11:02.455-07:002010-04-19T12:11:02.455-07:00“Earth contains all things, in an earthly manner, ...“Earth contains all things, in an earthly manner, which Heaven comprehends celestially.” –Proclus<br /><br />I plinked this quote from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Ascent-Compendium-Worlds-Wisdom/dp/1887752048" rel="nofollow">The Spiritual Ascent</a> and glued it onto the wall of the <a href="http://robinstarfish.blogspot.com/2010/04/agape.html" rel="nofollow">Motel</a> today. So to read of Timothy Ware's tale derived from <i>Heaven and earth are united today </i> set my gong ringing.<br /><br />I can't help but wonder how much of the celestial drama I miss on a daily basis just by sheer stupid blindness.<br /><br />Five star post (out of four) today, Bob.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52442460084394420412010-04-19T11:45:44.102-07:002010-04-19T11:45:44.102-07:00Interesting article about what Bob says about mode...Interesting article about what Bob says about modern psychotherapy.<br /><br /><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/dr-helen-narcissism-power-fear-of-death-and-liberalism/?singlepage=true" rel="nofollow">Dr. Helen</a><br /><br />Hat tip to Shrinkwrap.debasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13546940741042023260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38382550262255119742010-04-19T11:38:23.274-07:002010-04-19T11:38:23.274-07:00If you think about it, I'm sure you can rememb...<i>If you think about it, I'm sure you can remember "chance meetings" on which your life turned on a dime. </i><br /><br />Oh yes. I married her.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81833294202445117852010-04-19T11:30:45.616-07:002010-04-19T11:30:45.616-07:00Dude, your comments are ascending to Magnus-like l...Dude, your comments are ascending to Magnus-like lucidity. Cooncur about Leary and McKenna, as they were instrumental in giving me the idea that it could all be done with humor and a spirit of (word)play. And the idea of resonance, which is rhythm and vibration, is key. Different souls and different planes are vibrating at different frequencies to which we must entrain our spiritual antennae.<br /><br />One quibble: one doesn't eat lice off the backs of MSM devotees, since the MSM is the lice.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39643660662121233782010-04-19T11:10:54.202-07:002010-04-19T11:10:54.202-07:00Two words: soul resonance. Reminds me also of the ...Two words: soul resonance. Reminds me also of the title of a book by George Leonard, "The Silent Pulse." In it he writes of a mystical rhythm that beats withn the center of each person, and that that pulse manifests as a vibratory field surrounding the object or activity where a person dedicates herself, be it their work, their family, their art. Those who are more fully conscious of their personal rhythm can transmit it more powerfully, hence the majestic music of Bach or the lucid writing of Schuon.<br /><br />Regardless, there have been multiple instances of instantaneous synchronization with my pulse, to the effect of magnificent harmonies. Early on in my psycho-spiritual development, when I was still eating lice off the backs of other MSM devotees and entertainment junkies, there were several writers who helped me see a doorway with their inner rhythm: Ken Wilber, Tim Leary, Tom Robbins, Terrence McKenna, Alex Grey. Now that I have substantiated myself in the trans-local paradise of Coon-topia and grabbed myself a Beautiful view from a cloud on high, the rhythms are a little more clear and substantial, yet are still swinging to that same dynamite worldly be-bop: Unknown Friend, Aurobindo, Schuon, and our dear friend and narrator, B'ob.<br /><br />Interestingly enough, as to the last, I was immediately attracted to Gagdad's writing style in the One Cosmos Book, yet it was taste testing the blog that really got my neurons myth-firing. Firstly, I knew that he was much smarter than I was. Secondly, I knew that he was fielding a level of experience and realization that transcended my own. Thirdly, I felt as if the blog was a manifestation of a Vision, yet simultaneously was free-style, meaning that it was guided and structured creativity and play. Fourthly, there was an aspect of myself within the tone, a joy at poking fun and seeing things as they really are, without bullshit. <br /><br />"But how can those four elements be present and he still be such an ASSHOLE and be so completely WRONG?"<br /><br />It was like a puzzle, one that I absolutely needed to figure out. Sometimes I would back away for months at a time, but that swinging jazz of Witnessing analogy kept me a'coming back.<br /><br />Two words: soul resonance.Jason T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14461929156658839789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17673366553488563002010-04-19T10:15:44.939-07:002010-04-19T10:15:44.939-07:00just recalling the old Ramana cinema simile, steep...just recalling the old Ramana cinema simile, steeping back from the seeming reality of any 'movie':<br /><br /><i>So you are not your body, at least not primarily. The same with your thoughts, feelings and sensual impressions. You have them, but you aren't them. As an illustration Ramana tells us to compare our situation with spectators at a cinema show. We are looking at images projected on a white screen and deeming them for real. These images exhilarate or depress us. We think that they are part of our life. We are drawn into the illusion, so to speak, to such an extent that we do not see the light anymore coming from the projector. All the time the white screen also can be seen if we alter the Gestalt of our vision, but we simply lose sight of it. To us only the images on the screen are real.<br /><br />The projector is the 'I-thought'. With its light it is sending all kinds of thoughts and feelings to our mind. We deem them for real. We tend to identify our self with these images. But these images can't exist without the screen. Only the screen is for real. Because it never changes and is always the same. It receives every kind of image, be it good or bad. It is amoral. It only gives life to the cinema show. The screen always remains pure and white. It is never affected by what it receives. It never gets stained. All the violence of all the cheap movies never affects the screen. When the light of the projector dies out ..... Well, there is the screen again. The screen is the Self.</i>gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46189693592921729742010-04-19T09:54:34.870-07:002010-04-19T09:54:34.870-07:00Expressing what I'm thinking but unable to exp...Expressing what I'm thinking but unable to express is part of it, and, related to that, you often confirm what is being impressed upon me. Your words often precipate out the 'solids' in that amorphous, opaque, swirling solution I would call thinking if it worked better.<br /><br />Your weekend post on the 'god of forces' is a perfect example of something that was just out of reach for me. I appreciate it.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56655077614770905952010-04-19T09:29:50.449-07:002010-04-19T09:29:50.449-07:00I came to One Cosmos by way of Van who took, what ...I came to One Cosmos by way of Van who took, what I felt was, a cheap shot at me on my blog and in the ensuing internet argument I somehow ended up here. It is true that while I often do not agree with either Van or Bob I come back often to read and feel my mind expand. <br /><br />I have several friends who attend an orthodox church in the area and they have often invited me to attend but up until now I have not ever felt like I really wanted to. But, today's piece made me think about it. It actually made me want to check it out. <br /><br />So thanks to both Bob and Van for making repeated cameos in my personal film.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04973448750714819716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72611083381039259872010-04-19T09:13:27.317-07:002010-04-19T09:13:27.317-07:00Wonderful post! I loved every word of it.Wonderful post! I loved every word of it.Susannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381272662339466736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52047176110720399922010-04-19T08:36:39.078-07:002010-04-19T08:36:39.078-07:00Dear Bob,
Ware's beautiful account of his won...Dear Bob,<br /><br />Ware's beautiful account of his wondrous experience reminded me of Rudolf Otto's encounter with an orthodox service in Mogador, Morocco, which although it did not result in a complete conversion, seems to have opened his soul to the transcendent experience that governed the rest of his work and life.Gandalinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196550750055246901noreply@blogger.com