Watching

Watching

The persistence of duality

when we don't observe

the interplay of opposites

of expansion and constriction..

or if you prefer

the interplay of frequencies

higher and lower..

Separation gains ground

becomes viral

and brings those

dark nights in our days..

Without our Watching

a bright occasion

suddenly may burst

into graying streams

the virus again

makes weighty insistence..

Separation cries out for our

Watchful inclusion...

Cecil

Cecil

The rage

outrage

creases

rips our Awareness..

Except for those

burdened

surviving barely..

Protests

vengeful signs

further the rip..

What of hope..?

Many lions now

named Cecil..

A hidden but new

perspective

emerging:

Connections

in all creation

wholeness

resurrecting...

Go set a watchman

Go post a watchman
change your perspective
find a spatial view:
the good in Atticus
is the good in all..
The wrinkles we find
come from illusionary
separate selves..
The waking we need
is the watchman's view
of luminosity 
burning away
those false images
separation's illusions...

6 For thus the Lord said to me:

“Go, post a lookout,

    let him announce what he sees.

7 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,

    riders on donkeys, riders on camels,

let him listen diligently,

    very diligently.”

8 Then the watcher[a] called out:

“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,

    continually by day,

and at my post I am stationed

    throughout the night.

9 Look, there they come, riders,

    horsemen in pairs!”

Then he responded,

    “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;

and all the images of her gods

    lie shattered on the ground.”
11 The oracle concerning Dumah.

One is calling to me from Seir,
    “Sentinel, what of the night?
    Sentinel, what of the night?”
12 The sentinel says:
“Morning comes, and also the night.
  

(from Isiah 21..)

I am...

I am...

A simple

Gateway

into my Oneness..

An experience

of welcome

available  always

and most directly

with a question..

This Question

we might ask

in our busy-ness 

or in our silence:

Who am I..?

Then we Ponder:

Did my getting here

become my 

BEing here..?

Here and Now
Where.. I am..?

Was this my

path to worship

this morning..?

How did my

short journey

give shape to:

I am..?

What of my

job or career

profession or 

calling..?

What I do

or have done

or not done

in my life..?

How do these

give shape to: 

I am..?

What of my

family and friends..

Of those persons

I have left behind..

Of those I remember

with regret..

How do these

give shape to:

 I am?

Or.. might we 

experience

 I am

as the experience

which in Scripture

we find..?

Without shape

as luminous

as eternal

as joyful

as Grace.. That..

I am...

(In addition to the scripture verses

we have seen and heard this morning,

there is one more verse in the book of Psalms

which profoundly expresses: I am

Please repeat by whisper or silently each line 

as I read from Psalms...)

Be still and know that I am God..

Be still and know that..I am..

Be still and know..

Be still..

Be...

Amen...

Here's to the silence

Here's to the silence

the blank white paper

white canvas and blank screen..

These metaphors

celebrate no-thing

before creation begins..

Expressing luminosity

infinite and eternal

and importantly

our true Self..

But very soon 

distractions burgeon 

we feel and think

as one separate..

Returning then

to That which

we never left is

the hidden route

to our Peace

and Happiness...

How to express Consciousness

How to express Consciousness

or Awareness

or Grace

or God

in speaking writing artwork or thought..

The projection of our voice

or pen or brush or vision

seemingly

place boundaries and limits

 on What is limitless..

The silence

the blank journal

white canvas

 and clear mind

 express  greater truth

only to be diminished

seemingly

by our wish

to express..

But then we remember

that the  Silence

and Whiteness

are boundless and transparent 

and our expressions

are composed

of These alone...

Field of Knowing

Field of Knowing

infinite and transparent

is this substance 

of thinking

of sensing

of perceiving..

These ings are

who we are..

Yet we constrict

these ings

to our bodies

living in search

of vast loss..

Until we find

that these ings

were never lost

only coming going

in and as..our 

Field of Knowing...

Dark Night of the Soul

Dark Night of the Soul

Saint John of the Cross

he speaks of darkness

as misperceived light..

In the dark

a separate self

seems crushed

separation

at its worst..

Until transformed

by a fire

and misperception

burns away...

Interspiritual Face

Interspiritual Face

As eternal light stands

behind tradition expressions..

The world waits

for these expressions

to relax at last

displaying once more

their interspiritual Face..

Cosmysm

Cosmysm

How to understand the meaning
of artificial minds and cyber-immortality..
Might these be the latest searches
within linear duality..
Finite minds looking for meaning
in a reality that ends in exhaustion..
Preservation of Being
and modification of Being
seem as tasks
of science outmoded...!

The conference will address fundamental philosophical issues that arise with the future design and use of artificial consciousness, mind uploading and cyber-immortality. How will our concepts of subjectivity, perception, and morality change, if we will live in mega-consciousness environment where you can experience multiple presence, personality, gender (or no gender at all) and unlimited kinds of artificial feelings? What is a possible ramification and consequences of digital consciousness? Cosmism suggested that the profound nature of the reality is also digital and it utilizes existential source code coming from Being that is using “radiant humanity” for its own preservation and modification.

Our keynote and plenary speakers are well-known international protagonists of Cosmism, Transhumanism and interdisciplinary researchers. Their lectures will discuss the most important current issues of Modern Cosmism from the point of view of philosophy, technology, ethics, robotics, psychology, and anthropology.

— Event producer

A Cousin

A Cousin

A planetary resemblance
excited some researchers
in the recent urgencies 
to find external life..
This fractal discernment
gave a push to similarity
 attenuation to difference..
Yet the nondual teaching
finds that difference 
is really made of
similarity 
coloring its unitive
nature..
Moreover the perceptions
leading to these
pronouncements are
not separate from 
a unitive perceiving..
So within the new physics
of consciousness
findings in assumed
duality
stand as diminishing
next to more exciting
realizations... 

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a Sun-like star. This discovery joins 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets, marking another milestone in the journey to find another “Earth.”

The newly discovered Kepler-452b, located 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone — the area around a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of an orbiting planet — of a G2-type star, like our sun. The confirmation of Kepler-452b brings the total number of confirmed planets to 1,030.

(KurzweilAI.net)

"Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle."

Seth Shostak, Chief Astronomer, SETI Institute and  and author of Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

A Mystical Flow

A Mystical Flow

Beginning with utterance

scriptural and other  
pointing to oneness..

 These seem most often

experienced as thoughts..

Thoughts expressed in language

beholden to subject and object..

 Our oneness seems as split

in our reading..

Our mystics claim

experience must replace thoughts

 to sink into a oneness state..

Need is calling to overcome

 obstacles splitting the peace  

of a oneness all our own..

Yet many are finding 

new peace and happiness

in the simple 

I AM..

Might we ask each other:

Are you aware?

The mind grapples 

to find subject and object

which have disappeared..

Mind must surrender

to the ancient and new

experience 

I AM..

Exodus 3:14 New International Version (NIV)

14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.[a] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

John 14:6New International Version (NIV)

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Reward

This wonderful Poem
Denise did compose..
She reminds us
that Grace 
arrives 
drops
clears
quickly...!

Reward

Denise Levertov

Tired and hungry, late in the day, impelled
to leave the house and search for what
might lift me back to what I had fallen away from,
I stood by the shore waiting.
I had walked in the silent woods:
the trees withdrew into their secrets.
Dusk was smoothing breadths of silk
over the lake, watery amethyst fading to gray.
Ducks were clustered in sleeping companies
afloat on their element as I was not
on mine. I turned homeward, unsatisfied.
But after a few steps, I paused, impelled again
to linger, to look North before nightfall-the expanse
of calm, of calming water, last wafts
of rose in the few high clouds.
And was rewarded:
the heron, unseen for weeks, came flying
widewinged toward me, settled
just offshore on his post,
took up his vigil.
                               If you ask
why this cleared a fog from my spirit,
I have no answer.

Two Pathways

Two Pathways

Are you Aware?

I am..

How do you know

you are Aware?

I am..

Yes!

or

How do you know

you are Aware?

Because of this kitchen table

and these red radishes

fresh from my garden..

Morning's glorious sunrise

my prayer and meditation

my continuing search

and hopefully 

in some moment:

Yes!

These two pathways 

to

Yes!

Intelligent Life

Intelligent Life

Stephen Hawking
lends his name 
to a pursuit 
of science past..
A search out there
takes attention away
from the new physics
of consciousness..
This extension of
thought seeking objects
without first finding
the conscious observer
the white presence
upon which the
search takes place
seems bound for
a disappointment
repeated... 

A new $100 million, 10-year search for intelligent life in the universe was announced today (July 20) by famed scientist Stephen Hawking and other researchers.

The first of the two initiatives announced today, Breakthrough Listen, will be the most powerful search ever taken for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. The project will survey the 1 million stars in the Milky Way closest to Earth, as well as the 100 closest galaxies.

"We believe that life arose spontaneously on Earth, so in an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life," Hawking said at the Royal Society in London, where the initiative was announced. "Somewhere in the cosmos, perhaps intelligent life might be watching these lights of ours, aware of what they mean. Or do our lights wander a lifeless cosmos, unseen beacons announcing that, here on one rock, the universe discovered its existence? Either way, there is no better question. It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. The Breakthrough initiatives are making that commitment. We are alive. We are intelligent. We must know."  (Space.com)

Silence

Silence

Teachers of the spirit

advise scant minimum

of words to

approach more closely

the real truth..

Word and sentence

divide contemplation

subject and object dualisms

splits and names

mind and ego

a bucket of worms..

But we must

speak and teach

make concession to ego

to cleanse visions

climb from the pit..

Silence remains

 encloses all separation

and waits to be found

with assist from those

words...

Pausing for Pluto

Pausing for Pluto

The excitement surged
when vast distances
were seen to dissolve..
A promise of what
was assumed as new 
knowledge
filled finite minds..
Let's not diminish
this accomplishment
and expectation but
only ask:
What might be
discovered but some
variations of linearity 
leaving our real longings
back on the
launch pad...

Today especially, boasting is something NASA is entitled to do. New Horizons completes a half-century reconnaissance of all nine planets in our solar system, with some—Uranus and Neptune—getting just one visit each, while others got many. Mars is currently so well-populated by probes that it has something close to a mini-infrastructure. And not to put too fine or jingoistic a point on it, but the overwhelming majority of spacecraft ranging anywhere in the solar system carry the NASA decal and the American flag. (TIME)

Teresa

Teresa

Call her Saint

if you wish..

Or the Shekhinah

she is Presence

the Reality 

experience

ecstatic discovery

of I as

I Am..

The fire of

a new dawn...

Quantum Activist

Product Description

There is a revolution going on in science. A genuine paradigm shift. While mainstream science remains materialist, a substantial number of scientists are supporting and developing a paradigm based on the primacy of consciousness.

Amit Goswami, Ph.D, a pioneer of this revolutionary new perspective within science shares with us his vision of the unlimited potential of consciousness as the ground of all being, and how this revelation can actually help us to live better.

The Quantum Activist tells the story of a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality, with a force and scope not felt since Einstein.

This film bridges the gap between God and Science. The work of Goswami, with stunning precision and without straying from the rigors of quantum mechanics, reveals the overarching unity inherent in the worlds major religions and mystical traditions.

Meet the man behind the message as Dr. Goswami tells how he moved away from the religious teachings of his childhood, to seek his path in nuclear and theoretical quantum physics, and how he has come full circle, through quantum insight, back to the very religious axioms offered as a youth.

With a poignant relevance to the problems of our day this film follows Dr. Goswami as he demonstrates how our mistaken views of reality have led to our current environmental, social, economic and spiritual crisis; as well as the means of correcting these errors. At stake is nothing less than our survival upon the planet. The Quantum Activist is a film for our time. Is it is a film for all time. It is a film whose very subject transcends time.

Delores Saturday lights

Dolores Saturday lights

The memory of colors 

and light

a young boy saw

Saturday city lights aflame

cold snow slush

under auto tires..

And radio music

filling innocent passion..

Remembering the wonder

about visions larger

of what lies in

coming reflections...

Remembering Delores, Colorado,

Saturday night trip to town from

nearby McPhee (now a water reservoir!)...

lights and music...

Veils

Veils

We seek the light

behind religious veils

veils of searching

 discouragement..

The Perennial light

hidden in plain sight

words and nature

conceal and reveal

as we hesitate there..

In a new Axial age

we might expect

that all of creation

carrot to artist to Pluto

as hesitations lengthen 

and transform

those veils are lifted...

Grace

Grace

I as my Self

you as your Self

our community as Self..

Self

eternal in time

infinite in space

One Self aware 

of It Self..

From this Grace

comes creation

Big Bang Beginning

of everything..

What seems to

have been lost

is the knowing

that everything

is still in Grace..

Nothing 

has ever been

outside...

Are you a Mary or a Martha?

Are you a Mary or a Martha?

Mary was in stillness

in her contemplation

conscious and aware

her teacher very near

Grace her experience..

Martha wan't far away

yet quite distant in 

her work that day..

Martha's separate self

her Grace concealed 

as kitchen demands

held sway..

Yet notice as we must

that Grace remained

in contemplation and

in work..

This waking notice 

a startling surprise:

Martha is Mary

only in disguise...

Satan's joy

Satan's joy

Forgiveness..

is it most simply

a recognition

an instant insight

that duality cloaks

our true nature

allowing the ego

to ride in strength

stepping on toes

often unnoticed..

and therein lies

illusory Satan's joy

and the seeds of

Forgiveness...

Monkeys and Frogs

Monkeys and Frogs

Abiding in Awareness

this is the non dual teaching

an experiential practice

which is really

more than a practice

or not a practice..

And the teaching says

your Awareness is available

even with the mind

like the proverbial monkey

or let's use frog for originality

jumping from object to object..

Our shift to Abiding

then a recognition

that monkeys and frogs

are made of Awareness

brings slowing and quiet..

Abiding in Awareness...

Quantum Forgiveness

Might we speak

of gradual and direct 

as potential ways

of forgiveness..

With a correlation

to spiritual paths:

one of practice 

a daily seeking

the other an instant

experience of Grace

a quantum directness

no path at all

with burden lifted...

The Power of Forgiveness

The Power of Forgiveness

PILLAR Movie and Discussion

Facilitated by Charlie Coon
Assisted by Beth Campbell 
and Robin Izer

July 16th, 1:00 to 3:30 PM

at the Myron Stratton Home

Colorado Springs

Cost: $5.00

Discussion Prompts:

1.  Your definition of forgiveness?

2.  Gradations of forgiveness?

3.  When not to forgive?

4.  Process or immediate?

5.  Religious or secular?

6.  Health benefits?

7.  A forgiveness practice?

8.  Forgiveness as habit?

9.  "forgive us our trespasses..."  ?

10.  "70 times 7.."  ?

11.  Anger vs hatred?

12.  Courage to forgive?

13.  A Garden of Forgiveness?

14.  A gift you give yourself?

15.  Forgiveness as higher frequency?
16.  Violation of trust?
17.  Forgiveness of enemies?
18.  The Prodigal Son?
19.  The role of the ego?
20.  Understanding versus doing?
 Duality and Nonduality?

Quantum 4th

Quantum 4th

The fireworks

explosions of beauty

only brief existence..

Sparks in space

points of light

in darkness field

a suggestion  of

cleansed perception

an appearance

of the eternal..

Watch it rise

Watch it rise

anger

frustration

stealthy vengeful wish..

Holocaust

Twin Towers

Nickel Mines

Aurora
Emanuel AME Church..

Noisy motorcycle

disturbing meadow calm

All reinforcements of

the separate-self..

Forgiveness 

might come only

from watching

as Consciousness
with grace

dissolves restores...