Information heavy

Information heavy

The lecture was

laden with form

charts and nouns

throwing back

responsibility 

to hearers

hearing perhaps

what not intended..

An exposure to

learning and

learning to learn...

Late Spring Snow

Late Spring Snow

This stranger arrives

introducing May

perception with thought

coloring presence

green and white..

May-be

perhaps May

seen in green

protruding through the

covering white snow..

A green precursor

a guide to

a persistent spring..

Snow as Silence

lightly landing

white

diffusing color and form

awaiting explosion

in May

two days away...

Are we a simulation?

At the most recent Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, [scientists gathered to address the question for the year: Is the universe a computer simulation? At the debate, host and celebrity astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson argued that the probability is that we live in a computer simulation.] This is the crux of Tyson's point: if we take it as read that it is, in principle, possible to simulate a universe in some way, at some point in the future, then we have to assume that on an infinite timeline some species, somewhere, will simulate the universe. And if the universe will be perfectly, or near-perfectly, simulated at some point, then we have to examine the possibility that we live inside such a universe. And, on a truly infinite timeline, we might expect an almost infinite number of simulations to arise from an almost infinite number or civilizations -- and indeed, a sophisticated-enough simulation might be able to let its simulated denizens themselves run universal simulations, and at that point all bets are officially off." (Slashdot)

Are we a simulation..?

Not as astounding
as it may seem..
Consciousness rises
in the form
of mind
with body and world
made of mind..

Infinite Consciousness
not infinite time
contains the multitude
of possible simulations
to be made of Itself..

Each of us
as our Real self
named as Consciousness
dreams at night
perceives in day
the simulations
 these our creations
arising...

Space-time

Our experience of space-time is that of a continuous object, without gaps or discontinuities, just as it is described by classical physics. For some quantum gravity models however, the texture of space-time is "granular" at tiny scales (below the so-called Planck scale, 10-33 cm), as if it were a variable mesh of solids and voids (or a complex foam). One of the great problems of physics today is to understand the passage from a continuous to a discrete description of spacetime: is there an abrupt change or is there gradual transition? Where does the change occur?

The separation between one world and the other creates problems for physicists: for example, how can we describe gravity - explained so well by classical physics - according to quantum mechanics? Quantum gravity is in fact a field of study in which no consolidated and shared theories exist as yet. There are, however, "scenarios", which offer possible interpretations of quantum gravity subject to different constraints, and which await experimental confirmation or confutation.

One of the problems to be solved in this respect is that if space-time is granular beyond a certain scale it means that there is a "basic scale", a fundamental unit that cannot be broken down into anything smaller, a hypothesis that clashes with Einstein's theory of special relativity.

Imagine holding a ruler in one hand: according to special relativity, to an observer moving in a straight line at a constant speed (close to the speed of light) relative to you, the ruler would appear shorter. But what happens if the ruler has the length of the fundamental scale? For special relativity, the ruler would still appear shorter than this unit of measurement. Special relativity is therefore clearly incompatible with the introduction of a basic graininess of spacetime. Suggesting the existence of this basic scale, say the physicists, means to violate Lorentz invariance, the fundamental tenet of special relativity.  (The Daily Galaxy)

Thought for the day.......

Thought for the day....... "We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean." Jean Klein    

The Real revolution

The Real revolution

Is it simply

a matter of perception

of thought

of sensing..?

Of sudden realization

that these forms

of Knowing

are all one

making up

our Real identity..?

The revolution

starts in each of us

A teaching

not taught but

of a sudden

seeing the light...

Dimensions

Dimensions

 The rectangular screen

I see on the iPhone

is the screen upon which

multitudes of images appear

two dimensions on display

pretending as three..

Three dimensions

 assumed for decades

as reality out there

perceived from within..

But now in our time

dimensions diminish

and we discover

our true Nature

abides in joy

when we recognize

dimensionless I am..!

Doing things Now

Doing things Now

That is the way in which

all things are done

whether realized or not..

Our experience occurs only Now..

But somehow this realization

wakes to a happiness

the goal of our searching..

The search attended to

an illusion of time

past and future

and a suffering edge

lying outside of the Now

we have found...

Let it flow

Let it flow

Going with the flow

is the advice offered

but do we really

identify with this stream..?

Or find more fulfilling

to let it flow

within my stillness

experiencing the freedom

of the  flow

the river never the same

coming and going

flowing in what

I am...

Matter as such..

Matter as such

The breatharians claim
of living on light
abandonment of water and food
the matter seeming to support
the life we have always known..
A shocking claim to our hearing
and most often dismissed..
What message might we find
lying beneath 
shouting for our attention today..
Are food and drink
simply expressing Light
assuming a form 
in and as
Light..!

STRETCH…April 18, 2016, Myron Stratton Home

Host:  Charlie Coon  (charlesrcoon@hotmail.com)

Comments of film-maker, P. A. Straubinger: 

The prevailing consensus of mainstream science, that rules our western society is, that the mind, the soul, the spirit are an epiphenomen of our biological brain activity - nothing more. We are complex `machines` that produce as a side effect, thoughts and emotions. I think this mechanistic view of the world is not only outdated and harmful to our nature - but it is also not holding up to reality and serious scientfic examination  To make a long story short: The mechanistic-materialistic view in our world is an outdated philosophy of nature - but it gives the false security that we understand our world. Questioning this security is, in my opinion, the reason for the violent rejection of my film which has not been funded in plausible arguments but in ideological beliefs.

Of course this is my personal view.

You have to decide yourself what to believe. And first you should hear both sides of the discussion and as many arguments as possible.

Some critics claimed my film would be `complete nonsense` a `masterpiece of manipulation` or a `pseudo-documentary`. Media always shows a more or less subjective view and when you have to edit 200 hours of raw footage to 90 minutes of film, like I did, there is a lot of information you have to leave out! I tried my best to deliver a truthful concentrate of my many years of research. But, of course, truthfullness is not the same as the truth. So let´s have an open look at the different arguments and questions from the skeptics side.

Max Planck, Nobel Prize Laureate and pioneer of modern physics also questioned the materialistic worldview:

"There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter."

 by Max Planck

"Spirituality" (Group for Understanding)

Group for Understanding

April 20, 2016, 9:00 to 10:30 AM

Colorado Springs Senior Center

Topic: "Spirituality"

Questions:

1.  What is it? To you?

2.  What is it to our culture?

3.  How related to religion?

4.  Is it necessarily mystical?

5.  Do the quotes help?

“A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.”

~Albert Einstein, The World as I See It, 1934

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Image and Likeness

The awesome and even presumptuous message of divinization is supported by Genesis 1:27 where we are told that we are "created in the image and likeness of God." Many tomes of theology have been written to clarify this quote. The word "image" describes our objective DNA that marks us as creatures of God from the very beginning. It is the Holy Spirit living within us as a totally gratuitous gift from the moment of our conception. "Likeness" is our personal appropriation and gradual realization of this utterly free gift of the image of God. We all have the same objective gift, but how we subjectively say yes to it is quite different. We already have image; we choose likeness. 
(Richard Rohr, Meditation, April 15th, 2016))

STRETCH (IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS LIGHT)

STRETCH..

April 18th, 2016

Myron Stratton Home

Host:  Charlie Coon

(charlesrcoon@hotmail.com)

"IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS LIGHT"

Thought for the day....... "As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things."  

--Meister Eckhart

“I’ve been operating according to the idea that it is almost impossible to let go of mental patterns that operate unconsciously and that I have to know such a pattern of thinking first in order to let go of it and abide in my true nature. Leave all those mental habits and patterns alone. The self that is apparently operating, that seems to know these patterns and that would ‘let go of them’ is itself simply one such pattern. These patterns of thinking and feeling have taken their shape, over the years, from the belief that we are a separate self, without our making any particular effort. In just the same way, as our experiential conviction that we are not a limited, located self deepens, so our thoughts, feelings and subsequent behaviour will slowly, effortlessly and naturally realign themselves with this new understanding." 

― Rupert Spira

A lifestory

A lifestory 

I am the body

I am the mind

this is youth's discovery

an ego identification:

I am unique and separate

expressed with enthusiasm..

For most this seems

as a lifetime identity..

But for some

and potentially for all

a shock of falseness

breaks into youth's dream:

I am not the body

not the mind

I am transparent

as Awareness..

This is new birth

waking to reality

as it is here and now

and always has been..

Now as Awareness

I pervade all

I am..is All...

Serving two masters

Serving two masters

With a realization

of non dual truth

of one not two

or simply not two

our true identity

is discovered..

Without this waking

to our true nature

our lives are shaped

by dualistic pursuits..

And these pursuits

are endless searches

for the happiness

only waking discovers..

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS LIGHT (STRETCH)

STRETCH..!

Monday, April 18th, 2016, 3:00 to 5:00 PM

Myron Stratton Home

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Facilitator: Charlie Coon

(charlesrcoon@hotmail.com)

No cost...

In this program we will view and discuss the intriguing 

video described below..

Is it possible that human beings can survive without food and fluid over many years and live on light alone? Are we confronted with quackery or with forgotten knowledge? IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS LIGHT follows the phenomenon which only a few in our Western world are aware of, as the topic has been either ignored or ridiculed by the media. The picture deals with human beings who allegedly can survive without food and fluid, over weeks, years and even decades. Most people would spontaneously say that this just cannot be. It’s impossible! But based on certified reports of personal experiences, interviews and scientifically documented laboratory experiments, the picture follows the phenomenon of "living on light” aka "breatharianism”. As incredible as it may be, there seems to be evidence that there are people living today and some existing thousands of years back too, who do not need food either to live or to sustain their metabolism. They live on "light" alone. Depending on the tradition this "light" may be called PRANA, CHI or ORGON. There are many names for this mysterious energy.

Protagonists: Jasmuheen, Mataji Prahlad Jani, Prof. Rupert Sheldrake, Prof. Amit Goswami, Dean Radin, Prof. Robert Jahn, Dr. Ruediger Dahlke, Prof. Brian Josephson, Brenda Dunne, Prof. Gerhard Hacker, Qi Duan Li, Master You Xuande, Omsa Rohrmoser, Zinaida Baranova, Master Master Tianying and many more....

We Observe

We Observe

Creating as we observe

giving our attention

to the world as it is clothed in

such multiplicity..

Our perceiving seems passive

but we are taught that

perceiving precedes perception

and perceiving simply names

consciousness..

Still we hesitate

after decades of seeing

in our conventional way:

the world out there is separate

from myself in my body..

Yet the new Understanding

may mean we are reaching

the final frontier of discovery:

We are creators

observation is creation..

Are we soon to experience

a wondrous truth...?

I am Aware

I am Aware 

of the old fencepost

of the dusty road on my left

of the cliffs laced with evergreens

I am Aware..

These are colors I crossed

on my afternoon walk

a multiplicity of forms

first with I as witness

but then as Aware

and a realization:

these are my projections

and made of

my being Aware...

Listening to the notes

Listening to the notes

as they come into Silence

I keep a soft focus

on the notes..

For now I am not the notes

I am the Silence

as the notes appear

in sequence and multiplicity

in the Silence..

Silence has taken a brief form

soon to melt

leaving only Silence...

John Archibald Wheeler (Wheeler awareness)

Wheeler awareness

 

Awareness Meditation

Awareness Meditation

I..

I am..

I am Aware..

I am Aware that I am Aware..

Stay there..

Abide there..

Know:

I am Awareness..

I am Luminous..

I am Infinite..

I have no limits..

I am Transparent..

This is my true Self..

Abide..

As objects return:

thoughts, sensations, perceptions

feel these as within Awareness..

Separate still yet One..

And finally know these

as made of Awareness...

Our Awareness is Here

Our Awareness is Here 

this is the experience

available to all

right Now..

After eliminating our

many false identities

which are the names

our minds can grasp

the question arises:

What remains..?

And the mind goes limp

and with surrender

falls into the light

which we truly are..

This Awareness is

the God in which

we live and more

out of which we 

are made..

Moon polarityinplay

Moon polarityinplay

Without the Moon, there would be no life on Earth, French scientists claim.

The gravitational push-pull of the Moon on iron deep inside Earth keeps it hot and molten. And a liquid core is needed to generate a magnetic field, which forms a protective shield against blasts of particles from the Sun.

Denis Andrault from Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and colleagues propose the Earth's heated interior should have dropped by about 3,000 ºC over the past four billion years or so, but has instead remained almost constant – all because of the Moon.

Their story, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, begins around 4.3 billion years ago, or 60 million years after the Earth's birth. (COSMOS Magazine)

apocalyptic

  

a·poc·a·lyp·tic

əˌpäkəˈliptik/

adjective

1. describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.

   "the apocalyptic visions of ecologists"

   • resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic.

     "the struggle between the two countries is assuming apocalyptic proportions"

     synonyms:

     doomsday, doom-laden, ominous, portentous; More

   • of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse.

     "apocalyptic imagery"