Resurrecting Longfellow..!

Resurrecting Longfellow

Relegated as a minor poet

Longfellow's Psalm
 returns as memory

from a long-ago classroom..

Is it time to look again..?

Two verses may suffice..

In our real experience

dreams and waking

share one reality:

each are manifestations

of the finite mind

which rises within our Self

(and in astonishment

for the material-minded)

are made of our Self..

Indeed..this experience

awakens us from slumber

and at last we discover

things are not what they seem..

Our Self 

not the confined self
(which our culture assigns)

is our true identity..

The Self..well..of course

is not made of dust

is not destined

for the grave...!

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, 

   Life is but an empty dream! 

For the soul is dead that slumbers, 

   And things are not what they seem. 

Life is real! Life is earnest! 

   And the grave is not its goal; 

Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 

   Was not spoken of the soul. 

For the complete poem, A Psalm of Live,

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, use

this link:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44644/a-psalm-of-life

Bird in a tree singing this song

Bird in a tree singing this song

We each have a song:

the song coming from searching

or immediate discovery..

The song we now know is truth

and the wish to share

 seems paramount..

Our thoughts claim

a discovery which 

the world needs now

for advent of peace..

The song seems simple

a treasure to transmit..

Yet we learn

we only need be as a

Bird in a tree singing this song...

Let me not..Sonnet 116

Let me not..

Marriage of true minds is Truth of Love
Love is One: seamless..independent and free..
Alteration and impediments are undefined..
Ever-fixed Love looks on changing tempests
And cannot be shaken..'tho each tempest is made of Love..
Time is thought..appearing in Love..made of Love
But Love is unaffected as time plays the fool
Through rosy lips and cheeks..or hours and weeks
Even appearing on the edge of doom..
All seeming errors are made of Love..
The Bard spoke Truth...CC

Perceiving

Perceiving

the world through 

a oneness lens 
stretches habits and norms..

Perceiving the world

encounters insistent

demands of separation..

So..the challenge is met in

pausing on differences:

their vibrations varying

in what is vibrating..

The oneness lens

softens its focus

yet is perceiving
separation's details in

all that appears...

STRETCH...October 16th, 2017

STRETCH

Monday, October 16th, 2017

3:30 to 5:00 PM

Myron Stratton Home

Convener:  Charlie Coon

"Experience and Belief"

What is the difference?  We will explore the 

difference by use of videos and conversation.

This is an understanding which has become

 critical to the future of our modern culture!

(For those who are taking part in the 

free weekly webinar on Rupert Spira's

new book, The Nature of Consciousness,

please bring your comments and questions.)

Kirtana:  I Am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55OA3OGxgrA&list=PLhSAM5hdr14c3Mmxxl16E43Sl62Szbdb3&index=2

Kirtana:  Already Home, Already Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOw89VRAnJU

Kirtana:  If I Could Give You Anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAMMfzFnk44

Kirtana:  Who You Really Are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy-xMLTimZw&t=299

Unmani:  Oneness Beyond Belief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7BqSE8PAo

Rupert Spira:  Trusting our Experience Over our Beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xjm_50TSEc

Rupert Spira:  All Minds Are Informed by the Same Consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTuSOTYRbiI

Jane Hirshfield:  The art of the metaphor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0edKgL9EgM

Eban Alexander's Confessions

Eban Alexander's Confessions

His Near Death Experience

fundamentally seemed to alter

his doubting path..

He claims a subjective reality

as the only reality a human

can possibly know..

So far..so good..

There remains..however

an assumption of reality

of the observable universe..

This residue of former beliefs

clouds his otherwise

most noble explanations...

“The problem is they failed to realize that subjective reality is the only thing any human being can possibly know to exist.”

Materialism is the easy science, the low-hanging fruit, and very much held onto by those who simply want to claim some knowledge of reality, even though it fails miserably at explaining anything about conscious awareness itself, or all manner of human experiences, both mundane and exotic. The answer comes in adopting a much grander world view, notably that of metaphysical idealism: that consciousness is fundamental in the universe, and that all else, including the observable physical universe, emerges from consciousness. ~~Eban Alexander

For more see:

http://goop.com/wellness/spirituality/dr-eben-alexander-near-death-experience-hes-learned-consciousness/

Cataract Surgery

Cataract Surgery

Finishing my second eye today

and expecting clarity renewal

revealing those ten thousand things..

More detail at varying focal lengths..

The multiplicity and diversity of objects

will..perhaps..claim ascendence 

in new dualistic perspectives..

However

the seeming new delineations 

will mark more subtle vibrations..

Vibrations all within and as

Consciousness..

Oneness expressions 

in new diversities..

Doors of perception

newly cleansed...

Taking the Knee

Taking the Knee

A Sunday controversy..

On Gameday..

Competing voices

silent voices

a constitution pressured..

The constitution birthed

from a wholeness

named Equality..

Allowance of variations

within the wholeness

is the constitutional fire..

Which seems as blanketed by

Gameday confrontations..

Quietly taking the knee

offers the solace that

the fire still burns...

Charley's Food Store

The photo depicts 

a scene from my boyhood
in Durango, Colorado..

A corner store

a welcoming place 

where the proprietor

often graciously gave

to my brother and me

a bubblegum treat..!
The delivery truck
connected other residents
not fortunate enough
to live next door..!
There was excitement
as this meeting place
gathered the town folk
all of the passing day..

These colorings of 

memory
prompted by this
photo on Facebook
carries understanding
of similar colorings
of a boy's Mind
seeming years ago...

Here and Now

Here and Now

do not exist

in space and time..

Their importance

lies beyond 

the dimensions of

space and time..

In a placeless place

which the mind

has no access..

What amazes

is that our

Experience of

Here and Now

is absolutely 

available to all

24/7...!

Am I Aware..?

Am I Aware..?

I'm AWARE that I AM RARE..

This is an oft repeated Google image

which is not helpful..!

Rarety is a subtle object

or not so subtle..

The experience of Happiness

which we all desperately are seeking

is found when we experience

I Am

not as subject

not as object

simply

I Am...!

Equinox

This seeming boundary

introducing autumn time is

marked by decline and death..

Bringing awaited beauty our

thoughts and perceptions

of autumn

are the filtered messages of

eternity and infinity

into time and space.. 

A coloring of our experience

during this seeming transition

each year in autumn time...

The Rise of the Nones

These are those

who ended their church days 

looking askance at religion

the religion of upbringing..

In their departure 

there may have been

anger and sorrow

but perhaps also some

sense of freedom..

Among the Nones

do we find some

who have found the

N-ONE-S

the ONE

embedded in the  no-thing

which now seems as home?

Only Cracks...

Only Cracks

These days of

political and climate storms

seem to immerse us

in separation's persuasions..

Earth quaking and burning

awash in winds and waves..

Seeming to demand our

unending attention..

The Self seems distant

with confusion's coverings

which we need to untangle..

Untangle the storms from

the joy appearing in cracks..

Then to recognize that

there are only cracks...

(Thanks, Leonard..)

Beyond Matter

Beyond Matter

In science's telescopes and other scopes
matter is refined..subtlety replaces subtlety 
extrapolation is made to the far future
to other civilizations out there..in which
matter has become so very subtle..that it
has almost disappeared from view..Almost..?
Almost means..however..that in this 
matter of matter..the Greeks still hold sway..
Matter is simply a name given to that which
appears not to be Mind..or simply the Other..
Searching and not finding matter has been
the occupation of science for lo many years
and now speculation continues the search to
alien spaces which thought places out there..
We await a discovery momentous..matter
is not to be found..here or there...!

The Alien Observatory --"Advanced Life May Exist in a Form That's Beyond Matter"

Astrophysicist Paul Davies at Arizona State University suggests that advanced technology might not even be made of matter. That it might have no fixed size or shape; have no well-defined boundaries. Is dynamical on all scales of space and time. Or, conversely, does not appear to do anything at all that we can discern. Does not consist of discrete, separate things; but rather it is a system, or a subtle higher-level correlation of things.      For more see:

 

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/09/-the-alien-observatory-advanced-life-may-exist-in-a-form-thats-beyond-matter.html

 

Bill Free Book Study..

Bill Free

6 hrs · 

I will be starting the Pure Presence book study with Rupert Spira LIVE October 4th at 12:00 Eastern for a 90 minute interview with Rupert about his new book, The Nature of Conciousness. Here's the link to register:
http://billfree.com/book-club-live/

Q & A

Q & A

Does the Question really

embed the Answer..?

Especially the Question

of ultimate importance..

If we ask with assumption

of belief in separation

this implies a search

for an object..

Or a reliance on belief

in cause and effect..

How about those Questions

only answered 

by the experience of Truth..?

Such Question discovered 

must burn and dissolve..

The Question does then

embed the Answer

the Answer awaiting

the coming fire...

A local habitation and a name..

The TV Signal and the TV Set

The TV Signal and the TV Set

This TED talk 
may be an illustration
of the beginning of a flip..
A flip to the recognition of the
primacy of Consciousness..
If we discover that the Signal
issues from Consciousness or
 vibrates within Consciousness
with manifestation appearing
as a multiplicity of Sets:
We have then experienced the
flip which might save
the materialist world
from destroying itself...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aT3NQDgnMG0 >

The Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid

This is startling to the science of our day..
A massive pyramid built by a science
apparently far superior to the science we know..
But evolution has brought us..in our time
to a dim awareness of a new Science on the horizon:
the Science of Consciousness which is urging
each of us to discover for ourselves..
For it is the discovery of our own Identity (Self)
outside of the limitations of time and space..
It brings to mind that this new Science has
never been absent..has always been available..
Available to those builders in what seems
so long ago...


Thanks, CP, for this important video!!

Friends - Here is a very interesting 5-minute video on the construction of the Great Pyramid by Graham Hancock, a very knowledgeable English researcher, journalist, historian, etc.  Some of the specific facts as to its precise construction are simply astounding, amazing, unbelievable, etc.  Graham packs a lot of info into this 5 minutes but has no answer as to the HOW.  So well worth your 5 minutes.

CP. 

https://youtu.be/U21uaEVINCY

I AM

Rupert Spira:  The Direct Path
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW9kvq1qeAw

Rupert Spira:  How Do I Practice Self Enquiry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb3PzxwEKCQ

Rupert Spira:  The Great Misconception (Body is Aware)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fswSF3qsOqw

I AM

The knowledge ‘I am’ is God’s signature in the mind. It is the portal through which awareness localises itself as the mind and the same portal through which the mind passes in the opposite direction as it investigates its essential nature. As such, the knowledge ‘I am’ is the primary knowledge upon which all other knowledge depends. Until the essential nature of the mind is known, it is not possible to have correct knowledge about any other thing. Thus, there is no higher knowledge than to know the nature of one's mind, and no higher endeavour than to embark on that investigation. 

'The Nature of Consciousness' by Rupert Spira

What is Persistence?

What is Persistence?

Reality 

as persistent illusion

expressed by Einstein

some time ago..

A scientist with credibility

a founder of modern science

pushes us to find

what really persists..

The reality to which 

he points

is not independent:

Thoughts..

Sensations..

Perceptions..

these make up reality

moving away from illusion..

Thinking..Sensing..Perceiving

these colorings of Awareness

move us from our illusory world

and a new persistence arrives...!

Place-holder

Place-holder

Dark matter as place-holder
for an unknown physics..
Could this be a place waiting
for the Observer
and the birth of  a new physics
in which nothing can be known
until the nature of the Observer 
is known...?

Dark energy is usually assumed to form roughly 70% of the present material content of the Universe. However, this mysterious quantity is essentially a place-holder for unknown physics.  For more:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/09/acceleration-of-the-universe-may-not-be-real-royal-astronomical-society.html#more

Thanks, CharlieP for this entry!

Jim Carrey's Direct Path..

http://toofab.com/2017/09/10/jim-carrey-just-gave-one-of-the-most-bizarre-red-carpet-interviews-of-all-time



Jim Carrey's Direct Path..

It seems that
Jim Carrey has a very direct approach
but his confrontational exhibition
may delay participation
by many who are waiting..with longing
for the new Self-realization which comes
with this approach..

Wirebird

Wirebird

A silhouette  

against the sky

high perching bird

black on a black

Wire..

Consider the wire

as connecting with

many many

stretching wiremiles..

Let us say that 

there is no length

and say incorrectly

it's infinitely (long)..

The Wire is whole

knowing only itself..

How does the Wire

create the bird..?

It coils itself

within itself:

and a self arises

(myself on a walk!)

watching a bird

on a wire...

STRETCH..September 18th, 2017

Monday, September 18th

 3:30 to 5:00 PM 

(Please note the new time!..)

Myron Stratton Home

Convener:  Charlie Coon

“The Direct Approach”

We will use videos (Kirtana, Gangaji, and Rupert Spira)

 and conversation as guides to assist in

experiencing the always available

Direct Approach

to Self-realization…

Rupert Spira:  The Direct Path
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW9kvq1qeAw

Rupert Spira:  How Do I Practice Self Enquiry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb3PzxwEKCQ

Rupert Spira:  The Great Misconception (Body is Aware)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fswSF3qsOqw

Rupert Spira: Awareness Without Objects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRLrgoPkSU4

Rupert Spira:  The Short Cut Question "Am I Aware?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG9WuSk5gTI&t=73s

Rupert Spira: There is no World Outside Consciousness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57QJucO1R3E

Rupert Spira & Lisa Natoli: The Direct Approach to the Light of Pure Knowing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuudCtLudFc&t=14s

Rupert Spira:  The Three Stages of Understanding 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCFdBsaWWE4

Gangaji:  The Religion of ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSGLI98zEGM&t=107s

Kirtana:  Already Home, Already Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOw89VRAnJU&index=14&list=RDakjcD6d2T_M

Kirtana:  I Am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55OA3OGxgrA&list=PLhSAM5hdr14c3Mmxxl16E43Sl62Szbdb3&index=2

Every Time I Open My Eyes..Rupert Spira

Every Time I Open My Eyes ~ Rupert Spira

Every time I open my eyes,
I invite the world to take shape.
And every time the world takes shape,
I’m invited to open my eyes.

Every time I open my eyes,
I invite the world to take shape.
And every time the world takes shape,
I’m invited to open my eyes
And see the world raw and naked,
Holding out its hand,
Calling me into itself,
Where I am taken into the transparency of things
And find myself transparent there.

Standing on the edge, looking down and in
To the dark, silent pool in which the world is cradled.
And I am cradled there, held with all things
And hold all things in myself.
Myself, not a thing in the world,
But This, Here, Seeing,
In which the world opens,
Inviting and offering itself.

And every time it is seen, it dies.
And in dying, holds out its hand again
Asking to be taken in.
And every time I take it in,
I, too, die.
And in dying, am known,
As This, Here, Seeing.
Every time I open my eyes.

Rupert Spira
“Every Time I Open My Eyes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJRXvgfm1D8

Hurricane Sunday

Hurricane Sunday

The rest of us

were not interrupted..

But an entire state

was interrupted..

Living there once

we were cautioned:

residence here is living

with the hurricane

not if..but when..

When arrived early
 Sunday morning..

A wish for those there:

May the peace of the eye

be found in your hearts

and may the eye expand

calming your winds

and your waves

for a lasting peace 

coming ashore on this 

Hurricane Sunday...

Working

Laureen's Poetry

http://laureendeshazerpoetry.blogspot.com/2016/04/wake-me.html

Journaling

Journaling

appears as jotting

of thoughts and memories..

Stories..

Do we allow the stories

to take us on a

new or old journey..?

Am I this journey..?

Or am I the ground

or the space in which

the story moves..?

If I am the space 

I seem as open..allowing..

Allowing without resistance

the journey I've jotted..

Yes..now I know

that I am not

the journey or journal

but what am I..?

I am 

the journal as empty

before the journey..

Or more simply:  I am...

(What then is that
appearing in the journal
 I just jotted...?)