Reality: was Lumps and Jitters

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In a message dated 3/6/05 5:57:41 AM, rcopleman at comcast.net writes:


> For more, read anything by Thomas Berry, especially The Great Work.  Or
> enjoy Brian Swimme's The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos.  For a connection to
> the corporate world, global finance, and our more immediate, earthly issues,
> devour David Korten's two latest books: When Corporations Rule the World and
> The Post-Corporate World.
> 
Dear Friends in OS,

I have been doing a lot of reflecting on some of these conversations about 
the universe, reality and such.   Lumps, jitters, jiggles, etc.   Don't know if 
anyone here has ever read "Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East" 
by Baird Spalding or not.   Quoting from one of the Forewards of the five 
volume work, speaking about the Masters he met, "The LIVE Truth, which is a part 
of the Universe itself.   Life is really traceable back into the misty past 
which bears to us the accomplishments of hundreds of thousands of past centuries. 
 To us, life is bound about by every limitation and convention. (emphasis 
added).   To them, life is boundless, ceasless, unending bliss and happiness; the 
longer the span of life, the greater the joy and the more worth while the 
living."

My reflection is also colored and influenced by the impending death of my 
father, the next to last at age 93 of his entire generation of my family 
heritage.   Only his brother is still here after him, already age 90.   The true 
family patriach is passing (father of four sons, as am I with Joelle).

It is in that light that I was thinking of the true work of the human being.  
 It seems to me we get caught in limitation and convention when we have seen 
what a human being is meant to be, a wholly loving, unlimited being.   Jesus 
of Nazareth is only one example, albeit certainly an advanced example.   The 
Masters Spalding met could materialize food (feed the 5,000), cross on water, 
change the vibrational levels of their body so as fire would not burn ("passing 
through the crowd, he went his way" Luke 4:30---where they were going to throw 
Jesus off a cliff---put yourself in that situation and ask "How did He do 
that?   Pass through an angry crowd bent on killing him?").

What I'm pondering is what mess of pottage have we sold our birthright for?   
Reality?   What is that?   And, why are we not able to use reality in such a 
way as to heal, to live wholly choiceful loving lives?   Is OS, miraculous as 
it is to us used to planning, organizing, leading and controlling, really just 
an indicator, a pale shadow of what is possible if we could only get our 
minds and spirits freed up to see the actuality of the cosmos?

And what might be that 'work'?   In what ways might that be made truly 
possible?   Not just occasionally, but ALL the time.   These are some of the 
reflections the conversations on the List have provoked in me lately.   Who might we 
become if we should learn 'the Way'?

Flying up from Arcata, California one evening as the sun was setting I was 
privileged to see a most amazing sunset wherein there was a dark, dark cloud 
bank beneath which the sun was shining in deep red and purple hues.   The cloud 
bank must have extended for many miles out into the Pacific Ocean because above 
that shaft of cloud was no sun, just the deepening blue of the space night as 
evening descended.   The following poem leaped into my mind (literally, I 
think):

Darkling sky, twilight imbued,
Split by an inky shaft of cloud.
Fire purple below, ascending blue,
My spirit shouts outloud!

"The veil, the veil is separateness
concealing you from me.
O' pierce, o' pierce that darkened shroud
And set our spirits Free!"

A musing Paul.   Many thanks for being there.



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