Existence
June
2006
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2006
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2006
What is ... ?
When
is ... ?
Dream
or Reality?
What’s the
difference between dreams that give us fear, orgasmic passion, or joyful
delight and reality when we are awake? Maybe the answer to the greatest
questions about how we came to be can be most simply explained with a
simple song. “Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily,
merrily, merrily life is but a dream.”
What is reality?
Perhaps the grand massiveness of our universe is intertwined into what
makes us alive and that the illusions we perceive as reality and dream
are one in the same. One is merely longer, persistent and familiar.
This hypothesis
causes us great concern if we are but merely dreaming while we think we
are awake. If that is true, one day we will awaken. We might even wake
up in another dream. If we awaken from what we have for so long
perceived as reality and find that a perpetual state of misconception
was our individual inference, will we be alive in a different dimension?
Where will that
state of awareness be? What will “reality” look like? Maybe we’ll
be trees in a park with children climbing us. Maybe we’ll fly through
the sky as birds with dinosaur below. Maybe we’ll be ten years old
again. Maybe twelve. Maybe we’ll be an arousal before conception in
someone’s mind.
Each
individual’s perception of existence may not be what everyone sees.
Perhaps life is a dream to some and reality to others. For whatever the
purpose or design of this fantastic imagery, there is something in being
said of each fanciful inhale of air and the sound we make when we exhale.
The experience of
the dreams we have at night and the realities we believe we live in the
day make us a part of a universe larger than anything we have yet
measured.
Somehow we fit into this divine structure, if only a molecule in
relative size to only a diminutive portion of the universe.
Each individual
being’s reality has a reason for that perception at that particular
moment in whatever time relevant to the needs of the universe. For
simplification, God. The
titled that cannot be titled.
The purpose of
this note for life’s thoughts is to stimulate a conscious reverence
for being alive. Make this dream of reality good.
In dream, life or
death, make good choices and awaken to Heaven.
Today's thought:
“Earth’s
crammed with heaven,
And
every common bush afire with God.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beyond
the Box
The box is what enslaves the minds of living
human beings. The box is what defines the boundaries of a person’s
capacity to expand. The Box is what alienates ignorance, truth and
wisdom. An example of this would be when man thought that Earth was flat
and the center of the universe. He was certain to no degree that if he walked too closely to the edge, he would fall
off the end and die.
Since then, man has had a long list of other
hysterical ideas inside his box. He has seen each other shackled and
enslaved, murdered, raped, robbed and ruled with injustice. He has even
seen the most ridiculous of all oxymoron’s: Holy Wars. Since
the beginning of recorded time, man has held onto some type of
functioning idea that made him appear as what we now call outdated or antiquated. It
is no cliché that each generation’s philosophy is the next
generation’s common sense.
Fortunately inside this box, as in most
generations, there are minds thinking beyond the box and aiding life towards the advancement of civilization. After what man did
inside his box on September 11th, where the world is headed
is questionable. True civilization appears as a vision into the future.
Hopefully this generation, as in those of past, is blessed with
enough minds thinking beyond the box to save ourselves from ourselves. The time
is now for this generation of non-puppet thinkers to open the lid of
this box so that future generations will see divine sunrises.
It’s funny how life is, one minute you think
you’re on the right plane and then boom, the flight schedule of
life prevails. We are yet a step, perhaps a generation, away from true
civilization. A good starting point on the journey towards global
harmony is with each individual. Understand who you are, what contributions
to good you have as a being on this planet. Don’t let other people or media define who you are.
Following the trap of external defining perpetuates a closed box to our
universe.
Human
beings will emerge from boxes without killing himself. This column is
written to stimulate minds thinking beyond the box so that we might collectively do
something to raise the roof of this container.
Today’s thought:
" Whether you think that you can, or that you can't,
you are usually right "
Henry Ford
What Is Holy War?
Isn’t
the statement “Holy War” too much of an oxymoron to make sense? How
does man kill in the name of God, even in dissimilar worlds? The world
keeps turning. We soar through the universe at tremendous speeds and man
does not feel a moment of movement. Unless overpowering, he does not
notice the wind. Michel de Montaigne said, "Man is certainly crazy.
He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen."
Is
the brilliance of man’s ignorance going to make him kill himself? Not
even seeing where he is, he fights over religious land. “The Promised
Land” is the whole planet of the same composition. Is man so caught up
on one tree that we will die before he explores the forest?
As
a lifted generation of thinkers, there is urgent need for children to be
taught proper priority. We must reach to our youth with emphasis that
developing the human brain far exceeds anything else for the sake of
man’s survival. Science and math must be of high regard. Reading is
Fundamental is not cliché. Children really are human future. The
world must speak to our future face to face and guide their direction
into a higher level of existence than any generation before us.
Holy
War must be a thing found only their history books of a young
civilization. Holy Wars have been going on long before we were born.
Like the world has grown from thinking the earth was flat or that it was
ok to enslave each other or thinking that we would never fly like the
birds, we will overcome the idiocy of Holy war.
The
first step in this revolution of change from sophomoric thought to
higher understanding is to understanding that everything on our planet is of the
same stardust. However the universe came into being, looking at history
we see growth in ourselves from barbaric caveman to penthouse people
with planes that travel back and forth to outer space. Knowing that we
are capable of growing, we must start immediately teaching children
something much larger than religion.
We
must release the shackles of religion from their necks, souls and legs
and let them grow into the universe beyond what casers, kings,
presidents and emperors have commanded since men led man. We must tap
into the energy without name. For simplification, God. The universe. Existence. Being Alive.
However you want to define what makes reality what it is for each of us,
a primarily perceived realism is that we exist. Unless life
is a dream, our experience is reality. We cannot be removed or separate from that
which made us. If we do exist in the physical, we must transcend
our limitations as earthly beings and see ourselves as cosmic divinity.
Individual
religion is not necessary when the whole of what we are is of the same
source. We create the differences that make us kill each other in the
name of an idolized God. We have become like a head trauma patient. Stumbling around in the dark looking for something that isn’t
there, we fall and bash our heads again. We need to stand up straight and
walk in the light of life, not kill each other because of what we have
been taught to divide
us.
Using
only a centrally located part of our brain is not taking us high enough
through the path of which we are capable. Find a way to expand the
activity of our unutilized brainwaves and we will grow. Young genius
minds and those with above average thought, look for ways to utilize more of our brain while coexisting on
the same planet.
Today’s thought:
"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea
of God."
Cicero
September 2006
Since
I started The Monthly people have asked why I talk so much about the
ethereal rather than what’s happening right here and now. They ask why
I don’t address life-affecting decisions being made in powerful
offices of world government. What are we to do about ill-fated life?
Thank all of you for your positive feedback with belief that the human
race on this planet will grow.
If
God gave man everything, why is man fighting over anything? Man’s
blindness does not make sense to me. For what is he fighting? Money?
Surely, not that. That would be too barbaric. Why was he taught to hate
so much that he would give his life to kill each other because of
religion? Life has become a Saturday morning cartoon.
Life
is clear. Planet Earth is already floating in the heavens. Man makes
hell. Without the existence of this unexplainable universe, man would
not exist. There is a power grander than man seems to comprehend.
Religion has taught men from dissimilar worlds things that make them
hate, fight and kill each other in holy wars of ignorance.
They
read books written and published by those who have ruled
since only royalty was allowed to read, keeping the masses in control. When the
kingdom was allowed to
read and write, people have throughout the centuries forgotten the
beginning.
Men teaching man various
contacts to god in
contradicting messiahs, and those who still await a
savior, he has not yet learned to coexist on the same planet. As
man, as tree, as water, mountain, mouse or stream, all things are
intertwined from the same source. Man must live the God inside himself.
Man is of God. No middleman is needed.
When
thinking of those who have asked me to say something more immediate about
life right now in The Monthly, I say make a radical adjustment to
religion on the verge of combination and elimination. Drop the division of opinion and
live as earthlings before dying of man made nuclear destruction. Not to
mention the temperament of Mother Nature.
Teach
children that human beings are a race of a rainbow of colors, faces and languages.
Teach them that human beings are on a planet floating in the heavens of
a vast universe and encourage their young minds to learn and explore
from cells within cells on earth and water to the farthest distances of
expansive space.
What
to do with religion that man has practiced and transcended for thousands of generations?
Man must teach children to grow into a spiritual oneness with what make
this universe exist. If human beings combined the power of their
spiritual strength into positive energy, life would regenerate this
planet to the capacity of man’s potential.
There
are millions of religions. Most contradict each other enough for people
to fight and die because of different opinion. Even “civilized”
churches fight with words and anger during board meetings. This seems
ridiculously silly. What is the world, eleven years old!?
People
sometimes treat religious idols better than they treat each other. An
example of this is when I was asked to do a photography shoot for a
devout Baptist. I am not a professional photographer; the camera has
been a hobby of mine since childhood. My services were free. When we
were ready to shoot, the camera did not work. Batteries were new from
the store. The model became so upset that she cursed the devil.
As
a last resort I called a professional photo shop to see if they could
look at the camera and repair the problem. They said it would take at
least a week for a diagnosis. They had to send it out of shop. The
Baptist became furious that the shoot might not happen. We’ll call the
photo shop man “David.” After talking with me for a minute, he told
me to use a good eraser and clean the battery connection heads.
I
tried it and it worked. The Baptist jumped up and down in full dress,
hair and make-up thanking Jesus for saving the day. I picked up the
phone and called David and thanked him for saving the day.
The
model looked at me with a peculiar look when I told her that I thanked
the man who took the time to do what he did. I’m not sure to this day
if she saw my point or not. I hope she saw logic in connecting with the
living being more important than praising idol gods.
Living
a good life and being kind is ultimately what most religions sermonize.
Rather than live by words on a page that have been edited and translated
for thousands of years, live with exuberant experience of being alive in
heaven. Perhaps the first step towards making this world a better place
is for people to treat each other the way they treat the various
religions they preach.
Today’s
thought:
“The
problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty
to
one's own tradition with
reverence for different
traditions.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel
