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GeoFee

GeoFee

I am who I am becoming...

I​
All of us are used to walking into a dark room, throwing a little switch, and seeing the room fill with light. We rarely stop to think about the wonder of this happening. We live in a scientific age where things which would have caused our grandparents to fall over in amazement are taken for granted. Each day women and men are making new discoveries in the fields of medicine, electronics, weapons technology and every other discipline. We know more about the physical universe than we are able to deal with.

Each day sees the revelation of some new theory or technique for doing things more quickly and effectively. It appears that we are making tremendous progress. Still, a small voice, somewhere inside us, keeps whispering that we have really moved nowhere at all. Some people are beginning to think that all the promises of science are nothing more than wishful thinking with no real hope to offer us for day to day living. We have conquered measles and polio but are being conquered by cancer and AIDS. On the other hand are those who insist that it is just a matter of time until we discover that one perfect thing which will transport us to the place of our highest utopian expectations.

II​
Maybe it would be helpful to think about what science really is. Often it seems to be some magical process which can only be understood by a highly educated elite. Maybe it is simpler than that. It seems to me that we all use the scientific method every day of our lives. Take the example of a young girl who wishes to tie her shoelaces. Does she not use science to discover the trick? She watches her dad as he goes through the bow tying motions. Then she tries to repeat the operation. She will pay close attention to how the laces respond to her hand movements. Through many trials she will perfect her efforts.

Basically, science is the observation of phenomenon and the formulation of conclusions which enable the observer to repeat certain processes with predictable results. Alexander Graham Bell observed that electrical signals would pass through a wire made of copper. He did many different tests and finally constructed a device by which people in different locations could communicate with each other at great speed.

The thought I would like to leave in your mind is that things do not just happen. Science has taught us that everything has a cause; a reason. We are not simply the victims of circumstances which are beyond our control. We are beings endowed with a free will and the effective power to choose what shape our future will take.

The things which are affecting human society with such strong negative force today are the result of decisions made yesterday. The things which will come to us tomorrow will largely be the result of the decisions made today. Would it not be wise to look closely at the principles which govern human life and then to submit our desires and affections to them?

III​
The life which we experience is no cosmic accident. It reflects the exercise of a creative intelligence which far exceeds our limited capacity for comprehension. It is patent foolishness for any part to consider itself greater than the whole. Absurd to think that humanity could project itself above the jurisdiction of creative principle to presume supreme authority over natural order. The continuation of such presumption must result in ever increasing decay in human security.

IV​
Our bodies are made up of very many different atomic structures. These are combined in chemical formulations of great complexity. The process of life requires a constant exchange of oxygen molecules. Water molecules comprise the great bulk of our physical reality. Cells combine and recombine to make up a variety of organs. There is the heart, the lungs, the brain, and the skin. All these parts, along with many others, contribute some distinct function which makes the whole viable.

In our social organization we have bakers, butchers, and builders. Each one contributes personal efforts towards the greatest possible good of all. There is no possibility of autonomy in the universe of our experience. Everything is vitally and permanently related to everything else. This is one of the first things we must realize if we are to move towards a better future. Egocentrism, ethnocentrism and anthropocentrism will result in disaster.

V​
It seems that we have failed to properly understand the true nature of our being human. We have believed too much that we are no more than a physical entity; the product of biological accident. This may reflect a failure to recognize the existence of a creative articulation which establishes consciousness of itself in the human form.

Consequent to this failure is the absence of effort directed to discovery of those principles which are consistent with the true nature of our being. Instead of living and learning at a spiritual level to establish the welfare of the human identity extending through history, we have given ourselves to the pursuit of material gratification for the time limited, individual desire.

Examining Western social reality closely reveals a material standard far exceeding legitimate human need. This at the high cost of devastated environments and the dissolution of human trust, happiness, peace and love. Can it be that we have sold our eternal soul for a momentary gratification?

VI​
There exists a minority which profits from our lack of knowledge. They face the prospect of losing property, profit, power and privilege if ever we come to a realization of truth. Greed and hunger for power direct this minority as they promote the new world order of material bliss. Thinking themselves to be enlightened they have fallen into folly.

Strong propaganda undermines the reality of love to ensure the emptiness of heart essential for the economy of production and consumption. "No laws but the laws of the powerful!" is the creed of these enlightened despots. If we continue to trust their deceitful manipulations of democracy, the power of their deep darkness will soon cover us all in sorrow and shame. It requires a strong resolution to remain deaf and blind to the grief that their quest for mastery brings into the world.

VII​
The problem is that we people have too long allowed others to decide our paths for us. They have held many attractive carrots before our noses and we have pulled their heavy carts down the road to doomsday. It is coming close to the time where we must turn away from their sugar coated lies to embrace the straight, narrow way of truth. Because we have delayed so long it is going to be a very costly undertaking. With all earnestness possible I declare that the alternative is a literal hell.

VIII​
Today, as one dark day almost two thousand years ago, the question is put to the human family: Which will you prefer? The hard truth, which demands a radical transformation of personal and corporate values to guarantee the security of the human soul, or the dominant political rhetoric which promises a new world order but delivers only pollution, warfare and oppression of the human spirit?

George - Late in the nineteen eighties​
 
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Well, scientific facts are just findings. Applying them is technology, and how we apply them is up to us.

There is nothing wrong with scientific findings if we apply them wisely. If, however, we use scientific findings to further our animal instincts, then this could backfire on us.

It all depends on our awareness. If we are aware of being separate ego individuals only, then we will use technology to further our egocentric drives. This appears to be a suicidal course for humanity. But if we are aware of being at-one with the greater and godly whole, then we could use technology in the service of the whole.
 
Odd thing ... science at one time meant observation. What would one do when recessed into a cave ... and ignorant of de Light ... a Levantine miracle that can lift all souls ... unless depressed by believing someone who tells you are going to hell for learning about things observed ... unless in d e dark about de Shadow ...

It could have a subtle meaning if you didn't wish to understand ... I Corinthians 13 ... that last verse if you observe it in corollary ... or backwards: " could one understand without Love to do so?"

Such alternate understanding of the script just baffles my mind as I compare to how some authorities told me about it!

For instance my mother told me that there is no such thing as con-science ... and thus one can have freed wiles ... but if one hadn't a mind towards that ... how's she know there isn't a guilty conscience?

Then of course I grew up in a one parent household in which the parent was under psychiatric care and no one else cared what was being taught to me. If I didn't question what appeared as lunatic ideas ... would I have become as dangerous donkey (psychopathe) instead of an inquisitive offspring?
 
George - Late in the nineteen eighties - present ... your prophecy hasn't changed much ... has the audience?
 
Why would prophecy change ... if the support system of such thinking is like a donkey ... only moves when tilting at windmills ... where love grinds away ... and bits of thought are carried out ... distributed in the grinder .. except for the central point ... having no volume or mass ... incarnate as a Black Hole ... a miner Shadow? Boo son ...
 
There is a good series and book.. How we got to here.

It looks at scientific discoveries as steps along a path
 
Hi UnDefinitive...

"...your prophecy hasn't changed much ... has the audience?..."

Most were not listening then, most are not listening now and I expect most will not listen in the time to come. It is not the most who I am concerned with.

George
 
GeoFee said:
Hi UnDefinitive...

"...your prophecy hasn't changed much ... has the audience?..."

Most were not listening then, most are not listening now and I expect most will not listen in the time to come. It is not the most who I am concerned with.

George
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You cannot master the past, George, only be part of the memory of it. There are still unanswered questions, and sadly, many unquestioned answers. The past is here with you now just as today (tonight?) was with you then. I know from your posts that you spend as much time as possible in the "now" with one eye to the future. Here, tonight, I am in darkness. The moon is just past full. It is so bright that the shadows have textures. The air is clean and crisp. It would be a lot easier to be anything or everything were it not such a Starry, starry night. with
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frame-less heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will.
From one of the listeners.
LN
 
Thanks LN...!

The lyric from Don McLean moves me as deeply today as the first time I heard it.

George
 
"There is nothing wrong with scientific findings if we apply them wisely." Hermann

Indeed... I suspect this holds universally.

George
 
You may not Master IT but perhaps life is about trying? There is a verse sometimes translated as testing all things ... sometimes as try all things ... but with due care! How else would we learn what was lost in the books brutes burned (Romans in their avarice)?

Thus the tail end of history is observed from an alternate position? Cos Moleo Logical perspectives of the wondering little peoples ... humble Jinns? These could be dark spirits of word laid out ... I don't know ... been told not to ... but I am a curios daemon! Authorities don't like me digging in the crap they feed us ...
 
Diversity is giving birth to a word and it will be expressed as unity. ...

The point is to run the race, play the play, dance the dance – and to do it in a way that retains contact with the consciousness that inspired the endeavor: the Infinite joy and oneness. When we learn to connect with the Oneness without abdicating the beauty and importance of multiplicity (variety), then will the purpose of creation be accomplished.

Then we will know how to dissolve the malignity that afflicts us. We will see that those who wish to control the rest are confused parts of our Greater Self. We won’t wish to destroy them but to help them. Our love, our inmost nature, will forgive and heal them.

© Bronte Baxter 2008
back link to the “Splinter in the Mind” website at https://brontebaxter.wordpress.com/
 
George, what a good "di" like the whine of Dionysus? First one has to understand myth ... things right out of here ...

Drunk or addicted to life ... when there's a 'moor to it than meets the physical portion! However physical addicts don't run with metaphysics as too close to metapors of heaven and a state of mind in a shut out ... Cana di'n gammos!
 
And Robert Service as Canada 'n addressed the miracles of the midnight S'n or forever in the dark about authority as it burns !

Th:)ats passion set free ... a phunny or otherwise odd thing expressed in icons of miss understanding ... a broad term ...:(
 
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