Last night I watched Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which starred Arnold Schwarzeneggar, on the American Movie Classics (AMC) channel. Released in 2003, I wasn’t sure whether I had seen it before. The beginning looked familiar, but again, I wasn’t sure if I saw it all the way through to the end… until the climax, and I realized I…
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Thoughts on God: Fear and the Matter of ET's
I’ve been quiet lately, but the mind has been racing. Actually, a high-speed mind race is normal for me. So this has been hyperspeed, faster than mind activity. It’s all been about me, and you… God, and “extra-terrestrials,” or ET’s. As an ideological protocol, if it ever was prudent for there to be a “separation” of church and state, there…
Read MoreThoughts on God: The Complementary Principles that Govern All Human Experience
Historic Maui Church, originally uploaded by phaelosopher. Our disconnectedness with self… is the same as our sense of separateness from God. It leads us to believe that nothing we do matters. It allows us to justify choices and actions that perpetuate discordancy. An extreme example of discordancy is war. War is one of the things we focus much of…
Read MoreThoughts on God: On Transforming Life's 'S%&t'
There is more to why the proverbial “s%&t” of life happens. For example, in relationships, it’s more than romance “wearing off” and then the real drama starts. It’s more so that when sincerely seeking a companion or mate, we tend to be our truer selves, without expressing our “darker” sides. Once the deal is sealed, then “the rest of the…
Read MoreA Nano Thought: The One
As we realize the oneness of everything, we’ll see that there is no “happenstance” to anything. Only the veil of duality gives plausibility to such concepts as “luck,” “chance,” and “fortune,” both “good” and “bad,” and the relative value that we place on each. Everything and everyone, is connected, in the full spectrum of possibility and actuality. Such is the nature of…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Why 'S%&t' Happens
Last December I published an essay titled, Thoughts on God: When ‘S%&t’ Happens. After reading a flurry of books (the flurry continues, because three more are on the way), let’s take a “behind the scenes” look why “S%&t” happens. While many of you know exactly what I’m talking about, some of you might be inclined to ask, “What is ‘S%&t?’”…
Read MoreThoughts on Beingness: Natural Human Energetic Flight
California Condor Overhead, originally uploaded by phaelosopher. A Question…. Since there is One Mind, One Intelligence, One Brain…. AND …Since humankind’s ability to travel via flying has always been there….yet…. just manifested successfully in the last century…. How Do You Think The Day Will Come About When All Of Us Can FLY With Our Own Natural Bodies At…
Read MoreThoughts on Books: Seeding Mind with Heart
I’m in the latter stages of another in a series of remarkable books read lately, titled, Heart of the Christos: Star Seeding of the Pleiades, by Barbara Hand Clow (Bear & Co.). This quote, in the chapter titled, “Medicine Woman,” eloquently encapsulates the present dilemma, and opportunity facting humanity today. …we are living in a new world now, in which the…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Dealing with the Day-to-Day
For some, it might seem reasonable to think that musings on such subjects as God, love, oneness, and equality of beingness have no practical place in the day-to-day scheme of things. After all, we’ve got any number of other more “pressing” issues to think about. However, the fact is, our thoughts on God, relative to who we are, have everything to…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Beliefs That Indicate We DON'T Know Who We Are
From time to time it occurs to me to raise the importance of questioning of “who” and contemplating “what” we are. It is FAR MORE important than many of us would really want to think, especially since most of us don’t know whether we know who we are, or not, since all of us may THINK we know. Even me.…
Read MoreAwesome Places: Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center
A GETAWAY FOR THE SOUL Patagonia, Arizona — The “tree of life” is a term mostly associated with the Jewish system of Kabballah, whose literal interpretation means, “Received tradition.” According to its Wikipedia entry, the tree of life “is a tree in the Garden of Eden whose fruit gives everlasting life, i.e. immortality. This is a fitting metaphor for the…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Religion, Spirituality and Beingness
Bringing Our Highest Self ‘Out of the Closet’ with Love America’s forefathers had the profound wisdom to inculcate a fundamental separation of “church” from matters of “state” into the very fabric of governance. How could the other foundations of freedom, such as of assembly, worship (or not to), and speech (including the press), be ensured if a religion — doesn’t…
Read MoreThoughts on Self Mastery: Desire, Belief, and Intent
When presented with examples of what might constitute self-mastery… such as the ability to heal a cancerous medical condition, transform an abusive relationship, or confronting what we perceive to be an extremely negative, unreachable, or even evil situation, it is easy to tell ourself that if this is mastery, it’s beyond our ability. In essence, we can’t. Though we might believe the…
Read MoreAwakening the Master Within
del.icio.us tags: god, mastery, change, healing, existence, good, love, duality Like the act of breathing, where life rides upon the rhythmic indrawing and release of air and energy through the body, I experience the rhythms attendant to the growth in my own awareness, through significantly intent times of reading, and then releasing that which would be expressed through writing. There…
Read MoreLet's Play 'What If'… An Education in Beingness
del.icio.us tags: Existence, Being, Education, Humanity, God, Religion Imagine what our world might be like if we started considering, learning, and appreciating what our divine nature naturally allows us as human beings? Imagine what it would be like if we started practicing it from Breath One, and consciously continued doing so through the last? Such training need not rely on any specific system…
Read MoreJeff Lorber and Brian Bromberg at the Buttes, Pt. III
The last of this series. Here, the duo perform the title tune from Lorber’s CD, “He Had a Hat.” [googlevideo=”http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5715575071379701782″] Before they start, I included some comments that Bromberg shared with the audience, that everyone should hear. Children are naturally creative (as are adults). The difference is that children do not naturally stifle their creativity. Our education system does that…
Read MoreJeff Lorber and Brian Bromberg at the Buttes, Pt. II
This was a special night because the artists allowed us to capture the magic of that one performance, which is rare these days unless you’re paying $50 a seat or more. The beauty is that every performance is unique, and carries its own magic, if the artists bring it. [googlevideo=”http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6553050162096726120″] In my first entry on this event, I mentioned that…
Read MoreMoving Beyond 'Surviving,' to Succeeding
The time when “the will to survive” was prime, has given way to the time when “the will so succeed” prevails. We’ve always wanted to succeed, but often was bogged down in figuring out how to survive. Then, even when we did figure out how to survive, all we had accomplished was to succeed at surviving, which is no fun. However,…
Read MoreJeff Lorber and Brian Bromberg Perform at The Buttes
Radio station KYOT (95.5 FM), the main listening stop for smooth jazz in the Phoenix area, is heavily involved in promoting the genré via concert series and performances throughout the year. They have formed alliances with some of the fine hotels or resorts around town and created a place for their jazz and live music loving listening audience to get…
Read MoreForgiving a Madman, Releasing the Madness
In a blaze of gore, Sueng-Hui Cho went from anonymous to infamous in a matter of minutes; a “nobody” in his mind, to a somebody in ours, whose name is on the lips of a nation, and around the world… whose image, and madness became the subject of prime time television. In their silence, the victims don’t get nearly the…
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