reluctant spiritual exploration: Day 283 Science and Health, Chapter 12 Thursday: Mary Baker Eddy: Frank J. Ellis: Rich Murray 2013.10.10 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2013/10/reluctant-spiritual-exploration-day-283.html
My first dogmatism in life was modern science, embraced eagerly after my visit to the Field Museum of Natural History and the associated planetarium in 1951 at age 9 -- By 1953 science fiction and the news magazines were making me uncomfortably aware of the extreme hazard of mating newly minted hydrogen bombs with intercontinental rockets, posing an imminent terminal threat to all human life and hope -- yet what salvation could there be for our predictable predicament save an earnestly shared ever evolving discovery of truth, relying on evidence and reason? Spirit, scorned as primitive superstition, was banned from the pale of thought in my mind -- I was partially processed by an eminent temple, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Taking a year off from school in 1965, I was intrigued by D. T. Suzuki's "Zen Buddhism" and Aldous Huxley's "Island" -- a dozen years later in 1977, I was ready for a lifetime challenge, "A Course In Miracles", along with "The Infinite Way" of Joel Sol Goldsmith -- now 71, I am keenly aware of the cultural intellectual barriers that make profound spiritual literature opaque to sophisticated beginners, who have not yet noticed significant subtleties and expansions of their own awareness, and so lack any experiential toehold with which to venture upwards in a new way a few inches. The awesome exponential advances of quantum mechanics and cosmology, which render the total of all previous progress since 1600 to be the bottom half of the total for the next decade's doubling, 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 times in a human lifetime ..., is itself a significant empirical clue -- which testifies that the growth continues... endlessly... while now basic new notions that derive time itself from a timefree realm are in public play, suitably dressed in very abstract mathematics -- the fabled naked Emperor's latest invisible fancy robes... so notions like "no highest upper bound", invented about 1880, have led to thought exploration, within awareness, of abstract models of, ah, eternity, infinity, batted about by agile minds, within awareness -- the minute perfectly hard "eternal", unchanging atoms which Newton took his bath in and made his bed on have vanished, like the smile of the Cheshire Cat, into supremely chaotic quantum space-time foam, incessantly vibrating, with 10 spatial dimensions, since 1980 -- the whole great observable universe a random "quantum fluctuation" of some sort, expanding faster and faster for 13.7 thousand million years, since... since what? Here we find yet another obviously clue, in plain sight, "the whole time", in fact, every moment of your life, for "i npl a i n s ig ht " exists for you this very moment only as little crooked dark marks in the visual space of your awareness, while the memory processes add a related stream of thoughts, called sounds, along with complexly sentient appreciations, all aspects of awareness, all, resulting from that "glitch" 13.7 thousand million years ago -- I may be indiscreet in reminding ye that all the sensations that confirm to you that a body exists, are yet another gang of shifty thoughts in their own subrealm of awareness -- the tongue lolling about in the hot tub cave of the mouth -- all this, complete mystery, even before the advent of new subtleties and expansions of thought within "higher levels" of awareness... So, earnest word smiths, pioneer innovators like Mary Baker Eddy, Joel Sol Goldsmith, Jesus of Nazareth, and modern "nondualists", have had to present in crudely wrapped packages their various very desirable gifts, which allow them to inspire others to replicate and thus confirm in direct personal inner experience their own substantial subjective "scientific" discoveries. If you, perhaps, are one who suspects there may be or even must be vast unknowns in awareness available beyond your current horizons of experience, I testify that a core productive personal research strategy is to decide to evolve without limit into new territories, in the service of the highest good for all, while simply asking for help -- muttering underneath your breath a few time a day, "I need help..." is all that is needed. You can't find how much hasn't been known, except by starting to experience new stuff. There's always new stuff. "Discussion of ACIM Workbook Lessons, commentaries by Allen Watson" < [email protected]> http://acim.org/Lessons/ Foundation For Inner Peace http://acim.org/Lessons/lesson.html?daily_lesson=283 Lesson for October 10th, 2013 Lesson 283 My true Identity abides in You. Father, I made an image of myself, and it is this I call the Son of God. Yet is creation as it always was, for Your creation is unchangeable. Let me not worship idols. I am he my Father loves. My holiness remains the light of Heaven and the Love of God. Is not what is beloved of You secure? Is not the light of Heaven infinite? Is not Your Son my true Identity, when You created everything that is? Now are we One in shared Identity, with God our Father as our only Source, and everything created part of us. And so we offer blessing to all things, uniting lovingly with all the world, which our forgiveness has made one with us. [ quite a bit more... ]
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