Cosmographia

Personal Alchemy

2009-03-11T03:14:00.010-05:00

The process of individual alchemy is now at the point of transmuting an inhuman history into nothing less than humanity's self-realisation..., (and) since all the cards are stacked against us, we have everything to win.

The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem

America Awake: A Declaration of Interdependence

2008-08-21T00:32:00.020-05:00

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for all people to separate from the cosmology which binds them and enter into a new cosmological understanding of the universe more primal in truth and fulfilling of their rights and needs, a common courtesy for all life requires that they state the reasons and causes that drive their separation and the discoveries that impel their maturation into new being.

We the people of Earth hold these truths to be self-evident: All is created equal, sentient and sacred in love.

All being is endowed by its source in love with certain original rights.

Among these rights are conservation of being, creation of entropy for work, manifestation of symmetry for order and transformation by evolution for fulfillment.

These rights and principles of cosmic origin guide the people to institute new forms of self-governance based on new political economy in resonance with and reverence for the working of love in the universe.

Governments are instituted by people for people and of people with their creative engagement for the continuous care and fulfillment of all being.

When governments fail in these sacred duties of compassion, it is the right and the necessity of the people that they change their governments to bring them forward into harmony with the honest order of love.

In these notes, I have echoed my original declaration of independence to illustrate how radically different your present and future times are in comparison to ours at the birth of the American nation.

The Helianx Proposition

2007-12-02T00:33:00.008-05:00

An 'illuminated' text and short film written and designed by Timothy Wyllie. The Signature and Collector Editions werepublished in Summer 2008 and a trade edition will be forthcoming the near future. Click on this link to read The Helianx Proposition online. Otherwise, for an audiovisual introduction, click the 'Helianx' in the 'Featured Media' section of this blog.

Peace in Mind

2007-12-01T16:20:00.000-05:00

Minds at home in metaphors
of fire and brimstone making war
with cultural canons are ill prepared
to enter the peace seen in civilizations
guided and governed by the law of love.

Composure

2007-12-01T15:50:00.000-05:00

The children of God cannot be reduced to any one line of inquiry nor constrained by 'religious' beliefs. Their intellectual acumen and spiritual poise is shown in the calm demeanor manifest amidst a 'dialogue' where ignorance attempts to overthrow reason, fear mounts an 'attack' on faith, and hate is seen there to resist its absorption by love .

Doing the Will of God

2007-12-01T15:30:00.003-05:00

How do we 'do' the will of God?

Simply by sharing the inner life with him;
allowing the fruit of this union to blossom as it will.

Illusions of Certainty

2007-10-14T11:13:00.001-05:00

The need for sure words from God stem from spiritual lethargy seeking certainty in apparently chaotic options. Here revelatory texts are most effective in maintaining reliance upon external authorities as the dependence upon “a sure word from God” shows little if any tolerance for ambiguity, and manifests a rigidity that is a most salient feature of mechanized cognition.
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Now playing: Anne Dudley - Turbulent Serenity
via FoxyTunes

Revelation: Seen & Unseen

2007-10-14T11:05:00.000-05:00

The purpose of any revelation of God is to increase the capacity to experience love, receiving and giving such as readily as we inhale and exhale. Alas, the inclination to embrace any single 'revelation' while rejecting truths revealed in others is a habit worn throughout milennia of isolation, just such practice that is gradually yielding to the increased spiritual pressure to come forth from this bondage. Otherwise, the sure test of authenticity of any purported spiritual gift is not made in the machinations of mind but in the soulful demonstration of a life dominated by love.
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Now playing: Michael Hedges - The Unexpected Visitor
via FoxyTunes

Science: Fiction & Fact

2007-10-14T10:47:00.000-05:00

We see the 'fiction' science inspires in one day,
morphs readily into scientific 'fact' the next day,
by the labor of sincere and sustained inquiry.
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Now playing: Watercolor - The Great Unknown
via FoxyTunes

Sovereignty

2007-10-14T10:12:00.000-05:00

Sovereignty is evolving as it is older than any 'Days' and younger than the next child uttering '"we".

It grows in a field of open inquiry where philosophy is seen to thrive and theology so often withers.
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Now playing: Joan Baez - With God On Our Side
via FoxyTunes

Dreams

2007-10-14T02:36:00.000-05:00

The extraordinary "dream state grows proportionate to one's progress in the practice of spiritual attunement. Indeed, upon invitation, our seraphic and other celestial guides can enter our minds and our dreams. They have brought dreams to people in need of healing awareness because we mortals can sometimes become more aware of divine love through this means than others. However, they do not delve into areas where we would shut them off, but only as we open up and give permission. They work with our angels, for these seraphic guardians are fully aware of all that goes on with us.

The dream state is a complicated matter. Though unseen friends may inject something into a dream, almost always other factors are involved and the celestial efforts become quite jumbled, and this is why dreams often do not make any sense. We need not be overly concerned with dreams for sometimes they will simply be telling us something about our stress points. Our turmoil may bring up points in a dream that may be remembered, or it may have something to do with our life style that can bring expanded awareness in order to correct something. However, rather than putting too much focus upon dreams, it would be more helpful to simply focus upon our life with God. Regardless, know many work with us any way they can. They are with us always and take every opportunity to assist through the openings they see available which we freely give them to broaden our horizons and deepen our experience.
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Now playing: William Ackerman - Sound of Wind Driven Rain
via FoxyTunes

Harmonic Motion

2007-10-13T21:44:00.000-05:00

To move with life in such a way,
that butterflies enjoin our sways,
adorning every finger as a ring,
while about the head they sing,
'til descending upon our crown,
a sign of peace that we've found.
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Now playing: D.R.Auten - If I only Had Wings
via FoxyTunes

Beara Peninsula

2007-10-12T10:43:00.000-05:00

It was a perfect day to follow the Kenmare River down to the Beara Peninsula along a road garnished with the richest ferns growing within and beneath a thick wood which broke often enough to gradually acquaint me with the spectacular water flowing no longer as a river, but swelling as an approaching sea, graced with vivid blues and greens translucent though not transparent, which when fully exposed by a farewell to the wooded land commanded more attention than the road therefore requiring periodic stops to hike and venture to stand along various outcroppings of deeply furrowed, aged rocky faces, staring out to sea, braced against its pounding thunder, sending water exploding, and my eyes, skyward to witness rain crossing over some mountaintops in the distance while simultaneously, sunlight illumined others, and where they commingled, a rainbow, whose otherwise alien colors began its climb from the ground only to disappear early in its arcing movement, dissolving in the opacity of a heavy mist still hiding the peaks of earth which left me wondering, where, or do, they end?
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Now playing: Alan Stivell - Gaeltacht
via FoxyTunes

Planetary Birth

2007-09-23T21:15:00.000-05:00

Our world is being reborn. We are witnessing around us much of the mess that attends any birth, and those who have borne children, who have witnessed the apparent peril of such a passage, know that joy eclipses fear upon seeing the face of the beloved child. In this child that we are birthing together, we are making love present here as it is throughout our cosmic home.
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Now playing: Mark Turnbull - Now is the Hour
via FoxyTunes

Dialogue

2007-07-29T10:51:00.000-05:00

Oftentimes, we think of dialogue perhaps as a better conversation, but there is much more to it. Genuine dialogue is a conversation with a center, not sides. It is a way of taking the energy or our differences and channeling it toward something that has never been created before. It lifts us out of polarization and into a greater common sense, and is thereby a means for accessing the intelligence and coordinated power of groups of people.
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Now playing: Stephan Micus - Listen To The Rain
via FoxyTunes

Singularity of Experience

2007-07-02T12:37:00.000-05:00

Any lesson about divine love can be seen as divergent, but the experience of such love is singular and yields a grace representative of its unlimited and open Source seen in the lives of our siblings. The Source of this love encourages us to remain focused on expanding this light rather than battling our perceptions of darkness knowing the former is eternal while the latter is passing away in the course of ascension that finds us knowing more deeply it is in teaching we learn, in giving we receive, and in sharing we secure our lasting treasure.
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Now playing: Trevor Swadling - Horizon
via FoxyTunes

Currency

2007-06-04T09:35:00.000-05:00

Fear is our resistance;
faith is our current,
and love the voltage.
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Now playing: Joan Baez - We Shall OverCome
via FoxyTunes

What Light?

2007-05-21T09:53:00.000-05:00

Knowing 'about' the universe can never equal the value of our contribution to its ongoing evolution that is our own co-creation occurring in the context of time। While olden myths of origin have been succeeded by those more adequate to trace the contours of a cosmos, these have only framed deeper questions which lay still before and within us. Namely, who are we having wondered so well and answered in kind, to see the stars, their form and structure, bearing the signature of our own design? What light is this within us lay, seeing through us this light around us, holding sway; what meanings await our shared construction, what value remains hidden deep within our hearts, we who so often hold only matters of fact in mind? Liberated seemingly, from illusions of religion, what wisdom is yet to be born from our love divine?
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Now playing: Rachmaninov - Blagoslovi, dushe moya
via FoxyTunes

Assumptions

2007-05-18T14:02:00.000-05:00

All human thought is built upon assumptions। Science, revered so often as infallible by (a)theists of every kind during the reign of what are now waning ideologies of materialism, featured scientists as high priests of matter, mediating its mysteries to the 'lay' audience in return for unlimited stipends paid as tithes to the idol of nationalism whose 'heaven' is unlimited sovereignty achieved through endless war. Alas, Science is built upon the assumption that reason is valid, that the universe can be comprehended and relies heavily upon at least three further assumptions: matter, motion, and life. However, all human knowledge is incomplete given that Science will forever seek to identify, analyze, and classify the segmented parts of a limitless cosmos while Religion grasps by faith the 'idea-of-the-whole' i.e. the entire cosmos leaving Philosophy to attempt the identification of the material segments of Science with the spiritual-insight of the whole to make meaningful a larger spectrum of our human experience.
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Now playing: Michael Hoppé - Romance For Violin And Orchestra
via FoxyTunes

Reasonable Faith

2007-05-18T13:35:00.000-05:00

Through living 'faith', sincere religionists experience the limitless 'value' of communion or 'at-one-ment' with the Source of all that is, ever was, or will be that is fully present in this moment - now. The 'reason' of genuine science allows finite minds to analyze the infinitesimal elements of the infinite in a progressive exploration of 'fact' whose re-cognition is made meaningful by the integration of these discrete realms of human thought and experience through the wisdom of philosophy, that intellectual labor weaving as one the part and whole, cause and effect, origin and destiny, beginning and end of every human endeavor to 'know' the truth that sets us free.
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Now playing: Michael Hoppe/Martin Tillman/Tim Wheater - Salvation
via FoxyTunes

Only Love

2007-05-16T14:38:00.000-05:00

"Only is love"- living forever in and through countless offspring of its Source for whom survival is never in question. For having witnessed love overcoming all things, enduring all things, embracing all things, forgiving all things, proceeding confidently in the consummation of its desire to be fully present in all things; to become self evident, that God is love.
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Now playing: Watercolor - Can We Be Free
via FoxyTunes

Morning Song

2007-05-07T17:18:00.000-05:00

As we awaken, grumbling perhaps a bit here and there, coughing maybe while clearing our throats, rubbing our sleepy eyes as we adjust to morning's light, let us listen to the soft and subtle tenderness of this moment and join all creation awakening with us.

And when we hear voices teaching one thing or another, let us ask ourselves, do they offer a simple peace or confusing distractions? Are we offered complex meditations and prayers and 'things' to do, or are we simply reminded of the truth we are and invited to rest in it? Are we told of a need to go on exotic pilgrimages, or do we hear the reminder that as we make our cup of morning tea, all of Heaven is present if we but remember our Source who is making us even as we make our daily rounds.

Focus! For in this moment there is coming forth a multitude of those who would be teachers of 'enlightenment', who will guide us into all knowledge. Let's look carefully to see; do they demand that we follow them? Do they demand that we give up our own discernment, or do they encourage us to look deep within?

Let's use time constructively. We can heal our hearts, we can practice forgiveness, we can awaken. We need to because the planet is doing the same, and if we don't awaken with her, we won't be able to handle her light, and we'll need to move to a different neighborhood. That's all. No judgment, no fear, no being struck dead by God, only a simple offering. We can awaken now, or we can awaken somewhere else, later.

We are seeing on the planet a polarization that is occurring as every soul is being confronted by the decision to heal and to forgive or to hold onto the idols of woundedness and judgement. The more souls that choose to awaken and to heal, the less need for shocking circumstances to gain our attention and easier will be the transition for the planet.

As we awaken, let us greet each other with love।
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Now playing: Erik Satie - Gnossiennes No. 2
via FoxyTunes

Fabric of Knowing

2007-05-02T08:11:00.000-05:00

The inevitable passion with which persons devote themselves to love is indicative of how potent the realm of value functions in relation to an expanding horizon of fact। Human life is composed of a qualitative dimension of intangible value interwoven with the quantitative realm of tangible matter(s) of fact which when integrated in a living i.e. personal philosophy contributes new meanings to our evolving experience. Alas, Science has no more of a monopoly upon knowledge than Religion does upon God.
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Now playing: Polish National Radio Symphony Crchestra, Antoni Wit, conductor, Zofia Kilanowicz, soporano - Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile
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Doing God's Will?

2007-05-01T23:32:00.000-05:00

It is not easy for us to know what the will of God is, and too often we think that doing God’s will means to sacrifice all things that give us pleasure, that we need to give up all enjoyment and live an austere life though happily, more are conscious this is not the case. Obviously, doing God’s will has often been misunderstood, and while there appears sacrifice involved, it is only in bidding farewell to the animal in us.

Doing God’s will does entail overcoming the lower animal instincts through self-discipline to self-mastery. This is not easy, but a strong character emerges which can withstand temptations and is not easily swayed by the sophistries of others. God’s will always seeks the way with the most love and respect for all others living simply by the golden rule, doing to others as we ourselves would like to be treated.

In Jesus we see an exemplary life embodying the golden rule, always obedient to the will of our Father in heaven. As this golden rule is found in all religions, it is unfortunate this is not practiced throughout the world. We know Jesus always exhorted his followers to love one another. Well, looking around us, we find wars that have not ceased and among families, neighbors, and friends this blight carries on as the cave mentality persists largely because greed and material tendencies have mostly outstripped and replaced religion and its practices.

Too little attention is given to training in character growth as few of us pay attention to the still small voice of God within. Certainly, lip-service is paid when people dutifully attend churches, synagogues, mosques, tabernacles, etc. or their respective 'bible' studies paying their apparent dues thinking this is enough but contributing then to the illusiion that all is right in their world while avoiding the search for God within where dwells the meaning and purpose of life. Why? Because it seems initially much easier to have others do our thinking for us.

Surely, the time has come and is now, to take responsibility for our own thoughts and actions, and ask within what God’s will is, and how to surrender our self-will and discover a path filled with love and goodwill toward all others। One person at a time is how our world will be changed as the benign virus of love spreads all over the planet. Let us ponder how we will do God’s will today, and act with an open and honest heart knowing we have the help of many who are unseen but always available to encourage us.
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Now playing: Stephan Micus - Dancing With The Morning
via FoxyTunes

Waves of Time

2007-03-30T14:41:00.000-05:00

While eternity is one, the consciousness of time functions as the 'perception' of sequential motion. Such events unfold contingent upon a nearly infinite vector field of influences that when modeled mathematically produce a range of probabilistic scenarios. These 'illusions' are the tool of every art used to assist anyone lacking vision to probe the surface of the phenomenal realm to see the depth of noumenal reality we are, even now, in truth and spirit.

As it has been said that vision is the art of seeing the invisible, this could be expanded to include a larger range of senses, including the handful possessed by us humans, to feel this very moment what otherwise we know only by faith is living in and through us।
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Now playing: Deuter - Sitara
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Predicate of Love

2007-03-29T10:44:00.000-05:00

Subject and object in relationship through the predicate of love is a function of multiplicity acting as one. On the human level, this subject and object entwined as lover and beloved, male and female, engender a union bearing the fruit of such affection, living children whose presence enlivens the world with countless future possibilities already embedded in this present moment. As in the mortal frame, so in dimensions far exceeding our imaginations where greater levels of love's manifestation is born through unions of more expansive minds and spirits whose luminosity is undiminished by the density of material minds struggling to know in a diminutive conceptual framework what the human heart knows with ease, that all of us are offspring of a divine affection, whose Father and Mother sends us forth to worlds only beginning to awaken to the grandeur of our cosmic home that is governed by a perfect love limited solely by our exposure to the same। And as our capacity to expose ourselves to this light of life within us grows, the image of who we are emerges in these emulsions of living experience to reveal the image of God living in and through us.
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Now playing: Enigma - Gravity Of Love
via FoxyTunes

The Present

2007-03-11T21:32:00.000-05:00

While forward looking souls are greatly appreciated, in truth and spirit, the future, like the past, is seen to hold no more than what we are willing to affirm dwelling in the infinite depth of this very moment, that is eternal.
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Now playing: Chöying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts - Gayatri
via FoxyTunes

Resurrection of Icarus

2007-03-08T15:49:00.001-05:00

See mountains melting into waves,
waters over which we travel many days,
with no end in sight, and no turning back
from our ascendant journey to light,
that rides on an elusive horizon,
kissing each rising crest,
that would crush us
if we didn't give our best,
to surmount the swelling tide,
filling any emptiness inside,
immersing us in lighter elements
like flying fish who forsook a return dive.
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Now playing: Michael Hoppe/Martin Tillman/Tim Wheater - Shadows Fall
via FoxyTunes

Truth & Fact

2007-03-05T17:45:00.001-05:00

Consciousness of 'fact'
is not synonymous
with experience of 'truth'.
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Now playing: Jalan Jalan - Firefly Sanctuary
via FoxyTunes

Exotic Beliefs

2007-03-05T17:41:00.003-05:00

However distant any beliefs may appear, our souls, minds, and spirits are joined indivisibly in our Father's infinite love even if such objective reality is known through the grace of his subjective fragment warming our hearts while illuminating our minds.
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Now playing: Michael Hedges - Rickover's Dream
via FoxyTunes

Delight

2007-03-05T17:36:00.000-05:00

Identification with God
dwelling within us
is seen in our delight
recognizing him in all
our siblings around us.
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Now playing: Loreena McKennitt - Dante's Prayer
via FoxyTunes

Mythic Origin

2007-03-05T17:32:00.003-05:00

Reliance on myths of 'origin' clouds
the vision of our one source in spirit.
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Now playing: David Darling - Choral
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Prophetic Vision

2007-03-05T17:28:00.000-05:00

Predictions of prophetic vision are functions of finite mind endeavoring to see in any one infinitesimal increment of time the fulfillment of that singular moment of eternity just as we can see the pattern of a Universe of universes in our humble mortal homes. May we find these in every glance knowing all the while we are invited to see our First Source in one another.
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Now playing: Vangelis - Movement X (Epilogue)
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Authority

2007-03-05T17:18:00.001-05:00

The authority of any 'thing'
is a function of the 'value'
it represents at any 'time'.
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Now playing: Vangelis - Introduction
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Limitations

2007-03-05T17:16:00.001-05:00

Limitations are self selected according to a need
for the soul's growth in each and every moment.
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Now playing: Richard Einhorn - Victory at Orleans (Letter from Joan of Arc)
via FoxyTunes

The Foundation

2007-03-05T17:00:00.001-05:00

Is there not but one foundation upon which we all do build;
the embrace of mutual adoration between parent and child?
Does this not compose the beginning and end of all desires,
which, if we should replace with another, leaves us exiled?

Then again the returning, accomplished with but a smile,
affirming in this moment what we have known all the while,
that our riches are within us, even though around us we see,
perfection's evolving scenes given to children, each of these।
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Now playing: Liz Story - Snowfall
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Liberty

2007-03-05T16:51:00.000-05:00

While egotism requires defenses and rationalizations, all are invited to savor the freedom from such needs as we increasingly experience the liberation of joy found in getting to know one more human being along this neverending course of spiritualization।
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Now playing: Nick Drake - Which Will
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Spiritual Experience

2007-03-05T16:49:00.001-05:00

While our personal spiritual experience is a subjective phenomena operating in relation to numinous levels of objective reality, it occurs nonetheless in the context of mind, cosmic or otherwise as reason, wisdom, and faith are our greatest attainments.
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Now playing: Vangelis - Messages
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Literature

2007-03-05T16:36:00.000-05:00

All written work may function as 'literature' between a minimum and maximum range of aesthetic value according to the degree its illusions composed of literal symbols point to a deeper cosmic reality। Indeed, while a great deal of 'universe romancing' may not be fact, nevertheless, much more is true.
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Now playing: Bill Douglas - Earth Prayer
via FoxyTunes

Archives of Experience

2007-03-05T16:33:00.000-05:00

As the spiritualized mind can safely receive increasing measures of experience archived in universe records whose 'format' allows the participant to share in the full sensory experience of any moment in the evolving consciousness of God, this is especially useful for training necessary to the execution of tasks engaged by the soul on behalf of our Universe Government।
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Now playing: David Darling - Sweet River
via FoxyTunes

Revelation & Evolution

2007-03-05T16:21:00.000-05:00

'Revelation' and 'evolution' though distinct, function as one, while world wide revelation is dependent upon personal revelation for expanding the possibilites for larger cosmic disclosures। Though the universe operates on a need to know basis, unliike our human intelligence agencies that define need by self interest, spiritual governments define need by the soul's deepest desire, both individual and collective, personal and cosmic.
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Now playing: John Nelson; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Lyric Opera Chorus, Lira Chamber Chorus - Górecki: Misere, Op. 44
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Ideas & Ideals

2007-03-05T15:57:00.001-05:00

Ideas about God are transmitted well by textual extensions whereas the ideal of God incarnate is only demonstrated in person. Ideologic fragmentation results from the former whereas spiritual communion arises from the latter.
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Now playing: John Potter - Refrain 1
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Media of Mind

2007-03-05T15:49:00.000-05:00

Any media features but the thought of its participants; alas, the quality of thought functions reliably as the degree of spiritualization achieved not by external controls but the internal focus of those 'paying' attention।

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Now playing: Anouar Brahem - Le Voyage De Sahar
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Sphere of Culture

2007-03-05T15:42:00.001-05:00

Each and all of us play a game of living art in every encounter with our fellows. The field is endless and the rules are simple, no one wins alone; the prize awaits the moment when we all have won together. The sphere with which we play is glorious, but ever changing, and with each pass it advances or retreats in splendor, depending on how it is thrown. Some think it should be thrown 'at' another, but of course, it is 'to' them we toss it in advancing levels of artful exchange for it is in this sphere we see in vivid color the reflection of our evolving and collective soul.
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Now playing: I.Anderson/A.Giddings - In Maternal Grace
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Primacy of Learning

2007-03-05T15:39:00.001-05:00

Learning and teaching are related to our growth as are inhaling and exhaling. Indeed, the universe does not recognize our having learned anything until we can effectively impart the same to another.
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Now playing: John Potter - As I Walked Forth
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Sound of Thought

2007-03-05T15:30:00.001-05:00

The disciplined study of thought is practiced by listening to its source within.
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Now playing: Erik Satie - Gymnopédies No. 1
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Igloos & Open Skies

2007-03-05T15:25:00.000-05:00

How well we know the pernicious effects of the culture of abuse born in isolation that would have us make intimacy with God a place apart from others insulated against any perceived attacks upon its foundations! One of the greatest challenges we face going forward is learning how to share the warmth of this precious place that is our home in the heart of God as we experience him dwelling at the greatest depth of our own hearts, scarred and shattered though they may be. Can we trust fully that the invincibility we desire is found only in the undefended heart dedicated at any cost to the task of sharing our experience in doing the will of God i.e. sharing the inner life with him from which flows all love and mercy? And when we suffer setbacks, disappointments, 'attacks', real or imagined, do we have the courage to relinquish our established traditions which measure value relative to our investments in defense rather than recognizing the limitless value we are invited to discover flows instead inversely proportionate to our concern with these defenses? Throughout our world we see the effects of our fractured focus of courage through this lens of our willingness to defend at any cost these presumed places of refuge; but are these not in truth merely the fatal attractions of a refuge woven in the lair of Lucifer whose bequest would be an everlasting cell of isolation in which to mark the motions of time as if such scribblings could stand forever defying eternity?

Let us undertake to rebuild the charred remains of the many bridges once linking us all, and know that as we do we will nevertheless encounter lingering tendencies to retreat instead to cells warmed only by virtue of their familiarity, but we know having felt the warmth of our extended family embrace, that though our personal igloos we once lovingly carved in frigid zones of isolation, their burden will melt from our backs as we proceed to the tropics of Paradise।
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Now playing: J. Ciconia - Regina Gloriosa
via FoxyTunes

Synchronous Stars

2007-03-05T11:16:00.000-05:00

While the tools of mathematics replete with increasingly powerful modeling capabilities afford us opportunities for mastery of an ever larger number of endeavors whether the mere actuarials of cost, patterns of weather, demographic trends, or the simulation of actual experience in war and the pursuits of peace via educational training, such tools cannot prove or disprove any theories of personality. It is apparent that the study of personality is outside the domain of material science even if the former would do well to incorporate insights from the latter, but it is to such an informed mind sensitive to the immeasurable value of 'personhood' who nonetheless sets out to more meaningfully understand the wondrous nature of personality that is to be commended if not explicitly encouraged.

Toward this end, it is incumbent upon anyone undertaking the exploration of knowledge let alone the pursuit of wisdom, to recognize with gratitude the efforts of our fellows who preceded us in this same capacity. It is always from their terminus that we take up our point of departure. The history of science surely would be far from adequate if we were to overlook the discipline required to study stellar signatures and planetary motion sufficient to gain an understanding appreciation of the patterns of the night sky by those mortals first intrigued by the very possibility of their meaning. And while we would all be ill advised to rely upon the methods of our more 'primitive' forbears for gauging successful space probes, their related fascination with personality continues to this day albeit along different lines of inquiry. Indeed, the ancient typologies of personality first developed by these early star students are no less valuable to our long term appreciation of the evolutionary composition of knowledge than their cosmologies which when compared with our own today, show how inexorable is the imperative for us as a species to paint a mask of the universe made meaningful to our own milieu by virtue of the tools we use to render this picture, tools which by necessity must be contemporaneous with our culture.

I would venture that contemporary interest in astrology is less a lingering superstition than an indication of the limitations of existing 'national science foundation' priorities which show a disproportionate interest in military, industrial, and economic power more than insight into the meaning and value of personality relationships। This would account for the fact that the studies of the Greeks which led to the Enneagram and the modern studies of Carl Jung from which developed such tools as Myers-Briggs Assessment Scales are but a few of the limited vocabularies which augment an otherwise more ancient picture that is the mask of personality afforded by Astrology. Perhaps if our civilization would allow itself the liberty to take up the study of spirit with the same zeal with which it now probes the mystery of matter, we might develop more adequate vocabularies to describe and understand personality, even one which would do justice to a society not simply enamored with an indexed aggregation of factual information sponsored by 'corporate citizens', but alive with the personal pursuit of knowledge which freely embraces the wisdom of divine love.
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Now playing: Edward Elgar; Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending, Romance for Violin and Orchestra
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Singularity

2007-03-03T21:05:00.001-05:00

The single greatest force which governs the universe is also that which offers the most potent motive for action and those who know its source within them possess the means to change the world by allowing themselves to be transformed by its light within while they freely offer themselves in service to this family of God living in every generation, on every world, in every universe, and at every stage of ascension। This is the faith of our Father living in us, entrusting a part of himself to become an everlasting part of us in a partnership that is the dance of divinity attainment. Each step is a choice taken by the action of our minds working as one, affirming the value of this union in ourselves and others, and how happy we are to trust his skill, to feel the warmth of his affection infusing ours that we give freely to those we pass by.
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Now playing: Lassus/White/Massaino - Lectio Prima
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Becoming Real

2007-03-03T21:00:00.000-05:00

The transfer of identity from the temporal self of the human ego to the eternal status of spirit reality, the progressive exchange of our goal from time to eternity, from earth to Paradise, from the human to the divine discovered in the course of becoming a child of divine spirit।
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Now playing: Tim Farrell - Little Martha
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Ego

2007-03-03T20:54:00.000-05:00

Ego is a shadow cast by the relative degree
spirit has ascended in mastery of mind.
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Now playing: Stevin McNamara - Song of the Sun
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Fascism or Freedom

2007-03-03T20:51:00.000-05:00

Fascism is the 'id' of a political 'ego' present in any people resisting the efforts of the 'super ego' to expand the ideals of siblinghood beyond the boundaries of race, religion, and nation to embrace the invitation to citizenship in a larger cosmos. The lure of its dark cave is effective when fear for material security weighs more heavily in our choice than faith in the call to spiritual adventure.
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Now playing: The Hilliard Ensemble/Christopher Poppen/J. S. Bach - Ciaccona
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Universe Law

2007-03-03T20:34:00.000-05:00

We are allowed free will on our planet, but not in space। Some things that are planned by our government to forward space explorations are not allowed, especially the use of nuclear weaponry. As space consists of hydrogen, it would effect the entire Universe, but there is a free and safe energy available to everyone on our planet. It is well known by those in 'power' but curtailed because of greed and personal glory. Several of our older technologies have been advanced into our current time sequence that, if allowed, would create great catastrophes. Our scientists then are being advised by unseen friends as it is necessary for the survival of our planet. Meditate and send light over the entire planet while directing it as well to all dark forces and see the rise in consciousness. It is imminently necessary!

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Now playing: Johann Sebastian Bach - Choir: Et incarnatus est
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Our Family of Worlds

2007-03-03T20:27:00.000-05:00

As we are released as a planet from the conditions of cosmic isolation, many normal functions such as interplanetary communication will be reinstated, and even now the work is underway to establish these ties। Because of this world's isolation and the subsequent absence of a truly holistic spiritual teaching, that which is physical has been separated from that which is spiritual. Often the world is seen as a place to remove oneself from and the divine as a place to go to. In a normal arrangement of planetary events this is not the case. Visitors from other worlds and entities from higher dimensions are as much a part of the totality of the planetary experience of any creature. Efforts are being made to establish these conditions; not 'reestablish', for the functions of the spirit administration on this world fell apart before the initial establishment was set as far as the human beings on this world are concerned. We have not lost the 'good old days'; only now is this planet coming into these good days.
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Now playing: ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO, UN POCO MAESTOSO - Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125
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One & All

2007-03-03T20:16:00.000-05:00

When we become parent as well as child, we know through human experience how it is that devotion to all is not a distraction from the love of each। In the heart of loving parents these domains of the personal and social are one even as we are in the one who is both the source of our shared identity and destiny of every single personality.
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Now playing: Mark Turnbull - Parents/Children
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Logic & Love

2007-03-03T20:06:00.000-05:00

Any inclined to expect the melodious voice of divinity to fit neatly into the machine of human language would become as those finding contradiction to be the signal of logic's defeat rather than the step upon which we make our ascent in the discovery of greater knowledge।
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Now playing: Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV 122-2. Aria (B), O Menschen, Die Ihr Taglich Sich Sundigt
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Cosmic Tapestries

2007-03-03T19:55:00.000-05:00

Advancing evolution coupled with heightened spiritualization invites the reception of additional spiritual influences by maturing personalities, and happy are any to receive these friends in spirit with the same hospitality they would their dear fellows in the flesh. We can be confident that in the course of ascension, these many lines of spiritual circuitry will reveal ever more clearly the multiple means employed to weave the one true end that is love.
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Now playing: Enya - Pilgrim
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Legacy of Alienation

2007-03-03T19:44:00.000-05:00

As we ponder our current spate of national self assertion that follows closely upon the recent ascent of physical fitness in our culture to a state of high fashion sometimes parading with a panache of spirituality that popularizers of yoga have packaged, well tailored to American appetites for the visible and outward life, we might recall that in the late 19th century leaders of a new and seemingly robust version of Christianity abandoned the sentimentality and 'feminine' forms of Victorian religion for a new model that stressed action rather than reflection and aggression rather than gentility. Advocates of this more practical and 'muscular' Christianity promoted organized sports and outdoor activities building bodies to ostensibly evangelize and effect social reform.

Concurrent with this was the birth of eugenics as a tool of social reform which swept the best minds of leading countries in this world with enthusiasm over the prospects of a promised procession toward the progressive realization of an ideal society growing steadily upon our planet. This rising optimism coupled with a renewed vision of Christian spirituality led one highly trained philologist, writer, and acclaimed speaker to recognize in the Sermon on the Mount the simplest and greatest message ever given to mankind, especially Jesus' citation that 'blessed are they who suffer for the sake of justice, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven'.

He eventually wrote a book entitled Michael: A Novel which was so successful as to warrant seventeen editions from 1932 through 1945. In the book can be seen his idealistic view of Jesus' religion suffering under ecclesiastical domination and ossification, in desperate need of renewal and revitalization, liberated from the shop worn institutional shackles saying that "The various churches have failed. Completely. They are no longer in the front lines, they have long since retreated to the rear guard. From that position, their resentment terrorizes any formation of a new religious will. Millions of people are waiting for this new formation, and their yearnings remain unfulfilled." Such sentiments were expressed as an attempt to restore the living reality of religion and certainly not an attack upon it saying further that "today's youth is not against God only against his cowardly religious menials, who try to commercialize Him as they do everything else".

He was recognized as an eminently courageous and brilliant journalist, a successful orator who became eventually Minister of Propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, and on May 1, 1945 was the only one of the original Nazi leaders to remain with Hitler in the besieged bunker in Berlin. His name was (Paul) Joseph Goebbels.

As we proceed into the uncertainty of a new era characterized by emerging alliances in the labor of peace and justice, and perhaps find ourselves enthused with anything other than love and mercy as tools of liberation, let us pause and remember the well trodden path of so many seemingly inspired intentions on this planet which precede us as if to remind us always of the dangers of hubris which still echo from the legacy of alienation।
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Now playing: Richard Wagner - Die Walkuere: Der Ritt Der Walkuren
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Representation

2007-03-03T18:10:00.000-05:00

While it is evident that in an evolving civilization force may be required to compel compliance with the demands of justice, it is also clear that when police define what is justice rather than impartial courts entrusted to interpret these demands on behalf of all, then we have not a civilization, but a state of terror in which war is but a symptom। As a cosmic citizen, I condemn any government that would cancel deliberation by its elected officials, issue edicts of war to a representative forum of global citizens, presume then upon economic assistance from this forum to repair damages it would inflict, launch the charge of a 'crime against humanity' while refusing recognition of the only court capable of adjudicating the charge, then proceed to impose these benighted notions of freedom upon any who would rightly hold them in contempt. This constitutes the abuse of economic privilege which prostitutes liberty while indulging in license, and further makes use of the derivative products of power to attack its source that is the virtue of representative government.
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Now playing: Johann Sebastian Bach - Kyrie - Choir - Krie Eleison
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I AM

2007-03-03T18:01:00.001-05:00

I AM is the lightning who splits the deep darkness of night with the light of his word revealed, then rolling as thunder across the misty plains of human perception, shaking loose the rotten roots of fear, before unleashing his water of life upon all the worlds athirst for the truth, that we are his children. His love is the currency of the universe, and happy are they who spend it freely, knowing its source is in him who is, without beginning or end.
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Now playing: Enigma - The Voice of Enigma
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Personal & Planetary Sovereignty

2007-03-03T17:55:00.000-05:00

Evolving experience of friendship with God is the source of advancing stature in the discovery of cosmic citizenship, and progressing citizens of the cosmos know well there is not any thought, word, or deed which does not have its repercussions upon the body politic that is the gathering sovereignty of divine love. We rightly separate church and state, but we can never separate religion and politics as the former is the source of the latter even as our Father's love is the source of his law embodied in the governance of the Paradise Trinity. Whereas this union of the sovereign wills of our Father and his children is perfect in Paradise, it is self evident such union is only glimpsed imperfectly if at all in this mortal experience of time and space, but every decision affirming the value of faith over fear, love over hate, justice and peace instead of vengeance and terror, increasingly uncovers the dream of a more perfect union disclosed in the expanding circles of trust we draw upon the maps of any world, one which inevitably is but a measured reflection of our collective will to do the will of God.
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Now playing: Johann Sebastian Bach - Duet: Et in unum Dominum (sop/alto)
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Doubt

2007-03-03T17:51:00.001-05:00

Doubt is a match
striking a surface
to create sparks
lighting then the
fuel of faith.

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Now playing: Jeffrey Tate: English Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Symphony #13 In F, K 112 - 1. Allegro
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Experiment & Experience

2007-03-03T17:34:00.000-05:00

As there is no scientist worthy of the name who would accept the factual claims of any 'revelation' without having proven them first in the rigors of experimentation, likewise, religionists do well to affirm only the truth claims authenticated in their personal experience. The wisdom arising from the combined function of such experimentation and experiential discovery signifies an enlightened citizen of universe standing and an illumined child of the evolving God of Supremacy who has been unfettered from the restraints of human authority, unbound by the limits of mortal language, and liberated to express a love that is unspeakable.
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Now playing: Dennis Brain, horn; Herbert von Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra - Mozart : Horn Concerto No. 1 In D Major, K. 412 : II. Rondo : Allegro
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Text & Tone

2007-03-03T17:18:00.000-05:00

The genealogy of any text is a material point of departure in the science of mind whose sincere probe of origin eventually encounters the religion of spirit, even that spirit dwelling within seeking to become one with us in the adventure of truth discovery whose harmonics are the sounds of our soul.
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Now playing: Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings, Op.11
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Union

2007-03-03T17:10:00.000-05:00

We come together by the gravity of our spiritual ideals whose source is love, but we come apart when attempting to define this union on the basis of psychological opinions and theological beliefs.
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Now playing: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin); Sérgio & Odair Assad (guitars) - Istanbul: Awakening And Turkish Dance
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Love

2007-03-03T16:59:00.000-05:00

As we mature in life, as we move from mortal understanding to greater spiritual insight, we learn that the word love denotes a greater and expanding reality approaching cosmic manifestation. Indeed, we are beginning to understand that love is more a matter of the will than it is a matter of feelings. It is possible for us to choose to love. Our mortal flesh follows suit then with feelings that we would ordinarily call affection.

Love is an attitude, an intention of service toward our brothers and sisters. Love is the desire to do good to others, and when it is wholly sincere, it will result in actions. If love was based upon feelings, it would be limited only to those with whom we are comfortable. When our Master entreated us to love our enemies, he transcended the realm of feeling in terms of a door of entrance. If we are commanded to love our enemies and love were based upon our feelings, this would be absurd and impossible, but we are indeed enjoined to love our enemies, therefore logically and truly, this love is not ultimately or even initially a matter of warm, fuzzy feelings. To love our enemies is to be God-like and to recognize that the status of 'enemy' is in large part a category of perception. When we love an 'enemy', we think to ourselves, what good could I desire for this other person? What could I pray for, wish for, and even possibly help effect that would be in the best interest of this, my 'enemy'? To love another then is a matter of intention, a matter of attitude.

Love takes no account of worthiness before the bar of judgmental human nature. Love is patient and kind. It is not paranoid. It does not imagine evil about other people but always expects the best, and as has been so beautifully stated, love never fails. Love is the attitude of God. It is the essence of God's nature. It was out of God's loving heart that he decided to create the worlds of time and space because he desired to share his nature, his existence, his joy, with other personalities. Love begets love. It creates new opportunities. Love rejoices in diversity and in the expansion of reality. Love is never self-centered, never scraping, stingy, rude or abrupt. Love expands to embrace all others, therefore love is the greatest thing, the greatest reality in the universe.

Knowledge is constantly expanding, and that which is superseded falls away like scaffolding। Our expectations for the future are imperfect and will be fulfilled in ways greater than we can imagine, but love remains the staple, the foundation, the quest, and the eternal prize.
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Now playing: Manuel Barrueco - Odeon
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Soul Music

2007-03-03T16:31:00.000-05:00

In truth each of us are as Aeolian harps yet fully sentient and peripatetic, whose living strings in need of regular attunement are secured firmly between our mind and spirit yielding then a unique song whose title is our name on high and plays only as we expose ourselves to the winds of this evolving mortal experience, crossing in and through us often in perplexing patterns; these organic strands, sustaining sometimes discordant force, result in symmetries of sound summoned from within us, always beautiful even if dissonant, for whether in dissonance or harmony, we are composed by the Master of music, even the Father of souls guiding us to our destiny where Supremacy's song will be sought in distant realms of outer space but found only in us, the graduates of time we are becoming.
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Now playing: Herbert Von Karajan: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - An der schönen, blauen Donau, op. 314
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The Womb

2007-03-03T16:28:00.000-05:00

Great joy is found witnessing the ways we explore exterior differences, tugging as unborn infants bound together in this mortal womb, kicking and pushing against the elasticity of the shared skin we wear while discovering in amazement that deepest source of being which is the same divinity within us all! Here, if we listen, is heard the heartbeat of our Mother propelling her body's nutrients throughout our yet emergent forms of cosmic substance where every pulse of her heart moves in synchrony with the song of our Father's beloved breath.
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Now playing: Bortniansky (Dimitri) (1751-1825) - Let My Prayer Arise
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Mysticism

2007-03-03T16:12:00.000-05:00

Mysticism is the last stand of ideologic inflexibility whereas revelation is the ever expanding boundary of progressive circles in cosmic socialization.
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Now playing: Constance Demby - Part One
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Phenome

2007-03-03T16:09:00.000-05:00

The phenomena we observe in fact is but a veil crumbling before the noumena we are in truth. The mirror of mind reflects the former while the latter looks through it.
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Now playing: The Moody Blues - Eyes Of A Child I
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Meaning

2007-03-03T16:01:00.000-05:00

Meaning is the pattern of thought woven in the mind over the course of life as it labors to plant the values of spirit in the soil of any planetary existence.

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Now playing: The Moody Blues - The Best Way To Travel
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Race & Religion

2007-03-03T15:54:00.000-05:00

Racism worships the skin we inhabit by chance,
religion the spirit we embrace by choice.
The former is slavery which cries for freedom,
the latter a liberty which delights in limits.

One makes claim of the body as who we are,
the other speaks of the soul we are becoming.
Eternal light breaks itself into the colors of time
only to become rebound as artistry sublime.
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Now playing: Dawn Upshaw - Bach: Cantata BWV 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, Recitativo
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Politics of Spirit

2007-03-03T01:08:00.000-05:00

Politics is a fine art demonstrated in advancing worlds where the capacity to adjust gracefully to one another is seen as an outward expression of our shared attunement to God within. This applies to every arena from the most intimate exchanges of life partners to the far flung networks of planetary and cosmic systems. Indeed, 'governments' are but representative mechanisms fostering the soul as it unfolds in its many dimensions.
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Now playing: Theatre Of Voices, The Pro Arte Singers - Berliner Messe - Zweiter Alleluiavers
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Spirit Fragment

2007-03-03T01:06:00.000-05:00

The divine spark glows so beautifully beneath the focus of our conscious appraisals, enfolded with rich images, though perhaps dimly viewed at first that we may embellish with the aid of imagination; then infused by its own subtle influence until that moment the wall of dark silence is breached in tender acceptance of first exposure; finally embracing each other as friends who have reached across the distance long studied and dispersed in the light of love affirmed forever, in this moment.
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Now playing: LeAnn Rimes - The Light In Your Eyes
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First Source

2007-03-03T00:51:00.000-05:00

While we experience the vicissitudes of human love, the Source of love divine lives and moves amongst us weaving his way through our patterns of resistance as water among the rocks in a flowing stream whispering ever so quietly and with a gentleness often lost beneath the crashing sound of our mounting waves asking each of us, will you show my love, will you re-present me to your fellows and give yourself the unspeakable joy of feeling me living in and through you, each and all; and drop the weight of your material concerns to rise within and upon the fluid I am and flow with me? Regardless, until then, I will wrap you in the cool refreshment of my love and gently stroke your injured feelings, these striking marks of time etched upon your hard shells I will smooth, and in time, if you allow, I will wear away the weight you hold fast, and then we will run as one.
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Now playing: Hal Bynum - I Wanta Be
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School of the Heavens

2007-03-03T00:36:00.000-05:00

The realm of heaven is the school whose day is composed of three periods; home, work, and rest। In all these periods are taught three courses; facts, meanings, and values, and between each period, ample time is provided for play while on the playground are found three spheres that correspond to the courses studied. One is large and heavy and always moves in a linear fashion. The second is larger still than the first, but ever so light, and moves in an unpredictable and surprising manner while the third is truly glorious, of varying sizes and shapes. It swirls with eddies of ever-changing colors and can be touched only with the breath. Some children are drawn to one of these more than the others, but all play with each at different times. While the object of the school is unwritten, it is rumored to be the growth of affection which emerges only as the children come to know each other better than they do their lessons.
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Now playing: Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel - Acoustic Garden
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Fact & Value

2007-03-02T23:50:00.000-05:00

Is it a great knowledge whose survey of fact extends from the deepest particle of matter to the borders of a universe of universes? Or, is it a greater knowledge which penetrates the depth of a single human heart and there discovers the meaning of friendship? Still, is it not the greatest knowledge which feels the value of divine love holding in perfect poise the personal and the mechanical? However, does not wisdom bind these mere forms of knowing together with the ease of a Mother gathering her children to greet the return of their Father from a long journey? And the song she sings as she runs to greet him, is it not the literature of all the ages? Who then is her lover, friend and husband; is it not Philosophy?
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Now playing: Loreena McKennitt - Full Circle
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Indeterminance

2007-03-02T22:58:00.000-05:00

Would we imagine rules to guard against the unexpected and mysterious, and in doing so, preempt the beauty and majesty of an unexpected gift to secure the mere prose of a well measured fact? Would the warm, uneven, and scarred flesh of a hand extended in the risk of uninsured friendship, so rich in an honesty forged in the rigors of a molten earth be spurned in favor of a machine, polished and cool, given not in unstudied passion, but with an assurance of exemption from injury, sealed forever against the pain which prefigures the movement of our redemption? Are we not children of an evolving God whose sovereignty of love only grows in, upon, and through the rubble of our uncertainty?

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Now playing: Sequentia - Dejosta'ls Breus Jorns E'ls Loncs Sers
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Vision of Grandeur

2007-03-02T18:50:00.001-05:00

All that we see around us
is but the scaffolding to build
the soul we cannot see within us.
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Now playing: Constance Demby - Part Two
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Knowing & Believing

2007-03-02T16:36:00.000-05:00

As the human mind is always in a position of knowing less than it can believe, it is clear that this stimulating dynamic is problematic. However, the problematic need not be destructive but can instead serve as a creative source of playful liberation if we keep in "mind" the difference between the realms of faith, belief, and fact.

The realm of faith is where we experience the greatest liberty of movement as here the imaginings of the heart can mix at ease with the prompting of spirit. Eventually though, our experience of value must impinge upon the realm of fact, and as it does, the prerogatives of mind asserts itself. The resulting intellectual labor is the source of human philosophy and never ceases to require adjustment consonant with the changes in perception of spirit and knowledge of matter. Successful coordination can yield meaningful patterns of great beauty as "systems" of knowledge take shape, but these are constructed slowly and with due respect for the relative densities of the various components, namely, spiritual faith, intellectual meaning, and material fact.

Consider the snow as it falls from the sky like spiritual grace descending upon our world. Its beauty is like that of faith, causing us to lift our view aloft in amazement where we all partake of the wonders of this gift. As it falls to the ground and accumulates, it begins to take on a shape of meaningful proportion conforming to the ground upon which we stand. At this point our minds begin to measure the opportunities and risks of this gift relative to the density with which it cloaks us. Its heavy silence is both blessing and curse. We therefore use discretion and caution when proceeding at this stage. Afterwards though, when we have spent ourselves laboring in this substance, a certain hardness begins to take shape, its density increases under our steady pressure. Just like hard facts, great forms are assembled, figures which delight as well as forts behind which we hide.

Many of us are familiar with the the joy of lifting our gaze to greet the falling snowflake, how gently it alights and kisses our face. And again, how it feels to bury ourselves in the deep, heavy snow, cold and quiet allowing for much reflection. Even the snowball thrown in friendly jest can be fun, but when hardened with malice and thrown with intent to harm, can be a source of danger and discouragement. So our facts, constructed with much labor, when meaningfully shaped with the substance of our faith, can be a harmful weapon as well as a source of deepening friendship. The choice is ours, but even with good will, we can make mistakes.

How many times have we hurt a friend by not appreciating the force of all the accumulated gifts of grace shaped with our good intentions, packed into a hard fact and thrown according to the rules of play? However, we are but children gathering experience along the way.

Forgiveness is paramount!
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Now playing: Kyung-Wha Chung - Bruch VnC No. 1 in G minor, op 26 - 1. Introduction - Allegro Moderato
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Questions of Being

2007-03-02T15:46:00.000-05:00

Are we not fortunate to be in this moment? But then, is this not true of all Father's children who savor the present feast set before them? Can we fully drink the cup of experience given to us and realize the gift we then bring to our Creator, this gift of harvest from the realm of time? How many times do mortal children tell their parents that they wish they were older to partake of the benefits of increased age and maturity only to greet an understanding smile born of the knowledge that such time comes only too soon, indeed, that when the desired moment comes the benefit sought no longer suffices as the hunger for a larger one has replaced it?

Are there not many who seek first the lesser things of heaven and fall short even of these, while those who seek only the greatest are given not only the treasure, but all other things as well? What then is the highest reality we can obtain, and how do we serve it? If we embrace a 'revelation', but do not become ourselves the truth revealed, what has been accomplished? If we entertain angels and other supernal beings, but do not become a fountain of light, then what is served? Do we command knowledge of history from the beginnings of time to the boundaries of its exhaustion yet know not the experience of bestowing a divine affection upon even one of our fellows who has given offense?

How do we measure our progress in this experience of light? Is it seen in the mirror of wealth or fame? Or do we look at our proximity to those figures carved upon the august halls of hallowed study? Or perhaps to the circles of those celebrated as 'leaders' of any kind? Instead, is it not hidden within us at a depth so great as to evade our circumspection?

Can we compare our experience of Father's affection with another's if each of us are loved as if we were the only creature in all creation? Does not the loving parent seek more diligently to communicate affection to the child who for the moment feels a greater distance? So whether in distance or nearness, darkness or light, are we not adored with a love so great as to move all creation into its service?
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Now playing: Eugen M. Dombois - Fantasia in C Major
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Friendship

2007-03-02T15:31:00.000-05:00

When we greet one another, affirming the value of another, giving that person our attention, our admiration, our respect, the ear of our heart, we invite the gift of heaven, we allow the infusion of love, and where this occurs is truly holy ground; as we share ourself, the truth of who we are with another.

There is sometimes a tendency for us mortals to want a solution to our world’s problems, a program, an agenda, a revelation, a religion, some sort of state, some apparatus that will address these problems and solve our dilemma. This is wishful thinking, and it may lead to truthful thinking for in truth it is in and upon and through our willingness to engage ourself in this movement of divine love, sharing it with others with respect for who they are even as we discover more of who we are; it is this process, this action where our Father becomes active, and his action is that influence that is changing our world, gradually eroding the grip of fear yielding to the relaxation within that state otherwise sought but now found in love. Yes, it is the state of love that we would establish, and how else can love grow, assume its place filling those voids in your heart, in your lives than in and through friendship.

In this state, the means that is the empty channel, the riverbed becomes the river। We delight in its movement, we marvel in its beauty, we play in its substance, we recreate in this endeavor and rediscover the truth of who we are, beloved children, cherished friends, fellows in this journey of the liberation of our souls in faith breaking the boundaries of fear. How often do we run past this treasure, running after the illusion that another may offer this same gift? How often do we cherish the bed in which it flows more than the water itself? Remember our joy entering its depths, feeling its support, the gift of its movement, gentle but strong, steady. We who would traverse this world to another, the many worlds which beckon, would do so only by entering this moving stream of friendship.
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Now playing: Anne Dudley - Moments In Love
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The Campaign - Within

2007-03-02T00:59:00.000-05:00

Is it not a sign of error when conceptual forms presuppose an absence of color in deference to a two-tone world of black and white, and so, we are always advised to focus upon the real so as to magnify it than upon the 'unreal' in the unnecessary attempt to diminish it. What has touched human hands is never perfect, nonetheless Father touches the human mind and remains unchanged, altogether infallible.

The admixture of our humanity and indwelling divinity is a function of movement we know in time proceeding in space and conditioned by many factors, but largely a function of our mortal choosing. We are assured success if only we do not actively resist the work of our indwelling spirit. In this we are given great latitude for our personal exploration, but we can appreciate the wisdom of discounting the products of our thinking against their potential over valuation relative to the measure of spirit content. Each must sort this themselves and do well to follow the prudent admonition of the Urantia text given our world’s familiarity with the propensity to speak of what ignorance desires more than the unspeakable knowledge wisdom gently enfolds.

As faith children of our Father, we know the factual nature of his presence within us whether we are aware of it or not and that his spirit communicates with our mind without ceasing even if for the most part this occurs outside the range of our conscious perception. We do well to invest labor in changing our minds by paying attention to our thought for we know when we are filled with fear, anger, hate, intolerance, hostility, vengeance, and any number of other mental poisons that are perfectly normal for animal minds, but in us becomes subject to the review and revision of our evolving consciousness aided and nurtured by the presence of our Father himself who shares in this experience occurring within the arena of mind given to us by our Mother. This is our work and is not the arbitrary effect of the indwelling spirit even if we can by our efforts provide a hospitable home sensitive to and appreciative of the divinity with whom we would delight not only to visit, but live forever.

Of course, the real leverage we provide him to assist in this labor of spiritualizing our thought is our persistent choice affirming the mandate to proceed ever further in our union. In so many ways, it is like a campaign to ratify an important amendment to our constitution and because of the binding nature of this proposed structural change in our very being, this election proceeds from state to state until we have gained the goal of unanimity.

When there exists no territory of the human mind yet to affirm solidarity with the divine identity we are given to consider as ours, that is destined to become such in our fusion, where the boundaries separating humanity and divinity are forever liquefied by the combined force of our mutual choices made over and over as if striking many sparks to light a fire with a single flint, requiring much patience and skill until the tiniest flame grows into a great fire capable of melting and mixing two very different metals, now however forming an alloy exhibiting attributes not found previously in their sources, and thus revealing the wonder of Supremacy which we are destined to give to others yet unborn in the realms of outer space।
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Divine Guidance

2007-03-01T23:12:00.000-05:00

When sharing ourselves, our thoughts, impressions, opinions, and sincere questions, we give one another the treasures of trust with which our Father works offering in exchange his own divine response that always exceeds our hopes and stretches the bounds of our imagination in which we discover ourselves pregnant with the possibilities of his eternal conception.

Divine guidance, while uniform, is infinitely adaptable and therefore applicable to whom it is directed even if in potential this could include all, but due to varying circumstances of evolution, stages of ascension, and local conventions, any 'message' is always subject to the conditions which qualify its reception. Therefore we discern our Father's wisdom in supplying many to work with widely differing forms of expression, each speaking within their constituency of identification. Hence, sometimes what is anathema to some is inspiration to others, but this is true only when observing the form rather than the substance communicated, for this content which is his love always transcends the language or form of its expression whether through the sounds of pentecostal Christianity or the silence of Zen Buddhism, or any other variations of the historic forms operating on our planet. There are however, forms emerging that embody our future more than suffusing memories of the past.

This relationship between our progress and past is balanced in relative perfection by the Master Seraphim assigned to this function। Regardless, the objective is to nurture trust in the guidance of our Father within recognizing that it is from his hand that the lines of our lives are written in our hearts leading us to perfect-ing service in the evolving stages of Deity expansion.
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