After a (necessary) period of great confusion and reductionist perspective, I've come back around to the supra-natural. I believe everything is magic, in a sense; we just lose our ability to see it as such because of hedonic adaptation. There is a "spiritual" part of being alive that I think soon even the most burned skeptic will be able to accept and relax about. Exploitative charismatics and exclusivist religions have almost ruined such ideas for regular folks, but it's time to take them back.
The spiritual part of being alive involves connections between living things, dreams, and life energy. There is a powerful web of love we're all woven into. The scientific phrasing is "the physics of subatomic particles in communication with each other." We didn't even know about subatomic particles when I was a kid, and now we're well on our way to explaining the "how" behind things like:
- my friend Megan dreaming in college that she was with her parents running away from a swelling ocean, the night before the tsunami hit half a world away.
- my sister's friend who wakes up crying, knowing lots of humans are about to die somewhere, before tragedies like 9/11 and earthquakes.
- how I frequently think of my heart friend Jenny 30 to 180 seconds before she calls me, no matter the time of day or night.
- my great-grandma knowing her previously-healthy son had died before her other children came to tell her.
(from Rupert Sheldrake:)
- a British woman's cat who always knew when her son was coming home on leave from the military, despite him never telling her ahead of time. The cat would go to the door and meow a few hours before his arrival, and his mom began to depend on it for her cue to start getting his room ready and cooking his meal. This behavior is shown by thousands of household animals.
- a British mentally-disabled blind boy who dumbfounded his opthamologist by being able to read - but only when his mother was looking at the letters.
(the power of sonic resonance:)
- why bacteria grows faster when a lab plays Mozart
- how Tibetans can have success using harmonic bowls for healing with sound
How to stay tuned to these realities? Read good spiritual books, take ten minutes of your day to be still and quiet, get out in nature, pay attention to your dreams. Pretty simple stuff that humans have done throughout most of history.
With dreams - yes, many are a kind of garbage disposal for your daily life events, but according to shamans in many different cultures, "Big Dreams" are ones with strong color or strong emotion (especially emotions that stay with you upon waking). Those are the ones to trust, and make decisions based on.
The spiritual part of being alive involves connections between living things, dreams, and life energy. There is a powerful web of love we're all woven into. The scientific phrasing is "the physics of subatomic particles in communication with each other." We didn't even know about subatomic particles when I was a kid, and now we're well on our way to explaining the "how" behind things like:
- my friend Megan dreaming in college that she was with her parents running away from a swelling ocean, the night before the tsunami hit half a world away.
- my sister's friend who wakes up crying, knowing lots of humans are about to die somewhere, before tragedies like 9/11 and earthquakes.
- how I frequently think of my heart friend Jenny 30 to 180 seconds before she calls me, no matter the time of day or night.
- my great-grandma knowing her previously-healthy son had died before her other children came to tell her.
(from Rupert Sheldrake:)
- a British woman's cat who always knew when her son was coming home on leave from the military, despite him never telling her ahead of time. The cat would go to the door and meow a few hours before his arrival, and his mom began to depend on it for her cue to start getting his room ready and cooking his meal. This behavior is shown by thousands of household animals.
- a British mentally-disabled blind boy who dumbfounded his opthamologist by being able to read - but only when his mother was looking at the letters.
(the power of sonic resonance:)
- why bacteria grows faster when a lab plays Mozart
- how Tibetans can have success using harmonic bowls for healing with sound
How to stay tuned to these realities? Read good spiritual books, take ten minutes of your day to be still and quiet, get out in nature, pay attention to your dreams. Pretty simple stuff that humans have done throughout most of history.
With dreams - yes, many are a kind of garbage disposal for your daily life events, but according to shamans in many different cultures, "Big Dreams" are ones with strong color or strong emotion (especially emotions that stay with you upon waking). Those are the ones to trust, and make decisions based on.
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