Saturday Stories
August 1 Edition
You Are God
March 22, 2015, Sunday
I just finished reading Robert Heinlein's immortal classic
Stranger In A Strange Land. I have "grokked" its fullness, as the
hero Valentine Michael Smith would say.
I now understand why it has touched
and inspired a generation when it came out in the 60s first as a cult classic,
then a bestseller, then a masterpiece, and now the most famous science fiction
novel of all time. Heinlein is really an incredibly brilliant writer and a
master story teller.
I have read more than a thousand
books in my lifetime of more than a quarter of a century, and the ending as The
Man From Mars faces the humans is perhaps the most emotionally powerful thing I
have ever come across.
Infinitely more important of all, I
now understand why I found a rare copy only the other day: I'm ready for the
deep message because the "timing is full." Michael shares the
ultimate lesson I have learned in my own spiritual journey.
"Thou art God."
Huggybear's Journals
January 21, 2015, Wednesday
I was in the gym this morning with Oleanna. The TV is on
Crime + Investigation channel with a documentary about a man in Great Falls,
Montana who claimed to have heard voices that drove him to
kill.
"The only difference between
him and us," I told her, "is that he can hear them." We are surrounded by nonphysical
entities. What prevents us from fully understanding another dimension of
reality is our human tendency to judge everything. We use words like
"evil" and "psychotic" as our way of trying to get a define
a phenomena that defies our finite minds.
Charles Xavier
5 comments:
"I’m on Xavier’s side unreservedly. If I were a mutant, which some people think so, I would use my powers for the benefit of mankind. After all, I grew up with those Saturday morning cartoons with The Superfriends and Space Ghost. It’s the least I could do as a superhero." ~ Can You Embrace The Unknown?
"What I see is so much more than I can say..." ~ Electric Light Orchestra, Midnight Blue
"If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
"I was shocked. I found myself mourning." ~ The Death of Superman
We are surrounded by nonphysical entities...
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