April 2, 2006 We are Staying Awake to our intentions, sensibilities and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand. Your Subscription Management — Commentaries — click a topic Boggling Ideas On Our Breathing Globe I bring together fun-loving, thoughtfully curious and dynamically creative people! That’s the possibility I bring to clients’ businesses. ~ DM I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition are one. ~ Albert Einstein (b 1879) A friend allowed me to add his childhood memory for this ezine... Growing up out in the country, we had a well that supplied all of our water. It was great. Then about 1965 or so we started hearing warnings about not drinking same. Seems farmers were over-fertilizing, and the excess worked it's way thru the soil. So we eventually tied into the municipal water system. It didn't taste nearly as good, but maybe it was better for us.... who knows? There were a few times when (for various reasons) we supplied water from that well to many of our neighbors... maybe our well was deeper. They all knew where the faucet was and a hose was left out that reached to the road. That well is still there and continues to supply as needed. Cosmology One of the three philosophies in metaphysics is cosmology: The study of the origin and evolution of Universe, especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and choice. My Coaching Page Focused Excellence author, publisher, & originator of this ezine, Staying Awake. DavidMoorhead.com 1+ 214 341 5599 Email Staying Awake The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one. ~ The Upanishads, part of the Hindu Shruti scriptures from which meditation and philosophy are seen as religious instructions Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. ... The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations. ~ Isaac Newton (b 1642 ), an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist and philosopher associated with the 17th century scientific revolution No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. ~ Martha Graham (b 1894), American dancer, choreographer, a modern dance pioneer I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. ~ Audre Lorde (b 1934), Columbia University and Hunter College, Thomas Hunter Chair of Literature, New York State's Poet Laureate, co-founder Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~ Charles A. Beard (b 1874), influential American historian in early 20th century (*) But the price has been the loss of our humanity and a growing threat to the biosphere that supports all life. Now we are restless. The system does not deliver what we want anymore. It just consumes more of our energy. We don’t know what is wrong but we know that something has been broken. ~ Robert Paterson (A copy of the entire Going Home manifesto can be found in pdf format on the Treasure page of my web site under ‘On the Edge of the New.’) Oh, man! There is no planet, sun, or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (b 1803), an American essayist, thinker and writer (**) From earliest civilizations to the present, religions’ alchemies and eschatologies have subjugated thousands of years of taxpaying Earthlings. So goes my mantra that any illusion possible exists, somewhere. ~ DM © 2004-2006 All rights in all media reserved. You may quote my words as long as you attribute my name. Staying Awake content may be forwarded in full without special permission for nonprofit purposes only, provided full attribution and copyright notice are given. Thank You. Staying Awake Archive and publication dates. My email database will not be given away, borrowed nor sold. This ezine is distributed by our friends at EZezine.com Our constant curiosity is key to watching what’s being created. ~ DM

Good Day!

There are likely more humans than ever before living and observing their lives simultaneously with lives of others around the globe. How very much alike are we global sisters and brothers. We were born to live together in these times!

I finally went and did it. I leaped into the ocean of blogs, and have begun developing a blog for Staying Awake. The truth is a coach friend asked me to help set up and customize her blog, and that was all the commitment I needed to get going. I’ll let you know when the Staying Awake blog is all dressed up for its premier!

If you’re unfamiliar with blogs, Wikipedia.org (encyclopedia) has good definitions and a glossary.

Originally, this thought-provoking ezine was excessively long, so I’m saving the third section for the next ezine. This newsletter isn’t about presenting solutions; it’s about practicing the impossibility of imagining too wildly!

Boggling Ideas

Most of us are hardly able to comprehend the universe, much less the cosmos. What boggling ideas will we look at today? One would be to glimpse for even one moment that everything in our universe, all galaxies, and our sun collaborate – nothing in or on Planet Earth is created by itself, alone.

A part of my personal cosmology is this. Our challenge is to reinvent the human species – the whole ball of wax, no matter how long it takes – for mutually enhancing relationships with all living creatures, not just between humans, but for support and certain unity for all living beings on Planet Earth.

There are as many catalysts for bringing people together for imagining reinventions of relationships as there are the nearly imaginable possibilities of new relations. When considering alternatives, addictions to western religion and money are two catalysts with which to start.

With those two catalysts in mind, another boggling challenge would be to negate other addictions that were installed not just during the 20th century but as early as 6,500 years ago in Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations. We should not wonder any more how history repeated itself. Religion, finance, and subjugations of females and children have been some addictive tools managing civilizations through their rises and declines.

I wish it weren’t true, but what was once well-ordered has its time of decay. Those who’ve chosen to acknowledge Earth’s Grand Phase Change note that humans weren’t around when the most recent of four previous phase changes occurred some 65 million years ago, resulting in extinctions of species.

Absorbed in blazes of commerce,
Awakened by instants of truth
Descending surely and loudly upon us
As whispers in falling snowflakes.

The Grand Phase Change is the sun’s changing relationship with Earth accompanied by humans’ intuitive interactions in the process. Earthlings as a whole don’t yet sense our species is part of the intimate changes unfurling, since political distractions and socioreligious addictions have become well blended and fortified by current media stories projecting angst and fluff.

In moments of grieving losses during these days of rapidly driven international changes, I feel I’m being birthed again with fewer illusions. Thank goodness for the image of the purplish-red, mythical Phoenix bird rising new life from ashes.

A challenge would be to relate to ourselves and those we’ve chosen to surround us as Phoenixes rising in renewed passion for our mission at hand! ‘Everything is possible’ hasn’t exactly been part of our training; neither have the ideas that Universe is compassionate and caring while natural extinctions of stars occur by exquisite explosions in the Milky Way galaxy. Powerful episodes within the physical universe affect our sun, which impacts Earthlings. Those are a few of the boggling ideas that create the perfect place to be — in the unknown.

On Our Breathing Globe

As I read about humans’ behaviors (which apparently haven’t changed much from millennia to millennia), I’m fascinated with us Earthlings who’ve allowed ourselves to get advertised, alphabetized, analyzed, annalized, annualized, anthologized, amortized, authorized, acclimatized, allergized, alchemized, anglicized, astrologized, androgenized, armorized, and that’s just some of the ‘A’s. Is there any wonder we wonder which way is up on our breathing globe?

Since World War II ended 61 years ago, Earthlings (U.S. residents in particular) have used Earth as a kind of storehouse. Dandy inventions and products have been manufactured while others of us have been anesthetized by worshipping the golden calf of layaway plans and revolving charge accounts finessed into today’s banking systems. Many of the resources necessary for productions of stuff we take for granted have come from Earth’s natural provisions.

Some dandy handiworks we mistakenly called ‘disposable products’ are showing up in ways that are distasteful. Areas in which trash has been buried, into holes dug deep and close enough to aquifers, have oozed toxins into water reserves over the years. When we investigate, we discover geological reports estimate 100,000 years for Earth to purify its aquifers; that is, if we invent ways of getting along with fewer brand named handies.

Our Earth and physical universe are not mechanical worlds unto themselves; they cannot help but be conscious collaborators with creations, i.e., Earthlings. That thought is opposite of how we’ve been trained.

It was a hundred years ago that Henry Ford took the Newtonian idea of a machine-like construction of the universe and made it manifest on Earth. … This mechanical model of separation has us gripped so totally that we don’t even know that we live in a kind of Matrix — straight out of the movie. For most of the last century the success of the Ford model of mechanical relationships worked. The model delivered a massive increase in overall well-being in a material way. We no longer experience this model as anything other than normal. (*)
~ Robert Paterson, principal of Renewal Consulting Group, Prince Edward Island, graduate Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford; from Going Home, a manifesto

We’ve been distracted, oh so distracted from remembering our global village is an immense, creative, conscious organism. Whether later than sooner, human perception will have awakened to possibilities that Universe may be pressing itself into being acknowledged by its own creations. Now, that’s one heck of a compassionate cosmology — Universe is in love with its creations, and it plays ‘for keeps’, too! That model is growing in acceptance in some stunned scientists’ circles, and the idea is interpreted out of the elegance of mathematics.

The idea that Universe is pressing in upon Earthlings suggests the one model of dualism, good vs. evil, which has systemically oppressed humans for thousands of years.

If we feel Universe is caring and tolerant, then we are right, and feel interconnected with it and nature. If we feel Universe is detached and mechanical, then we are right as well as playing into the illusive theological and financial gambles keeping Earthlings separated in every which way possible.

As best as they are able, the gamblers maintaining antiquity’s sanctified monetary illusions multiplied their games of separations in the 17th century.

Now that global civilizations’ populations have ballooned closer and closer, experimental gambles set into motion in smaller, isolated Western European communities over 300 years ago no longer work. What a web of confusion that’s been woven by us Earthlings who’ve accomplished the best we can with enforced beliefs eventually turned fallacious. (**)

Not to fear. Females are drawing near! As the pendulum swings, deployments of liberated feminine perspective will nurture balance for bereft Earthlings, negating the debilitating, disposable masculine memes and trainings by tossing residue where it belongs — into the safety of new garbage bins!

By the by in business as usual, in our comings and goings on our breathing globe, we fickle Earthlings still behave with our one magnificently vibrant characteristic: Gawking.

Gawk to your heart's content!
More about gawking next time.