May 28, 2006 We are Staying Awake to our intentions, sensibilities and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand. Your Subscription Management — Commentaries — click a topic Process in Grief a personal perspective A Divided Deity part one 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) Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~ Chinese Proverb Men argue. Nature acts. ~ François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (b 1694), French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist, philosopher There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. ~ Georges Braque (b 1882), French painter, sculptor, co-creator of cubism with Pablo Ruiz Picasso 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 Earthlings have made up illusions, then forgotten the illusions were made up. We have lived as if illusions are true. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (b 1830) penned the metaphor ‘unfurnished eye,’ and when I heard it, I instantly felt nudged to write... We Earthlings have nearly forgotten the profound astonishments of just being human, and of gawking at our intuitive senses. Over multiple millennia, too many males (and miniscule numbers of females) have coerced outrageous swindles to furnish blinders for others’ intuitive eyes. Good grief! Our species has been ambushed and turned upside down. We can’t see what’s in front of us; we don’t know where we’re at; we don’t know what we’re about; we don’t even know ‘who’ we are. Humans’ current cosmology isn’t a pretty picture, and indeed it is scientists who are revealing the truth for those who have eyes to see. Mathematical cosmologists view creation as one humongous extended energy event; and, they may be intuiting realities of our physical universe and planet by a clearly unfurnished eye. The evil that has not been pronounced strongly enough is the shunning, avoiding, and ignoring the future of all species and our planet, and of the beckoning functional cosmology radiating the magnificent mystery of Universe. Today, males’ only job is to initiate ourselves with radical humility, to remember our hearts’ intuitive ways, and embrace all species especially applauding the clean, unfurnished eye of females who nurture Earth, and their families and us! ~ DM Live in the cloud of all possibilities. Your inclinations and passions are present everywhere in particular. ~ DM Sheeple is a portmanteau made by combining two words, sheep and people; sheeple can infer herd mentality. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing he has the gods on his side. ~ Aristotle (b 384 BCE), Greek philosopher, student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli (b 1469), Florentine philosopher, studied the actual practices within government & politics, aided the realist political theory shaping behaviors of nations to one another through World War II The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~ Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (b 1929), American author, science fiction, short stories exploring Tao, anarchy, feminism, psychological and sociological themes © 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

Hello Everyone,

How we Earthlings got to where we are today could not be more fascinating! You’re probably staying awake to any good news and more frequently ambiguous predictions for many of our global sisters and brothers. I sincerely hope you’re in an emotional place of safety and sanity, where quiet gratefulness can be expressed by you and your family and friends and neighbors.

Most of you know I love science, and, as a reminder, some astronomers monitor Earth’s magnetic flux that indicates environmental transitions, mostly induced by the sun. The nearly unnoticed effects of the sun’s altered energetic patterns around and in Earth, which would occur whether or not humans were present, will become conspicuous. Not incidentally, we endearing Earthlings may be observing our garish naïveté evolve into an awakened awareness of cosmic kinship. Lest we’re distracted by gawking at current religious politics: No human nor collections of humans stops an astronomical transition accompanied by a consciousness burst in action!

Process in Grief
a personal perspective

My fascination for world circumstances comes out of being reared in a conservative, middle-class Christian household in the U.S. I studied the Bible beginning in my preteens, and was attracted by stories and poetry especially challenged with puzzles in prophecy. Little have I known until recent years how my biblical interests would play such a significant role as to propel a process in grief.

I wouldn’t experience such a flourishing personal cosmology if it hadn’t been for insightful musical coaches and professors, personal development and integral studies, which lead to deep interests in philosophy and psychology, and now global happenings.

Capturing other nations’ leaders, citizens, properties, and financial and natural resources by means of munitions machined by human beings (or computers) in the name of one’s deity, didn’t make sense in my youth, and still doesn’t. Moreover, my teenage years were spent quietly attempting to make sense of the divine deity that reportedly didn’t share a smiley face for people who were unfortunately unbelievers.

As I’ve educated and refined my cosmology since September 11, 2001, it appears my tendencies to sense and question dogmas’ subtle under tones, intended to induce and develop elaborate fear, have piqued.

By witnessing today’s world via Internet, we can discover the constant awakeness to juggling what and how we’ve learned with the evolving freedom to unfear ourselves by watching illusions tumble.

Because I’m wholly interested in the intelligence of the physical heart, and its natural collaboration with the brain, relying on the physical heart to move through these nearly confounding times has mellowed into quite a deeply touching process in grief.

A Divided Deity
part one

It can be difficult if not down right painful to address consequences of what a deity’s divided psyché may mean to Earthlings’ well being. A divided deity, that is, one that commends armed conflicts and simultaneously commends humans’ love for each other, is dualism at its finest.

Here are easy examples for staying awake to our collective behaviors that generate dualisms — addictive, misleading behaviors passed generation to generation — setting us up to feel justified on one hand and slimed on the other.

Have you noticed the feelings while lying to a business associate when you were trying to cover up something; perhaps, a truth better unspoken, you felt justified by remaining silent?

Have you noticed the feelings while being lied to by a spouse who attempted a cover up; perhaps, the spouse felt justified by not telling the whole truth?

Do you remember the feelings while lying to someone when your children were present, then tried to justify the falsity to the kiddos? What feelings are felt when your teenage child lies, or when lying to the child?

Have you noticed the feelings when a politician, a pundit, an economist, an image consultant, a bank loan officer, a preacher, or a salesman toss you some double-speak, or when a customer service representative insinuates an idea you intuit or already know to be baloney?

Let’s pretend that for each misrepresentation of a truth, the grand construct has been re-enforced. The grand construct is the webbed matrix of dualisms elegantly woven as lusciously as fine bed linen, wrapped around a boundless cage we can sense, and we can’t see, touch, hear, nor smell it.

More humans than not feel trapped inside the cagey matrix, tolerating it ad nauseam, believing a messianic event (described in the eschatologies of three monotheisms: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) will remedy the current swells of religious, economical, and political freakups. Meanwhile, until the one, two, or three of three messiahs reign (and, I wonder which messiah will arrive first), olden belief systems will continue generating the matrix. Earthlings’ tolerations drain emotional and physical and psychical energies, although we want to believe and tell others that we’re really feeling just fine.

On behalf of a divided deity that possesses a split psyché, traditional (western) religions’ stories and rituals are important threads to keep the shamed psyché in tact. Further, we’re well documented for shielding our uncomely behaviors and choices with forgiveness, also part of shaming belief systems. Many of us are now cognizant of the embedded matrix that has been guarded by intense combats subjugating women, children, and men throughout every civilization for religions’ political icons of greed and profit.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. ~ Mahandas K. Gandhi (b 1869), Hindu Prophet, Indian philosopher, primary political activist for total nonviolent withdrawal of British colonialism in the 20th Century