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Good Day, Everyone!
Welcome to our newest subscribers! To those of you who are new readers, you might be surprised with the topics in Staying Awake. Frankly, I don’t even know what you and I will be reading until I begin typing! With the winds of change whirling around, I could change my mind about anything I’ve written after the ezine has been sent to you.
Perhaps, like you, I read and read some more, sometimes in the library; listen to radio interviews; view documentaries and lectures; read weblogs ad nauseam—all for seeking others’ stories for linking some dots of humans’ sensibilities and activities with science. Where would we be without our want for belonging, and feeling like we fit in?
Step up to the bar of belonging, and drink in a moment of gratitude. How does it feel? Have you words to describe feelings of gratitude? Is gratitude a sense of belonging; a sense of caring for all other life forms; a feeling of comfort; a sense of relief for having been acknowledged? All of the above and more?
Although there are so many variables, I personally believe sensing gratitude may help remind us to breathe deeply from time to time, to care for our physical bodies as best we are able, and help us stay consciousness thinkers staying awake to nudges.
“Surprise!” prompts can be audacious, thrusting into and interrupting our train of thought, often catching off guard our sensibilities. Other times we look back, recalling we sensed a quiet mental instant that directed us to move in one direction (although we may have chosen another).
Relinquish the Known
Why do you trust your nudges? Or, do you take them for granted, or overlook them? Maybe scoffing at intuitions would be an entrée for noticing why Earthlings would rather not relinquish the known of one’s comfort zone. It’s no surprise we feel challenged when the emotional protections we’ve wrapped around what we think we know for sure are disrupted or disparaged.
We Earthlings are hilarious! We want to think we’re in control of something or other; we’re continually assuming an air of creativity by making up resolutions. What exactly are we protecting in our (sometimes complicated) resolutions, or what exactly would we presume to lose if resolutions evaporated?
We muddle matters by trying to be fascinating and sophisticated while protecting our lifestyles, bank accounts, businesses, reputations, credentials; guarding myriad governmental and philosophical ideologies or religious superstitions. All of that’s pretty embarrassing when you think about it: Why do we go to all that emotional trouble of protecting ourselves from seeming dissonances of change?
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, fantasy novels, short stories, explores feminism, Tao, anarchy, psychological, sociological themes
Just taking the above quote straight on, it appears we’ve gone the opposite direction. Historically, Earthlings live in the shadows of previous cosmologies gorged with myths and empirical data to tell us who and where we are.
Most of us can’t even imagine not belonging in community, and living without knowing what comes next. After the most recent two million years of existence, why are Earthlings still seeking the sense of belonging; to feel better about ourselves; to better ourselves hoping to appear better to ourselves and others; or, to find out how we fit in with our global sisters and brothers?
If you have answers for those questions, let’s practice rigorously questioning everything we’ve thought we knew for sure until we intuit that out of all the delusions propping up the monetary commerces by which we relate to each other, free will and good will may be realized the most appealing. Then, we ask appealing to whom, and what are the advantages?
If you thought this section, Relinquish the Known, was meant to offer a quick fix, I remind my dear readers that feeling comfortable or well established always have been delusional. Staying Awake means interrupting the known in our comfort zones with observations, interpretations, and more questions.
Perhaps, like you, I’ve intuited for several years that our philosophical (religious) and political delusions, and scientific forecasts for the apparent magnetic alterations around Earth, will alter significantly throughout this decade and beyond. And, to repeatedly commercialize aggrandized resolutions for our future together, and how we’ll be pulled into that unknown, is hubris—the possibilities are still boggling.
Specks upon Specks
Quantum sciences suggest we can plan on expanding what we thought we knew for sure, likely preparing us for even more religious and political upsets in an already quickened consciousness. Judgments, opinions, and evaluations learned from our heritage are already fading into the wafer thin clouds of this windy decade.
When quantum physics is brought into the conversation about being human, we discover Earthlings are itty bitty specks; we are specks upon specks. Looking deeper, we are specks upon specks upon specks. Now here’s a thought: How magnificent can itty bitty specks be?
I’d say humans’ magnificence, as it’s been marketed for years, has become insouciant, insinuated out of neglected psychological repressions especially of women and children; none of us are magnificent until all Earthlings are unshackled.
Who We Are, Really
Is it so surprising that we might be better off if we listened to (politically disengaged) scientists and their examinations of who we are as a species, extremely fragile creatures that we are?
Something marvelous happened about four weeks ago. As you know, I have a big appetite for scientific information. So, I googled the keyword physicist, and “Surprise!” I found not just a few but 20 video interviews of various scientists who are also authors.
As more history, philosophy, and science deepen my personal cosmology, the more sense it makes to imagine that various eras of evolution birthed phases of our species in (infinitely) different magnetic energies than you and I were born into. Adding influences of geography into the mix, we cannot help but be innately different thinkers than previous Earthlings. Moreover, once presumed unchangeable universal laws are constantly changing, ever evolving energy shifts via the universe, our galaxy, and the sun.Visit meaningoflife.tv, and view videos of biologists, physicists, cosmologists, and theologians (with scientific backgrounds)—all fascinating.
How about this idea? Is our species, our collective physical bodies, a receptor of ever-changing energies as well as a channel through which Universe’s creativity evolves? Perhaps, our species is an information container for the entire history of our existence, and who knows what else. Now those are thoughts that I love!
I’m still finding it fascinating, and still gawking at, the seeming rise in human fear perpetrated at a time in which our sun has apparently entered an increased energy pattern in its bond with Earth. However, it’s entirely likely that, compared to previous citizenries’ boxing matches with their religious governments, we global citizenries are experiencing similar exacerbated bouts but stacked in shorter periods of time, this time around.
Familiarity with the Mayan energy calendar, composed some two millennia ago, refutes insinuated irrelevancies of early astrology and astronomy, as well as upgrades contexts of Mayans’ intuited perceptions of relations with the sun. (*)
Could it be the seemingly quickened global awareness is awakening who we are, right in front of our noses? Are we a species who’ve forgotten that we are trying to make sense of the ethics in what we call globalization? Are we trying as good citizenries to reliably produce within delusions meant as economically repressive and psychologically bullying, monotheistic dualisms?
A prime example of dualism, which religious bellwether leaderships worship enough to keep reminding us U.S. taxpaying hirelings, is the olden Persian myth of conquering evil with good. Umph! That’ll be the day. Maybe, our hierarchical governances might be reminded that many citizenries now ask, ‘Whose evil? Whose fear? Oh, and what is good, and what is ethical? For whom?’
As has been written elsewhere, everything possible is quickened while nothing is inevitable. We as a species are not discovering but remembering we do not know who we are, really.
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