 |
|
Hello Everyone,
There’s just no telling what you’ll end up reading in Staying Awake. I mean, I am so awake from extra doses of reading, hence curiosity, the intuitive process is working over time. These are not the historical times to take a break, by any means, and I’m ever aware that all countries of the world might as well be one. We’re in this thing, together. I couldn’t be more grateful for research and the good health that allows it!
One way to experience these days of foreseen, coercive shifts of thought is to add to your projects list that which lures you. What lures you that you aren’t doing, or haven’t started? By chance, is there an artist inside you whom you’ve shushed? Maybe you’ve yet to start that work of art in writing, painting, drawing, or begun ballet, piano and singing lessons?
Those who befriend artists notice they can be clownishly quirky; awkward enough to occasionally bump into walls or stumble with panache; conversive, merely reserved, or loners, they contribute unexpected hilarity; are smart and quick minded, not sharing exactly the common points of view; when serious minded, they are likely more feelingly vulnerable.
Humans we call genius or eccentric are those who are truly creative, who do not intuit on a horizontal mode. In words of the musician Andres Segovia: Their lives are an ascending line along which none but they can travel.
Artistic creatives, whether studied performing artists or those studious in the silent arts like writing, painting or photography, can be deeply familiar with societal façades that repress simple potentials of anger. Considering anger feelings as one urgent motivation, some artists—more than others can possibly imagine—prefer conceiving illustrations of life’s horrific and beatific situations for decidedly self-important, sleepy amnesic humanoids.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him [and her]... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
~ Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker (Pearl S. Buck) (b 1892), writer, first American woman awarded Literature Nobel Prize 1938
Spotting the Next
I think Ms. Buck pretty well describes this pianist turned writer. Yet, I’m of the idea that many human creatures are born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive; negate their own sensibilities within repressed or superstitious cultures; are capable of spotting the next thing to create while unpracticed with putting together words that describe a muted desire to create.As an example of an artist’s vision, the ongoing Staying Awake ezine evolves, tethered by creative dissonance for exposing some negligible but steadfast beliefs. The study of cosmology can provide creative assumptions and questions, interrupting an obsolete, rapacious stream of consciousness without providing solutions.
As economic and physical survival become more apparent, constantly finagling mindsets to fit fixes for one challenge then into the next can be an exhaustive trap. How can we imagine using the same training and mindsets of today as the mindsets and language for spotting and exploring the next possibilities? Map your mind around this, and notice where the solutions are not…
This moment in Earthlings’ history is not the time for spotting the next resolutions until we become fascinated with the idea of extinction of the human species.
Until we’re studying and discussing sacrifices inherent in extinction, then the repackaged and retailed language of metaphysics and traditional worn out poetic religious sentimentality can only keep Earthlings unconscious and unhappy throughout the current species’ transformation. ~ DM
The moment science is assumed irrelevant to our lives and businesses, we can presume we’re lost. Did you just feel something after reading that last sentence? Some artists feel innate relief after affecting those who wouldn’t otherwise spot the next possibilities in the transformation of conscious existence in humans.
Years back, when participating in one after another of personal development programs meant to interrupt my consciousness, I stared at a black and white photograph of a profile of a beautiful African-American woman wearing a turban. Perhaps, you too remember that popular photo? The caption under the photo was something like if you don’t have a black person in your life, you’re missing out. I would agree and add, if you don’t have an artist in your life, you’re likely missing out.
Missing out on what? The advantages of spotting the next or distinguishing any context imaginable. Religious politicians’ deliberate profanities upon the good nature of taxpaying hirelings are distractions to the many things they don’t want us discussing: The scientifically observed unimaginables.
Energy Ball Rotating
Introduction
Since the early days of this ezine, one advantage for Staying Awake (or for staying awake) has been to remind us of the sun. You know, that frequently unimagined yellow energy ball rotating over our heads without which there would be no chlorophyll nor photosynthesis to provide life for species on Earth?
Here’s a personal story that stimulated my interest for Sun's bond with Earth. In November, 2003, I was listening to Mitch Battros of EarthChangesTV interview Dr. James Hildner, who then held the office for authorizing press releases from NASA. During the interview, a solar flare, which had spun from the sun some 17 to 24 hours earlier, brushed against Earth’s magnetic field. The brush so bent Earth’s magnetic cocoon that the solar instruments’ needles were penned against the level of highest impact for several seconds. Dr. Hildner became wordless; there was silence. Just recently, NASA announced that that solar flare in November, 2003, wasn’t the usual maximum of an XClass-9, but a flare XClass-45.
The importance of an XClass-45 flare is that it’s reportedly the most powerful since scientists began recording solar flares around the year 1755. What’s fascinating enough to keep an eye on the sun is that, on top of the international political and religious absurdities played out, it appears the sun is moving from cycle 23 into cycle 24.
NASA’s panel of forecasters noted only days ago that cycle 24 is approaching or has begun, and the new cycle is predicted to be 35 to 50 percent stronger. You might think of the ‘energy ball rotating’ as a wild card. If the timing is just so, solar flares can exacerbate storms, volcanoes, earthquakes, ice ages, and generally interrupt Earthlings’ uses of electricity, thereby delaying or halting intercontinental contact.
Next time, we will explore current implications of Sun cycle 24 upon humans’ cognition as well as Earth’s physical landscapes.
More Possibilities
As if we needed more possibilities, here’s a huge one: Some scientists confess they can see Universe revealing itself through mathematical physics. Studies of the physical universe can become a realm for perceiving Earthlings’ relationship to each other and to Earth itself.
Cosmology is fascinating, because scientists bring studies from all physical sciences,
math, eastern and western philosophies and histories (including western religion’s
grim complexities, and ancient sacred wisdoms), art, psychology, and technology into
the context of the physical universe’s creation. Notice, politics isn’t
listed; the political can be sorted as ‘world view’ in cosmological discussion.
Who would’ve thought that after several years of knowing about cosmology, it
is now that very study which lures me! From my experience of watching Earthlings’
world wide religious and political quagmire, presuming more upsets are pending, I
now put my faith into the watchfulness of scientific communities that are constantly
discovering things that weren’t there yesterday, simply because, in so doing,
they are willing to be proven wrong.
Within the same committee of astronomers who recently retitled Dwarf Planet Pluto also declared Earth not a planet. Yes, you read that correctly, but their declaration was cause for some uproar. Those are two indications that scientists have been and continue theorizing as best they can.
I suspect the sciences are among the first voluminous scholarly texts in line for revisions in the near future. Let us stay awake to money trails of people and institutions supporting and financing the changes of perception.
Some of us have and are replacing the idea that the physical universe was an impersonal machine (a subversive roman churchy theory convincingly coerced as truth to this day from 17th century cosmology). And, I echo philosophers who say the old masculine guilt-based psychology was a scorching experiment, deliberately made dreadful, but drawing to a close. That’s one way to describe Earthlings’ drastic transformation, which we’re all observing.
The old idea become new again is that Universe is not detached from human experience; Universe cannot help but be a living, expanding, conscious, bio-spiritual realm in which everything is possible. From faintly weird to profoundly strange, evidently our Universe has more possibilities to whorl hubristic sensibilities.
|
||||
Staying Awake :: an ezine with your awareness in mind