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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)
 
In a child’s lunch basket, a mother’s thoughts.
~ Japanese Proverb

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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.

1Real, Terrence (1997). I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster / Scribner paperback. ISBN 0-684-83539-8
 
Neither Cain nor Abel
I am my sister’s keeper!
I AM MY SISTER’S KEEPER!
~ Natasha Josefowitz
 
She broke the bread into two fragments and gave them to the children, who ate with avidity.
“She hath kept none for herself,” grumbled the Sergeant.
“Because she is not hungry,”
said a soldier.
“Because she is a mother,”
said the Sergeant.
~ Victor Hugo
 
They say that man is mighty; He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty scepter, O’er lesser powers that be. But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
~ William Ross Wallace
 
See how a mother, the best philosopher in practical matters, understands every one of her children and the special differences between them all; and does she not carry herself with true intuition as to their daily needs and with the interpreting philosophy of sensitive love? She is the best trainer of men and has the best mental philosophy, so far as practical things are concerned.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
 

 
2The term ‘angelic lobes’ was coined by a female neuroscientist for a section of the brain called prefrontal cortex. Through the cortex, ranges of intimacy, awareness, feeling—love, compassion, empathic experience—are discerned, which infers the cortex allows myriad observable distinctions in our physical world rather than creating them.
 
But, between the heart and the brain, the brain is last to know. Among the physical heart’s capabilities, it senses experiences before they appear, and signals the approach without a judgment call to the brain. The brain then signals a judgment back to the heart, and their partnership zips into action through the body. Empathies between the heart and brain are profoundly quicker than a peaceful blink of your eyes.
 

 
Many things continue to amaze me, even well into the sixth decade of my life. I’m startled or taken aback when people walk up to me and tell me they are Christians. My first response is the question "Already?" It seems to me a lifelong endeavor to try to live the life of a Christian. I believe that is also true for the Buddhist, for the Muslim, for the Jainist, for the Jew, and for the Taoist who try to live their beliefs. The idyllic condition cannot be arrived at and held on to eternally. It is in the search itself that one finds the ecstasy.
~ Maya Angelou from Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now; 1993, Random House, New York; ISBN 0-679-42743-0
 
Where we go into sleep is the other side of reality.

Where are the dreams in this waking world other than before our eyes in ways we chose to make and wait and wait…

And in the making, everything,
and in the waiting, life.
~ Jim Hannah, friend

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Our constant curiosity is key to watching what’s being created.
~ DM

Greetings All,

May this day be full of pleasure in every moment found waiting for you. It is truly great to be alive! Let’s relish nature—its wonderments, happiness, physical and mental well being for us and our global sisters and brothers.

Trust your passions, every one. Staying awake to “Surprise!” nudges can become our observation of the shifts of thought into which our passions are moving us. Sometimes, movements into changes appear neither synchronized with our plans and expectations, nor sugar coated to manifest seemingly palatable outcomes.

I could be mistaken, but it seems these days are demanding honesty about our circumstances. Speaking our feelings and imaginings to those whom we’ve chosen to surround us might become more important than we could imagine. Perhaps, accepting an intuited outcome that appears a major pest may be the new training about which many of us aren’t ready to talk.

The book, I Don’t Want to Talk About It, authored by a male psychotherapist, Terrence Real exposes meticulous ways some men, repressed since youth, have consequently trained themselves to cover up episodes that secretly provoked repeated anger and disappointment, both of which are associated with and can result in deep depression.1

Suppressing normal but often unacceptable feelings, many males unwittingly substitute outstanding performances in their careers rather than being emotionally accessible husbands and fathers. The results produced by thousands of years of harsh domination between males are the inability and unwillingness to express feelings, thereby leading to the outward physical demonstration of internalized hopelessness.

What is often mistaken for a male’s good image today is often the shell of the male, the quietly burdened masculine performer who avoids revealing a range of feelings and vulnerabilities for which he has no words. Re-training for relating peacefully by empathy takes too much male energy, time, and commitment; and is often perceived as vulnerability. Not good by today’s male standards!

Peace by Empathy

Since my own empathic experience for males and their male suppressors, inklings for mothers and children came my direction like rushing wind. A sense of global peace by empathy is nearly unconcealed, although distortions of international combats in the name of caring play havoc in Earthlings’ imaginations and choices.

A live lecture by Joseph Chilton Pearce at Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York, May, 2005, inspired the rest of this ezine. Relevant thoughts reflected in this article can be retrieved from his lecture presented at WIE dot org.

Pearce’s passionate, 25-year exploration has been in human consciousness, child development, and, more recently, in the amazing connections between the human brain and heart.

At first, you might wonder how mothering would impact the future of masculine functions in small businesses and mega corporations. Let’s keep eyes open, and stay awake. Could protection of mothering reach critical mass as we move further into this decade?

During pregnancy, if the female feels secure, wanted, loved, cared for, the fetus develops a large forebrain and a sharply decreased hindbrain. If the female feels insecure, unwanted, unloved, uncared for, the fetus develops a large hindbrain and a sharply decreased forebrain.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

The emotional state of the mother determines form, function, shape, and structure of the infant’s brain in utero, as well as through the ‘in the arms’ period before the child walks.

Pretend energies in the physical universe could speak any language, asking this question upon conception of every child: With this new life coming in, will we go for our highest intelligence, or will we have to defend ourselves, again?

The forebrain, that is, the prefrontal cortex just allowed you to distinguish ideas in the above paragraph, which refers to the virtues of the forebrain and the decadence of the hindbrain. Whether Earthlings remain within the confines of our ancient reptilian brain without which we couldn’t have survived this far, or whether we move into the next phase of empathic intelligence depends on the conditions of pregnancies.

An enlightened, educated, schooled, or otherwise reasonable culture, which listens to their scientists, will rally to assure that every pregnant female is protected, not ignored, not neglected, and given as much care, love, and consideration as that culture can possibly provide.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

To exalt and protect mothering would cause humankind’s escorting onto Earth radically different people, and rapidly, too. We could release delusions’ pressures for high standards of living, perhaps creating and sustaining higher qualities of life.

If many males got coached into empathic programs, felt their feelings, loved themselves, and protected their wives and children from fear, the cosmologies of nations would inevitably alter.

Do we imagine the elegance out of which females could bring into existence peace and nurture on Earth? Do we intuit and understand there’s more to life than linear brained ethics and moralistic invectives? Could apparent profound changes in human behaviors be created through biological transformations? I say bring on transformations.2

Heart Ribbons

The stunning discoveries about the physical body and its heart evoke too much fascination not to report the discoveries with some excitement. Well, a whole bunch of excitement, because what follows is no longer scientific hypothesis.

The invisible energy surrounding us, that many of us call magic, has been discovered as the heart of all creativity!

Here’s an exercise I’ve just made up. Hopefully, it helps you visualize the cocoon generated around your body at every instant of your life. It is from this energy life’s experiences manifest.

  • Sense your physical heart. Feel its location, and its pumping inside your chest

  • Visualize wide ribbons of light blue energy vibrating out from your heart, circling around your body, and entering your lower pelvic area

  • See those ribbons shooting up through your body, and out the top of your head

  • See those vibrating ribbons whirling around, entering your body again, into the physical heart.

Every instant of your life is filled to the max with anything and everything that’s imaginable—and everything nearly imaginable—in a vibrating cocoon, humming in a rhythm that could only be yours.

Magnetic resonance imagings (MRI’s) of the heart prove the ribbons of energies are electromagnetic waves creating all humans’ cocoons; Earth has a cocoon, too, generated by the same kinds of waves. I feel we approach a profound recognition.

We Earthlings are interconnecting with one another by our cocoons’ radiating energies out from our physical hearts.

The Earth’s cocoon is interconnecting with ours by radiating from its core the same energies as ours.

The sun is interconnecting its energies with Earth, creating chlorophyll and photosynthesis (and just a few other things) without which we could not live.

A profound recognition comes out of the sense that all within and beyond our solar system and physical universe is interconnected with our physical hearts. It boggles the mind to think a grand conspicuous energy unifies and nurtures everything everywhere—all at the same time. Just imagine, we’ve been schooled to believe religious leaders’ monopolies on a peculiar righteous trinity of idyllic shaming stalkers.

Consider what we’ve not been trained to believe: The only extant community is with our physical hearts. We needn’t believe we must be in community with others, for that idea is illusory. After you intuit what has been written here, community with others becomes an entirely different experience: Unity within all in the universe.

We Earthlings
pulsing ribbons of blue,
Connect with Earth’s bluish cocoon;
And pulses return,
springs love into hearts,
Creation begins there, again.

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