On God and Philosophy

Evolution is self-correcting and so is faith. Evolution needed the big bang and faith needs a first step. Martin Luther King said “you don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” It’s only through the transmutation (tranfiguration) that occurs through the renewal of our minds that we can start to fathom these things. As Aquinas asserts, faith is not a way of knowing that leads to believing, but a way of believing that leads to knowing. Empirical philosophy is trying to put the cart before the horse and then whipping the poor equestrian!

Look, your conception of God is wrong, as are all of ours (courtesy of our finite minds). Although there’s proof that babies and animals have very different frames of consciousness than we do, any ENCULTURATED conceptions of God present in adult rationality are almost certainly flawed from genesis (as in both from the beginning AND also cos of Genesis the book). As usual, the finite symbols of language that we paint our rational consciousness pictures in are too dualistic to accurately speak of esoteric principles. The word “truth”, for instance, has been hijacked by empiricists and applied to a very narrow range of observable phenomena. This wasn’t the only conception of truth that philosophers originally pondered over. Truth is also a way. Its what is meant to be and, beyond human distortion, IS (ie. truth). Scripture says “test the Spirits [cos many can seem wise but aren't] and that “a tree is judged by its fruit”. So you KNOW that you’re experiencing God when the ongoing encounter produces the following:love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and self-control. It may sound cliched but these “fruits of the Spirit” are profound and empirically verifiable (at least psychologically) frames of mind. Seek and you’ll find bruv. It’s philosophers’ prerogative to conduct these kind of mental/spiritual/abstract experiments. You can’t see it as testing GOD (remember He’s not a fan of that). But test the power of prayer and the application opportunities that it produces (by following the inner promptings when the situations arise), and then check for increases in these Spiritual fruits in your life. And walla, you’ve found God. (For yourself at least, it’s a secondary concern to try and prove it to the empirically-obsessed who’s hearts are hardened.)

Seasons Change - An Analogy about Death

Cyclical Revolutions of Evolution. Progress?

Painting my world in the color of language

waiting...
but PRESSED for time.
When the circular track I run around in my head collapses, I come home to myself more often and run around less.
But yet cover more    d i s t a n c e.
A distance that has nothing to do with space; like love has nothing to do with time.
You're not gonna find It in It's s ym  b o l; mistaking the means for the end means the end.
But more writing follows the period.   (2012)
Can we rise above these words, or delve below them?
What do we find in the collective unconscious besides the unconscious.
The floodlight of the mind probes away for symbols to allow it to translate the untranslatable - essence.
Sometimes it does a good job.
That's when I truly meet you.

And the WWW connects us exponentially!

No way, you peeps are actually viewing my blog!

I felt like I was throwing a multi-colored grain of sand in the ocean of the internet and saying "fetch"!  I was happy to see the steady but small viewing when I initially checked my stats, and then I realised that each time I viewed my own blog it logged me!  Well I guess I've always been my own biggest fan, and this is no exception.

Now I see that I've had views from Russia, Asia and North America, and that makes this white African one happy camper.  Not for the boost of my ego (cos I'm slave laboring to attain the cardinal virtue of humility at the moment), but because it shows the potential of the information revolution to connect people who would never have traversed even 2 of their 6 degrees of separation.

Last night I was watching a documentary about the dark ages that said Saint Dominic was one of the most educated people in Europe because he owned 250 books.  It went on to illuminate the lack of illumination due to little villages being cut off from each other.  Would the Bubonic plague have devastated Europe if a Tweet went out saying "Ouch, stay indoors!"

It's just another example of the unprecedented age we live in, in which the sky is the limit when we combine our collective subconscious into the three letters of "www."

I'll be monitoring this blog more often now, and would appreciate you subscribing so that I know that there are people out there expecting me to string more syllables together.

Blessings to the max!

The Science of Trees and Religion

 Well what do the clever brethren think?

Einstein spake forth, saying: "religion and science are branches of the same tree" . Let's branch that train of thought off into a seedy analogy.

See branches stem from the same source. Despite deviating off in varying directions, they never rebel so fundamentally that one decides to venture off to the extreme south and burrow its buds back into the earth. It's one thing being radical by getting back to the roots, but the ostrich approach wouldn't be doing that branch's buds any favours! And neither are we. Our fruits and bud[die]s are gonna suffer if we close our eyes and defy either secularism or religion so radically that we choose the darkness of denial as a delusory alternative to Descartes' dilemma of dualistic dichotomy. (See the chapter on holism#)
No, branches have a synergistic relationship with each other; they're on the same mission. One may be more grounded, being closer to the roots, but all branches have the same objective: being nourished by the Light in order to sustain the development of the entire organism, the tree. The more progress one branch makes, the more energy is available for the other branches. You know, it's the old idiom "many branches make Light work" (or something along those lines!). They put Light to work through photosynthesis and power in numbers. That's why it's rare to see a tree with only one branch; we call that a stump and it ain't much to look at!

This is the way science and religion should be: allies in the quest for Light and Truth. They take different paths, but both need the Son's Light in order to be nourished.
Biology, botany, Biblical Theology – they all operate on the same natural law: the flow of Lifeforce. Have you ever noticed how the hierarchical# formations of bare winter trees resemble big, inverted human lungs? They operate on the same principle: providing nourishment through gaseous exchange. And our two species share a symbiotic relationship. It wasn't hard to persuade the trees to sign the cooperative agreement between us; it's the perfect trade off: they provide us with the oxygen we need and we provide them with their carbon dioxide…during the day. But then, when darkness falls and the Light isn't there to guide us into harmonious relationships, we compete for oxygen. This results in the occasional outburst of violence (which is how the sad case of the Alambama serial-killing shrub came into being). The moral is that harmony and synthesis thrive under Lighted conditions.

Nature is full of these kinds of analogies, and life is largely allegorical. The Bible, also being packed with metaphorical symbolism, tells us that as the branches of Christ's vine we're only nourished when in contact with His Light and that, like the diligent gardener, He'll prune off any branches that aren't bearing fruit. This is to make the plant/lung most efficient in providing service to the organism: the body (ie. the Church in the Christian paradigm).

Frantic Antics

These incessant internal monologues are scratching again;
broken down records like the song I cant get out of my head
There is no time to press pause; inefficiency equals sin
Idleness is an idol I wont even love when I'm dead

What if blank spaces in thoughts aren't bounded by limits of space
but instead infused with wavelengths that our eyes cant comprehend
Would you waste your precious days toiling in haste through worldly haze?
These cloudy mirrors are only replaced when eye lines ascend

When we stare at our shoes they walk in the direction of pain,
bumping into the lamp post; not seeing the path it's showing
But by choosing the head-height view your eyes meet others' again
Look at the tramp walking past 'cos he's just been where you're going


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