Neil Haddon
10-14-2005, 02:26 AM
i don't know what you guys get up to when you go to bed at night
- perhaps best not to go there! (*.*) - but my wife and i share
some wonderful moments.
have i got your attention?
i'm talking inspirational discussions.
last evening, having watched the 10'o clock news, seeing yet more
broken little bodies being dragged from mountains of rubble,-
hearing the distraught cries of inconsolable parents, survivors
who wished they had died rather than a loved one, the old and
crippled taking off makeshift shoes to get a better grip as they
scrabbled up land-slipped mountainsides, - trying to digest the
enormity of the numbers: perhaps 40,000 dead, over one million
homeless at the onset of winter, - we were discussing how this
impacted our lives. how even though we sent our thoughts, our
caring, our love and light to those who had passed, and those who
remain, we still felt helpless. how do we understand these
events?
we spoke of our own children, one boldly setting out for a
university degree to save the ecology of the planet, the other
two, young bundles of joy and fun, all healthy, strong, and safe.
my wife broadened the discussion to consider the world situation;
as dw made the point recently, more people die in traffic
accidents every year in n.america than perished in katrina: what
about the wars being continually fought on every continent, the
millions 'ethnic-cleansed' in places like africa, s. asia,
murders on our streets, manipulation and exploitation of
'innocent' peoples in both developed and undeveloped countries
everywhere, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
and we tried to understand. on a mental level, we know that
everything happens for the greater good. we know that 'death' is
a transition, a metamorphosis; we try to live without fear -
especially of fear itself (and some of the recent posts to this
forum start to have a bearing on where this is going). we have
found great understanding and revelations from the 'humble
messenger', from q'uo, from dw's essays, from carla's input, and
from exchanges on asc2k, - and these are grounded into our belief
system, our faith. yet still we feel this is not enough.
intuitively, we feel that so many brothers and sisters around the
globe feel the same way.
so, this morning, the thought came to me that perhaps the
greatest service we could be to others at this time is to face
this seeming 'chaos', find its essence and benefit, to be able to
offer service to others to appreciate the unfolding, the
evolution, the growth, the ascension which is taking place.
aldous huxley wrote: "at any given moment, life is completely
senseless. but viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as
an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a
certain direction."
khaos, in greek mythology was the most ancient of gods; the
personification of the infinity of space **preceding creation of
the universe**.
in an interesting website at http://www.geocities.com/ferman30/,
fernando mancebo rodriguez, says,
"...a chaotic situation or chaos can take place when many
autonomous sub-systems are forced to interact among them and to
develop their peculiarities inside the same place in the space".
on the other hand, the chaotic development is so fruitful and of
such fecundity that we can consider that chaos represents the
base of the cosmic and biological evolution.
metaphysically we can say chaos or chaotic development is the
method that the intelligence and universal feeling use to create
and build our universe.
itself, chaos is creative intelligence because it unites and
compares different cosmos elements giving as results authentic
acts of creativity."
ra says sto is not just about doling out soup down the local
hostel or serving sausages at the local fete (!), so we don't
need to embark on a billy graham type crusade, but be ready to
offer the comfort and understanding when it's needed.
considerable assistance can be found by googling "chaos meaning".
apologies for the length, but my two cents for today: if this
stimulates support from one in the group, it will have served its
purpose.
love.
neil.
- perhaps best not to go there! (*.*) - but my wife and i share
some wonderful moments.
have i got your attention?
i'm talking inspirational discussions.
last evening, having watched the 10'o clock news, seeing yet more
broken little bodies being dragged from mountains of rubble,-
hearing the distraught cries of inconsolable parents, survivors
who wished they had died rather than a loved one, the old and
crippled taking off makeshift shoes to get a better grip as they
scrabbled up land-slipped mountainsides, - trying to digest the
enormity of the numbers: perhaps 40,000 dead, over one million
homeless at the onset of winter, - we were discussing how this
impacted our lives. how even though we sent our thoughts, our
caring, our love and light to those who had passed, and those who
remain, we still felt helpless. how do we understand these
events?
we spoke of our own children, one boldly setting out for a
university degree to save the ecology of the planet, the other
two, young bundles of joy and fun, all healthy, strong, and safe.
my wife broadened the discussion to consider the world situation;
as dw made the point recently, more people die in traffic
accidents every year in n.america than perished in katrina: what
about the wars being continually fought on every continent, the
millions 'ethnic-cleansed' in places like africa, s. asia,
murders on our streets, manipulation and exploitation of
'innocent' peoples in both developed and undeveloped countries
everywhere, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
and we tried to understand. on a mental level, we know that
everything happens for the greater good. we know that 'death' is
a transition, a metamorphosis; we try to live without fear -
especially of fear itself (and some of the recent posts to this
forum start to have a bearing on where this is going). we have
found great understanding and revelations from the 'humble
messenger', from q'uo, from dw's essays, from carla's input, and
from exchanges on asc2k, - and these are grounded into our belief
system, our faith. yet still we feel this is not enough.
intuitively, we feel that so many brothers and sisters around the
globe feel the same way.
so, this morning, the thought came to me that perhaps the
greatest service we could be to others at this time is to face
this seeming 'chaos', find its essence and benefit, to be able to
offer service to others to appreciate the unfolding, the
evolution, the growth, the ascension which is taking place.
aldous huxley wrote: "at any given moment, life is completely
senseless. but viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as
an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a
certain direction."
khaos, in greek mythology was the most ancient of gods; the
personification of the infinity of space **preceding creation of
the universe**.
in an interesting website at http://www.geocities.com/ferman30/,
fernando mancebo rodriguez, says,
"...a chaotic situation or chaos can take place when many
autonomous sub-systems are forced to interact among them and to
develop their peculiarities inside the same place in the space".
on the other hand, the chaotic development is so fruitful and of
such fecundity that we can consider that chaos represents the
base of the cosmic and biological evolution.
metaphysically we can say chaos or chaotic development is the
method that the intelligence and universal feeling use to create
and build our universe.
itself, chaos is creative intelligence because it unites and
compares different cosmos elements giving as results authentic
acts of creativity."
ra says sto is not just about doling out soup down the local
hostel or serving sausages at the local fete (!), so we don't
need to embark on a billy graham type crusade, but be ready to
offer the comfort and understanding when it's needed.
considerable assistance can be found by googling "chaos meaning".
apologies for the length, but my two cents for today: if this
stimulates support from one in the group, it will have served its
purpose.
love.
neil.