EWL comments This Week 8 of reading coincided with the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. Being in cottage country and able to step out into the darkness of 3:00 a.m. I looked up into the cloudless sky. Within 30 minutes I saw several meteors flash through the dark sky. I say dark but it wasn’t totally because of the presence of uncountable stars from dim to bright. For whatever reason it struck me that what I was viewing was reality and not some on screen documentary. I was not standing in isolation from creation but I was part of it. “Today, we view the body as a unified process, seeking to evolve into fuller realization within the larger embodied spheres of earth and cosmos. Salvation is a process of integration rather then one of escape to a life hereafter.” is how O’Murchu comments on page 140. Rather then having a remote God, this really brings things home.
bjp responds I admire your getting up at 3AM to view the meteor shower. Every year I think I might, and every year I succumb to sleep - to see them only in memory of childhood summers before I knew they had a name, and simply called them 'shooting stars' - which made them no less awe inspiring to my young self. Perhaps it was those cottage summers that made me aware of the unified process O'M speaks of. My only quarrel is with his emphasis on "Today, we..." as though our forebears were immune to awe and wonder.
G added: bjp took the words out of my mouth. It's the "Today, we..." that I take exception to. The experience of which EWL speaks is timeless and universal. One might even call it a "religious experience". And, why not? There is no novelty in its occurrence "today", however.
TRW EWL's entry and the replies show me that O'Murchu didn't have to work so hard at "teaching". Adults are quite capable of making their own discoveries.
EWL comments
ReplyDeleteThis Week 8 of reading coincided with the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. Being in cottage country and able to step out into the darkness of 3:00 a.m. I looked up into the cloudless sky. Within 30 minutes I saw several meteors flash through the dark sky. I say dark but it wasn’t totally because of the presence of uncountable stars from dim to bright. For whatever reason it struck me that what I was viewing was reality and not some on screen documentary. I was not standing in isolation from creation but I was part of it. “Today, we view the body as a unified process, seeking to evolve into fuller realization within the larger embodied spheres of earth and cosmos. Salvation is a process of integration rather then one of escape to a life hereafter.” is how O’Murchu comments on page 140. Rather then having a remote God, this really brings things home.
bjp responds
DeleteI admire your getting up at 3AM to view the meteor shower. Every year I think I might, and every year I succumb to sleep - to see them only in memory of childhood summers before I knew they had a name, and simply called them 'shooting stars' - which made them no less awe inspiring to my young self. Perhaps it was those cottage summers that made me aware of the unified process O'M speaks of. My only quarrel is with his emphasis on "Today, we..." as though our forebears were immune to awe and wonder.
G added:
Deletebjp took the words out of my mouth. It's the "Today, we..." that I take exception to.
The experience of which EWL speaks is timeless and universal. One might even call it a "religious experience". And, why not?
There is no novelty in its occurrence "today", however.
TRW
ReplyDeleteEWL's entry and the replies show me that O'Murchu didn't have to work so hard at "teaching". Adults are quite capable of making their own discoveries.