Month: August 2018

What is reality, really?

August 31, 2018 Alison Bell 0

In relation to my last article, I ran into a video this morning of Richard Dolan giving his new lecture in Toronto, which brings this question of ‘What is reality, really?’ back up in my mind. Because of the way scientism crept into our culture via the new way to understand the world around us by measurement, technology has slipped into our lives creating a far more mental, cultural paradigm into our ideas of ‘what-is-real’. And because this very mentally weighted cultural change to what is valuable has taken the emphasis off of human to human/ human to nature interactions [-MORE-]

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A poem for now written in 1951.

August 31, 2018 Alison Bell 0

The human heart can go the lengths of God… Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move; The thunder is the thunder of the floes, The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring. Thank God our time is now when wrong Comes up to face us everywhere, Never to leave us till we take The longest stride of soul we ever took. Affairs are now soul size. The enterprise Is exploration into God. Where are you making for? It takes So many thousand years to wake, But [-MORE-]

Perception

August 31, 2018 Alison Bell 0

How would we know that one person’s perception is any different than our own? We assume that because others are not acting strangely that they are seeing/perceiving what we are. And that they are feeling – which is their own inner reaction to the perception – the same as we are especially if those feelings appear to be the same, IE: everybody is crying, everybody is laughing.   But what if life is just slightly off in a couple of important ways? For you? What if you are born knowing pretty closely what people are thinking, or at least their [-MORE-]