"I of my own knowledge…"

I woke up thinking about God and the problem of evil and suffering 

(Now, first off, I know that lots of people don’t use the word God for fear they will back themselves into superstition. But these same people will say “the universe” or “all that is” as a back-door way of saying the same thing.  “God” is just a word; what’s the sense in being scared of a word? We know you’re not talking about an image of an old man with a beard sitting on a cloud.)

People ask, why does God permit evil? Why does God permit suffering? Why does God permit this, that and the other?

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Make it easy on yourself!

If you’re interested in what I’m doing but don’t necessarily want to have to remember to check (just what you need, right, something else to remember?) you can subscribe to this blog. Then, any day I post something, you’ll get an email notice saying so. (You’ll get just one per day, though, not every time I post!)

It’s easy. Even I can do it.

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The buttons on the website don’t work yet, but as we get them hooked up, here’s what they will lead to. This list of the books I have written and, more, those I have yet to write, may serve to give you an overview of what I’m trying to do. Titles of books not yet written are in brackets, like so: [brackets]

My Story

Muddy Tracks            the beginning of my discovery of inner worlds. Published 2001 by Hampton Roads Publishing Company.

[Muddy Tracks 2]      further developments in my discovery (1998-2005). Among the things to talk about: Healing. Channeling. Peru. Avebury and England. 2000 ten sessions in the black box. 2001 Tintagel. 2001 – 2002 sessions. Various Monroe programs such as MC2 and Timeline. Iona, congestive heart failure, and healing. 10 prep sessions in 2004. Etc.

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This is going to take a while to work out, I think, and probably I will wind up making pdf files. But I don’t know how to figure out what to do except by trying, so here’s a first attempt.

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It’s because the site is still under development, but we didn’t want to freeze this blog while waiting to finish the site.

We’ll get there. Meanwhile, if this site is new to you, there’s a boatload of material here: Check the archives, for instance.

When I read this Letters at 3 a.m. column by Michael Ventura, my reaction was, roughly, “YES! YES! YES! He gets it!”

Not that the fact that he gets it is a surprise, but the way he uses his mind as a precision tool is always such a delight.

Science is based in metaphysics. There is nothing else for it to be based in! But members of what John Anthony West calls The Church of Progress refuse to see it. Too bad. It’s true regardless.

MICHAEL VENTURA

LETTERS AT 3AM –

GREATER AND LESSER UNCONFORMITIES

Austin Chronicle – May 23, 2008

Ever hear of the Great Unconformity? It has much to teach, but it teaches by absence – or by the absence it signifies. There are only two places in North America where the Great Unconformity is visible: Frenchman’s Mountain, overlooking Las Vegas, and the Grand Canyon. At Frenchman’s Mountain, it’s just a seam on a rock face. Hold your thumb sideways and place it on that seam and you touch something that represents 1.2 billion years of unrecorded time. According to Wikipedia, “the rock jumps from 500 million years old to 1.7 billion years old… missing… about 25% of the earth’s history.” The Lunar and Planetary Institute (www.lpi.usra.edu) notes that the Great Unconformity is found “nearly everywhere across the globe”; “it divides rocks with familiar fossils from those with no fossils or only fossil bacteria” – that is, there is little or no fossil record of the early development and evolution of complex organisms. The record stops 1.7 billion years ago and resumes 500 million years ago, by which time life on earth had gotten pretty complex, with all sorts of flora and critters.

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With a little help from my friends–okay, a lot of help from my friends–here we are. Now to the fun part.

I will soon start posting examples of the TGU material as illustrated by sketches. I have been going back over the original TGU material that Rita and I “downloaded” back in 2001 and 2002, and have added sketches to illustrate the concepts. Those who have seen the sketches have been enthusiastic about them; apparently sketches work right-brain to right-brain to help us comprehend the overall concept that can be conveyed only piecemeal by left-brain activity such as — well, such as a sequence of words. 

Your feedback would be very welcome.

I well remember the series. Back in the early 1970s, I was living in Florida, working as an assistant audio-visual librarian for the Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library system. Somehow — can’t remember, now, it’s been so long — I found time to watch the ten-part television series “Civilization” by Kenneth Clark, later Lord Clark. The shows were fascinating, a visual treat, an intellectual feast, an emotional turmoil. Some years later, as some second-hand book store or other, I found the transcripts of the series in book form. An old journal recorded these concluding sections of Lord Clark’s disturbingly prescient talks.

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When all you have is a hammer, they say, all the world looks like a nail. When all you have is a sure sense that “things aren’t right,” all you can do is cast about, hoping to find a way to make it right. If you cannot believe in that, you are reduced to trying at least to keep your own life on the rails, which is task enough for most of us! These two quotes from D.H. Lawrence, like the one from Hemingway that I posted a bit ago, seem to me to demonstrate the dead-end that western civilization came to in the 20th century. Naturally artists noticed it first, but you’d have to be pretty complacent, pretty unthinking, not to know it now. Lawrence wrote this two generations ago:

“Well!” he said at last. “I agree to anything. The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it, though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.”

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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“What is lying?

“As it is understood in ordinary language, lying means distorting or in some cases hiding the truth, or what people believe to be the truth. This lying plays a very important part in life, but there are much worse forms of lying, when people do not know that they lie. I said… that we cannot know the truth in our present state… How then can we lie?… We cannot know the truth, but we can pretend that we know. And this is lying. Lying fills all our life. People pretend that they know all sorts of things: about God, about the future life, about the universe, about everything, but in reality they do not know anything, even about themselves.”

P. D. Ouspensky, The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution