"I of my own knowledge…"

BEIJING — Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera — which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs, according to news report Monday.

Our Scientists Play God

If everything that could be done

should be done, and if we were

intellectually or morally qualified

in any way, to play God, it

would be different.

Insane tinkering, in this dying

materialist civilization –

civilization so-called – breaks

all bounds, restrained by nothing,

carrying us along.

How hard is it to understand?

Some boundaries, it is not safe to cross,

regardless the good intentions,

regardless the promised rewards.

And the end is not yet.

Somebody said once that we go through life looking in one direction, moving in another. Gurdjieff once said, more or less, “suppose you spent your life in an office, spending a lot of time on the telephone, doodling while you talk. Maybe you find out at the end of your life that the important thing was not the talk but the doodling.”

Similarly, I think sometimes that whatever we accomplish here gets done in the most casual way. I have a good friend who I met a dozen years ago at a Monroe Institute program called Lifeline. He writes a blog called The Sacred Path. (http://thesacredpath.wordpress.com/) In a recent entry, he talks about how he has given up following the news for a while, because he realized that it was making him too negative. He gives me credit for having pointed that out to him.

Well, the same thing had happened to me, and friends had pointed it out. Presumably the same thing had happened to them, and friends had pointed it out. I had become more aware of it most particularly after seeing the DVD “The Secret.”

So my friend Rich was reminded because I had been reminded because others had been reminded. This is something small that we can do for each other — something small that may result in something big. Probably it would be a good idea for us to remember to do it more often.

When we are moved to do things and don’t know why we are moved to do them, surely we should at least consider doing them! Particularly if no harm is likely to come from it. This is the voice of other parts of us, nudging us. Do we have any reason at all to resist opening the connection?

[November 27, 2005]