YAY! This day has always been special to me. Where I live on the planet, the Winter Solstice in December is the shortest day and the longest night. After the Solstice, the days start to become longer, nights shorter. Light is in ascendance. For this I celebrate. A bit of factoid trivia: “solstice” … Read More
An Experience of The One-ness?
There is no time, nor space. These are our illusions to help keep a sense of order. That’s what science is telling us this week. (I say “this week” because who knows what will be touted as The Truth next week, month, year…. Remember when the earth was flat, and was the center of the … Read More
Science vs. Beauty – 2
There is a prevailing and ubiquitous disregard of Beauty and the sacredness of nature. Nature, the “natural world” is the primary manifestation of our universe’s luminous matter in this time/space/place we know as the planet Earth. Rare, precious, matter. I find it of further interest to consider that currently a popular scientific theory posits that … Read More
Science v. Beauty – 1
A Wee Bit of Science Dark energy, a substance of the Universe not currently completely understood, is currently believed to constitute 73{55fe2c11461c8bb17bceaebedeebc755c917e5af851043589d832d5db27adf7f} of said Universe. Dark matter, 23{55fe2c11461c8bb17bceaebedeebc755c917e5af851043589d832d5db27adf7f}. Luminous matter, made up of photons, the stuff we understand best and from which all matter is constructed – is a mere 4{55fe2c11461c8bb17bceaebedeebc755c917e5af851043589d832d5db27adf7f}. Only Four percent of the … Read More
Art & True Beauty
Beauty vs. “Art”: Humility in the artist is his frank acceptance of all experiences, just as Love in the artist is simply that sense of Beauty that reveals to the world its body and its soul. ~ Oscar Wilde I have noticed that people often — and I think unconsciously — use the … Read More
Core Shamanism
Some people’s eyes glaze over when one brings up the term “shaman”, or shamanism. That’s the best case, actually. Many others equate it with superstition, woo-woo crazies or witchcraft. Shamanism exists everywhere on the globe, and has for thousands of years. It is about humankind’s relationship with the natural world and our spiritual connection with … Read More