Face of God

Face of God

Listening 

to a bird chirping unseen

yet it is not yet spring..

A cold sun illuminates this

February Saturday morning..

A song with passion 

appearing as face of Awareness

chirping a message of expectation

it might be said..

If this were said..alas it is wrong..

A fulfillment not then but

Here/Now is cause for this

celebration...

AwarenesSpeaks !

  

AwarenesSpeaks ! (Stretch)

On Friday, February 24th, 2017

10:00 to 11:30 AM

Myron Stratton Home
Facilitator:  Charles Coon

Meditation:  "The Eternal Now"

Discussion questions:

1.  Your response to the meditation?

2.  What is the "Now?"

3.  What is time?

4.  Is eternity ever-lasting?

5.  What is the Here/Now?

6.  What is the Big Bang?

7.  What are life and death? 

The Eternal Now !

Here/Now
not a place or moment
but infinite/eternal..
Better known perhaps
as simply: I am..
I am..rises
as subject/object:
the Big Bang
our Awakening
to the morning sun...
~~CC

Consciousness and Brain Activity

Friends - This is an excellent, very interesting 25-minute presentation
by a seemingly very credible scientist discussing consciousness, brain
activity, various psi phenomena, materialism, NDE's etc.  Should be worth
your time.  (Received this email from my friend, CharlieP)
C.
https://youtu.be/V3ivOXuFfUA


Hi CharlieP and All..

Interesting talk and comments by Tom and CharlieP.  My thought is that it is always
good to consider perspective.  The scientist's perspective, including this speaker,
is that the materialist fundamentals, which is their background, are the base for 
their investigation.  The various discoveries they make...NDE's, psi phenomena ..
seem to point to an aspect of consciousness.  An alternate perspective would be to
use a "consciousness first" model, based on experience, and then perform 
experiments based upon this understanding. Perhaps the inclusion of "observership"
in quantum physics is an example.  

Thanks,

CharlieC

The video linked below seems pertinent...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy3ckh8B-qc

Allowing

Allowing

attends to suffering

by not attending..

Suffering..fueled by resistance 

rises in unbounded 

emptiness/fullness..

A separate-self

wishes to alleviate

by elimination..

We then turn to

Allowing as our teacher..

An expansive Allowing

recognizes the disturbance

as vibrating within and as

that Allowing

which we know 

as ourself...

Being Right

Being Right

Yes..

We strengthen the ego

by being what we call: right..

And the ego's new lease on life

delays the discovery of what

is Right..

So..the Right..when discovered

lights a fire burning

the right...

Eckhart Tolle:  "There is nothing

that strengthens the ego

more than being right."

A new form of protest

Stream of Consciousness

Stream of Consciousness

This phrase seems worn..Joyce and Faulkner..perhaps a misnomer..

Consciousness doesn't flow..the streams are thoughts and perceptions..

these flow through consciousness which remains steady and still..

Yet..let's reconsider..thought and perception are made of..yes..

consciousness..it seems we have found waves in the ocean..waves

of thinking and perceiving..waves in an ocean of stillness..Yet..

consciousness seems distracted by its waves within..a seeming of

separation and limitation..exclaiming: I am a stream..until..

please return to the beginning...