Jason and Pia invited me to a New Year's bash. No alcohol, alas. Halfway through, around the time the Native Americans were dancing I really started to wish I could have some. Hare Krishna's started chanting, and kirtan ensued. Dancing thereafter, and a drum circle. The need for alcohol subsided as endorphins filled the gap.
Heard Gabriel Cousens and Pato Banton in a video conference call. Audio incoming from Skype was unclear, but I got some of it. There was a discussion of 2012 Mayan calendars... and err, yah. Global warming is true. The world is doomed for disaster unless change happens. Whether any of that has anything to do with esoteric predictions about the Mayan calendar - I think not. This may come across a bit harsh, but the whole 2012, 2036, and 2048(?) comes across to me like so much meaningless spiritual mumbo-jumbo. Then there's the whole 5 revelations + Urantia angle, and the spiritual mumbo-jumbo just piles on neck-deep. I mean aliens, really?
On the other hand, I did have fun tonight. Spirituality is an interesting endeavor, and a worthwhile pursuit. It feeds the soul and the mind. Whether it comes from outside or inside becomes immaterial. I think that what is important is the transformation of the individual that results from spirituality. A release of certain neurotransmitters, an activation of specific regions of the brain that play a different role than what we utilize in normal, everyday life. This is spirituality. And that region of the brain then proceeds to interact with and change the rest of the brain, which is why spirituality seeps into every aspect of your life.
Rudolfo did some work on me. "Holding space," he called it. He supported parts of my body at times, making me feel more supported, then he fluttered his hand over my heart center, and somewhere along my spine, as well. Then I lay there, and after I got up, he talked to me. He said I had many voices in my head, and I need to speak. I need to share what I think. Thus, the impetus for my blog. So call this an experiment. I will begin to speak. I will share my thoughts, my ideas, my feelings, my formulations, my idiocy, my genius, my cognition with the world.
Heard Gabriel Cousens and Pato Banton in a video conference call. Audio incoming from Skype was unclear, but I got some of it. There was a discussion of 2012 Mayan calendars... and err, yah. Global warming is true. The world is doomed for disaster unless change happens. Whether any of that has anything to do with esoteric predictions about the Mayan calendar - I think not. This may come across a bit harsh, but the whole 2012, 2036, and 2048(?) comes across to me like so much meaningless spiritual mumbo-jumbo. Then there's the whole 5 revelations + Urantia angle, and the spiritual mumbo-jumbo just piles on neck-deep. I mean aliens, really?
On the other hand, I did have fun tonight. Spirituality is an interesting endeavor, and a worthwhile pursuit. It feeds the soul and the mind. Whether it comes from outside or inside becomes immaterial. I think that what is important is the transformation of the individual that results from spirituality. A release of certain neurotransmitters, an activation of specific regions of the brain that play a different role than what we utilize in normal, everyday life. This is spirituality. And that region of the brain then proceeds to interact with and change the rest of the brain, which is why spirituality seeps into every aspect of your life.
Rudolfo did some work on me. "Holding space," he called it. He supported parts of my body at times, making me feel more supported, then he fluttered his hand over my heart center, and somewhere along my spine, as well. Then I lay there, and after I got up, he talked to me. He said I had many voices in my head, and I need to speak. I need to share what I think. Thus, the impetus for my blog. So call this an experiment. I will begin to speak. I will share my thoughts, my ideas, my feelings, my formulations, my idiocy, my genius, my cognition with the world.
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