Spiritual reality is nonlinear. Love is nonlinear. All this means is that it doesn’t fit into the Newtonian model of physics and logic and stuff that is the basis for science. There’s no logic to love, nothing causes anything else, etc. I can send blessings to a starving kid in Africa and it will make a difference. You can too. That’s the awesomeness of lovingness. That’s the awesomeness of nonlinear reality.
Lately “I” have become aware that there is no “I” back here running the show. There is a continuous stream of thoughts that calls itself “I,” and it parades through awareness. To ignore thought leaves consciousness clear, embracing all that exists without effort. Peace is spreading through my body–excuse me, THE body. The peace I feel is not separate from my identity, and sometimes I feel it reach out far beyond the body and hold things in its lovingness. I’m not enlightened (though sometimes I do write like Ariel, who is), but I see where I’m going and it’s Home.
November 10, 2008 at 9:21 pm
What are blessings? Are they meaningless thoughts that more than likely will not do anything? or are they donations of food and/or money?
Logically, if it’s the latter, I agree, it will make a difference. Otherwise, you need to specify how it will make a difference.
Also, for the sake of discussion, what is love? Because, so far, I’ve noticed _everything_ fits into a logical/scientific bubble of some kind. If love is a feeling for someone else, for argument’s sake, then that feeling is somehow based on the impact made by that other person, either physically (looks, etc.) or emotionally (good personality, etc.)
Let me know.
November 10, 2008 at 9:55 pm
My tentative belief on blessings is that, all thoughts contribute to the overall energy field of consciousness, and blessings are thoughts that give energy to this field. To me a blessing is the intention to contribute good thoughts and good things to somebody else’s consciousness, and therefore enhance his life.
Perhaps everything can be explained in a logical/scientific bubble. However, regarding certain things, intellectual knowledge of this bubble, no matter how detailed, is never enough.
For instance, consider the question “Who are you?” You could say, “I’m Asshole, I’m a rational skeptic, I like to go to Hooters and blow bubbles in my drink, my body is 71 inches tall and 183 lbs, my body composition is 82.521% water, etc” but obviously these are all mere facts ABOUT you and do not sufficiently capture your essence. No matter how many facts ABOUT you I may know, I may never know you.
This is the limitation of science and logic: they do not have the capacity to capture essence. They can know ABOUT, but they can never Know.
This is where Love comes in.
In my experience, love is the expansion of identity. I am Mike Elias. Without having to describe me, I know who I am by virtue of being myself. When I genuinely Love my girlfriend, I am her as well. It literally feels like the sense of ‘I’ is inhabiting her body too. To say “I love you” feels stupid, because there is no separation. I know her by virtue of being her.
Logic can’t love. What you can only understand by being, logic can’t touch.
I have a question for you: What is the logical/scientific explanation of beauty? Not biological beauty like hot chicks, but art and music?