This evening finds me probably 70% ( or at least I hope so) recovered from a four day fever ridden flu. All that's been on my mind while bed ridden has been survival. It is very hard to be positive when feeling like death warmed up. My plans for the week lie in tatters and I am now even further behind with my work. Time! Time Time! The sands of time even. How do I get it back or catch up I'm asking myself? A very frustrating concept is time. From a spiritual slant it does not take much research to find that the apparent key to it all is learning to 'live in the now' and honour the present. FAR EASIER SAID THAN DONE I find.
Part of the problem I'm having is the focus that we seem to have on immortality. Just how long are we supposed to live? It seems that we all need to be aiming for 90 or more. The old adage used to be 3 score and 10. Is that so bad? One would think so when one reflects on media bombardment. Take for example retirement. All over the world, due to the global recession, retirement ages are going up and up. When discussed a few years ago, that is, raising the retirement age in the U.K. from 65 to possibly 67 or 70, it was pointed out by many Glaswegians ( residents of Glasgow) that the average life expectancy of a man there is 64. Mmmmmm....do the maths.
So, this living in the moment thing.Is it possible when we are told how long we should live and when is the right time to die? One of the big questions that often comes up is would we live our lives differently if we knew when we were going to die? Personally I think we would. It puts me in mind of DEATH in the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels. Everyone has an hourglass with the sands of time flowing from one half to the other. So Death knows when everyone is going to pop their clogs.
Take children. They live in the moment until they are conditioned out of it. It's an interesting thought. One minute we are building castles out of sand without a care in the world and the next we are wondering how many grains are left in our timer.
Friday, 29 October 2010
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Aliens, gods and under the water
My missus has been glued to the tele this weekend watching alien progs on the History Channel and one of them recounted lots of tales about U.F.O.'s (or more to the point U.S.O.'s-Unidentified Submerged Objects) rising from the sea in various parts of the world and flying about. Santa Catalina off Los Angeles being one, Puerto Rico near the Bermuda Triangle another and an incident involving the Norwegian navy tracking one and firing on it in a Fjord.
So on a spiritual slant, a lot of the commentary linked such sightings with the myth of Atlantis and the fact that the aliens have an underwater civilisation . I have no problem with this idea and it is far from illogical. Especially when all ancient religions or spiritualities mention the Deluge or Flood and this is the cataclysm relating to Atlantis.
One can also bend the boundaries a bit more and wander into faerie lore. Are faerie experiences alien encounters (some anyway) or vice versa. That faeries sometimes enter this world from the Otherworld and spend time here is one thing but do we sometimes mistake aliens for faeries. Or do we sometimes mistake faeries for aliens
To take this point further I would comment on another television programme I have seen today discussing the Nasca Desert lines. Only. visible from the air and with tops of mountains flattened nearby ( alien runways????) and more specifically what appears to be a spaceman come god figure carved in the desert ( only visible from the air) these drawings and the evidence gained from remains of the tribe point towards the worship of gods from above.
Then one must ask what happened when Atlantis fell. Were the human inhabitants forced to find new lands while their 'alien gods' chose to dwell beneath the sea. There are many legends relating to places where the Atlanteans ended up, resulting in Egyptian, Mayan and Greek cultures, not to forget the celtic ones. The invasions of ancient Ireland I find most poignnant. Are the Tuatha De Danaan survivors of Atlantis? Try reading 'Uriel's Machine' where theories are put forward that Newgrange was very important in terms of spitital training. Did prophets from the Holy Land receive training in the west?
As for the Tuatha De Danaan they now no longer dwell in the human world but live in the land of the Sidhe in faerie mounds. This is true of most celtic faeries but the Otherworld also has water related entrances. Ther have been countless offerings thrown into lakes and who knows how many thrown into the sea. To the celts the Otherworld can be found 'beyond the ninth wave' and there are many tales of voyages to the 'Blessed Isles'. Food for thought I think.
The bottom line is that our spiritual being is linked to somethiing. We feel it. We all need a story. The question is.............
Which stories are true?
So on a spiritual slant, a lot of the commentary linked such sightings with the myth of Atlantis and the fact that the aliens have an underwater civilisation . I have no problem with this idea and it is far from illogical. Especially when all ancient religions or spiritualities mention the Deluge or Flood and this is the cataclysm relating to Atlantis.
One can also bend the boundaries a bit more and wander into faerie lore. Are faerie experiences alien encounters (some anyway) or vice versa. That faeries sometimes enter this world from the Otherworld and spend time here is one thing but do we sometimes mistake aliens for faeries. Or do we sometimes mistake faeries for aliens
To take this point further I would comment on another television programme I have seen today discussing the Nasca Desert lines. Only. visible from the air and with tops of mountains flattened nearby ( alien runways????) and more specifically what appears to be a spaceman come god figure carved in the desert ( only visible from the air) these drawings and the evidence gained from remains of the tribe point towards the worship of gods from above.
Then one must ask what happened when Atlantis fell. Were the human inhabitants forced to find new lands while their 'alien gods' chose to dwell beneath the sea. There are many legends relating to places where the Atlanteans ended up, resulting in Egyptian, Mayan and Greek cultures, not to forget the celtic ones. The invasions of ancient Ireland I find most poignnant. Are the Tuatha De Danaan survivors of Atlantis? Try reading 'Uriel's Machine' where theories are put forward that Newgrange was very important in terms of spitital training. Did prophets from the Holy Land receive training in the west?
As for the Tuatha De Danaan they now no longer dwell in the human world but live in the land of the Sidhe in faerie mounds. This is true of most celtic faeries but the Otherworld also has water related entrances. Ther have been countless offerings thrown into lakes and who knows how many thrown into the sea. To the celts the Otherworld can be found 'beyond the ninth wave' and there are many tales of voyages to the 'Blessed Isles'. Food for thought I think.
The bottom line is that our spiritual being is linked to somethiing. We feel it. We all need a story. The question is.............
Which stories are true?
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