Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Astar - the poem
Written in 2001. I promised I would put this on the site. You will now find it under a new page titled 'Poetry'.
Sunday, 28 August 2011
A reply to comment from reader
You ask if we are from the stars, did our ape fathers travel in time machines from the stars, or don't I believe in evolution. I guess a bit of both. With the knowledge we are gaining in the sciences in the last few decades, the ground is begining to shift, and although evolution is pretty well a last bastion of 'hands off', the 'how' of evolution is not as clear as we once believed.
Evolution as a process certainly happens, and you could say if you wished, that it is survival of the fittest I suppose, although that is a very clumsy way of putting it. As a schoolboy I always imagined the fittest to be the stronger, more vigourous. But our world is sort of more unified, and it does not seem that an identity evolves for whatever reason, so much as the inner workings of nature evolves on behalf of the particular species that we may be talking about. Under threat species change, under changing conditions species change. But worlds can of course come into being that have no place for certain creatues, witness the shrinking environment for wild animals in Africa for example.
But that we are the people we are, because we evolved from something rudimentary to something not so rudimentary??? I think not. If there is a creative principle in the universe call it God or whatever you like, do you really think it needs to throw an amoeba like entity into a void and wait for millions of years for what (s)he really meant to make??? I believe that a human being is a part of an intelligent whole. Someone once said that to believe in evolution as Darwin proposed it is like imagining a hurricane blowinging through a scrap-yard and ending up with a world. It is a simplistic answer.
Quantum theory opens a whole new way of looking at life, but I am not about to post about that here now as that is a whole other post. I believe that we are pretty well eternal entities that come and go, dropping a body here and picking up another. That is one thing and there is a lot of posting in that statement. Conversely the concept of starseeding is not one to be necessarilly understood as a linear activity that takes place in our own space and time. If we drop a body and then pick up another we do by inference exist elsewhere. Where? We can't see this and yet on a dreamy night looking out under the stars, very still is the quality that we may experience related to otherness? This is not a complete answer. Just a direction of thought.
Evolution as a process certainly happens, and you could say if you wished, that it is survival of the fittest I suppose, although that is a very clumsy way of putting it. As a schoolboy I always imagined the fittest to be the stronger, more vigourous. But our world is sort of more unified, and it does not seem that an identity evolves for whatever reason, so much as the inner workings of nature evolves on behalf of the particular species that we may be talking about. Under threat species change, under changing conditions species change. But worlds can of course come into being that have no place for certain creatues, witness the shrinking environment for wild animals in Africa for example.
But that we are the people we are, because we evolved from something rudimentary to something not so rudimentary??? I think not. If there is a creative principle in the universe call it God or whatever you like, do you really think it needs to throw an amoeba like entity into a void and wait for millions of years for what (s)he really meant to make??? I believe that a human being is a part of an intelligent whole. Someone once said that to believe in evolution as Darwin proposed it is like imagining a hurricane blowinging through a scrap-yard and ending up with a world. It is a simplistic answer.
Quantum theory opens a whole new way of looking at life, but I am not about to post about that here now as that is a whole other post. I believe that we are pretty well eternal entities that come and go, dropping a body here and picking up another. That is one thing and there is a lot of posting in that statement. Conversely the concept of starseeding is not one to be necessarilly understood as a linear activity that takes place in our own space and time. If we drop a body and then pick up another we do by inference exist elsewhere. Where? We can't see this and yet on a dreamy night looking out under the stars, very still is the quality that we may experience related to otherness? This is not a complete answer. Just a direction of thought.
Saturday, 27 August 2011
Astar
This Astar Cafe site is being created for two purposes. Having written a book called, 'Windows in the Sky, Buddha is that you' and having difficulty publishing it I now intend self publishing. This will be done over the next few weeks. It looks at the differing ways we perceive reality. 'Astar', is a poem in the book which refers to the proposition that all those science fiction books about starseeds may not be so wrong and that maybe just maybe differences between humans which we see as cultural, racial or genetic are in fact more related to our having differing starseed origins. I will post the poem tomorrow as I don't have it with me at the moment. So I am going to use this site to promote the book.
More importantly I intend to use this site as a way of creating a dialogue of what our world really looks like and hope that anyone who is interested is as interactive as they wish in responding to the ideas presented in this blog. Happy blogging.
More importantly I intend to use this site as a way of creating a dialogue of what our world really looks like and hope that anyone who is interested is as interactive as they wish in responding to the ideas presented in this blog. Happy blogging.
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