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Showing posts with label paranormal. Show all posts
21 October 2012
Tarotbytes - 7 of Coins
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18 November 2011
Paranormal and Provocative: The Moon
Whether you gaze at it alone or with others, the moon remains as it is. Our spiritual journey, the awakening of our soul, doesn't need group activity or organized religion any more than the moon needs us to look at it in order to be beautiful in the night sky.
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20 May 2011
Thank you rapture people
Richard Bach famously said that "there is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands"
I'm not saying that this end-of-the-world on May 21 thing is a problem for anyone except the poor people who actually believe it. Come tomorrow night, Sunday morning at the latest, they are going to have some reality to check and some rationalizing to do. It would be mildly interesting to be a fly on the wall to see how they 'splain things when everybody is still here. How they can justify the money they've spent on billboards and the like....especially when there are so many other, kinder, more compassionate, more christ-like ways to spend that money. So yeah, it might be a bit of a problem for the people who were advertising, promoting and proselytizing the event, although I suspect they will have some rapid, shallow not-reality-based, god-and-bible excuse for why they were wrong. I kind of feel sorry for them...nobody likes being wrong. Nobody likes to see well-intentioned people being taken in by shysters. And the whole rapture thing, as whole, specific date or no, is taken seriously by a lot of well meaning people. I wonder if this will prompt any of them to think about religion, evaluate what they believe, make some conscious choices. If that happens, then the pseudo-end-of-the-world will have done some good. It doesn't matter what religion they choose, or don't choose: it is the thought and choosing that really matters. It's making a choice, not the final decision.
On the up side, though, it has given the rest of us a much-needed chuckle. Don't worry about mowing the grass, forget the diet, it the end of the world as we know and we feel fine. BYE after-rapture "parties"...(bring your own everything, including venue) are springing up at least in social media form. That alone is a good thing for the smile it brings.
If nothing else, the rapture people, deluded, mislead, manipulated and taken advantage of as they may be...the whole thing has reminded us to enjoy life a little. It shows us a little appreciation for value of a little hedonism...a little appreciation for the simple pleasures. I mean, what would you do if today was your last day on earth?
If anything this rapture nonsense is a reminder to live and love here and now...you know like the taoists and buddhists say all along...but that is just me. That is the lens through which I view life. It's a custom prescription lens...as is everyone's life lens.
Let's take a peek through their life lens for a minute. If the end was neigh...what would you do...what beauty would you behold. No time for travel...what from your life right there, right now would you miss if it were gone? What would you savor and remember and want to take with you to the pearly gates?
Apparently I'm more Pink than pearly...so I'll be raising a glass and celebrating my freedom from christian dogma...and being a little more patient with the kids, and giving my husband an extra kiss and plenty of "I love you"s all around. Bring it on...see you at the after-rapture party!
Like U2 famously said..."It's a beautiful day"
Baihu
21 April 2011
Q&A
Now it is my turn to ask YOU a question...
What do you want to see covered in this blog?
What sort of psychic, tarot, oracle, intuition, spirituality, paranormal topics would you like to see covered.
While I won't answer requests for free individual readings, I WILL answer specific questions in a FAQ sort of format.
Send a comment here or e-mail your questions to faq@modern-oracle-tarot.com
Baihu
24 February 2011
Past Lives
Was just reading Ted Andrew's book "How to Uncover Your Past Lives"
He's right, as always. I really admire his way of thinking, just in case you haven't noticed...
But think about it. One of the most powerful and empowering aspects of the the idea of reincarnation and karma is the awareness of future lives, not just the past ones....
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Baihu
19 February 2010
Spiritualilty and the Science Geek
There is a notion - I think it is a misconception - that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive.
I think they are both parts of a greater whole; complimentary, dynamic, harmonious, united.
Science and spirituality are like yin and yang...two different aspects of a greater whole...
Everyone has heard of the quote attributed to Einstein about "religion without science is blind, science without religion is lame". Religion isn't even on the map as far as I'm concerned. I'm talking about something bigger.
Religious adherants are slavishly devoted to their rules and superstitions, talking snakes and magic dishes. Scientists can, at times, be slavishly devoted to their notions of linear logic and quantifiable measurement. The difference, the difference that renders religion obsolete is that science can change in the face of reason. Science learns and grows
That is why I'm talking about spirituality and not religion. Spirituality learns and grows. It can change in the face of experience and emotion.
Science and spirituality both experience truth and the cosmos directly. They just do it through different measurements and criterion.
Spirituality accepts subtle perception, emotion, intuition and imagination as valid experience. Science looks for causality and tangible measurement. Both accept quantum leaps...one of atomic energy, the other of understanding.
I suggest that there is a third mind-set...the spiritual science geek.
The spiritual science geek is a freethinker, and accepts that which is proven, not that which is preached. The spiritual science geek requires proof, and repeatable experimental evidence. But that evidence may come as meditation, perception and an individual "knowing" of truth. What science can't measure, but what can be experience and repeated (love, compassion, honesty, intuition, creative imagination) are still valid.
True, spiritual and so-called paranormal phenomena don't follow A+B=C logic. It is just as much a misunderstanding to claim that quantum physics is misused to "explain" these phenomena...
Quantum physics does not explain or prove anything spiritual. Spirituality does not diminish or disclaim the rationality and healthy skepticism of science.
If "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" as Carl Sagan asserted, (and I agree) what more elegant and extraordinary proof can there be than direct perception and understanding? Human perception, and the deep, profound direct knowledge of personal truth is, in my opinion, extraordinary...yet at the same time it is something we all posses. Not so much of a paradox, that, if you find wonder in the commonplace and magic in the mundane.
I think the notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive, and at odds with each other come from two places: the idea of "proof" and the need to convince others.
What science demands as proof is different from what spirituality accepts as proof.
What science sees as proven it sees as truth for all...it should sway everyone
When spirituality sees one way as proven it is either personal enlightenment or becomes dogma and religion, at which point spirituality ceases in many cases. But that is another story.
A spiritual science geek seeks proof, tests evidence, repeats experiments on some level...even if it is just in deciding who to believe.
A spiritual science geeks sees truth in proof...and in perception.
It is a mistake to confuse cause with parallels. The fact that there are parallels in how quantum physics is described and how psychic work is described doesn't mean one caused the other. It proves nothing, debunks nothing. The parallels and analogies simply suggest that both science and spirituality are shadows of a greater truth. The "fringe element" comes from the same root source as mainstream science...they are from the human mind, heart, consciousness, perception and experience. They can co-exist without exclusion and without contradiction.
That's why I follow both Mythbusters and Deepak Chopra, CERN and Buddhism_Now on twitter.
All is one, all is well.
Baihu
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