Re-legitimizing heart-knowing and revelation ver 2

Are the mystics and sages insane? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don't they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with the All, in a timeless and eternal and infinite fashion. 

Yes, maybe they are crazy, these divine fools. Maybe they are mumbling idiots in the face of the Abyss. Maybe they need a nice, understanding therapist. Yes, I'm sure that would help. But then, I wonder. 

Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity — a total embrace of the entire Kosmos — a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true nature. It's at least plausible. 

And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics and sages the world over, any crazier than the scientific materialism story, which is that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: just which of those two stories actually sounds totally insane?

A Brief History of Everything (1996) p. 42

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Are the mystics and sages insane? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don't they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with the All, in a timeless and eternal and infinite fashion. 

Yes, maybe they are crazy, these divine fools. Maybe they are mumbling idiots in the face of the Abyss. Maybe they need a nice, understanding therapist. Yes, I'm sure that would help. But then, I wonder. 

Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity — a total embrace of the entire Kosmos — a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true nature. It's at least plausible. 

And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics and sages the world over, any crazier than the scientific materialism story, which is that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: just which of those two stories actually sounds totally insane?

A Brief History of Everything (1996) p. 42

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I know who I am because I know who I hate

IDENTITY (false): I know who I am because I know who I hate

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UNIVERSALISM: spiritual inspiration & wisdom via great teachers through the ages 5/07/12

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If satire is balm for the enraged you should get your fixes from Fleet Street Fox

This woman, Fleet Street Fox, is a seriously good satirist.  If like most people you are assaulted by what politicians, media, police and bankers get up to her articles will help you manage your sense of outrage.  

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Home thoughts. Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:02 AM PDT WHAT'S the most important thing you need to know to live in Britain? It's probably the answer to the question 'Pippa Middleton - why?' but then no-one seems to have figured that one out yet. Perhaps the physicists at CERN will get around to it now they've found the God particle  and can devote themselves to more important stuff. According to convent-educated Theresa May the most important thing people moving here need to learn is bits of Victorian poetry , the first verse of a Georgian national anthem, and stuff about a nurse from the Crimean War  who had so little idea of hygiene that death rates actually rose on her wards. There's an argument to be had about how much any of that has influenced British culture, and whether harking back two hundred years or more does anyone many favours. But it can't really be argued that the contents of the Home Office's new citizenship handbook  would better suit time-travellers to the 19th century than someone who's fresh off the boat in the 21st. There is a massive problem with people who arrive in Britain and never settle in. I've knocked on doors where the woman of the house cannot answer my questions despite being here for 30 years because she's never learned English and barely left the building. I've had to scour the streets to find someone who'll translate for me, sat in living rooms where life is absolutely no different from that of a country with far lower standards, not just of human rights but also hygiene and education. I've walked back to my car reflecting on the fact that the Middle Ages is sometimes only a five-minute walk from the petrol station. I've been stuck with a hangover in places where you can't find a bacon sandwich in a five-mile radius, which is when even a journalist starts to wonder whether not drinking in the first place might have been a better idea. The net result of that disconnect is people who don't feel they're part of things: who can't watch the news, who don't question what they're told or chat to other parents at the school gates. It promotes looking inwards when humans - and countries - are always at their best when they look out.  A little more cultural crossover is a great idea but of what possible relevance can the poetry of Robert Browning, wittering on about blossom'd pear trees and chaffinches on orchard boughs, have to someone who's finding their feet after fleeing genocide or poverty? I've lived here all my life and although I know we won the Battle of Trafalgar and afterwards Nelson had a snog and then died before being pickled in a barrel of brandy, it's fairly unimportant to my daily life and the actual date it took place utterly irrelevant. It makes far more sense for the citizenship test to include questions that will fit people for life in modern Britain, and actually be useful if you want to fit in on this sceptred isle: 1. Is having five or more alcoholic drinks on one occasion - a) binge-drinking b) a normal week night c) only to be risked if you buy bacon first 2. You have attended a charity event where you are introduced to Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. Do you - a) curtsey b) punch her on the shoulder, say 'nice one' and advise her to keep an eye on Harry c) not curtsey on the grounds you are more royal than she is 3. You are in a pub with friends watching an England game. Using a bottle of ketchup, two pint glasses and some ready salted crisps explain the offside rule. 4. In 1,000 words or less explain why a professional tennis player's international ranking is not the same as their Wimbledon seeding. 5. An American offers to make you tea. Do you - a) explain why the water needs to be boiling, not tepid; why the bag is added first, not last; and how long your personal preferences require the tea to be stewed b) accept and politely hope for the best c) refuse on the grounds they haven't a hope 6. Someone has suggested going to war. Do you - a) worry about killing lots of people, the financial cost, and seek independent legal advice about whether military action is legal b) make sure your lawyer doesn't say it might not be legal   c) put on some goggles and a neckscarf and climb onto a tank To read the full article or sign up to get her wonderful articles click HERE - http://www.fleetstreetfox.com/

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OMG Blair & Cameron have sold £267bn of the 'family silver'.

Oh my God we owe £267billion on Private Finance Initiatives - a quarter of our Gross Domestic Product!

Our current PFI liability is £267bn, about one fifth of our GDP. And because we treat our hospitals like a business they have started going bust.

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Jimmy Carr & 'How much tax has Dave £30m Cameron's family paid?'

Cameron's attack on Jimmy Carr beg's the question how much tax have Dave, his family, & fellow Tories paid?

Zoe Brennan' article made a start - how much more can be uncovered I wonder?

David Cameron (left) is descended from King William IV

Zoe tells us;

'Call me Dave' himself comes from a family which makes the bulk of the British landed gentry seem positively nouveau riche.

Cameron is William IV's great-great-great-great-great grandson, which Debrett's says makes him fifth cousin, twice removed, of the Queen.

As Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, of the guide Cracroft's Peerage, says: "Mr Cameron is the most aristocratic leader of the Conservative Party since Alec Douglas-Home."

But as well as being impeccably connected, David Cameron is also extremely wealthy. Sunday Times Rich List compiler and wealth watchdog Philip Beresford has valued the Tory leader for the first time.

He says: "I put the combined family wealth of David and Samantha Cameron at £30m plus. Both sides of the family are extremely wealthy. They certainly have no need to worry about poverty or paying school fees."

Read Zoe's fascinating article in full HERE

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Exquisite combination of Zen koans and wise sayings plus images

Zen Quotes Koans & Wise Sayings

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Zila Khan - Rubai (Sufi Darvesh)

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