when awareness is open...there's clarity...
compassion can act in grace...
as it opens itself...and embraces...
the all of its own human face...
in authentic spirituality...
true wisdom of ignorance is born...
now it can see beyond to free...
a vision beyond what is torn...
may humanity evolve its compassion...
beyond what it holds as belief...
may awareness continue to open...
where clarity can know true relief...
StarLight Dancing...

Jasmine: Mommie...where do i come from?

Mommie: Jasmine...you don't exist...you are just an illusion...a thought in the mind of God...a dream...

Jasmine: but Mommie...i have a body...i can speak and think and run and play...and learn...

Mommie: Jasmine...there is only God...the Absolute...all this is nothing...for nothing...you are just awareness on a journey back to God...and no matter what you do...it does not matter; cause all of this is an illusion anyways...

Jasmine: but Mommie...what about the children in Darfur...is that an illusion too?

Mommie: yes Jasmine...but we should help them if we can...and we must teach them the bible so that their souls might be saved!

Jasmine: but Mommie...why does it matter? if it is all just illusion...and we don't really exist...and we are all going back to the god anyways...if we don't help them want they get back to God faster?

Mommie: well, we must love one another Jasmine...

Jasmine: but if it doesn't matter...then why? what is our purpose Mommie...what is my
purpose?

Mommie: your purpose is to believe in god, be a good girl...say your prayers so you can go to heaven when you die...

Jasmine: where is heaven? who is god? should i pray to hurry up and die so i can be in heaven with god?

Mommie: Jasmine...i don't have time for this! just do what you are told...it's time to go to school...now you be sure and remember that all that science stuff is not true...God is all there is...i just don't understand why they are teaching all this garbage about evolution and are ignoring God's word...

Jasmine: Did God speak to you and tell you this Mommie?

Mommie: Jasmine...the preacher tells us these things...he knows the word of god...you must believe to get to heaven...and i just know it's true...and one day you will know too...so just do what you are told till then...(Mommie is quiet frustrated now)

Jasmine: Mommie what's the matter? am i being bad? will i go to hell? where is hell? where is heaven? who is God?

Mommie: Jasmine...we'll talk about this latter...you have to go to school and i have things to do...

Jasmine: why? if it does not matter anyways? (Jasmine sees her Mommies expression of anger and quickly changes to conform) i'm sorry Mommie...i'll be good...i promise...i love you Mommie...

Mommie: by Jasmine...i love you too...see you later...have a good day...

Little Buddha: Papa, why did Buddha leave his home and family and go sit underneath a tree?

Papa: he was searching for truth my son...

Little Buddha: and did he find it?

Papa: why yes my son...he found that all was an illusion...everything we see...all just a dream of consciousness...the supreme source...the absolute...and all this is relative...

Little Buddha: if that is true Papa, then why did he spend the rest of his life teaching renunciation and transformation?

Papa: b/c son, he wanted all to be free of the illusion...

Little Buddha: but Papa, is not all that he did an illusion too?

Papa: no son! bite your tongue! the sacred Dharma is real!

Little Buddha: so everything else is illusion? but all the scriptures are real?

Papa: the messages of the teachings are real my son...

Little Buddha: and what is the message?

Papa: that all is illusion...

Little Buddha: then why are we here?

Papa: to teach the Dharma so that all sentient beings can be free...

Little Buddha: free of what? it's all illusion...right?

Papa: LOL...yes son...

Little Buddha: how can the Dharma be real then?

Papa: Buddha said so...

Little Buddha: but Buddha is an illusion too...right?

Papa: yes, but his message is not...

Little Buddha: how is that possible Papa...that an illusion can speak a reality?

Papa: the reality is spoken through consciousness...which is the absolute...all else is relative...

Little Buddha: how do we KNOW that consciousness is real?

Papa: Buddha said so...believe son, believe...

Little Buddha: Papa...i want to be a scientist...i want proof...i want to find my own tree...
and instead of just sitting under it...i want to investigate it...instead of being told what to believe...i want to know...

Papa: how far will you journey son?

Little Buddha: to the stars Papa...to the stars...

Papa: be well on your journey son...don't forget your buddhist vows...

Little Buddha: oh Papa...that is just an illusion!

Dad: how is college son?

Maverick: well, i just cannot harmonize the religious beliefs of Mom, with your scientific ones dad...it is quiet frustrating...you're an atheist, Mom is a believer...science is an enemy of religion and vice versa...

Mom: what do you believe son?

Maverick: well, it is all confusing...how can you not believe in scientific facts?

Mom: b/c they are not complete, and i need something complete and solid to believe in...religion offers that...

Dad: scientific facts are ever changing, b/c our knowledge of our reality is ever evolving...if it cannot be proved...it does not exist!

Maverick: Dad, i do agree with that partially, but i also see Mom's point...there has to be a guiding principle that is beyond what our human minds can understand...and so, i do not denounce that for the very reason that i cannot prove it...and yet, i find it more logical to investigate and question, instead of just believing what ancient believers have passed down as solid truth...

Dad: son, if you are hoping that one day science will prove that there is a God...you are living in fantasy land...

Mom: and if you are depending on science to ever gets its facts straight, are you too not living in fantasy land?

Maverick: why can you not both agree that there is potential for both? that we should not exclude spirituality nor science? that both can help us to know ourselves and the reality in which we live?

Mom: son, you said it yourself...science is the enemy of religion...

Maverick: yes...but science is not the enemy of a logical spirituality...what is at the forefront now of the new science is trying to understand why our experience of consciousness gives rise to awareness and how. instead of believing in magic...why not try and discover the magic of the real?

Mom: so what you are saying, is that my God might very well be the magic of the real?

Dad: are you also saying, that my ideas concerning the magic of the real...might be God?

Maverick: i am saying that there is room for both...imagination and logic...with logic we can cancel out what is fantasy...yet with imagination, we can remain open to potential...if we continue to close ourselves off...where will come our bridge of understanding?

Mom and Dad: you are the best of both of us our son...you are that bridge...

Maverick: so does this mean you wont be getting that divorce?

Mom: Maverick...i've been thinking about our conversation, and wanted to ask you about this idea you have of God...do you believe?

Maverick: Mom, i don't think the problem is with the idea of God...the problems are how we have come to define that idea of God...most believe in an unrealistic idea of what God is...

Mom: what do you believe son?

Maverick: well, i don't have all the answers...but what i do know is that i experience a wonderful deep spiritual resonance with all of nature, and all of being...i'm a systems thinker mom...and the God that i know is in all of life...even in a rock...

Mom: a rock? that's nonsense!

Maverick: but Mom...does not your scriptures teach that very thing? "The kingdom of heaven is inside you and all around you; split a piece of wood and you will find me; lift a stone, and i am there."

Mom: what are you suggesting son...that God is not a separate spiritual entity but in all things?

Maverick: more than that Mom...that not only is God in all things, but that God may very well be consciousness that has been made aware in humans...aware with compassion which is expressed through and in humanity...but Mom...isn't that too what your scriptures teach...that God is Love and light?

Mom: but son, how does your science explain creation...without a creator?

Maverick: Mom, the answer to that question might just be found when science figures out just what consciousness is, and how it rises through experience in human awareness...continuing to only answer the sprirtual side of this question does not help us to explain why we are here...and denying evolution and the big bang...is to continue to deny scientific fact...replaced by religious fallacy...

Mom: we're here to love one another son...that is what religions teach...

Maverick: well...how is that working for us Mom? we have had literally centuries to
understand this love and evolve into a world that expresses it...what prevents us from it in your opinion? what continues to cause otherwise intelligent humans to go to war and kill their brothers and sisters? and to continue to ignore the needs of this very planet...our home...and all of humanity as precious?

Mom: well, all the different beliefs...i suppose...

Maverick: religious beliefs?

Mom: why yes...

Maverick: what makes yours right, and everyone elses wrong?

Mom: honestly? i suppose just my belief that it is so...

Maverick: what would you be without all your judgments and beliefs?

Mom: well, maybe i would be more accepting of others...more understanding...

Maverick: if you actually believe in love and light...could that not be the encouraging factor in a better humanity? rather then a set of conditions? why do we not just feed the hungry b/c it is the right thing to do? educate the poor so that they can learn to be responsible for themselves and lead happier lives? by doing this could we not free the minds of the opressed through love(food), and light(education)so that their consciousness in turn can evolve...learn how to take responsibility...and then share that with others?

Mom: what about an after-life?

Maverick: what about it? would it not be more logical to live this life to the fullest, encouraging love and light in others to do the same instead of dreaming about a place not in the here and now? besides...isn't the very idea and embodiment of love and light...in the here and now...the very bridge to be crossed to reach a so-called after life? did not Jesus say...take no thought for the morrow?   love thy neighbor as thyself?  seems to me all this concern about heaven and hell has nothing to do with the reality we live in the here and now...except maybe that continuing to believe in a heaven up there somewhere...prevents us from making this life a haven for all...and so...many have hell...right here on earth...

Mom: you sound like your dad...

Maverick: well mom...i am not dad...and my ideas have evolved along side of the new science...which dad is still as suspicious of as you are of his beliefs...

Mom: i'll give it some more thought son...and while i am doing that...i want you to think about good and evil...how do you explain that with this new fanangaled science of yours?

if you read these in order they make more sense...

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Maverick: hey Dad...whudup?

Dad: i have just been looking into this new science you have been talking about...it is quiet ridiculous...multiuniverses, enactivism, what happened to the old days where science made sense?

Maverick: i might ask you what happened to you having an open, and investigating mind?

Dad: i'm old...things need to just make sense now...

Maverick: you sound like Mom now...

Dad: so do you...all this mystical spiritual stuff...i thought you gave that up with your Buddhist phase...when you realized they had 8 hells to the christians one? for a while i gave up on you...all that illusion from an illusion stuff...no good or evil...ridiculous...

Maverick: LOL...Dad...all the teachings only can point to the truth...which seems to be as illusory as the moon...but science continues to try and explain these truths...

Dad: oh yeah? how's that? this new science of yours just seems to be confusing everyone.

Maverick: well does that mean that we give up? that we don't try to know? just continue on as we are? what good will that do? will we not blow each other up and the earth along with us? will you not at least try and see both sides of the truth?

Dad: not if you're going to start preaching about a heaven and hell, forgiveness and sin, and all that religious stuff your mom tried to force feed me with a spoon full of guilt in every word...

Maverick: ok but Dad...want you at least entertain the possibility that we can have a
compassionate humanity? and that the basic teaching of all religions point to this?

Dad: well we are not any closer to it son...b/c of the very religions that are at war with themselves...why don't they just get it over with and kill themselves and all their gods in the process? that would settle this heaven myth once and for all...isn't that their goal anyways?  maybe then the rest of us that are intelligent can get on with a better life minus all their nonsense...

Maverick: if we do not discourage this through compassion and continued learning...you may just get your wish...

Dad: i don't really mean that son...i just cannot stomach religion...i am a man of reliable science. i am fine with enjoying things the way i experience them...i can't help how others see it.

Maverick: yes you can...you can be open again...you can tap into that potential that you have...by not doing so, you are remaining just as closed minded to spirituality as religions are to science...

Dad: well...i will consider it...but as far as i know, we are just here...to believe in any God...or divine purpose or creative intelligence is to make more of this than there is...i say eat, drink, and be merry...for tomorrow you just might die...survival of the fittest...all that love and light stuff is for the weak minded...facts my son...that is all there is...

Maverick: Dad...do you not feel the beauty in a sunset...have you not ever had a spiritual experience of this and felt it deep within your being...that you are in some way connected to all of nature? that there is some mystery within the very magic of the real just waiting for us to discover and experience?

experiencing another world...
alive...in space and time...
where knowledge opens up to bloom...
such wonders of the mind...
everything is brighter...
dancing in its play...
time it is now flowing...
intertwined with open space...
what a wondrous vision...
with no decided view...
no rigid, concrete, dictate...
just an ever present new...
vibrant in its being...
like lovers as they dance...
open, perfect, knowingness...
floats you in a trance...
and yet it is so vivid...
and filled with clarity...
dancing in this space and time...
with knowledge pure and free...
StarLight Dancing...

i just finished reading Time, Space, And Knowledge...my official introduction to this new vision...although i had had some experience with it through others on gaia, Bruce and David, i remained skeptical, thinking "OMG...another belief system" lol...

the difference of this vision, is that it uses our very existence, the very reality that we as human live each day, to open us up to new and powerful ways of thinking...and being this knowledge...in this magical dance of space and time...

i have to tell you all that i am quiet impressed with this vision; b/c i am actually experiencing the results...or if you will...living the vision...

each of us has within our own awareness this amazing ability to know...and for that knowing itself to be a creative force and power in our own lives as well as the lives of those around us...all we have to do is to be willing to open up to it...in space and time...

i have used many teachings along this journey of life to address my spiritual depths within...but i have always found them lacking...sure, they got me to a certain point...a certain place of clarity, and for that i am ever grateful...but the place they took me was still a confining place...a place where awareness can get stuck...and feel trapped once again...sending it either to run for the mountains and hide, or back looking and searching for something...always something...missing...yet to be apprehended or attained...hidden...from view...never really understanding why i am...why what is is...how to make sense of the world in which i live day to day...and my own awareness of what is seen...

by using the very things that allow for this human life that i am living...space which allows for appearance, time which allows for experience of appearance, and knowledge which flows from the marriage of the two...i finally feel home...

this is a magical time for me...not in the sense that it is 'out of this world' magical...it is the magic of the real that i live every day which is in this world that is so amazing...

my first experiences with tsk, were at first just reading what others had posted concerning their experiences...what i noticed however; was that i was actually able to experience this journey of opening up, right along with their descriptions of it...

we tend to 'close down'...isolate, even if our own awareness is clear, when we do this, we are in actuality shutting ourselves off from the very knowledge that is within this realm of space and time...and it is all around us...through us...through all being...and it is very powerful...

last night, i was able to experience this wondrous power available to me and all of being when i went to a dinner party...i was still glowing with openness from having read this amazing acount of this vision of tsk, and i had so much energy...not in a hyped up kinda way...but in a balanced, harmonious, open way...

anyway, i felt like i was just floating in and out of different worldspaces...as i looked outside into the evening sky, the colors were magnificent...i felt myself opening up to the sky and its beauty...i felt the sensations of the trees rustling their branches, and even the dimming light seemed to bathe me with its comforting glow...through my very being...as if including it in its space...i opened to it...

i went outside and sat on the porch swing, as the night had dropped within this space that even opened up more...to include the sensations of the breeze that at first was very cool and comforting from the warmth that had filled the space of the house i had just stepped out of...

the wind picked up and i noticed the difference of sounds...then a melodic windchime entered the space of what i was hearing, feeling, and seeing...and more beauty was allowed within space...time was floating...

the cold blew me back inside where my friend was still cooking...another was on the internet checking to see where his brothers flight was...and more space was opened...the brother in a plane in the open sky...who i am to meet on Saturday...time...space allowing for more...allowing time to flow upon it...nonrestricted...

as the others arrived for dinner i found myself in the kitchen helping my friend...it was like this amazing dance of being...all appearing in space, and time allowing for the interactions to take place with such grace...never pushing...not hurried...just naturally being...

i was amazed at the play off each other and how simplistically sychronized it seemed to be...but not in a certain way...just flowing...laughter...chitchat...the food was amazing...we raised our glasses and toasted to 'good friends, good food, and good living'...

as we moved into the living room, i noticed everything was more brilliant...space had a glow...and that glow was feeding off itself...opening up even more space...where the conversations flowed from one to another to another...again, like a dance that was not rehearsed...just allowed to be...in this space...no one was hindered from expression...no discomfort...just sharing knowledge...intelligently...allowing for differences to not be different...just a flow of ideas...in the moment of this open time and space that danced with knowledge of being...

the night seemed to go on and on...space allowing for many more appearances, ideas, interaction...and still today...there is this flowing...openness as i sit here typing remembering time...its flow...the space which allows for all appearance and experience...opening even more...knowing itself...amazing...

this knowledge that is ever present...ever alive for us to continually experience in being...is available to us all...space allows for its appearance...and time does not
restrict its flow...if we open to it...knowledge is known as being itself...

who is this hateful god that waits...
building heavens pearly gates...
while millions of his children starve...
suffering...their only fate...
this god is just one of many excuse...
for man to be ignorantly obtuse...
to not own responsibility..
in prayer he falls down on his knee...
blame the devil pray to god...
while onward christian soldiers trod...
the jews kill for their sacred land...
the muslims have their own god plan...
strap on a bomb blow israel up...
oh will we please just all grow up...
stop running from reality...
joining buddhist camps for free...
we search for happiness and peace...
or stuff ourselves with food to eat...
or buy more clothes that we wont wear...
drive gas guzzlers everywhere...
drink our wine take our pills...
close our eyes to all we kill...
while we fight over absolutes...
who really, really gives a hoot?
we wait for god...to make a move...
we know we are the chosen few...
we hide our fear with fantasy...
but oh how we all do believe...
this hateful god that waits to love...
sits on a throne in heaven above...
this must be justification for hate...
this idea of a god that waits...
StarLight Dancing...