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On Oct 24, 9:39 pm, bob young <alaspect... at (no spam) netvigator.com> wrote:
[quote]Jimbo wrote:
On Oct 23, 11:17 am, "bigflet... at (no spam) gmail.com" <bigflet... at (no spam) gmail.com
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The 'third eye' has been depicted in a number of ancient cultures,
usually with spiritual or psychic connotations. (To me, spirituality
is to religion as symphonic music is to rap).
Many forms of yoga teach the technique of focusing on what is called
the 'tisra til'. Seers often say that is the point in which different
visions crystallize, or a 'gateway' to parallel realities
To the uninitiated, this (validly) sounded like so much mumbo jumbo.
When the pineal gland was first identified, it was seen as a 'lump'
with no perceived usefulness. It was then seen to be a light sensitive
gland, from which all other components of the endocrinology system
connect. Approaching night, melatonin is triggered, as with serotonin
with the sunrise.
Further investigation, discovered structures of hammers and cones
identical to those in the cornea...!
This is a good example of how religious conditioning can block the day
to day value of such scientific based discovery, because such
scientific findings confront, what is mistakenly associated with
religious dogmas.
Another example being the effect carbon dating has on the
creationists belief. It at least 'shakes up' their views, but of
course, some hold on even tighter to their old images, as though new
insights will somehow diminish the truth of what is really happening.
Both sides of the argument refer to historical timing, but if the
religionist is willing to change his reference from local timing ( the
insignificant 'dot' of a planet revolving around a third rate star in
a fourth rate galaxy),to cosmological time scales, then it doesnt
sound ludicrous at all. This is a measure of spiritual growth, often
referred to as an expanding consciousness
If god exists in some form, then surely, it is only when we are each
willing to look deeper into form'ation, can we get closer to the
deeper truths.
Religions at best, are stepping stones, and at worst, are the sort of
stones used for stoning "metaphorically as well as literally".
BOfL
The law of averages states that if one makes millions of assertions
based on religious dogma, a certain percentage of those are bound to
also be confirmed in science, although for different reasons. It
doesn't mean anything beyond the fact that science found evidence why
that particular dogma is correct. Some people tend to ignore the
fact that science disproved 100,000 such assertions for each one of
them that were proven correct. In other words, if you put a million
monkey in a large concert hall on a million pianos, for a million
years, eventually you're going to hear Handel's Messiah.
By that time they must be capapable of verbal communication, so by the same
yardstick, one of 'em would be playing the Messiah whilst dedicating it to
their new god, the one that looks remarkably like a monkey- Hide quoted text -
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LOL! True. |
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