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What If – Nichole Nordeman
Here’s another Christian pop tune that I stumbled across in my travels. I like the song and don’t really know if it needs a video. But this video seems the least intrusive of all the others I saw at Youtube.
One of things I like about music is how it can create its own visual landscape of the imagination. So if the video just gets in the way, you can always sit back, turn your head the other way, and listen.
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Review – Finding God: The Enlightenment (DVD 2 of 3)
Title: Finding God: The Enlightenment – Disc 2
Genre: Body Mind Spirit, Religion, Meta-Physics
Production Company: Reality Films
(Review for Disc 1 is here; Disc 3 is here)
Philip Gardiner’s Finding God: The Enlightenment is a three DVD set including Quantum Mind of God, Science of Soul, and Ancient Code.
Disc 2, Science of Soul: The End-Time Solar Cycle of Chaos in 2012 A.D., asks whether the year 2012 will bring about a quantum leap of consciousness or possibly a global nightmare.
Closely following Dr. John Jay Harper’s book Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century, Science of Soul explores these and other compelling questions.
The film’s innovative graphics and haunting soundtrack set the mood for a detailed examination of the mythic symbol of the axis mundi (world axis). Also, possible links among DNA, psi and global transformation are investigated.
Those sympathetic to the philosophy of natural pantheism, where the universe is taken to be God and therefore conscious, will find much in this DVD to support their beliefs. Meanwhile, believers in theism (where God is conceptualized as ‘wholly other’ from Creation) might bristle a bit at its unabashed syncretism.
Regardless of our guiding beliefs, Science of Soul carries an ethical message that few sane people would find fault in: To love and live peacefully among ourselves. And when you think about it, no one fully knows just what God is and how the divine interacts with organic life and the supposedly inorganic universe.
It’s probably just a matter of time before Science of Soul’s integral approach is embraced by the gatekeepers of both contemporary scientific and religious thought. But a comprehensive gelling of Big Science and Big Religion might take a little longer than most of us would hope for, given the deeply entrenched historical biases that inform our 21st century worldview.
We shouldn’t be discouraged, however. As a catalyst for this much needed dialogue, Science of Soul is a definite step in the right direction.
–MC
(Review for Disc 1 is here; Disc 3 is here)
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Review – Finding God: The Enlightenment (DVD 1 of 3)
Title: Finding God: The Enlightenment – Disc 1
Genre: Body Mind Spirit, Religion, Meta-Physics
Production Company: Reality Films
(Review for Disc 2 is here; Disc 3 is here)
It’s critical, the situation is pitiful
Bear in mind, you gotta find somethin’ spiritual
We never gain, ’cause we blame it on the system
You oughta listen whether Muslim or Christian
Or any other type religion or creed
–Guru, “Living in this World,” Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality
Philip Gardiner’s Finding God: The Enlightenment is a three DVD set including Quantum Mind of God, Science of Soul, and Ancient Code.
Disc 1, Quantum Mind of God, is a sweeping journey of exploration, encompassing ideas from the North African theologian St. Augustine, the French philosopher René Descartes, to the German quantum physicist Max Planck and beyond.
The soundtrack blends Gregorian chants, Hindi pop and contemporary New Age music. And the narration presents a unique 21st century theological synthesis, with a seamless array of graphics and images garnered from many sciences, religions and wisdom traditions like alchemical gnosticism and Shamanism.
Topics covered include the apparent importance of quartz, granite, vibrational patterns, magnetic movement and the pineal gland, all of which are said to link the micro and macrocosmic structures of nature and the larger universe.
Basically, this film is about life. And while mathematical equations try to provide the “how” of life, Quantum Mind of God rightly points out that equations, alone, cannot explain the “why” of our existence. Statistics might indicate how most of us are likely to behave on a given day or month with respect to certain predefined variables. But numbers can’t predict how specific individuals choose to exercise their free will.
There are always exceptions to the rule.
Some folks seem to forget that fact and end up looking like hypocrites. Just as we chop up nature into tiny pieces for analysis and dissection, some people’s minds seem to be arranged in almost discrete compartments. These persons often judge this or that moral action while turning a blind eye to their own questionable tendencies.
In short, not everyone is psychologically mature and integrated. And this psychological epidemic extends not just to the dull-witted or so-called “uneducated,” but arguably to all levels of society.
The antidote to this social malady, according to Gardiner, is holism. We must recognize the whole and not just the parts. This seems especially so when it comes to ESP (extrasensory perception).
Findings have repeatedly shown that ESP works better when emotion is involved. Be it the emotion of mature interpersonal attachment or even the basic arousal induced by erotic images, ESP is more pronounced when human beings are emotionally and physiologically activated, instead of just relying on abstract thought (disinfo.com¹ and disinfo.com²).
Quantum Mind of God’s message of individual freedom and, yet, basic interconnectedness is a timely reminder that we’ve got to get it together–within and among ourselves, and with the One who created all our selves.
–MC
(Review for Disc 2 is here; Disc 3 is here)
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Jim Carrey denigrates Hinduism on SNL?
My latest #BubbleTweet –> Jim Carrey denigrates Hinduism on SNL? http://bbltwt.com/ujcvt—
Michael Clark, Ph.D (@earthpages) January 17, 2011
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Dreams of spirit
NGC 7293, The Helix Nebula, a planetary nebula Credit: NASA, ESA, and C.R. O'Dell via Wikipedia
Here’s a Q&A at AllExperts.com that suggests spirituality might involve warm and fuzzy feelings. But it’s worthwhile to ask if these feelings are really from God or from some other power.
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fear of dark objects
Image: cliff1066 via Wikipedia
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Is being a Lesbian/ being gay a sin?
Vintage photograph of two intimate women in a hammock, circa 1900 via Wikipedia
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Catholics/Is being a Lesbian/ being gay a sin?
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Super Fast Book Review – James Hillman’s Re-visioning Psychology (Jungian and post-Jungian)
book review, originally uploaded by Michael Clark.
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Seems I’m not able to embed this any longer… beginner’s luck, I guess.
Anyhow, here’s the link.
“When I was back there in Seminary school…”
Actually, I never went to any kind of seminary but I just had to call up the old Jim Morrison lyric… 
Today I remembered a thought that occurred to me around the time when I was a graduate student in Religious Studies (certainly not Seminary school!). It went something like this:
God is usually regarded by theologians as omniscient, which means “all-knowing.”
I, myself, am not all-knowing.
Does God really know what it’s like to be me? That is, can an all-knowing God truly know what it’s like to not be all-knowing?
And if not, is God truly all-knowing?
A brain twister for sure.
I don’t pretend to have the answer, mostly because I think the limits of our human cognition define and analyze the issue in equally limited ways. That’s my way out of this apparent paradox. But I think it’s a fun one to toss around.
What if God was one of us? (Joan Osborne – One Of Us)
