a blog by
patt
o'neill
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 becoming
galactic
writings for
our evolution
As a shaman/Buddhist, seeker of enlightenment, I believe that our next leap in
evolution will be consciously precipitated. We will -- nay, we must -- proactively create
our becoming if we are to survive. This civilization we have made will not persist. We
are like the king in this work by Shelley:
I met a traveller from an antique land who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk a shatter’d visage lies, whose
frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those
passions read... And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandius,
King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands
stretch far away.
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April 9, 2009
Ethics, Logic and the Heart
For those of you born outside of this solar system, this is a fictitious character known as a Vulcan, from the planet of the same name in the universe of Star Trek®. Vulcans are known to pursue Logic as their supreme value, disparaging intuition and emotion, much to the annoyance of their human coworkers. Unfortunately, logic was never defined!
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April 5, 2009
Mother Earth Has P.M.S.
This is an image of a berserker, a Viking warrior who went into trance and fought in an enraged state. “In old-Norse sagas, they were warriors who dressed themselves in bear skins, to make use of the fear common people had for wild animals. They whipped themselves up to a sort of battle frenzy, biting their shields and howling like animals. They were . . .
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March 21, 2009
The Destructive Myth of
Trickle-Down Economics
It is time to lay to rest this destructive myth, this mantra of Reagonomics. Has not this misconception created enough misery? Wealth created from the top then trickling down to the serfs is a feudal and subservient belief. Wealth is seen as coming from above, from the lords of the land.
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January 9, 2009
He Ain't Heavy . . .
I ran into the grocery store to buy a few potatoes to throw into my cabbage and veggie soup. Sitting on the pavement outside the store's sliding door was a man. He caught my eye because he was groomed, shaven ...
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December 28, 2008
The Myth of Energy Stealing
Many people believe that they are engines, biomechanical devices, alive in a wondrous universe of space and time -- and nothing more. No wonder those who are not awake to their full consciousness fear death. ...
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December 19, 2008
A Tribute to Ivan Rebroff
The freezer in the London flat we shared in West Hampstead with several other people was where my friend Derek Colley kept his vodka. From time to time he would take the bottle out and proceed to ...
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May 3, 2008
Presuppositions of Quantum Consciousness, 10
Our conceptualization of the universe and of our own consciousness seems to parallel our worldview. Early humans, when they thought about it and weren’t too busy just surviving, blended into the landscape of the natural world. They...
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April 23, 2008
Presuppositions of Quantum Consciousness, 9
The ten or so dimensions postulated by quantum physics have not been mapped, charted or otherwise defined as to their qualities. Certainly science has not addressed consciousness within these dimensions. But, fortunately ...
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