Dearly Beloved,
I want to share this with you!
I'm looking at the STELLA-NATURA
(Inspiration & Practical Advice for Home Gardeners
& Professional Growers in Working with Ccosmic Rhythms)
1999 Kimberton Hills Biodynamic Agricultural Calendar,
and I must say I am impressed.
On page 10, in a densely-packed two-page article entitled THE STAR WE LIVE
BY, Robert McCracken, MD begins as follows:
"As a medical doctor, student of spiritual and natural science, and
truth-seeking human being, I have long held a fascination for the way the
world is explained in so many seemingly irreconcilable ways. Trying to
reconcile these differences is an ongoing challenge. Equally important for
me are the moral consequences of how humans view creation and their place in
it. For it impacts to such a large extent on the health and illness of the
individual as well as communal life. Consequently, the way the world is
conceived is of no small importance. Rather than choosing one view over
another, it seems more satisfying to find where each is actually justified
and complements the other. By merging the natural and spiritual scientific
world views, the resulting world picture is more complete and much richer
than either would be standing alone."
Being schooled in natural science myself, and currently opening to spirit,
this got my attention. I'll follow this only a bit further:
"Pre-Grecian humanity, almost without exception, placed the sun at the
center of their world view. To them it was the spiritual source of life,
and made all things what they were. They ordered their cultural and
agricultural calendars according to its rhythms -- a practice which modern
man has wisely continued. The central position of the sun is completely
understandable, considering what our planet would become without its
ceaseless outpouring of what ancient humanity called spirit life, and we
today call energy."
These last fifteen words of the paragraph above are the heart of the article
for me, and I wonder if they might well be true, that spirit and energy are
one and the same, having both a physical and a spiritual component, and this
fact -- if it IS a fact -- having been lost by modern mainstream humanity.
The article contrasts Rudolf Steiner's update and expansion of the ancient
conceptions with the modern scientific worldview, seeking to reconcile the
two, which it may have done at the end of its second paragraph.
Getting now to the the STAR of this show, and what it is I most want to
share, at the end of the article's first page McCracken continues:
"Much of the current picture of the sun that modern astronomy has arrived at
comes from a satellite called SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
which orbits the earth and the sun in a unique position called an inner
Lagrangian point. There, SOHO is balanced between the pull of the earth's
and the sun's gravity, and thus exists in a state of non-graviity. Its 12
instruments examine the sun in unprecedented detail. They downlink several
thousand images a day through NASA's Deep Space Network antennae to SOHO's
experimanters' Operations Facility. Many of the unique images then move
instantaneously to the internet, where anyone can see them by accessing the
SOHO home page ().
Exploring there for a look at these images, I found something that just
dropped my jaw in AWE and WONDER, and it is THIS I want to share with you.
Whatever else is there -- and I don't know what else is there because I
didn't get any farther than this -- I have never -- NEVER -- seen anything
like THIS before.
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Check it out, my lovelies, I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
If this isn't holy, I don't know what holy is.
Deep in velvet black space
Backdropped by myriad other distant Suns
Bathed in its own living corona
Up close and ALIVE with energy
Our Father Who Art in Heaven
Hallowed BeThy Name
Go ahead and use the slide and scroll controls on the side and bottom margin
to view the entire image, getting all around it, I MEAN, this will put you
RIGHT THERE.
If you remember the feeling of sacredness I tried to convey in my post POWER
PLACE on May 29, this is IT in SPADES.
It occurs to me also to share some words to a song sung by a beautiful
brother who visited the mountain wilderness community I lived in at that
time, in 1981. I'd love to credit him now with his composition, but after
nearly 20 years I can't recall his name!
Falling in Love with the Earth
Falling in Love with the Lovely Earth
Falling around the Sun
Falling and Turning into the One
With Love for ALL,
Green
