August 16, 2004

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  Music Savants…this interested me!

  
  

  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/25/60minutes/main575161.shtml

  
  

  “Some scientists think all of us may have savant skills hidden deep within our brains, but that our ability to reason somehow prevents us from accessing them. Others believe that certain parts of savants’ brains become hyper-developed to compensate for the dysfunction everywhere else, resulting in some strange paradoxes.
  
  

  
  

  you know I like this…

  
  

  our ability to reason…..our identification as the thinker….it is the internal division of our conscious energy. This separation of consciousness into the watcher and thinker is present in each of us…

  
  

  its contrast with the intellect can be explored

  
  

   with the tool of intension

  
  

  seek out the watcher…the silent witness…the timeless child within.

  
  

  place you attention within this present timeless being….

  
  

  and you will know.  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

  PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Toward a Science Charged with Faith

  
  

  Truth has to appear only once in a single mind, for it to be impossible ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.
  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  
  

  Teilhard was seen by the Vatican as a threat to the integrity of the faith. Rome insisted that his religious writings should not be published; he was forbidden to teach or even to speak publicly on religious subjects; he was banished from his native country. Yet his ideas were disseminated informally and sometimes secretly by friends and colleagues in the church. He became a hero and a role model for a whole generation of younger priests and theologians. He set the stage for the renewal movements which finally came to flower in the era of Vatican II.

  
  

  At the same time he also suggested a program for the reconstruction of science. He put forward a systematic critique of traditional science which was just as radical and just as provocative as his criticism of traditional religion, and he provoked equally extreme reactions in the scientific community. A small number of world-class scientists have taken his ideas seriously enough to structure their own work on Teilhard’s model, but the majority of scientists have reacted as defensively as the Vatican theologians.

  
  

  TEILHARD:

  
  

  Asked whether life is going anywhere . . . nine biologists out of ten will today say no, even passionately. They will say: “It is abundantly clear to every eye that organic matter is in a state of continual metamorphosis, and even that this metamorphosis brings it with time towards more and more improbable forms. But what scale can we find to assess the absolute or even relative value of these fragile constructions? By what right, for instance, can we say that a mammal, even in the case of man, is more advanced, more perfect, than a bee or a rose? . . . we can no longer find any scientific grounds for preferring one of these laborious products of nature to another. They are different solutions – but each equivalent to the next. One spoke on the wheel is as good as any other; no one of the lines appears to lead anywhere in particular.”
  
  Science in its development – and even, as I shall show, mankind in its march – is marking time at this moment, because men’s minds are reluctant to recognize that evolution has a precise orientation and a privileged axis. Weakened by this fundamental doubt, the forces of research are scattered and there is no determination to build the earth.

  
  

  Leaving aside all anthropocentrism and anthropomorphism, I believe I can see a direction and a line of progress for life, a line and a direction which are in fact so well marked that I am convinced their reality will be universally admitted by the science of tomorrow

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

  Our primary relationship is really with ourselves.

  
  

   Our relationships with other people

  
  

  constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

  
  

  —-Shakti Gawain

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

  There is no stairway to heaven

  
  

  open you eyes

  
  

  you are there

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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