Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 421
December 20, 2016
ALONE TOGETHER
Do you feel as though you are completely alone? Do you ever feel as though there is not one other person who really cares who you are, or what you think? It is possible to honestly and opening share your deepest thoughts, dreams or emotions with anyone? Do we really understand our OWN thoughts, dreams and emotions? If not, how can we honestly say that we can understand those of another being?
On Earth it seems that communication using language symbols with other beings actually prevents complete understanding! Our social facades, sexual-biological programing and cultural customs may temporarily soften the reality that we are, and have always been alone. As much as we may desire admiration from others, or feel admiration for others, we are the only person who really knows and understands the depth and breath of our inner, immortal self — if this is even possible at all.
Sharing life, love, understanding, hope, dreams and illusions with other beings — and losing them — awakens the soul-crushing brutality that we are, in fact, alone. There is no greater pain that any being can suffer than this awareness. Yet, this seems to be the fact of existence as we know it on Earth for the vast majority of beings.
When we die and have no body we literally disappear from physical universe reality. People may have memories of us, but these fade and die each each person fades and passes from “reality”. Religious propaganda tells us that “you are loved”. But, are you really loved by another person, and an unseen spirit? Do you even “love” yourself? Your relationship with yourself — yourself alone — is a subjective experience that cannot be shared with anyone. If we want to be “loved”, we must do it ourselves. Love is an experience that is self-created. However, when we’re dead we can “rest” assured that everyone else is alone with us, or without us. The pain we all endure alone is the reality we share together. ~ Lawrence R. Spencer, 2015.
Originally posted 2015-06-03 22:44:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
December 19, 2016
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THE POWER
I HONOR THE ESSENCE OF YOU:
A SOURCE OF UNIVERSES,
A SOURCE OF LIFE,
LOVE, TRUTH, PEACE,
CREATION and DESTRUCTION.
THE POWER THAT IS
YOU and ME and WE.
___________________
Lawrence R. Spencer
2013
Originally posted 2013-06-11 15:19:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
December 16, 2016
RESPECT
Originally posted 2014-04-25 12:22:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
December 15, 2016
WHY IS LIFE LIKE A FLYING FARMHOUSE?
“We have crash-landed in a twisted alien landscape of pain and mortality, far away from our home. As a race we have amnesia. We are repeatedly bumped on the head by the recurring cataclysmic upheavals of a planet whirling in space like a farmhouse in a tornado. 
The history of mankind seems blanketed in a simultaneous state of amnesia and deja vu. The ruins of ancient civilizations whisper a reminder that we have forgotten everything we knew.
A multitude of gods have shown themselves like shadows in the halls of history. We know not yet, except by our own observation and decision, which of them is real. We are betrayed by those who teach us that we must trust the Wizards of the West. While pretentious politicians defend the castles of the Witch, the media monkeys swarm to spin perverted lies to cover up their covert tricks.
The voiceless bones of wonderful wizards have dissolved to mortal dust once more. Their words have vanished in the smoke of sacred libraries, searing our souls with the stupefying stench of wisdom lost forever in their flames. From day to day the timeworn treadmill of survival forces us to worship at the soulless bankers’ shrine. Gold is still the god of the great and powerful Oz.
The future is an extension of the present. We must live our lives in the present in a manner which will create the greatest good for the greatest number of beings in the future. If we are aware of our own past lives, we must also be aware that we are creating our own future by our present actions. We will inherit our own legacy.”
~ excerpt from The Oz Factors
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Originally posted 2015-10-20 13:21:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
December 14, 2016
THOUGHTS FLY FASTER THAN LIGHT
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
~ Nikola Tesla ~
“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.”
– R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University , “The Mental Universe” ; Nature 436:29,2005) (source)
Originally posted 2015-11-30 23:33:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
December 12, 2016
PHILOSPHICAL MIND: 360 B.C.E.
Painting by John LaFarge, American (1835- 1910)
“Philosophical minds always love knowledge of a sort which shows them the eternal nature not varying from generation and corruption. He whose desires are drawn towards knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul. Then how can he who has magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all time and all existence, think much of human life?
He cannot.
Or can such an one account death fearful?
No indeed.
Then the cowardly and mean nature has no part in true philosophy?
Certainly not.
Or again: can he who is harmoniously constituted, who is not covetous or mean, or a boaster, or a coward-can he, I say, ever be unjust or hard in his dealings?
Impossible.
Then you will soon observe whether a man is just and gentle, or rude and unsociable; these are the signs which distinguish even in youth the philosophical nature from the unphilosophical. ”
Plato, THE REPUBLIC, 360 BCE
Originally posted 2012-08-12 13:37:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
December 11, 2016
TIME TRAVELING AROUND THE ROMAN EMPIRE
For ancient history geeks, like me, this video demostrates how to use the “Orbis” mapping system, from Stanford University, is the coolest history study tool invented for want-to-be time travelers. Here’s the link to the website: http://orbis.stanford.edu/
“Spanning one-ninth of the earth’s circumference across three continents, the Roman Empire ruled a quarter of humanity through complex networks of political power, military domination and economic exchange. These extensive connections were sustained by premodern transportation and communication technologies that relied on energy generated by human and animal bodies, winds, and currents.
Conventional maps that represent this world as it appears from space signally fail to capture the severe environmental constraints that governed the flows of people, goods and information. Cost, rather than distance, is the principal determinant of connectivity.
For the first time, ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity.
Taking account of seasonal variation and accommodating a wide range of modes and means of transport, ORBIS reveals the true shape of the Roman world and provides a unique resource for our understanding of premodern history.
Originally posted 2012-05-18 23:18:18. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
