Thank you for sharing what you believe. It’s fascinating and, per your usual, has humorous twists. If I’m understanding your terms — for example, you don’t talk to your angel but do know they ferry you to the “vet,” indicating some communication— then I’d say this is my experience as well. I have a meditation and “recording and listening” practice in which I communicate with my angel — whom I consider to be an aspect of Life in touch directly with me — and receive gentle but clear responses. Not always, but whenever they are needed. It’s delightful. Also, cute cat. ❤️
Thanks, Melissa! Yeah, I think of angels as opportunities or invitations — an open space where I could expand into if I want. It takes a high level of silence and observation to perceive that! I don't do it very well, much of the time. ❤️ DB
A symbol found me recently. It is a brush stroke of a circle. The beginning doesn't touch the ending...a circle though. In the middle is the message, This is it. I have been a pitiful person, unforgiving, chips on both shoulders cursing my bad luck. I have been filled with wonder and awe and the ecstasy of being alive. I like the circle and not the ladder for my explaining the pain, sadness, and the joy due to the reoccurring moments. I am currently believing Gaia holds me together with molecules and quarks and suffused with magnetism.
Glad you took the time and energy to share this with us… It’s a mystery “what it’s all about Alfie”!as the song goes…
Anyway I think it’s all about the universal energy of Love.. maybe
but why are we blessed and others not .. I guess the mystery continues .. all I can say is hang in there .. gratitude helps tho , doesn’t it .. Thanks for this , and have fun with your Angel💕😊🦋Carol🇨🇦
Lately I have been thinking of various threads that are adjacent to this topic. Supposedly, the idea of an all-knowing, all-good, and presumably all-powerful god is first known to have been developed by the Platonists, with hints in pre-Socratic philosophy. The 'problem of evil' arising from the 'tri-omni' God was purportedly first stated by Epicurus around 200 BCE.
Would the problem of evil exist if God's presumed tri-omni status was brought into question? William James, for example, held that belief in a finite God (in power or knowledge, or both at once) is pragmatically richer than belief in an absolutely unlimited God. In Pragmatism (1907) he wrote:
"Suppose that the world's author put the case to you before creation, saying: "I am going to make a world not certain to be saved, a world the perfection of which shall be conditional merely, the condition being that each several agent does its own 'level best.' I offer you the chance of taking part in such a world. Its safety, you see, is unwarranted. It is a real adventure, with real danger, yet it may win through. It is a social scheme of co-operative work genuinely to be done. Will you join the procession? Will you trust yourself and trust the other agents enough to face the risk?"
James' wager sounds like an early version of McGilchrist's wager. But while James' primary contrast is between 'finite' and 'infinite,' with him clearly choosing the former over the latter, McGilchrist describes a union of the finite with the infinite. And panentheism, he suggests, may be a way to bring us closer to this paradoxical understanding of divinity.
Thank you for sharing what you believe. It’s fascinating and, per your usual, has humorous twists. If I’m understanding your terms — for example, you don’t talk to your angel but do know they ferry you to the “vet,” indicating some communication— then I’d say this is my experience as well. I have a meditation and “recording and listening” practice in which I communicate with my angel — whom I consider to be an aspect of Life in touch directly with me — and receive gentle but clear responses. Not always, but whenever they are needed. It’s delightful. Also, cute cat. ❤️
Thanks, Melissa! Yeah, I think of angels as opportunities or invitations — an open space where I could expand into if I want. It takes a high level of silence and observation to perceive that! I don't do it very well, much of the time. ❤️ DB
A symbol found me recently. It is a brush stroke of a circle. The beginning doesn't touch the ending...a circle though. In the middle is the message, This is it. I have been a pitiful person, unforgiving, chips on both shoulders cursing my bad luck. I have been filled with wonder and awe and the ecstasy of being alive. I like the circle and not the ladder for my explaining the pain, sadness, and the joy due to the reoccurring moments. I am currently believing Gaia holds me together with molecules and quarks and suffused with magnetism.
Glad you took the time and energy to share this with us… It’s a mystery “what it’s all about Alfie”!as the song goes…
Anyway I think it’s all about the universal energy of Love.. maybe
but why are we blessed and others not .. I guess the mystery continues .. all I can say is hang in there .. gratitude helps tho , doesn’t it .. Thanks for this , and have fun with your Angel💕😊🦋Carol🇨🇦
First of all, you have a very beautiful cat!
Lately I have been thinking of various threads that are adjacent to this topic. Supposedly, the idea of an all-knowing, all-good, and presumably all-powerful god is first known to have been developed by the Platonists, with hints in pre-Socratic philosophy. The 'problem of evil' arising from the 'tri-omni' God was purportedly first stated by Epicurus around 200 BCE.
Would the problem of evil exist if God's presumed tri-omni status was brought into question? William James, for example, held that belief in a finite God (in power or knowledge, or both at once) is pragmatically richer than belief in an absolutely unlimited God. In Pragmatism (1907) he wrote:
"Suppose that the world's author put the case to you before creation, saying: "I am going to make a world not certain to be saved, a world the perfection of which shall be conditional merely, the condition being that each several agent does its own 'level best.' I offer you the chance of taking part in such a world. Its safety, you see, is unwarranted. It is a real adventure, with real danger, yet it may win through. It is a social scheme of co-operative work genuinely to be done. Will you join the procession? Will you trust yourself and trust the other agents enough to face the risk?"
James' wager sounds like an early version of McGilchrist's wager. But while James' primary contrast is between 'finite' and 'infinite,' with him clearly choosing the former over the latter, McGilchrist describes a union of the finite with the infinite. And panentheism, he suggests, may be a way to bring us closer to this paradoxical understanding of divinity.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/article/18126