In a dawn ceremony, today, August 6, 2009, this Japanese woman burns incense as she prays for the victims, 260,000 victims, of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 64-years ago today.
Pray
Sitting, Open, Empty
Paired thumbs joined mirror lobes
Old brain breathes as the nave hums
Cathedral of Man!
Apse light-filled
Remembered and
In this breath
Received.
Trawling the past is not all bad...I remember the thrill or chill of a plunge into a small pool shaded by ancient oaks and the near hysteria of a run through the garden sprinkler with neighborhood kids.
What's your favorite chill-out summer childhood memory?
My teacher signed a book for me a decade ago. He wrote, "Do we dance or not?"
This morning my husband, sadly on the opposite coast for a bit, sent me a hymn that has me in its grip. The hymn is "I Danced in the Morning." Here's a refrain: "Dance then, wherever you may be: I am the Lord of the Dance, said he. And I'll lead you all wherever you may be, And I'll lead you all in the dance, said he."
To dance is to be in motion, rythmically in tune with the beat of the drum, the roll of the waves, the hum of your pulse. It means "yes" I accept the invitation to move to the score of my life and engage in the energetic flow of my life. And it can mean so much more...the quantum physicists are working so hard on the dance notation diagram...but can they hear the melody?
Which leads us back to the veil peeking the physicists alluded to in part one of this brief exploration of science and the Divine. I've been sitting with my question: What would a divine aspect of science be?
IMAGINATION! Thank you William Blake, the poet, painter, print maker, wonderous manifestion of a man.
In the late 1700's he wrote "Imagination is the Divine Body in Every Man."
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William Blake's painting of Oberon, Titania and Puck with Dancing Fairies, 1786.
Or, conversely, can science be divided by what some consider divine aspects? And what would be a divine aspect of science? And how could one experience it? Let's leave the biologists out of this discussion as it appears that the quantum physicists are speaking out on the topic.
The BBC recently reported that a prize-winning quantum physicist says a spiritual reality is veiled from us. Science, he said, offers a glimpse behind the veil. The physicist speaking out is Bernard d'Espagnat, recent winner of the the Templeton Prize, awarded to sciencetists for contributions to "affirming life's spiritual dimension."
D'Espagnat worked with legendary physicist John Wheeler who said that "the cosmos has not really happened...it is not a phenomenon until it has been observed to happen."
More to follow...
And took them clean away! Happy Valentine's Day!
So you write, you listen to your muse, you dream and then one day you dare...You dare to stand up before a room full of strangers, albeit sympathetic strangers, and you read the words written on your heart which you have struggled to translate into these foreign utterings of breath formed by muscle which we call language.
More than the applause which followed every piece, Juliet, which by the way, no other reader received, you had the weight of their attention, growing as you read. Empathy replaced sympathy. Humanity nodded in time to the verse; we all waited for the woman in the blue robe to emerge.
The ancient desert Bedouins celebrated three things:
The birth of a son, the birth of a colt and the emergence of a poet.
