After seeing this headline on the in-elevator news screen, about caffeine making one more likely to change one's mind, I had this conversation:
me: "Whoa."
dude in elevator: "What did it say?"
me: "Caffeine makes you more easily persuaded."
dude in elevator: "I always thought that was gin."
I'm taking a meditation class given by a friend, and last night we did a meditation that totally blew my mind. It connected physics and my personal religious tradition in a way that I hadn't yet put together....surprising, a little, since I've always maintained that it was a fine line between physics and metaphysics - not to mention that my personal experience of advanced math and science was that the more advanced you got, the more it sounded less like math and more like philosophy. Plus there's something to the idea of scientists and the new mystics. And don't even get me started on chaos theory!
Anyway....last night, we had a meditation experience that basically brought me to a semi-physical experience of something I've always professed to believe - this idea that divinity is in every particle of the universe, that god is in every object and every being and everything in between. Through this meditation I tied into that, experiencing - as much as I could with the limited perceptions of a human brain and a human perspective - the individual pieces of the universe and how they really are all interconnected....how every atom contributes to the fabric of the universe, and how the movement of every atom pulls every other atom along with it, to some degree or other.
It sounds abstract and airy-fairy-new-agey....but it was sort of an epiphane for me...and really fascinating. I was blown away.
A conversation with a friend put me on a Sufi poetry kick, which led me to a new poet (Amir Khusro) and this brilliance:
Utter a word of truth that goes against the king
And behead yourself with the sword of your own tongue
I'm going home to write some poetry of my own....to sing to my plants and listen to see if they whisper the secrets of the universe back at me.
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