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WHAT BOX?

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:03:04 +0100

I recently came across a couple of excellent talks given on the subject of creativity. I would like to highlight one here and I will touch on the other one another time. this talk was given by an Author called Amy Tan, she wrote a book called ‘The Joy Luck Club’ that i think became a film and seems VERY highly acclaimed. She funny and interesting, and I have no doubt it might make some of you squirm, but after you watch it, I will say a couple things…

Things I liked:

OBSERVER EFFECT. - I have experienced this, I have spent so long analysing and unpacking something I am creating for its meaning, to make sure that the meaning is clear - that it looses its ‘edge’ it becomes somewhat anemic. It is no longer interesting but more formal somehow or even just bland and cognitive. Amy said that if you try too hard to to figure out what its about all you are left with is the ABOUT and you never ‘discover’ anything. I feel this is what I have known of Christianity, and why so many people find it so hard to ‘hear God’ because we are too focused on the ‘about’ or the doctrine, or the theology, that we lose the ability to explore, and therefore discover God’s voice.

COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT. - This is what she called that strange experience she has when she feels that the ‘universe’ is helping her. she gave some examples of it with her writing, esspessially the guy stacking rocks! amazing. But I cant help but wonder, is she just so good at discovering, that she has a honed eye? I think so, I think she has learned to hear God, she doesn’t know it, but He is there in everything, and we have been so ensconced in our LEARNING, that we have lost the ability to discover.

Its this ‘help form the universe’ that particularily interests me, esspessially in the field of the creative. I feel we, in our western world, can be so dismissive of these types of people. I think maybe some of us probably thought she was some bohemian hippie type right? And yet she is having these experiences, and I wonder, whats going on? Some of us are Christians and we have a really hard time understanding what Amy might be expressing. We feel we want to say that its God or The Holy Spirit, but we cant quite get there cos our heads tell us that she isn’t a christian, so it cant be, so it must be something ‘else’. But what if it is God. I think it might be. I think that God is the biggest artist/creative ever! and that he isn’t scared to reveal himself to whoever wants to see. maybe he is thrilled to show himself to anyone who wants to FEEL. I think its fascinating that Art is such a huge part of any society. in fact it has so much to do with the creation of that society. it runs deep in the very heart of it. And for that reason I think God is VERY interested in it. So I think that for Amy here, God is in on this, because he is weaving himself throughout the innards of our society. This is important We need artists, and we need artists to be hearing God, regardless if it fits our understanding of what that means. Another thing Amy said was…

WHO AM I?. - She asked this question, and basically wanted to know how and why she creates. he simple answer was ‘to ask questions’ to not be so locked down with AN answer but to explore it, to think that its not finished that its only PART of the answer as this will allow us to discover more. This is why she is so astute. There is a saying that has recently got under my skin and I now hate it with a passion - “Thinking outside the box” good grief just typing it has made me itchy with rage!!!! (hahaha) here is why I hate it. We use it when someone does something creative or different. we say they thought outside the box. or we say we should be more creative and ‘We need to think outside the box more. well I really want to know - WHAT IS THE BOX? we are so logical and safe that even pour creativity has to have some strange boundary, even if its something to stand on in order to be creative. And we think it cute to say that God is the ultimate ‘outside the box’ thinker - YUK! the only box there is, if it indeed can be called a box is GOD, God works and moves depending on himself motivated by himself and for his own self. He works within the framework of GOD - himself. He doesn’t think outside the box, there is no box, there is just God. But we create boxes. We call them things like GOD or LOVE or GRACE, we actually put these boxes in other boxes and call them DOCTRINE or THEOLOGY. We even have a box called GRACE and that box tells us that legalistic stuff is bad BUT it has struck me that grace by its very definition is a box exploder. How can we be gracious when we are doing it according to the box that is labeled GRACE? well I don’t know about you but I can’t I can only do it in the context of GOD, and I cant KNOW God if I cant FEEL him, and I cant FEEL him if I just learn the boxes. We have the bible, but its not a blueprint, its not a manual its not a box, it is God showing us how we can feel him and experience his grace and therefore be that to others. It is the bible that says that we are to be like children, well I think you can all agree that children DO NOT live according to boxes!!!! until we set them straight and we TEACH them all about boxes!

FEELING. - Amy also pointed out how important it is as a creative to FEEL and that that feeling experience is what makes us compassionate. Grace, Compassion, Mercy all spring form LOVE, they cant exist without it, LOVE springs from GOD God IS Love, it cant exist without him. And what do we know about God, well who in this world can ever say they have God figured out?

So lets destroy the box, and maybe we might be able to see/hear/feel God. Maybe some of us Christians it might be the first time ever, or maybe it will be a deeper dive down into an experience we have already been having. Maybe for those that do not call themselves Christians or even might be more likely to be atheistic I urge you to consider as you look around and as you to see/hear/feel things happening, call them coincidence, call it luck whatever you want, I do urge you consider that it might be God you don’t have to be part of the box world we call Christianity to experience God, and I suspect that you have already been experiencing Him - well its possible right?

Matthew 18:3 (The Message)

^2-5For an answer Jesus called over a child, whom he stood in the middle of the room, and said, “I’m telling you, once and for all, that unless you return to square one and start over like children, you’re not even going to get a look at the kingdom, let alone get in. Whoever becomes simple and elemental again, like this child, will rank high in God’s kingdom. What’s more, when you receive the childlike on my account, it’s the same as receiving me.

THERE IS NO BOX!

"Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an..."

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:38:06 +0000

“Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent. — Jennifer Morla”

- Jennifer Morla

Think - again!

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:14:00 +0000

These pictures were taken from NASA’s satellites at the end of the millennium from 400 miles away.

There are 30 of them to see axctually just go here.

As I was looking at them I couldn’t help but think that some people who might live in some of these places might have been there their whole lives, and they might know these places backwards. They might have studied the history an know all there is to know about every inch of these places. BUT, I bet if you told them that they would not recognise these places if they were to look at pictures taken 400 miles directly above them, I am sure they would not believe it. In fact if i was to have told you that these were some abstract paintings by an up and comming artist, you probably would have thought nothing of it. Its an old story, change your perspective and things look so differently, but its just true! don’t be satisfied with what you THINK you know, in fact maybe you don’t know as much as you think!!!

Anyway enjoy these wonderful pictures.

Mayn River, Siberia, Russia

Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Lake Carnegie, Australia

Baffin Bay, Greenland

Dasht-e Kavir, Iran

Karman Vortices

Just funny! Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen...

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:54:43 +0000

Just funny!

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy...

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:42:23 +0000

Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

“stop playing all those wierd notes, play the MELODY!”

“You’ve got to dig it to DIG it, you dig?”

“Don’t play EVERYTHING (or everytime) let some things GO BY. Some music just IMAGINED. What you DON’T play can be more important that what you DO.”

“A genius is someone MOST LIKE HIMSELF”

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Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:35:35 +0000

AMEN!

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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,..."

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:33:03 +0000

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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

— Charles Mingus

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"The scariest moment is always just before you start. — Stephen King"

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:29:55 +0000

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.
— Stephen King”

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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott..."

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:28:25 +0000

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams”

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Language

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:56:57 +0000

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo

This video was made to celebrate the 25th year of existence for a book publishers called 4th Estate. These guys have published some fantastic authors over the years including Jean-Dominique Bauby with his truly amazing little book The Diving Bell And The Butterfly. dictated while he was suffering form ‘locked in syndrome’. All he could move was his eye lid, so, with people reading out loud letters he would blink at them on the letter he wanted, he spelled out the whole book like this! There is a great, somewhat unsettling movie, to have recently come out. Also they published one of my favorite authors called E. Annie Proulx. She is a fantastic writer (ignoring the Brokeback Montain blip!). Her writing is so dramatic, kind of dark, but not just in a grim way but also like an ‘old’ way, like candle light rather than the modern brightness of an incandescent bulb. She likes to go back into history, and her descriptions can floor you. Two books I would happily take your arm and bend it behind your back until you gave in and read them are Postcards, and Accordion Crimes. the latter being one of my all time favorite books. it tracks the life of an accordion brought to America by a Sicilian immigrant (he made it himself) and its journey through America, over the decades until days of rap music. Its an incredible slice of the wonderful eclectic and rich history of America, you really get a picture of what makes America America. She was also the writer of the book the Shipping news which became a pretty big movie, and a quite good one if i remember rightly.

This video is not only a very beautifully made animation, but its also quite a nice little poignant thought. The beauty of books. or the beauty of language. Language, how important it is, and how powerful. we read a book and we are absorbed into its world, the world created by the writer, the words placed in a specific order to make the reader feel emotions, learn things, realise things never realised before. We wander around this world with our wide eyes but we don’t see black letters on white paper, we see trees and birds and cars and houses and cinemas, we hear muffled conversations in the background as our protagonist walks along the street of the city where he lives.
But not only are we pulled into the world of the book, but actually very often the book, helps create our world. books broaden our minds, they connect with emotions, gives us ideas to do things perhaps, or maybe it just recognises emotions that we were struggling to understand in ourselves.

of course language is not just about books, its about talking one on one, speeches to a crowd, poetry, songs, painting, sculpture, acting, etc. What is art if its not a heightened form of communication? Art is a language right?

One of my favorite bloggers out there is Stephen Fry, I have mentioned him before with his wonderful explanation of his hatred of dancing, shared mostly buy yours truly! Stephen recently blogged about LANGUAGE. This is an amazing piece of writing. He expounds his love for language , his heart for it, that absolutely echoes my own. I often find myself rather embarrassed about my lack of ability in the language department, wishing I knew more about what I was supposed to be doing when it comes to language. My school life was pretty miserable, I was never able to understand the intricacies of the English language. I recently had a master of this language try to teach me about nouns and verbs and another word i cant even remember! As I think about it I really cant remember what is what - absolutely shameful! (sorry to you linguist person its not your teaching its my somewhat backwards brain!) If you could see me typing right now you would see a little red squiggly line appear under every third word or so! The computer is a God send for me otherwise this would be even MORE unreadable than it already is. It cannot help me with punctuation though, and sentence structure, and thats why you find yourself reading some rather untidy posts! This is a little bit by way of an explanation as to why, when i started this blog, I declared that i did not want to hear any comments about the mechanics of my writing as this was my blog, so back off! You see if I was to get consumed by all that stuff that my brain seems to not want me to ever know, i would never actually write anything. Since I made the decision to not worry about all that stuff i have begun to really enjoy writing. Stephen Fry’s ‘blessay’ as he likes to call them, is fantastic to hear from a guy, who quite clearly, has a quite stupendous grasp on this language. I love reading him and I love listening to him talk. Its so natural to him, and to hear him talk bout his love for language is very inspiring. But more than that, to here this man encourage MY language regardless of wether or not I am doing everything properly is very very encouraging indeed. And I can read this into more than just about books or the written word, but actually i can take the same tack with art as a whole, because art is language - right!? I enjoy writing poems, even though i have not the slightest idea what i am doing! I enjoy writing songs, despite the fact that I cant read a dot of music! I enjoy making video’s regardless of having hardly any knowledge of how your ‘supposed’ to do it. I like to write blog posts without basic understandings of the language I write them with! And although I do want to understand better, and grow in that as I continue, I also don’t want to wait and do nothing until i am ‘ready’ because when I am ready might never come. Who decides when one is ‘ready’ enough? No, I want to start now, and get excited about it enough to learn more to get better and better. AND, I want to encorage the same to others.

So read this blessay, and be convicted and inspired but most of all be motivated, read into it your particular ‘field.’and once you have read it, than go here and download the original spoken version. I really encorge you listen AFTER you read, well worth at least those two goes at it.

I think the ultimate artistic statement is when the art is deeply connected with the artist, non more so than this. the word BECAME flesh and blood, amazing.

I might not appreciat eall the songs ised here! but, I can...

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:51:48 +0000

I might not appreciat eall the songs ised here! but, I can appreciate the unbelievable tallent in putting something like this together. The music to be sliced and arranged, layeredin such a way to make listenable song of its own, and then the editing of videos to go with it. Just excelent work.

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This guy calles himself a human cartoon, he’s also an...

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:39:20 +0000

This guy calles himself a human cartoon, he’s also an impersanator, very clever. It amazes me that we humans can keep coming up with new things. you can find out more about him at his website

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This Guy takes pictures of interesting strangers he meets. and...

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:44:00 +0000

This Guy takes pictures of interesting strangers he meets. and one day he came accross Kevin, this is the photographer’s account of the meeting…

Riding my bicycle along
Hollywood Boulevard today
I saw him in the crowd - noticed
him instantly. When we reached
each other, I said hi and asked
if he would mind if I took his
photo.
“You want my photo?”
Yeah, I said. There’s nobody
like you.
“I know.” And he smiled for me
-although his face was
evidently destroyed by something-
and his mouth reconstructed.

I asked him what happened.
“Shot,” he said. “Shot in the
face.” He motioned a gun
at close range being shot
directly into his face.

Andyou survived that? I asked.
“No,” he said with a smile.
“I’m dead.”
I apologized for what was
a stupid question, but it
was hard to fathom - gun shot-
close range - into his face. And
he lived.

So what happened? I asked.
Was it an accident, or did
someone mean to shoot you?

“I did it myself. Tried to kill
myself.”

You did?
“Yeah.”

Where?
“Arizona.”

Phoenix?
“Tucson.”

So tell me, how did it feel,
after you shot yourself in the
face - and you came to -
and realized you were not
dead?

“Agony. The worst agony
ever.”

Man.
“Yeah.”

What kind of gun?
“30-aught-six.”

I was thunderstruck. I have
met and photographed many
people - who are featured in this
stream - humans who have
overcome amazing
adversity. Lydia, who was
burnt almost to death.
Ray, whose eye was gone.
Margaret, who weighed over
500 pounds.

But this. Man. And yet he
was smiling. I told him what
I thought:

God gives everyone a different
life - and some people get really
really hard lives.

“That’s me. Doesn’t get
much worse.”

Told me he’s on the street.
Homeless.

I asked him how bad it was
that he wanted to die.
“Bad. Really bad. The worse
kind.”

Are you gonna try again?
“No. I tried once. That’s enough.”

Man.
Sometimes our lives
seem hard - unbearable even -
but then we meet Kevin.
Or Lydia. Or Ray. And realize
again how lucky we are.
How hard some humans
have it.
Man.

And yet
he smiled. He smiled
for me. This man with his
face blown off - by his own
hand. And here he is -
in the sunshine, listening
to music, smiling.

Don’t even know what else
to say about this. Guess
I’ve already said it.

+++++++++++++++++++++++

I wonder what your reaction to this is? Do you feel sorry for kevin? Or do you think that he tried to destroy his life why should I feel sorry for him. Do you allow him to have made mistakes? do you even allow for some other people in his life to have made mistakes that have repercussions that negatively effected Kevin? I wonder this because I have noticed that when people go through things that are no where near our lives, we can tend to think so different towards them than we do to people who are closer to us. My judgment of Kevin in a very extreme situation is less judgmental than of my friend who is going through a much less ‘harsh’ situation. My compassion for ‘stranger’ Kevin is easier realeased than it is for my friend. My ability to hear and understand is increased with Stranger Kevin. Somehow I have a much more gentle softer aproach, I wonder why? My theory is similar to that “I love kids, but I dont want my own, I like to be able to give them back!” comment that many of us have said in defense to the question about wanting children. Something about the distance of the stranger that allows us to engage because we know its not a permanent engagement. I Think that the closer the situation or the person the harder it is to understand/hear. I think sometimes when that person is REALLY close its impossible for them to understand.

All this kind of stuff is why I hate how easy it is for us westerners to do a good turn, or be charitable, by simply giving some money to something. Comic Relief, Children in need, Church, whetever charity we feel the heart strings being pulled towards. No, do not hear that i think we should stop!!! NO WAY! Its important, but my point is thats its easy to be distant, and feel like we have done the compassion/nice thing by dropping money in a pot. We have managed to help a fellow human being without getting our hands dirty, or even we have managed to fulfil the ‘great Commission’ by giving at church, and often without ever talking to a single human being! I feel like Jesus was looking for something a little more ‘dramatic’ than that! I think thats why he wasnt to worried about the woman breaking the really expensive perfume over his head, because, sure, the money would have been useful, but actually, if she was to follow him truely, she would be giving much more anyway, eg, HERSELF!just look at that verse again. Where was Jesus reclining and eating? lets start with charity sure, but perhaps we need to live it a bit more? perhaps we need to be the ones talking to kevin on the street, perhaps we need to be eating with lepers. you understand of course that when I say WE I mean YOU! well actually I mean… I.

AMAZING! And I love that the French accent comes through so...

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:23:14 +0000

AMAZING! And I love that the French accent comes through so strong! T-riller, T-riller nite.

Notice that he wears different colours for each section! incredible attention to detail, this guy is dedicated!

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I have always had problems with those 80” medium south...

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:17:00 +0000

I have always had problems with those 80” medium south america’s.

“Darn it, thats the last thing I need now!”

“I’m Becoming trappen in the balloon!”

“I can still Breathe”

“I need to get out of this balloon”

After my miserable attempt at a post last time I felt it safer to post a video! this is the funniest thing I have seen in quite some time!

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Cringe! or FAIL! or testing patience!

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:13:37 +0000

When I started this blog the primaery reaon for it wa to help me formulate my thoughts. T o bring Ideas and such to a conclusion rather than let them bounce around unfinished.

My Last post is one that I am not completely satisfied I managed to relay what it was i was thinking. So thats why I have now to call it FAIL! It s half there but not fully! I find myslef feeling like its missing something vital, but I ccant put y finger on it. i shuld have waitd longer.

Its actusallly a little howI work, I have to make mistakes, or create things that I then see what needs fixed. Its like I HAVE to have the mistakes. I basically cant see the mistakes until I actaully start the thing. And once it exists I can adjust and tweek, and add, and take away, re-form, or even start again.

I do not know why I am having a hard time feeling like i am clear enough in what I am saying! I need to stop and leave it and come back in about 25 years and sort it out!

In the mean time: I wander if your feeling like your listening to this?

Imposter! (warning, this might be the rambliest post ever!)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:47:27 +0000

Estelle Getty 1923 - 2008

I see you, looking confused at your screen, your thinking, “ok seriously we need to get this boy to a doctor or something, I mean, what the heck!”

Well I will press on regardless, and I will point out that if you are thinking that, well, sometimes I think I might sympathise with the sentiment myself!!! but honestly there is good reason for the tribute photo of the comedy Genius that is Estelle Getty, and the terrible accusation above.

There is a psychological experience that has a name and everything, its called ‘Impostor Phenomenon’ I read an article about it recently and it talked about this lady and how she ‘had it’ I would bet that there is not one person out there who does not recognize this face, and for those of you struggling, she was the ‘old one’ in the 80’s sitcom (plus many many re-runs) The Golden Girls. you have seen at least one episode! she apparently was also in a movie called ‘Stop or my Mom will Shoot’ sounds… amazing! anyway, (i know some of you have lives to live! I’m sorry!) it seems that there are a number of us that have this same experience including the writer of the article! here is a quote form her

“I live with fear as a constant companion. Can I do this week after week? Am I good enough? Will I be able to pull it off this week? Will I be able to fool them again?… …Wait till they find out I can’t do it.”

Now I will leave you to read the article and you can think what you will. I will say that there are aspects of this that are very true for me and of course some that are not. I also think this is true for so many people.

There will be an answer that is called out by many of you, and that is that all you need to do is find your worth and acceptance in God. And while this is true, i also feel it is an answer that misses something, or even, it expects something form the listener of that advice that is completely impossible, if you are indeed, experiencing this phenomenon. You see this is not a psychological issue, you read the article, the writer is simply stating that this is just the way he is, not that is something that needs to be fixed, rather it is something that needs to be handled the right way. What this answer does is it tries to fix something that will not be fixed, because the very nature of this ‘I P’ is that it is part of a persons movement forward, it has something intrinsically tied to the forward progress that the person is making, the unfortunate thing is that the person is only realising the negative part of the whole. I mean Estelle did not get where she was by being terrible, the reality is that what she thought she was pretending to do, she was still doing it, even though she was pretending!! she focused on the negative, but the rest of the world gave her awards.

I suppose my point is that there is this desire to be sincere, real honest you ARE what people see you as, and actually as long as that’s not ever realised my life continues to move on, I keep attempting to find it. you see the bottom line is that I am a searcher, that’s how I am with God, I am continually searching, for more, for something, for anything, my life is a search. so the very closed find your identity in God advise is exactly what I am doing, it just might look a little different that you might think!

There are problems though, like i said its how this phenomenon is dealt with, and I will admit to not doing to well with it in the past. and I think I managed to actively pursue a path that I ended up ACTUALLY living the life of a fraud. And simply put its because I tried to be definite, and non searching. I lived a life of closed definates that might not actually be all that definite! I don’t know, but i do need to find out. Rather than just rectify, it take a deep breath and carry on to the next thing. I want to keep searching, find something else, something, new.

I realise that I am creating so many questions for whoever might be reading this!! welI am sorry, but I like that its like that! I like that there are questions, questions find answers, and sometimes they find more questions. questions are to be asked, not always do they need to be answered. So i am actually glad to have the questions.

There are others that couldn’t give a…. whatever! and feel i have just waisted precious moments of you life, Please accept my apology!

i am going to go now. See what i can find!

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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:58:47 +0000

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I have to admit to this video bringing a tear or two to my eyes....

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:12:00 +0000

I have to admit to this video bringing a tear or two to my eyes. Incredibly beautiful, very moving indeed.

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13 things that do not make sense (from the New Scientist.)

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:17:00 +0000

13 things that do not make sense (from the New Scientist.):

Hands up all of you who think Albert Einstein was thick………. no I dint think there would be many! Well let me ask you this. What would your reaction be if it turned out that Albert wasnt as clever as the world believes? Well It would be a shocker of course, because there are so many theories and laws that are developed from what we know from Mr Einstein. It would throw into question all kinds of things. How could we ever trust those brains in the labs with all there books and theories, and long words! How could we ever trust science again?

I liked this article I came accross (click on the title for link to article) I esspesially liked numbers 3 & 9 “Another is that Einstein was wrong. His special theory of relativity says that space is the same in all directions, but what if particles found it easier to move in certain directions?” “It’s also possible that Einstein’s theory of general relativity may need to be tweaked” You see we think we have everything all sussed out because we can study it. BUT it all pales when it comes to actuallly experincing it. Sometimes we can live so long thinking we know things but then all of a sudden we experiance something else and we are left with a hollow sound in our brains, the sound of what we knew vanashing. Its hard for us to come to terms with it sometimes, and as the sience world has shown us we are not willing to let go what we ‘know’ for what we experiance. Because we are westerners and our learning is what makes us advanced. Thats why darwin’s mad theory is still in tact, and why Einstein’s theory might need to be ‘tweeked’. It is my believe that we rely too much on the logic god of our siociety, and we have de-valued the heart, and the experiance. for me understanding is reached through experinace, not so much the reading of a book!

Grace, for example, surely it can only be taught so much, I mean we dont know Grace because we were taught enough about it. No we experiance grace right? or do we? I mean we are taught that we do, but do we actually? I have said it myself, ‘You need to know more of God’s Grace, now, this is a really good book on Grace…!” euch!

So we are left with a question, and its a very western question, HOW? Indeed, how? I think our logic has got in the way of our experiance and we are lame, paralized in our ability to actually experiance things fully. I dont have an answer, I am trying to get there, break the ‘what I know-ness’ and allow the experince to actually led me into deeper knowledge. I suppose I want to challenge you to think hard abouot how much you experiance a thing, I think if you get honest, its not really very much. I think we are imbalanced we talk of reasons over feelings, but surely a better balance would that both feelings AND reasons are on the same page. Besides i think we use our felings more than we think. why do you not like to eat that food you dont like? is it because you react when you taste it, or have youdecided that you just dont ‘prefer’ it? how did we come to that conclusion that we will not eat thatanymore? well most of the time we just dont WANT to! but this is a whole other topic on ‘taste’ what exactly is this preference, that this person likes a thing and the next doesnt? (another day perhaps) If we are gaining deeper understnding because of what we KNOW, eg what we have experianced, then that experiance can lead us forward. We can have more reliable feelings.

Ok so I sound like a new age hippy I know! but I hope my point has been understood. what do we REALLY know? and, how do we know it?