Believe in the Future, Believe the Future In

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My dear late friend Rev. Rory Elder was famous for finding ways to turn words and phrases into memorable sayings that contained great truths.

Earlier today, I spent some time responding to a colleague who sent me an email consisting only of more than 20 dire predictions of worldwide economic doom and collapse the second half of this year. As you can imagine, despite my normally positive and affirmative approach to such topics, I was feeling a bit low. As I sought spiritual guidance, an email crossed by desk with this quotation from one of Rory's radio spots, "Give 'em Heaven."

We are exposed every day, through a variety of different sources, to the message of doomination in the world.

Today I invite you to suspend such thoughts–and be a messenger of illumination.  Share your passion and vision for a better world–and share the gift and light you have been given–if it’s a song, sing it; if it’s a vision live it; if it’s hope, share it.  

Remember: It’s not enough just to believe in our future, we must believe our future in.  Never doubt that a thoughtful, committed consciousness can change the world–it is unquestionably the only thing that ever has.

I am reminded in reading that quotation that miracles happen every day, that nothing is finally fatal (even physical death, by my own experience) and that it takes only a tipping point of properly intentioned minds to bring about stunning and sudden change. 
Therefore i hold a clear vision and intention that wisdom and prudence and compassion will ultimately prevail in all this turmoil and that we will be able to look back on it one day and recognize it for the catalyst to badly needed major policy change that was necessary for us to yank ourselves out of the stupor of greed and avarice that have long dominated our culture on far too many levels to be sustainable.

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July 16, 2010 · Posted in Spirituality  
　　　　

The Left and God

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This piece in the NYT caught my attention.

Not only do Democrats in general and Liberals in particular have to become comfortable with religious thinking, they must also learn to engage and embrace those who characterize themselves as “spiritual, but not religious”.

This is healthy and a shift I am confident the Party of the Big Tent will manage with ease and grace.

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July 3, 2010 · Posted in Politics, Spirituality  
　　　　

MC Yogi Song, “Give Love” Makes a Terrific Video

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Sometimes I go all week and don’t see a really great video. This morning, two of them in 5 minutes. In addition to the ESPN.com commercial for the FIFA World Cup I just posted about a few minutes ago, you have to watch this very catchy tuneful vid from KarmaTube. Not my genre of music, but, oh, my, what a great message and after about 30 seconds I got into the music and the beat, too.

Check it out.

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June 11, 2010 · Posted in Spirituality  
　　　　

Just Because Anger is Righteous Doesn’t Make it Wise or Sound

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Once again today my friend Tony Seton nails it on an increasingly important issue: righteous anger. On his SetonNoteS audio blog today he comments on the notion that one who has an indisputable right to be angry about something still ends up angry, still ends up increasing the level and amount of anger on the planet, and ultimately accomplishes nothing that couldn't have been accomplished with greater calm.

Thanks, Tony, for the needed reminder on a day when I'm reading about the Gulf Oil Disaster, the Israeli Attack on humanitarian aid ships in international waters, how an umpire blew a perfect game with a perfectly awful call and dozens of other irritations minor and (seemingly) major. I stop. I take a breath. I calm my mind. I look for something with which to hit someone. No, no. There I go again!

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June 3, 2010 · Posted in Spirituality  
　　　　

Light Bends Matter!

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From my friend Elaine Bolduc comes a pointer to an article from LiveScience that scientists have proven that light can bend matter.

I find this sort of thing absolutely fascinating and yet not the least unexpected. We've known for more than 100 years that the Universe is really made up only of energy, that what we call "matter" is nothing more than energy whose vibrations fall within the range of what we can detect with our senses or measure with instruments that are extensions of our senses. It is, in a phrase, energy all the way down (and up, for that matter).

But this report of a series of experiments led by University of Michigan researcher Nicholas Kotov brings in another whole dimension defining the connection and intersection of these two seemingly disparate, cosmologically identical states of energy. The team were so surprised by their initial discovery that they spent the next three and one-half years confirming it and trying to understand it. "To be honest, it took us three and a half years to really figure out how photons of light can lead to such a remarkable change in rigid structures a thousand times bigger than molecules," Kotov said.

Kotov and his team published their findings in the March 17 issue of the esteemed Journal Science. (You can read the original by going to Science and searching for Kotov. It requires a free registration to access the content but if you're interested in science, it's well worth it.)

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April 3, 2010 · Posted in Science, Spirituality  
　　　　

Here’s the New Logo for the One Mind Fellowship Community Coming Very Soon!

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This spiffy new logo was created by my very good friend and spiritual colleague Harvey Kraft, colorized by my buddy and work colleague Becka Sheranian. It will be appearing in lots of places in conjunction with the imminent launch of the One Mind Fellowship online spiritual community. Stay tuned. And if you're not already on my email list, please send me a request to be added so you'll know as soon as it is live!

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March 23, 2010 · Posted in Spirituality  
　　　　

Alan Watts’ “Conversation With Myself”, (Using “Symphony of Science” Styling)

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I found this video focusing, relaxing and illuminating. it is quite well done and I've been seeing enough of this style lately (including on the "Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC) that I'm starting to develop a taste for it.

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March 19, 2010 · Posted in Spirituality  
　　　　

Love This Short: May You Be Blessed

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A newsletter to which I subscribe linked me to this 3-minute video this morning. I've seen it before. I may even have shared it before. But it is timeless. Please take three minutes to watch it. And know that I, too, wish you to be blessed. Namasté.

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March 19, 2010 · Posted in Spirituality  
　　　　

We Truly Are Beings of Light: Biophotonics and Metaphysics

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Today I presented the lesson at our church on the topic, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Life." I explored the metaphysical meaning of Light, talked about recent discoveries about the application of light to the biological sciences, and finished up with some discussion of the healing implications of Light. Much of my talk was built around the understanding that we as humans, in addition to absorbing light in many ways and for many purposes, also emit light in the form of ultra-low-energy light emissions called biophotons. 

Among other things, I learned and discussed ways in which biophotons can provide clues to the early detection of cancer and other conditions and diseases that alter the output of the tiny light beams. I cited work done by John N. Ott and reported in his book Health and Light, and by modern optical doctors such as Jacob Liberman, whose LIGHT: Medicine of the Future provides an outstanding introduction to the field of light healing. 

I found a 2009 paper by R. P. Bajpai particularly intriguing. Comprising for the most part a fairly comprehensive review and overview of the field, the essay ends with some speculation on the possibility of biophotons affecting the thinking, moods, and behaviours of human beings, linking philosophical visions of life with the physical world.

All in all, heady and (if you'll pardon the half-pun) enlightening stuff. If you're interested in this topic and want to discuss it further, please feel free to join my site and comment on it or email me at onemind at danshafer dot com.

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March 8, 2010 · Posted in Science, Spirituality  
　　　　

Sages & Scientists Symposium Promises Experience of a Lifetime

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I have the great privilege and delight of attending the First Annual Sages & Scientists Summit sponsored by Deepak Chopra's foundation in Carlsbad, CA, this weekend. My long-time interest in the convergence of ancient wisdom and modern (particularly quantum) science is being fed by being in the presence of some of the greatest minds in the world who are thinking about these subjects today. And if the first night is any indication, it's going to be life-changing for me.

Not only did I sit at a table with three absolutely fascinating and brilliant people; not only did we hear from Dr. Hans-Peter Duerr, one of the most famous scientists of our age; not only did Chopra open with his usual melange of insightful wisdom with a brief presentation titled "Does God Have a Future?" (the answer was yes and no). But on top of all that I was able to spend about 20 minutes chatting with one of my heroes of the quantum physics revolution, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, aka "Dr. Quantum" of movie and TV fame. 

I sought him out to ask him about a subject I've been spending a lot of time in thought experiment and writing about lately, the concept I call Energy Patterns. It is my theory that the Quantum Field (aka Akashic Field aka ethereal soup) that interconnects All That Is and that may well be All That Is (as Wolf put it, "the mind of God"), is composed of the infinite variety of interference patterns created when different energies come into contact with one another. Fred suggested that he thinks this idea is original and possibly important and agreed to read my forthcoming paper on the subject, a prospect at which I am really thrilled.

Today promises 12 hours of in-depth panel symposia and lectures on some of the most important and interesting thinking and research going on in this vital area under the symposium theme "The Merging of a New Future." I can hardly wait!

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February 27, 2010 · Posted in Science, Spirituality  
　　　　

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