Two stray thoughts and a poem

Serendipitous Idea of the Day (actually last Friday) Number 1

Quantum mechanical theory of the afterlife:  dead people are waves, incarnated people are particles.  The contemplative mind can help us particles remember that we too are the waves. 

Serendipitous Idea of the Day Number 2

In healthy situations, children are not load bearing members of society, but rather are freely contained within the structure provided by adults.  Since we are advised that unless be become like a child we will be unable to enter the kingdom of God, perhaps that kingdom is an entire society without any load bearing members.  What a relief indeed that would be.  That to me is an idea worthy to be called Heaven.
 
However before we go to far towards fanaticizing about not having any responsibilities, it would be good to remind ourselves of the seriousness of play and the concepts of “work without effort” as discussed in the first letter of “Meditations on the Tarot”.  Cynthia Bourgeault, wisdom teacher par excellence and one of our speakers in Albuquerque, calls that book the Bible of the Christian Hermetic tradition.  I first read it in college on the recommendation of my Martinist brothers and sisters.  Rumor has it there is a photo of John Paul II at his desk with a copy of the original French edition on top of a stack of books.  When I picked it up again recently, I was surprised to see that the reviewers were Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating.  Certainly not New Agers.  I’m sure I didn’t know who they were at the time.  It is quite interesting how that book holds together just the threads that I’m working on reintegrating right now.  This is unlikely to be the last time I mention it. 
 
How’s this for an interesting perspective (from the book that triggered this thought in the first place:  “The Sacred Journey” by Charles Foster, the eighth and final volume of The Ancient Practices Series edited by Phyllis Tickle, who spoke on the Great Emegence both in Albuquerque last year and just a few weeks ago in Texas at the Episcopal Church’s Bishop’s Retreat):
 
“The child, too, has a real relationship with time, undistorted by the accelerating effect of deadlines and airplanes, the decelerating effect of boredom, or the artificial punctuation of alarms.”

A society where everyone works without effort with the wonder and openness of children; seems like a reasonable goal and perhaps something attainable enough to truly be called “at hand”.  Plus is resonantes with our true role as children of God. God is the adult which provides the containing structure in which we "live and move and have our being".


Poem from a point of return

Already here.
Never so far away
as when we forget
that one all encompassing fact.

Already here.
Already here.

Take off your shoes
for this is holy ground.