tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post6062101390944230510..comments2024-03-24T20:16:30.097-07:00Comments on The Big Study: I've Seen THE{?} LIGHT{s}The Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-76086937658065820962013-08-02T12:20:03.397-07:002013-08-02T12:20:03.397-07:00Thanks friend. My "evolution" while stru...Thanks friend. My "evolution" while struggling with the task {duty?} of presenting a blog has settled into a simple philosophy: Give anyone interested an opportunity to explore together this great world of potentially profound mysteries. Do it with as much ease and fun and honesty as possible. Be civilized; be kind. Be humble.<br /><br />You and I, particularly I, are "old guys" now Robert. We sit on the "mountains of our lives". We have much to share. And we both know that "it" isn't at all about us. The blog isn't always easy to keep going, but it's generally "soft duty", and to someone it will be a little bit like a gift. <br /><br />"Sitting on the Mountain, watching the Flow go by."The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-12956640746415368212013-08-02T10:00:28.072-07:002013-08-02T10:00:28.072-07:00Although I don't always comment, I read every ...Although I don't always comment, I read every one of your posts. I found this series on light phenomena especially interesting. There is so much valuable information that you have written in this blog over the last couple of years. I never imagined when you first started this blog that it would become such a voluminous collection of work. I can think of no other location where phenomenological concepts are so well documented and written in a way that as you just said, "sort of flows as it goes."Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12539157656501925987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-75812546946967951072013-07-23T07:11:49.376-07:002013-07-23T07:11:49.376-07:00I enjoy the older experiences, too. But the Blog [...I enjoy the older experiences, too. But the Blog [as of late especially] sort of flows as it goes. Whether this is in harmony with the Universe or me just violating Universal Noise Ordinances, I don't know. The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-79499297648735000522013-07-22T19:25:05.887-07:002013-07-22T19:25:05.887-07:00Fascinating data from your "ufo" files: ...Fascinating data from your "ufo" files: March 1931: Cannes, France. These old cases seem to be untainted with modern perception of UFO phenomena. Would love to hear more from you about these old (1910-1940) UFO cases in the future.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-1463860367352990672013-07-22T12:21:38.805-07:002013-07-22T12:21:38.805-07:00Sorry about the above: I blew some spelling. It go...Sorry about the above: I blew some spelling. It goes a little better this way:<br /><br /><br />It has been a very long time since I cracked open Eliade's book; thanks for reminding me.<br /><br />Re: my "style" of Catholicism: The Spiritual Spectrum of Catholicism is all over the map despite what certain "highly-placed administrators with tall hats" would like to project. Those guys are there only to facilitate the uncountable good works done by the grass roots anyway. I have found many strains of Catholicism to contain wonderful and soul-expanding experiences and ideas, but the one that resonated most purely to me has been what little we know of St. Kevin of Ireland and a few contemporary early Irish monks. This may be just fantasy [as who knows anymore what went on back then], but for me this is a foundationstone of "Green Catholicism", which found direct interaction with God in the Creation, just as the druids were doing. Kevin was spiritually half-druid, and in that he was able to appreciate the First Person of the Trinity better than those who stupidly tried to push Nature away. <br /><br />Goethe used to say that he was like the Hypsisterians --- a Greek cult who were open to all "philosophies" but only selected from them the best of each. Kevin seems to be unconsciously Hypsisterian, and heavy on "communication" with all three Trinitarian Persons... I like the idea.The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-14990647019989155622013-07-22T12:12:34.029-07:002013-07-22T12:12:34.029-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-42703852320857408262013-07-22T09:20:36.987-07:002013-07-22T09:20:36.987-07:00Hello, Prof.
I recommend Mircea Eliade's boo...Hello, Prof.<br /><br /> I recommend Mircea Eliade's book, The Sacred and the Profane for more examples of sacred light. Numerous examples are given by this great author. Fascinating article from you - thanks for putting it up. With your erudition and knowledge, I am somewhat surprised you identify as a Catholic. A druid seems a better fit.<br /><br />cheers,<br /><br /> richardrichardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-29981604300982311232013-07-22T06:35:03.491-07:002013-07-22T06:35:03.491-07:00Thanks for the incidents. I absolutely believe tha...Thanks for the incidents. I absolutely believe that all of these anomalous situations are more common than our culture allows to become known. In the "olde days" such things were felt to be "uncommon" because people were spread far apart and communications were word-of-mouth. Nowadays we have all the communications-transmission imaginable, but it is our gross materialistic culture which is blocking significant sharing. We're in a battle between small-box minds [no matter how large the IQ] and courageous sharers and savers of the "things that don't fit the reductionist textbooks". The sharer/savers are "courageous" because the small-boxes are, at bottom, uncivil jerks who consistently employ derision/ mockery to attempt to silence what they can't contemplate without some weird kind of fear. <br /><br />This blog [obviously] has picked sides. But, rather than tilt with windmills [i.e. argue with high-IQ morons], this blog will waste little time with hollow boxes and simply attempt to publish data and ideas as cleanly as possible --- to keep the possibilities of a vaster world alive. This old man will be as civil as I can be without wasting all our times. {I actually DO pay attention to "humble skepticism" whenever that rare valuable characteristic shows itself}. The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-72897535132070810862013-07-21T20:25:41.357-07:002013-07-21T20:25:41.357-07:00Perhaps these occurrences are more common than sup...Perhaps these occurrences are more common than supposed. I remember watching TV in our finished basement with my parents years ago when there was a sudden, extremely bright white flash about ten feet to the side of where we were sitting. My thought at the time was that it was a good thing nobody had been standing there. My aunt's parents had a wooden cross that hung on the wall and once mysteriously glowed for several days. No other happenings seemed to have accompanied these events. As always, thank you for a fascinating article!drizzzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03032435453362480868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-31799212056204812912013-07-21T13:58:37.236-07:002013-07-21T13:58:37.236-07:00'Fr. Suarez was greatly concerned that no one ...'Fr. Suarez was greatly concerned that no one should know that such "miracles" were happening to him [this appears to be a concern both for humility and the distraction that public awareness would wreak upon himself and his order].'<br /><br />It may also be even more clearly explained by another of your observations 'Souls experience incoming information from the physical world and by "Will" can influence electrons in our own Brains to choose one action or another. Robert Jahn has proven this in the Princeton labs beyond my capacity to doubt those results.'<br /><br />[This was why Carlos Castaneda used to shudder in horror at the affect two thousand years of being loathed and detested by the majority of the human race must've had on Judas Iscariot which's why like Gurdjieff and meself he was convinced only Jesus' best disciple could've handled such a fate].<br /><br />'In September of 1941, a Church of Scotland minister...was in a deep crisis of faith...until he heard the sounds of a psalm echoing in his mind "there flowed into my desolate heart such a flood of Love and compassion that I was overwhelmed and overpowered by the weight of it."<br /><br />That crisis of faith I suggest's the boundary/bardo/stop point etc where/when his inability to intellectually sustain his normal conceptual world view finally collapses allowing his true non conceptual mind to emerge switching as it were from pc computing to quantum or pure energy computing hence the story versions of which're found in all the systems of the Buddhist student who spends 12 years stoically carrying out his rituals in the middle of nowhere to utter perfection yet without making the slightest progress until one day he finally just loses it and has a world class temper tantrum smashing up all his utterly precious sacred materials etc calling the Buddha every name under the sun and so on until he lies there in the cave blubbing like a baby the cosmic joke of it being it was his perfect self control which'd been blocking his progress.<br /><br />'something that I thought was true but was not featured in typical writings about mystics, is that you don't have to be Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, or St. John of the Cross to have "The Mystic Experience" of Oneness, Peace, and Love.'<br /><br />El Ghazali seems to've been raised among Sufis as an orphan and was so intellectually brilliant by the time he was 33 he was a professor and'd reconciled Philosophy Islam and Mysticism the only problem being he was an ego maniac and all the acclaim and attention postponed his eventual realisation there's a world of difference between knowing something and actually understanding it hence the inner collapse he underwent becoming for a period sceptical about everything.<br /><br />'large areas of beautiful light, some with heavenly {or faerie} music... but none of these have any close feeling of "UFOlogy" to me. They seem to fit not into the normal physical textbook world [which includes ET], but into the spiritual world [which includes Soul, Will, and Psi].'<br /><br />Setting aside the issue one man's ball of light's another man's flying saucer what physical textbook world what spiritual world?<br /><br />This seemingly solid one supposedly explained away by the Large Hardon Collider results which even as we speak're proving less and less complete? [And that's before anyone calls them into question like they did the faster than light photon results dropping them due to a photo of faulty plug whereas the Hardon'd been visited by a time traveller hacked by the hacking community and undergone acts of physical vandalism. If the Hardon'd been used to prove the existence of God rather than his particle those results'd've been tossed long ago!].<br /><br />Put it this way Prof nearly every other take you have on these things means if you wanted to you easily pass for an emerging mystical master.<br /><br />And the very fact you probably reckon you understand less and less everyday only makes you look even more advanced!alanborkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15333017272673090593noreply@blogger.com