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"We live between two darknesses -- the prenatal and the post-mortem -- and we hurtle inexorably from the one to the other at a speed, as Nabokov noted, of some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour." --Sherod Santos, A Poetry of Two Minds, p. 41

a juxtaposition recorded in my Spiritual Journal, 4/7/03

"In Christendom as well as in the East, contemplatives who follow the path of devotion conceive of, and indeed directly preceive the incarnation as a constantly renewed fact of experience. Christ is for ever being begotten within the soul by the Father, and the play of Krishna is the pseudo-historical symbol of an everlasting truth of psychology and metaphysics -- the fact that, in relation to God, the personal soul is always feminine and passive." -- Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, Chapter II ("The Nature of the Ground"), emphasis mine.

"The difference between Greek pessimism and the oriental and modern variety is that the Greeks had not made the discovery that the pathetic [i.e., affecting or exciting emotion, esp. the tender emotions, as pity or sorrow] mood may be idealized, and figure as a higher form of sensibility. Their spirit was still too essentially masculine for pessimism to be elaborated or lengthily dwelt on in their classic literature." -- William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, "The Sick Soul," footnote 9, emphasis mine.

Spiritual Journal, 4/3/03

4:38 p.m.

I'm convinced that sound is our most immediate sense. In one of my poems, I talked about the "unbroken thread of audition." Since the Big Bang, the universe has been filled with sound, even the minutest sound of two particles bumping against each other.

I never really thought about sound before delving into DXM and embarking on my current spiritual journey. Now I'm entranced with the question of what is sound? and, how do humans transduce sound? I firmly believe sound is a truer sense than sight. (Sight is automatically an illusion -- a flat image purporting three dimensions. Visual perception necessarily incorporates deception.)

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Synchronicity demands a design that stands outside of time. Time is synchronicity's tool, not its construct (as it is for us). I do believe that God communicates synchronistically, and we can hear Him with finely tuned ears.

To be saved is to return to God's voice. [This is an ancient Jewish belief.] We must listen for all nuances, every instance of communication. This takes tremendous faith and a willingness to understand. And it takes practice, learning to listen to environmental c(l)ues. But it is a spiritual skill, one I feel ancient peoples were more versed in [and one I feel we can recover].