http://www.theall.org en-gb theall.org 2009-9-12T00:00:00Z theall.org http://www.theall.org/page5.htm#48575 It all began as the result of two events in late August. Firstly a conversation between me and my notyetfive year old grandson on a sunny August afternoon by the sea in Norfolk. He referred to a time long ago so long ago that it was even before he was in his mummys tummy. I interrupted his flow and asked where were you then before you were in mummys tummy. Secondly we had learned only the day before of the loss of a very dear friend one whom we had known and loved dearly for over 40 years. These events together have been responsible for an extraordinary progression of thoughts which I have organised as follows In 1980 David Bohm British quantum physicist 19171992 published Wholeness and the Implicate Order. In it he proposes a radically different cosmological order which he expresses as a distinction between what he describes as the implicate and explicate orders. He sees the implicate order as the universe in which is enfolded all the potentialities of existence. This higher ord... 2009-9-12T00:00:00Z http://www.theall.org/page5.htm#45740 BALANCE If the I AM can find a place for me That is resting at the side Some distant sweet abode Where the me within abides The I can call out projecting forth in action And the Inner Voice is always heard This is the greatest faction Projecting I AM is my goal Losing self or me The me is ever searching for Secluded obscurity When the me is lost Then the It Is Life Projected without fear The Now Is Truth Eternal Youth And God IS Forever Here Maybe this is why The Balance Is And I AM Always I. Ruthann Herring from her book a VIEW FROM THE HEART 1979 2009-7-28T00:00:00Z http://www.theall.org/page5.htm#45735 I finally saw the Gospel of the Second Coming in a New Zealand bookstore the other day and got to see my name in the acknowledgement. Thank you very much I do hope one day well see Tims work on South Park or something even better. Im currently travelling in Colombia where I went to a Muisca village. These people were the original inhabitants of much of Colombia before the Spanish came in and destroyed their culture religion and language 500 years ago. The reason Im telling you is that I saw this plaque and immediately thought of you. These people had no connection with Europe or the Gnostics you write about and yet on the other side of the world for hundreds of years they believed in awakening and the dream in which we live. Life has its origin in thought over and above everything else. For that reason we must be careful of our thoughts. If we think Lovingly we shall be the creators of a realistic dream that can be Integrated into the creative force that rules this wor... 2009-7-28T00:00:00Z http://www.theall.org/page5.htm#40443 I was thinking about renting the movie The Duchess and it got me to thinking about how patterns can repeat themselves if they arent resolved. For those of you who dont know The Duchess documents the marriage of an ancestor of Princess Diana a marriage that was as dysfunctional amp triangular as Dianas own. God I am worried this makes me sound like a royalist and I am tempted to tie this piece into my Twilight fixation instead and that impulse itself is quite useful for this piece as I hope will become apparent. Anyway while I was thinking about the idea that if you dont resolve something it keeps coming up for you and others around you I realised that this is the key to deserting fate and embracing free will. We all have roles and characters that are handed to us by those around us. As we are growing up those around us respond to us as if we were a particular character and we take their assumptions feeds and rewards and fashion them into an idea of who we think we are suppos... 2009-4-24T00:00:00Z http://www.theall.org/page5.htm#39080 I recently read a kids book called The Girl Who Could Fly which is about being different and the pressure to conform. The scenarios are much more clearly painted than the subtleties of reality making its commentary on the pitfalls of the way society works very apparent. It is a sweet book in fact saccharine and it makes no apologies for that. Stephanie Meyer has described this book as little house on the prairie meets Xmen. I didnt get to the Xmen bit she must have a different edition. Anyway Im not reviewing this book nor am I going to pull out all the analogies and symbolism for analysis. What I want to tell you about is its central epiphany because it made me stop and think and maybe it will do the same for you. Two key characters are drawn in opposition though they act for some of the book in alliance. Conrad is a child genius who knows or can derive just about everything and his head is clearly concerned with the material world. Piper has never been to schoo... 2009-4-1T00:00:00Z http://www.theall.org/page5.htm#38447 The only way that I can bring some semblance of order to the doubts and chaos forever churning around my mind is the discipline of setting my thoughts out in writing for the benefit of an imaginary reader. I wrote the following after the ALL gettogether at the Chalice Well Garden last May. Hopefully it might be of interest. A myth to quote Joseph Campbell is a Mask of God a metaphor for what lies behind the visible world. However the many mystic traditions may differ he said they are all in accord in calling us to a deeper awareness of the very act of living itself. I feel like a figure from classical mythology Theseus following a ball of thread that leads me through a labyrinth of doubt and chaos to an unknown destination. Theseus volunteered to slay the Minotaur who lived in the labyrinth created by Daedulus. Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of thread so that he could unravel it on his way into the labyrinth and thereafter follow it to find his way out after slaying the Minotaur ... 2009-3-20T00:00:00Z http://www.theall.org/page5.htm#37373 I have been with the Alliance for Lucid Living for a few years now and recently found myself pondering why I am involved why it matters to me. This is a particularly pertinent question in my case as I am not a natural joiner of things. I am introvert by nature and tend towards a solitary path. Of course nothing is simple and I am sure that there are a number of factors at work deep within the mind that draw me to to the ALL. Being with people of like mind and enjoying the friendships that have developed are undoubtedly an important part of this. But as I took the question into stillness something else emerged as being of great significance. I want to make the world a better place. This sounds like a bit of a cliche the kind of thing a contestant on Miss World would come out with. But it is true nonetheless. It is most definitely not a cliche in my case because I first became a spiritual seeker because I wanted release from the world. I found it to be a place of pain and suffer... 2009-2-27T00:00:00Z