Buhl and Project Stay

http://http://www.myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=hbuhl

In 1992, Henry Buhl did not consider himself a philanthropist. He had spent 30 years in investment banking, followed by a career in professional photography. However, at the age of 62, this was all about to change.
Buhl was on his way back from lunch one afternoon when a man he recognized as a former street sweeper begged him for $20. Buhl discovered the man had been fired for sleeping on the job and decided to investigate the matter further.
He discovered that the 12 stores up and down the street had been paying this man at the direction of real estate tycoon Tony Goldman. Goldman did not have the time to find someone else for the job so Buhl volunteered to get somebody. He went to the Bowery Residence Committee (BRC), a tax-funded operation providing homeless shelters throughout the city. Buhl says he asked the executive director if he could have one of his guys to sweep the streets. "If he does a good job sweeping, and does not go to the local bar and pass out every afternoon, then we will try to get him a job," Buhl told the director.
The executive director received the offer with enthusiasm and recommended two people. Buhl returned to SoHo and found another block where the stores were willing to pay for a street sweeper. "The executive director threw up his hands and said 'Hallelujah,! You could be my savior,'" Buhl recalls.

How heroes are created and impact for good. It seems an entirely arbitrary act, yet an act born of keen perception and sensitivity as revealed in this article by Luke Matthews. Many are created by 'accident'.(?)

Soho project the homeless put back to work

Homelessness in America and around the world has so many facets and is so all encompassing withs causes and reverberations. One of its many tentacles reaches out to our community as the crisis of unemployment hits hard especially in Ohio and other places. This employee is a hiree worker of the Soho project at a job most wouldn't take. They would cry 'demeaning'. Personal dignity is anything but demeaning and little acts, little gestures, and "little jobs" bolster dignity.

synch-ro-ni-zing: inches & finches: another layer of winter . . .

synch-ro-ni-zing: inches & finches: another layer of winter . . .

Darwin and his impact

Darwin's notebooks are a real compendium of naturalist data and the wonderful earth in which we live.http://http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html

The notebooks evidence naturalist observations and metaphysical speculation.

Darwin's notebooks on geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries (1837-1844)
During the voyage of the Beagle Darwin recorded his observations in a series of field notebooks. (available online here). Towards the end of the voyage he also began to use them to record theoretical speculations, especially on geology and the formation of coral reefs. The Red notebook, opened in late May 1836, became wholly devoted to theoretical writing and Darwin continued to use it after the Beagle returned home to England in October 1836. Darwin continued his note taking in his old Edinburgh notebook and his St Helena Model notebook before a new series of notebooks for theoretical work, termed notebooks on geology, transmutation of species and metaphysical enquiries by the editors of the definitive edition.1

A new series of notebooks comprised three subjects:

1. Geology



2. Transmutation of species



3. metaphysical enquiries

The famous sketch on the right is from Notebook B and depicts the branching system of descent with modification which Darwin realized could explain the relationship between different species in the same class or family.

One is tempted to believe phrenologists are right about habitual exercise of the mind, altering form of head, & thus these qualities become hereditary.—When a man says I will improve my powers of imagination, & does so,—is not this free will,—he improves the faculty according to usual method, but what urges him,—absolute free will, motive may be anything ambition, avarice, etc., etc. An animal improves because its appetites urge it to certain actions, which are modified by circumstances, & thus the | appetites themselves become changed.—appetites urge the man, but indefinitely, he chooses (but what makes him fix!? frame of mind, though perhaps he chooses wrongly,—& what is frame of mind owing to—) I verily believe free will & chance are synonymous.—Shake ten thousand grains of sand together & one will be uppermost,—so in thoughts, one will rise according to law.22

This Is So Gay: Gay Christians Say the Darnedest Things!

This Is So Gay: Gay Christians Say the Darnedest Things!

Incurable Insomniac: Alternate Realities

Incurable Insomniac: Alternate Realities

Specific Accounts of the Akashic Records Continued

Jane Roberts in the Seth books describes a different version of a similar idea when Seth asserts that the fundamental stuff of the universe is ideas and consciousness, and that an idea once conceived exists forever. Seth argued that all ideas and knowledge are in principle accessible by "direct cognition". Direct cognition shares semantic congruency with intuition and allows for the possibility of direct knowing without time elapsing and without knowledge needing to be transferred e.g. in speech or text. This is similar to what Robert Monroe refers to as rotes in his out-of-body book trilogy.
Robert L. DeMelo in his theoretical physics ebook The General Principles of Reality A takes yet another different approach deducing through implicit logical the potential existence of an infinite knowing universal consciousness of which we are all apart of essentially contributing to its own existence. His logical deduction compares the common properties between space and time and applies them to consciousness. He concludes in his ebook by referring to this infinite consciousness as God.
According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings, the Memory of Nature (akashic records) may be read in three different inner worlds. In the reflecting ether of the etheric region there are pictures of all that has happened in the world - at least several hundred years back, or much more in some cases - and they appear almost as the pictures on a screen, with the difference that the scene shifts backward. The Memory of Nature may be read, in an entirely different manner covering the essence of a whole life or event, in a higher world, in the highest subdivision of the Region of Concrete Thought of the World of Thought, and, last, it may be read in the World of Life Spirit, covering events from the earliest dawn of our present manifestation, but only to spiritual adepts or spiritual entities and through grace is access to the records granted

Ideas and consciousness in these books are put into a larger context as never being lost. Direct knowing without time elapsing, cognition,and intuition have always occurred in mystic and trans physical states. Reflecting ether of the etheric region records pictures of all that is happened but goes beyond time constraints in a never failing memory bank which some adepts can access to varying degrees. (Heindel's three different inner worlds of reading these records).