When Physics cheers you up a bit!

The Lord is a Shepherd - we cannot wander.

The great thing about spiritual belief and wonderment from the universe; the great thing about personal experiences of god, is that it leads unquestioning to more belief, to greater acceptance, and to deeper contact.

We allow faith to emerge from ourselves. This is also affirmed in nature and science.

It is also nice that periodically we receive updates. News flash!! The Universe is magic.

God Speed!! Physics approves of humanity.

Were we to disappear from this planet - it would not be without a trace.

In fact, physics proves that we send traces out from ourselves, literally billions of them, across the universe, every millisecond. Perhaps it is a lost morality compass that keeps our 'God' guilt driven and ego murky internally - because physics just does not play this out.

Physics allows us to embrace the Radical Responsibility which the Universe demands of us.

With every action, with every subatomic, subconscious, sun - conscious, waking breath....

Physics can and will cheer you up a bit! Let it in.

Divine nature is ours. Sometimes we can explore it in science. Sometimes it will explore us!

I like to hear it in music. See it in the innocent happiness of children, Vision it in art. Visit it HERE.


And NOW.

I have been practicing a lot of the poverty of life lately.... learning how others suffer through imitation and rogue uselessness, not illness - but not in a meditative thankfulness and ease from mindful practices.

I am using my time up too quickly, worrying about things, not being open to what is genuinely all around me every day. God intervenes, knocks, sends messages, "Cheer up," god says. "The plan already happened."

A Watershed Moment for Art: Japanese print maker Hokusai

I took a trip to Japan that was fueled by disaster: flood earthquakes, tsunami and the like.

So, I guess that is where it first impressed upon me a Japanese obsession of water in earthquake thrust tsunamis. Nineteeth century proto-impressionist Hokusai was also impressed by power in water.

But, I did not know this history of how the wave of art leaving Japan after Hokusai helped herald the massive movement of Impressionism in Europe and across the world.

Here are some curated talks and more beautiful images from Boston Fine Arts:

Turns out, the Japanese print maker Hokusai had a massive effect on currents in world and western art scenes that are still rippling onto our shores today.

Isn't it lovely to discover new ways so much of our world benefits from connectedness?


http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150409-the-wave-that-swept-the-world

How do Changing Populations affect me?

There's no doubt - the world's population is increasing. While there are some older, grayer countries which have shrinking population concerns - in general me procreate, produce more, need more and fight. Populations are effecting considerable change on our planet ecologically and otherwise.

Here is a blueprint for your participation in building a world we can all share together harmoniously.

"Use this GDP/capita maximum from estimate maximum global GDP/capita consistent with a non-declining GPI/capital. Assuming better access to family planning services in high population nations, it should be possible to limit the global population to no more than 9.6 billion people. This is the number of people that could be equitably supported by the current global GDP/capita of $67 trillion at approximately $7000 per person."

Somewhere between $5000-$7000 is the maximum sustainable per capita dollar amount which we can use to continue to live on a sustainable planet. To reach this number we all have to consume much less! What is our short run carrying capacity? How do we improve our ecological footprint?

Basic human conditions dictate, we all have to drink water, eat, have shelter, travel, learn, and create.

Right now, we're still expanding our economic pie; while most of the world subsists off crust (crumbs).

 

We are so caught up in crazy world problems of tech, social networks, and our corrupted version of time that we are missing a passing of existing planetary usage and servitude to stewarding commons!