Intelligent Design.
Seems like that phrase leaves an awfully bad taste in the mouths for an awful lot of folks. In pondering that, it strikes me that what is so apparently annoying, is that there seems to be little 'evidence' for it that makes sense to one who aspires to have a scientific grasp and view of the world.
Hmm...that seems an operative phrase. View of the world. World view. It seems that, for some, a scientific world view is the only Truth out there. That this is so obvious, that any other world view seems stupid, inane and too ridiculous to be considered. That's interesting to me, considering that an awful lot of brainy types out there in the quantum physics field basically have no idea how to explain simple things like, oh, how an atom is put together and how the particles that make up an atom do what they do, and what those particles that make up the particles that make up atoms are made of or how they work. How about their explanation of probabilities and where do those itty bitty particles and such disappear to when they disappear? Their answer....”ah...somewhere, we don't really know, but they do.” *nod * Sounds an awful lot like the explanation of Transubstantiation to me. So, there are all these extremely brainy folks out there, winning Nobel Prizes and such for their theories of how the Universe is put together and what things are ultimately made of, but when you get down to it, a lot of their explanations pretty much depend on an Article of Faith that at least rivals the explanation of Transubstantiation.
Yeah, the attitude annoyed me. Hence my spending the last 3 or so hours reading about quantum physics, leptons, quarks, antiparticles, Quantum chromodynamics, lattice gauge theory, fundamental interaction, Quantum field theory and such.
Well, I have since decided that instead of being all annoyed, I'll just respect this physical scientific world view as being as valid as say, the Judeo-Christian creation theory, the Cree creation theory, the evolution theory, the Turtle theory, the Hindu theory, quantum physic theory, etc. I mean really, when you get down to it, it is all about observational view point anyway. One Truth can be quite as valid as any other. It wasn't so many years into the past that it was a 'scientific fact' that dunking a woman until she drowned was a valid test for being a witch or not.
I'll just hold myself in a space of being open-minded about it all, especially in view of the fact that 100 years from now what is currently seen as 'scientifically valid fact' may be considered provincial superstition as we continue to advance in tools and understandings to explain things in greater depth tomorrow than we can today.
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Belief in your potential
"The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see
world class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you
don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait
for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in
self." -- Denis Waitley
This is one of those ah-ha type statements. You know in your gut this makes absolute sense, the fun part is in the implementation.
This, I believe, goes along with the BE, DO, HAVE paradigm. One must become and through that, find and realize one's potential. So how does one 'become'? Some do so through religion and prayer life, others through study and philosophy, some just seem to know their potential all along. I believe all of these avenues are valid expressions of the art of becoming. It does seem that at times we bog down in avenues of becoming and throw up barriers to communication.
At any rate, I really see that we all have massive and as Denis says, “world class potential”. I firmly believe that of everyone I know and meet. I find it unfortunate that we don't all reach for that world class potentiality, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. More to the point, what blocks us from achieving our greatness? This is truly the crux of understanding our potential and becoming all that we are meant to become.
Randy Gage talks often of what he coins, lack mentality. A state of thinking that assumes that we will always lack in one form or another. A lot of times it will be the mentality of; “I will always be poor. Nothing ever works for me. I'm too stupid to make a lot of money. I was born in the wrong neighborhood. I didn't attend the right school. No one likes what I do anyway.” All these and many others. They become a self-fulfilling prophecy. They wire our brains to even hunt for reasons and situations to make this come true for us.
So what to do? Re-wire the brain. It is being seen over and over in science that it is possible to do so. That our neural paths can and do change over time, it is the mechanism of creating a habit in the first place, but new ones can be created and old ones can be left to fade away.
This is where becoming really comes into play. Sitting down and writing out: What do I really want to be? What do I really want to accomplish in my life? What one thing is important enough to make the effort to achieve? Then we get to do our personal development. Working on our 'being' through reading materials and listening to teachers that encourage us and give us skills to move beyond where we are today, taking the integrating process of prayer and/or meditation, then taking the action to go from being...to doing.
Just thoughts. I think I'll go answer those questions for myself again.
world class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you
don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait
for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in
self." -- Denis Waitley
This is one of those ah-ha type statements. You know in your gut this makes absolute sense, the fun part is in the implementation.
This, I believe, goes along with the BE, DO, HAVE paradigm. One must become and through that, find and realize one's potential. So how does one 'become'? Some do so through religion and prayer life, others through study and philosophy, some just seem to know their potential all along. I believe all of these avenues are valid expressions of the art of becoming. It does seem that at times we bog down in avenues of becoming and throw up barriers to communication.
At any rate, I really see that we all have massive and as Denis says, “world class potential”. I firmly believe that of everyone I know and meet. I find it unfortunate that we don't all reach for that world class potentiality, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. More to the point, what blocks us from achieving our greatness? This is truly the crux of understanding our potential and becoming all that we are meant to become.
Randy Gage talks often of what he coins, lack mentality. A state of thinking that assumes that we will always lack in one form or another. A lot of times it will be the mentality of; “I will always be poor. Nothing ever works for me. I'm too stupid to make a lot of money. I was born in the wrong neighborhood. I didn't attend the right school. No one likes what I do anyway.” All these and many others. They become a self-fulfilling prophecy. They wire our brains to even hunt for reasons and situations to make this come true for us.
So what to do? Re-wire the brain. It is being seen over and over in science that it is possible to do so. That our neural paths can and do change over time, it is the mechanism of creating a habit in the first place, but new ones can be created and old ones can be left to fade away.
This is where becoming really comes into play. Sitting down and writing out: What do I really want to be? What do I really want to accomplish in my life? What one thing is important enough to make the effort to achieve? Then we get to do our personal development. Working on our 'being' through reading materials and listening to teachers that encourage us and give us skills to move beyond where we are today, taking the integrating process of prayer and/or meditation, then taking the action to go from being...to doing.
Just thoughts. I think I'll go answer those questions for myself again.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Be ~ Do ~ Have
Act like the person you want to become. For as Goethe, the German philosopher, once wrote, "Before you can do something, you first must be something."
Bob Proctor
This has to be one of the most profound quotes I have ever read. Not just this specific quote, but this whole idea of 'being' before 'doing'.
We so often run about the world in a tizzy of activity, rushing hither and yon attempting to pack in absolutely every 'something' under the sun into our day. Yet, at the end of it, we often ask ourselves, “What am I doing this for?” We end up longing for anchor, for a quiet stillness within that says, “this is why my activity has purpose and function”. When we 'do' before we become, we can often find ourselves adrift on this ocean of activity.
How do we become first? Inner growing, reading, writing, meditating, praying; there are many avenues to this and it has been found to be vitally essential to 'doing' in a way that makes a greater impact on the doer and the activity as a whole.
Be
Do
Have
What is it you wish to become?
Bob Proctor
This has to be one of the most profound quotes I have ever read. Not just this specific quote, but this whole idea of 'being' before 'doing'.
We so often run about the world in a tizzy of activity, rushing hither and yon attempting to pack in absolutely every 'something' under the sun into our day. Yet, at the end of it, we often ask ourselves, “What am I doing this for?” We end up longing for anchor, for a quiet stillness within that says, “this is why my activity has purpose and function”. When we 'do' before we become, we can often find ourselves adrift on this ocean of activity.
How do we become first? Inner growing, reading, writing, meditating, praying; there are many avenues to this and it has been found to be vitally essential to 'doing' in a way that makes a greater impact on the doer and the activity as a whole.
Be
Do
Have
What is it you wish to become?
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