Life works if we let it.  So why don't we?   Harrison Owen

 In the beginning was the GIFT of life.  No one asked to be given this gift, we receive this miraculous life force and promptly forget about it and take it for granted and begin to focus on the distractions of everything else.   We focus on "things," parts of the whole, and forget the most fundamental spark of life that makes every act of becoming possible. Without this connection to the life force, we don't exist, we don't sustain ourselves or any living process.

 We hear spiritual leaders lure us with this or that dogma of what they believe will help us feel this connection and call it religion, something that is believed, or something we have faith in. 

And we ask a very simple question that requires no seminar, book to read, course to take, or teacher to teach us, what beats your heart? 

What is the most basic fundamental truth of reality?  It is life – and of this realm many scientists and spiritual leaders alike are confounded. 

 So why has this escaped our attention?  What are the current conditions of belief and underlying assumptions about reality that keep us moving away from this inner wisdom, access to this cosmic force available to all living entities?

Ok.  Some definitions here to come soon

What is life?

What is a living entity?

What are Underlying assumptions, metaphysics?

What is reality? 

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As the world's memory of apartheid receded, Desmond Tutu responded to a stream of invitations to speak around the world on the practical implications of ubuntu. An excerpt from a speech to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva in 2001 follows.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity. There is not just one planet or one star; there are galaxies of all different sorts, a plethora of animal species, different kinds of plants, and different races and ethnic groups. God shows us, even with a human body, that it is made up of different organs performing different functions and that it is precisely that diversity that makes it an organism. If it were only one organ, it would not be a human body. We are constantly being made aware of the glorious diversity that is written into the structure of the universe we inhabit, and we are helped to see that if it were otherwise, things would go awry. How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/the-elusive-big-idea.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

 NYTimes article about the Ilusive Big Ideas brings up lots of "yes that's right" responses,  cynicsim and feelings of longing for the " really big ideas",  not ones that have started small and "scaled up"  or "gone viral"  or etc, but what does it mean a really big idea, bring on your thoughts.  Here's some that have come in to me.

  I've been looking for some way to address this craziness in Washington,DC. 

Life is Water’s Quantum Jazz
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The organism is quantum coherent, with water playing the lead role in creating
and maintaining the quantum coherence and in energizing the organism.
Mae-Wan Ho Ph. D.

Invited lecture for Sages and Scientists Symposium, 25-27 February 2011, La Costa Conference Center, Carlsbad, California

*Due to time constraints, only the first half of this lecture was delivered at the symposium

Synopsis

I am going to give you the latest instalment of my life story: the quantum coherent organism. Quantum coherence is the pre-requisite for consciousness. It is the pre-conscious ground that Deepak Chopra mentioned in his opening speech, without which all the amazing things described yesterday evening – precognition, telepathy, remote viewing, entanglement, and so on - would not be possible. It the ‘I’ in everyone, even though we are composed of tens of trillions of cells and hundreds of trillions of bacteria, and astronomical numbers of the most diverse kinds of molecules. The quantum coherent organism is a macroscopic
quantum being with an ever-evolving wave function spread throughout the entire universe, entangling the wave functions of other quantum beings. Quantum coherence of the organism has such important implications on how we are to live our lives that I want to bring you all that contemporary science has to offer.

This latest episode is on how water is crucial to the quantum coherence of organisms. Highly polarized multiple layers of liquid crystalline water molecules form dynamically coherent units with the macromolecules, enabling them to function as quantum molecular energy machines that transform and transfer
energy with close to 100 percent efficiency. This liquid crystalline continuum of intimately associated polarised water and macromolecules extends throughout the extracellular matrix into the interior of every single cell, enabling each cell, ultimately each molecule, to intercommunicate with every other. Intercommunication is the key to the quantum jazz of life, in place of command and control.

Quantum jazz is my metaphor for the incredibly dynamic light and sound dance-show inside the quantum coherent organism as it goes about its business of living. It involves the most diverse players, coordinated from subatomic to macroscopic dimensions spanning a frequency range of 73 octaves, each improvising freely and spontaneously from moment to moment yet perfectly in tune
and in step with the whole. Rather like the quantum jazz dancers (Poreotics) that ended last night’s gala performance, only much, much more so.

The Christ Idea Is Loving

The time of loving is upon us – what does love provide?  2000 years ago a consciousness of love was introduced to a world that was lonely, warring, hungry, without reason or purpose.  Today we are back there, and to return to this loving energy awareness is only to recall a moment of connection to nature, to a new-born child, a creative act.  It only takes a moment that will and can last a whole life long –

So with this day of the Christ idea – Christmas - we are brought this loving reminder – that in compassion, a peaceful pause, the giving of thoughtfulness, the connection awareness we are joined in this moment, all separation is removed, warring has no gain, we experience truly being fed and the purpose of each of us is to fulfill that which is uniquely ours to give– I give thanks for this gift of all gifts.

May this season of loving be ever opening in us all.

Robert  S. Hartman was born in Germany and  experienced the rise of Hitler while he was a judge who opposed this rise – He sought to answer the question, what is good?  In so doing he discovered not only that there was a moral compass, but that it was in all life, most likely, guiding and providing indicators for correction when we get too far away from that which is life-supporting, life enhancing and life giving.