This is an invitation for philosophic meanderings, useful and not so useful information, favorite poems, quotations and calculations all peppered with enough humor to keep us interested.
"The idea of reincarnation is a fanciful way of addressing unlived life. If we take it literally, it seems to suggest that we are reborn through time as different people or even animals. This is the ego's attachment to an identify. Literalism is always a form of idolatry, and the idol is usually our own ego. The ego can't imagine its transformation and so liberalizes it. ... Understood psychologically, reincarnation refers to the redemption of our unlived life, the necessity of addressing all our potentials before we can realize God(unity). There are thousands of potentials within, all of which are calling simultaneously be expressed and experienced. This is the meaning of reincarnation for the modern person. All of our potentials want to be incarnated, to be lived out before our journey back to wholeness is complete. All of them are vying for attention simultaneously. Reincarnation is not for another time, another place, another existence-it is now. U...
I've been thinking it over.... What it is about India that is so mindblowing is its "otherness". Where we expect order, here there is chaos, instead of cleanliness the country just seems to be a very big mess (48% unemplyment and only 15% of the people pay taxes) Yet in the midst of the shit and the garbage there are beautiful women in the most glorious colored bejeweled sharis. No one seems to notice. On the morning train to Agra everyone is served bottled water, juice, coffee or tea and a breakfast by a gracious fellow in a turban and as you look out the window you see two fellows squatted down taking a crap next to each other while having a morning chat. The reality of all these extremes existing right next to each other turns ones assumptions upside down. There is a unashamed acceptance for humanity in all of its gradations. Something about that is very right even as it is looking very wrong.
"For those of you who don't know Nella Evets(Veets) let me introduce myself.....I am Nella Evets,which is Steve Allen spelled backwards. I learned how to say Steve Allen Backwards by listening to the original Steve Allen on tape. I had a tape recorder that had a track selector that allowed me to play tapes backward. I focused mainly on people whose last names were Allen; primarily famous people of the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's. Such as; Nella Derf, Nella Eicarg, Nella Xer, Nella Lem, Nella Ydoow, and so on. If you are wondering if I am related to the original Steve Allen, I am not. Originally my backwards name was Nella Nnelg, but at the end of 2000 I changed it to Nella Evets in honor and memory of the original Steve Allen. I was fortunate enough to know Steve Allen. He introduced me to videos of the golden age of television, late 40's and early 50's. KTL (channel 5) went on the air in 1947 in Los Angeles, the oldest TV stati...
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