Writing Sample #1 – Our Galaxy (a meditation)

Our Galaxy (a meditation)

(A meditation on the absolute and the relative)

Always under construction

Constantly evolving!

A Meditation

By Rob Roman

 

This is what we’re riding on – the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s only one of so many systems.

Whatever you believe in: God, a Higher Power, Science and Evolution, Humanity, The Buddha Dharma, or Nothing at all, there is never an apple tree with only one apple, or a flower with only one petal.  There must be other ripe fruit, other planets with life forms,  other sentient beings. If self-consciousness is the goal of creation, there must be others out there.

There is a God for everyone, you just may define it differently than I do, or someone else does. We all came from the same origin, and we are all on the same path, universally speaking.

We have some powerful telescopes out there, and this is out there – some kind of plasma. Who needs the dry scientific explanation? Intuitively we can know what it is, it’s made out of the same basic stuff that we are.

Even if it’s not interpreted in colors, there is energy and mass and movement here – a really tremendous amount of energy.  Our minds are powerful enough to tap that energy. All space and time can meet at the intersection of the human mind, no matter how distressed we are with finite and minute circumstances.

 

 

Here we are all one, and here, there is no separation…

…as we are removed further and further away form the particulars of our space and our time, and we move into the infinity of all space and all time.

Past present and future unite.

Only the human mind can grasp both the minute particulars of the here and now, and  the vast generalizations of infinity. We have the ability to coalesce the infinite within the finite and timelessness within time.

Is this time-lapse photography?

I don’t want to spoil it by looking up what this is. Then I will be restricted by logical and studied interpretations. We can use our intuition to know what this is better than any scientist. We have a direct connection and we are directly related to this phenomenon.

 

My guess is that this is reading infrared or ultraviolet light. So we are seeing heat, movement, and direction. We are seeing concentrations of light and energy, cooling into mass and becoming distinct, separate, and relative.

 

The latest theory is that a failed planet or a mass of asteroids formed into a sphere and veered into the orbit of earth colliding and deforming earth, coming together again and forming the moon. Is life even possible without the moon? I never bothered to look that up.

They say the real cycle of the moon is 28 days, so our calendar should have 13 months x 28 days = 364 days. That’s the missing sign of “Starfish”, according to E.L. Doctorow. Instead, we have different lengths of months with 28 or 29, 30, and 31 days – plus we have leap years, etc. Maybe 13 is not so unlucky a number. It’s a very lucky number, though often misunderstood.

Neil Armstrong said that when he went to the moon, what he really discovered was the earth. The moon for him was a disappointing desolation – except for it’s vantage point upon the earth.

 

Some call it the “big blue marble”. Isn’t it really a living organism? Truth be told, it has to be. When people first saw this photo, they were awestruck. It opened up a higher consciousness, and for some, a higher responsibility. Is it just a human control fantasy to think we can control the earth?

Maybe we should try to control it – if we need it to sustain human life.

 

Is this, that we perceive here and now, real? I don’t even know and I don’t recognize it. It’s just navigation on an ocean of space. Reality belongs to the perceiver, and the elements of perception. Cruising through the giant mind which is outer-space, the Universe is completely endless. It contains no foundation, no edges, and no confines.

 

Yet, back on earth, where the absolute  congeals back into the relative, we have no choice but to deal with exigent circumstances in our particular realities.

So how do we deal with this? How do we balance the relative (time, sweat, heartache, preferences, work, separation) and the absolute (timelessness, no body or mind, boundless love, no barriers, serenity)? That’s when I’m often reminded of this song:

 

 

From a distance, you look like my friend, even though we are at war

From a distance, I just cannot comprehend 

what all this fighting is for

 

From a distance there is HARMONY

And it echoes through the land

And it’s the hope of hopes

It’s the love of loves

It’s the heart of every man 

                  

It’s the hope of hopes…                     It’s the love of loves…                     

This is the song of every man.

God is watching us 

               

            God is watching us   

                       

                            God is watching us                                                     

                                                                                   ………From a distance

-Bette Midler