Beltane Emergence Moon
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio
A cartoon, I think it was in today’s paper, had two E.T. figures with their spaceship in the background. Two humans were in conversation with them. “But,” the E.T. said, “you’re from space, too.” Oh, yeah. The chicken is an eggs way of making more eggs. We often don’t realize that the way we understand things is not the only way to understand something. A truism perhaps, but a profound one. Another example is the Mexica view that death is the normative (real) state and life is a dream.
Which makes me wonder what I’m missing. A friend sometimes asks himself, “What if: you were a bodhisattva who is knowingly choosing to experience these feelings as part of the process of aiding the healing and enlightenment of all sentient beings?” This in response to the pall I’ve spoken of over the last day or so. This is a perspective shift, taking another, unusual angle from which to view a situation.
