Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Blood Moon<\/p>\n
The Woolly’s met at the old Cenacle in a new retreat center.\u00a0 We’ve met there three or four times this year.<\/p>\n
The focus was views on the afterlife.\u00a0 The conversation revealed a surprisingly conservative undertone with several Woollys hedging their metaphysical bets.\u00a0 Immanuel Swedenborg got a mention as did reincarnation as a proven reality.<\/p>\n
Some, like me, took a more existential stance.\u00a0 “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”\u00a0 I believe that was Carl Sagan.\u00a0 The questions death raises have confounded humanity since at least the time of the Neanderthals.\u00a0 There is something about a void after death, an extinctionist perspective I saw it called recently, that unsettles many people.<\/p>\n
It is, as much as anything else, I imagine, such a stark contrast with the vitality and hereness of life.\u00a0 That this magical adventure, this ancient trail might end in nothingness seems like a cheat.\u00a0 But by whose perspective?<\/p>\n
To me the wonder is this life, this one chance we have to experience whatever we can, to do what we can.\u00a0 To be who we are.<\/p>\n
On another note Mark Odegard had two words for today’s graduates:\u00a0 bio-char.\u00a0 New to you?\u00a0 Me, too.\u00a0 It’s worth a look though and here’s a website<\/a> that will help you get up to speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Blood Moon The Woolly’s met at the old Cenacle in a new retreat center.\u00a0 We’ve met there three or four times this year. The focus was views on the afterlife.\u00a0 The conversation revealed a surprisingly conservative undertone with several Woollys hedging their metaphysical bets.\u00a0 Immanuel Swedenborg got a mention as did reincarnation as … Continue reading Bio-Char and the After-Life<\/span>