Re-think our position in Reality

[Homosapiens time on Earth]

Been reading Bob Bermans book, "Cosmic Adventure",which I picked from my brothers massive book collection while visiting our mother. The book has touched me in a way I would have never expected, and since it came to me by accident all the more so. Here are some excerpts from the book I hope you will enjoy-90 percent of the universe is made of unknown material----cockroaches have remained unchanged for 250 million years-----our earth is some 4.1 billion yrs old, humans have been around 2 million (ape standing on 2 feet), a mere 200,000 years as homo-sapians,(that's 2 hrs if the earth were one year old!)-----life began here some 4 billion yrs ago, and it would be nice if we were merely in middle age, with another 4 billion left. But no: we're 80% thru our allotted custodianship of this planet--if the universe were a cube 10 miles long, 10 miles high and 10 miles wide, all the mass it contained,including even the mysterious dark matter, would be a single grain of sand!-----at 240 below zero your skin would crack into ice--at 459.67 below zero all molecular motion stops dead in its tracks--the supernova in our own galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud,radiates 500 million times the energy of the sun-----in 1996 ,researchers reported that a colossal spherical galaxy in Virgo named M87 had at its heart a supermassive black hole weighing the same as 3 billion suns!----why does each cell in our body have 90 trillion atoms, roughly the same as the # of stars in our home cluster (Virgo Group) of galaxies?-----why does the diameter of the sun (864,000 miles) have the same numerals as the #of seconds in a day (86,400)-there are 30 trillion cells in the human body (far more than the # of stars and planets in our galaxy!-----if I put you in a rocket ship that could travel at 99.9% of the speed of light and sent you to a galactic nucleus some 26,000 light years away it would take you 2 years to go there and come back to earth, when you arrived back at earth 520 centuries would have elapsed!----- and lastly------ In reality, in any quest for higher consciousness, metaphysical practice involves fully seeing the futility of any and all concepts. Only then, when the mind fully grasps its own irrelevancy, does it drop away by itself. Hope my fellow mystical journey mates are enjoying in lightness, laughter and harmony our magical ride. Peace Om

[souley]

I hopy you don't mind, I formatted you post a bit for easier reading:

Been reading Bob Bermans book, "Cosmic Adventure",which I picked from my brothers massive book collection while visiting our mother. The book has touched me in a way I would have never expected, and since it came to me by accident all the more so. Here are some excerpts from the book I hope you will enjoy-

90 percent of the universe is made of unknown material----

thingyroaches have remained unchanged for 250 million years-----

our earth is some 4.1 billion yrs old, humans have been around 2 million (ape standing on 2 feet), a mere 200,000 years as homo-sapians,(that's 2 hrs if the earth were one year old!)-----

life began here some 4 billion yrs ago, and it would be nice if we were merely in middle age, with another 4 billion left. But no: we're 80% thru our allotted custodianship of this planet--

if the universe were a cube 10 miles long, 10 miles high and 10 miles wide, all the mass it contained,including even the mysterious dark matter, would be a single grain of sand!-----

at 240 below zero your skin would crack into ice--

at 459.67 below zero all molecular motion stops dead in its tracks--

the supernova in our own galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud,radiates 500 million times the energy of the sun-----

in 1996 ,researchers reported that a colossal spherical galaxy in Virgo named M87 had at its heart a supermassive black hole weighing the same as 3 billion suns!----

why does each cell in our body have 90 trillion atoms, roughly the same as the # of stars in our home cluster (Virgo Group) of galaxies?-----

why does the diameter of the sun (864,000 miles) have the same numerals as the #of seconds in a day (86,400)-

there are 30 trillion cells in the human body (far more than the # of stars and planets in our galaxy!-----

if I put you in a rocket ship that could travel at 99.9% of the speed of light and sent you to a galactic nucleus some 26,000 light years away it would take you 2 years to go there and come back to earth, when you arrived back at earth 520 centuries would have elapsed!-----

and lastly------In reality, in any quest for higher consciousness, metaphysical practice involves fully seeing the futility of any and all concepts. Only then, when the mind fully grasps its own irrelevancy, does it drop away by itself. Hope my fellow mystical journey mates are enjoying in lightness, laughter and harmony our magical ride.

Peace Om

[souley]

Another cool thing that came to mind, is that when there is a solar eclipse, the moon is exactly the same size as the sun. Meaning that the size-distance relationship for the sun-moon-earth is set up in the precise exact measures for it to be like that. Or at least someone told me so

And another cool book like this is Stephen Hawkins "A brief history of time".. very entertaining, and it's a pretty short read (we don't really know a lot about the universe

[karen]

Ironically: I found Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" very helpful to go up to the cliff.

He hits it home how our particular perceptions are how they are due to our function (in middle Earth) and how a bird would see the world in much a different way - 3 dimensional vs our largely 2 dimensional world view as an example.

I also find the anthropic principle mind stilling just contemplating it.

He (and UG) was quite helpful to me in ripping away some quite nutty "spiritual" ideas.

[lightmystic]

Hehe, nice.....

Jan 29, 2010 14:26:38 GMT -5 karen said:

Ironically: I found Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" very helpful to go up to the cliff.

He hits it home how our particular perceptions are how they are due to our function (in middle Earth) and how a bird would see the world in much a different way - 3 dimensional vs our largely 2 dimensional world view as an example.

I also find the anthropic principle mind stilling just contemplating it.

He (and UG) was quite helpful to me in ripping away some quite nutty "spiritual" ideas.

[HomoSapien]

No problem Souley- We make agreat team and U will always be like a Souley-mate to