"If through the channels of our homely senses we learn to envisage with imagination the movement and murmur of life in our moment of time, we become confederate with eternity."
___ Llewelyn Powys, Earth Memories
The many branches of science that observe the physical world and its relationship to the cosmos are profoundly privileged in that they bring their exponents into a close relationship with the teeming varieties of life. Since the Age of Reason, it has been customary for science to remain separate from what it studies and to ignore the spiritual connections between life on either side of the veil between the worlds. Fortunately, many scientists have discovered that the patterns revealed within the universe show an intelligent consistency and order that is both beautiful and implicit.
We do not have to be forever open to unseen reality or credulous of every wonder to appreciate the implicit order of the greater universe. This is revealed every day through our ordinary physical senses. When we keep the vision of nature's revelation before our eyes and imaginations, each moment becomes loaded with eternal potential. To be confederate with eternity, we need the practice of life that gives us a special cynosure through which to view the whole universe in every precious instant.
"Go out in nature and be present to another life form. Using each of your physical senses, observe that life form. Now try being present to it with your subtle senses. What different kinds of understanding do have? What differences are there between you and it? What stimilarties do you share?"
[From: "The Celtic Spirit" by Caitlin Matthews]
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