id that we can, too.
This leads us to three vital practices that help us connect to these Three Faces:
The 3rd-person Infinite Face is accessed through reflection ABOUT the Divine.
The 2nd-person Intimate Face is accessed through devotional prayer TO God.
The 1st-person Inner Face is accessed through meditation AS God, the realization that I am one with God.
In reflection, we contemplate the glory of creation, from quarks to the infinite cosmos. We think deeply about the Unmanifest as well as the manifest world. This can move us into praise, worship, awe, and mystical immersion in all of nature itself. This is the home of nature mysticism.
Prayer has a long, traditional and mystical history in Christianity as devotion, conversation, and communion with God, frequently addressed as a deity form. Prayer is often expressed by spoken or inward mental words addressed to God in a 2nd-person, personal way. It can also involve chanting, dancing, glossolalia, and other devotional forms. Prayer is the home of deity mysticism.
Meditation, in an integrally-informed Christian framework, focuses on the progressive quieting of the mind, leading to detachment from all forms and a realization of our nondual True Self, our Oneness with God, I Amness. While Christian prayer focuses on our relating to God who is the Divine Other, Christian meditation centers on our identification as God - I am one with all that God is. We may think of prayer as operating in the subtle realm of forms, while mediation ventures into the causal realm of formless emptiness (or “fullness” as we may also experience it). This is the home of formless mysticism.
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Added by Michael Grove at 7:45 on September 19, 2013
d patterns of black and white and simple colour patterns can elicit the illusory effect. Typically, people see the motion moving from high luminance to low luminance areas of the pattern.
Larger images usually produce a stronger effect and some colour combinations and intensities work better than others. If one stares at a fixed point in the image the motion disappears in the area of focus. The intricacies of how these illusions work are still debated, and theories that explain one type of illusion may fail to account for others. One of the best-known illustrations of peripheral drift illusion is Kitaoka Akiyoshi's Rotating Snakes image, an adaptation of which is pictured below. As you read this text, you probably see the snakes below rotating. If you look directly at one snake, it appears to hold still, while those in your peripheral vision seem to be in constant movement; if you look close to the image but not right at it, it looks like a nest of stealthily stirring snakes. The obtruding tongues do not move, however, even in the illusion, another indication that none of the snakes are actually moving.
Peripheral drift and ot her types of illusions are often presented purely for amusement or as psychedelic art. However, optical illusions are also used to study how the human brain interprets visual data. From studying how these patterns create perceived motion, we can
better understand how the brain interprets motion. We can also gain knowledge about how a damaged brain fails to guide an individual's movement when they have difficulties perceiving motion in their environment. Motion illusions can be used in virtual reality (VR) as well as augmented reality (AR) applications, to properly guide individuals with problems tracking movement. Various types of optical illusions are used for a number of effects in VR and AR.
The peripheral drift illusion and other motion illusions can not only lead viewers to see movement but also to perceive themselves to BE in motion while remaining stationary.
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d patterns of black and white and simple colour patterns can elicit the illusory effect. Typically, people see the motion moving from high luminance to low luminance areas of the pattern.
Larger images usually produce a stronger effect and some colour combinations and intensities work better than others. If one stares at a fixed point in the image the motion disappears in the area of focus. The intricacies of how these illusions work are still debated, and theories that explain one type of illusion may fail to account for others. One of the best-known illustrations of peripheral drift illusion is Kitaoka Akiyoshi's Rotating Snakes image, an adaptation of which is pictured below. As you read this text, you probably see the snakes below rotating. If you look directly at one snake, it appears to hold still, while those in your peripheral vision seem to be in constant movement; if you look close to the image but not right at it, it looks like a nest of stealthily stirring snakes. The obtruding tongues do not move, however, even in the illusion, another indication that none of the snakes are actually moving.
Peripheral drift and other types of illusions are often presented purely for amusement or as psychedelic art. However, optical illusions are also used to study how the human brain interprets visual data. From studying how these patterns create perceived motion, we can better understand how the brain interprets motion. We can also gain knowledge about how a damaged brain fails to guide an individual's movement when they have difficulties perceiving motion in their environment. Motion illusions can be used in virtual reality (VR) as well as augmented reality (AR) applications, to properly guide individuals with problems tracking movement. Various types of optical illusions are used for a number of effects in VR and AR.
The peripheral drift illusion and other motion illusions can not only lead viewers to see movement but also to perceive themselves to BE in motion while remaining stationary.
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ey had the one true path to God and that everyone else was bound for Hell. When Harding was 21 he left. He could not accept their view of the world. What guarantee was there that they were right? What about all the other spiritual groups who also claimed that they alone had the Truth?
Everyone couldn’t be right.
In London in the early 1930s Harding was studying and then practising architecture. In his spare time, however, he devoted his energies to philosophy - to trying to understand the nature of the world, and the nature of himself. Into philosophy at this time were filtering the ideas of Relativity. Influenced by these ideas, Harding realized that his identity depended on the range of the observer – from several metres he was human, but at closer ranges he was cells, molecules, atoms, particles… and from further away he was absorbed into the rest of society, life, the planet, the star, the galaxy… Like an onion he had many layers.
Clearly he needed every one of these layers to exist.
But what was at the centre of all these layers? Who was he really?
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Added by Michael Grove at 18:55 on February 13, 2012
Meretz party that Meir Margalit represented in the Jerusalem City Council.
We learn from her struggles the fundamental truth that democracy and peace are one and the
same policy, that one cannot be sustained without the other, that the continued Israeli
occupation of the territories over which the neighbouring Palestine should be founded is
converting Israel into an apartheid state, and that this process is a grave and sad betrayal of
Jewish values and history.Equally we are reminded as ever that the global system quo is one that regards ALL CRITICISM
as DESTRUCTIVE and that any CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM is therefore INVALID & UNACCEPTABLE.
May her memory be a blessing.
RIP Shulamit Aloni
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