Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Flowering of Human Consciousness

"Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: 
The first flower [received] the rays of the sun..."  *

Much later, those delicate and fragrant beings we call flowers would come to play an essential part in the evolution of consciousness of another species...

As the consciousness of human beings developed, flowers were most likely the first thing they came to value that had no utilitarian purpose... that is to say, was not linked in some way to survival...

Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their innermost being, their true nature.
Rhododendren Flower outside my office: 7/3/12
This first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness...

Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is the most high, most sacred...

Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged would become messengers from another realm...

They not only had a scent that was delicate and pleasing to humans, but also brought a fragrance from the realm of spirit.


*  These quotes are from Eckhart Tolle's book, A New Earth, pages 1-2

Monday, June 25, 2012

Bad Omen Rising

Jenness Pond in the evening: 6/25/12
It's not going to be the atomic bomb that does us in but man-made climate change.

“For a long time it was thought that God would bring on the end. 
Now we fear that our own technology will take care of that.” 
Rikke Peters

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Lily Pads as abstract art

Photos of the lilies taken in the sweltering heat today
while cooling down at Jenness Pond

Friday, June 15, 2012

Because God is on our side

Sand Castle: Long Sands Beach, York, ME: 6/15/12
We're terribly sorry, little girl, 
for destroying your sand castle 
with our drone. 

Of course, it was for your own good:
Terrorists were hiding inside.






Monday, June 11, 2012

Stairway to Heaven

Image from photo taken 6/10/12 of the concrete steps on top of Stinson Mountain,
the only remains of what used to be a fire tower

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Surviving Shards

Surviving shard of bark from decaying white birch tree: 6/3/12 Northwood

“One for whom the pebble has value must be 
surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.”
Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer