Comments on: Art, Faith, and Discovery

By: poeticinterconnections

poeticinterconnections — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:22:00 +0000

Thank you! I found this unsourced quote online: “Barbershop quartet singing is four guys tasting the holy essence of four individual mechanisms coming into complete agreement.”

By: michael

michael — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:53:23 +0000

I have enjoyed all of your poetic interconnection posts and the current one is no exception. I like Heschel’s interpretation of faith as faithfulness to an idea or an experience. That seems to do away with the distinction between faith (irrational) and logic (rational) and makes faith more a matter of familiarity. My first revelation was musical also (no great surprise there…). I was 13 years old and attending summer camp. Four camp staff members performed as a barbershop quartet and I was transfixed. I had never heard that wall of sound before. Four voices, one sound. e pluribus unum. I have loved making that sound and listening it over and over from others ever since. And for the record (no pun intended), The Beachboys aren’t too shabby either.

By: poeticinterconnections

poeticinterconnections — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:33:53 +0000

Thank you for your beautiful comment, Renee. So glad to hear you’ve continued to be well, happy, and blessed since the Science and Nonduality Conference last September.

By: Renee Pisarz

Renee Pisarz — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:42:09 +0000

My faith in God helped me get through the physical loss of my son Stephen. Once I embraced and surrendered, I started to receive and heal. Make no mistake, if you ask you shall receive. I have changed forever, and was transformed. When my chakras (energy centers) opened from the trauma, I saw the white light all around me and felt the love pouring in. This has given me a new way of looking at everything. I became multi-dimensional. I see and feel the energy from the electro-magnetic field. I can manipulate it with the palm of my hand like a magnet. This is the spiritual forces that we all can connect to, if we raise our level of vibration. I did, and I am able to feel and see my son’s energy, the formless. The gift I was given is oneness with all.

Blessings,
Renee

By: chuck abraham

chuck abraham — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:52:52 +0000

amen

By: poeticinterconnections

poeticinterconnections — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:22:37 +0000

Thank you for your comment! I’m reminded of one of my favorite Sufi quotes, by Abu Sa’id: “The perfect mystic is neither an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind. The true saint goes in and out among the people, eats and sleeps with them, buys and sells in the market, marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.”

By: chuck abraham

chuck abraham — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:43:33 +0000

what you describe has been a feeling or knowing that has revealed itself to me in small flashes of intuition? or inspiration since I reached my 40s. It was the strongest in the presence of a teacher I met in 2000 (may he rest in the presence of the Light) Recently these insights are fewer and farther between and I yearn for a practice or technique to return to them. The constant stress of dealing with ‘matters of consequence’ in the words of ‘the little prince’ the day to day struggle to pay the mortgage and feed my family seems to cloud my efforts. The sufis say we should work to be in this world but not ‘of’ this world and I yearn for this ability.