I have this vision of God sitting someplace and watching the human race. She is looking at parts of the distractions that she has set up for us. She looks at how we interact with the distractions is both unbelieving at man's ability to take any distraction and make it an art form. She is also amazed at how our species has the ability to fill time. She is talking to her archangels. "I give them spiritual growth with ecstatic moments and sacred space and this is what they come up with? I don't think any of this is good or bad; I just think it's rather odd.
Last year for a birthday present I gave my wife membership in the Cloud Appreciation Society. This is a society formed in 2005 in the United Kingdom. The society fosters understanding and appreciation of clouds and has some 60,000 members. I gave her the gift because through the years we have traveled the world and yet her favorite photo subject are clouds - whether in Singapore, Sydney, Amsterdam, London, or Sacramento! So now she is a card carrying member.
There is also a group around the Flat Earth Society who are seriously motivated that this is a truth. There are people who believe this though my favorite response I've heard is that indeed if the earth was flat cats would have knocked everything off.
It is the magnificence of God that no matter what people believe they can typically find someone else who believes the same thing. I want to remind each of you (and myself) that the topics in this blog provide full serious participation by people. There is belief.
One of the interesting groups is called the Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People. This was started in 1975 when a man tried to apply for a loan from the bank. The bank denied the loan because the man had been declared dead by the government. So this society was formed when the man found others who had been declared dead. He found an underground association of people. He discovered his status came about from an uncle trying to steal land. In the end he became quite famous and receive a Nobel prize and ended up running for the Indian parliament. I don't know what the subject of his Nobel prize was.
If there is something that you have an interest about, the truth is that there are other people who believe the same thing. The curiosity and exploration of our distractions is part of what makes this earthly journey so quirky. We tend to forget it is all part of the spiritual process not apart from the spiritual process. Every step teaches us more of how to let the Christ consciousness flow through us. Thank goodness we all have such odd interests!
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