Preface: Sometimes it is easier to write in poetry than in prose in expressing the sense of spirit and truth
Singing to the Angels
I am before the primordial forest
an untamed and wild-woods entangled
of fears, of shadows
,and worse of all the forbidden unknowns
It is Dark! It is Very, Very Dark!
The Darkness is so complete, so enveloping, and so total
That it feels seemingly to seep into my skin, my flesh, my muscles and into my very bones
Absorbed in a mental osmosis of Darkness
It seems all is in vain
Yet,
Within
Within my mind’s eye,
There is a light,
A bright light
A light which brings not only sight,
But also, the inner sight
The inner sight is of spirit
And the inner sight reveals
The truth
Which has ever been born within
Yet, wedded to the world,
The inner spirit
Goes out into the world
dispelling
the shadows of confusion and the doubts of being,
And Being
It is Truth that bridges the inner and outer worlds
allowing spirit to cross over the bridge
melding with the Spirit of the universe.
Still I stand there,
Yet the world has changed
From within
In my understanding and comprehension,
Ever the same revealed as transformed
And transcended
Commentary
Rupert Sheldrake is an off the beaten track scientist who seems to take genetic memory to the next level - "morphic resonance." Together with Matthew Fox, he wrote "The Physics of Angels." In that book he quotes St. Thomas Aquinas: "The entire corporeal world is governed by God through the angels. The angels are part of the universe in the sense that they do not constitute a universe on their own but are combined with the physical creation to form one, total world........For the total good of the interrelationship of things and no part is complete and perfect in isolation from the whole."
What is even more significant is Sheldrake's comments: "Aquinas gives us a vision of the universe under the guidance of intelligence and consciousness, a very different picture from the inanimate and unconscious world portrayed by the mechanistic science" (p.76 Angels) That echoes my theme that God, in human and psychological terms could be best understood as God ?Consciousness - a way of looking at the world embedded within a way of life. The Psychologists Baruss and Mossbridge also highlight the same issue. They describe two different states of mind: materialistic and transcendent. That is the same theme of Sheldrake, as well as Aquinas. I attempt to highlight this very issue in my blog-essay, "God is Not God..." whose link is: https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/god-is-not-god-delusional-delusions
"The Physics of Angels" book, by Sheldrake, is highlighted below.
Footnotes
Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.sheldrake.org/
Viktor Frankl: http://www.viktor-frankl.com/
Viktor Frankl: http://www.viktorfrankl.org/
Dr. Harold Koenig: https://spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu/index.php/harold-g-koenig-m-d
Dr. Harold Koenig: https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/harold-g-koenig-m-d
Roy Baumeister: http://www.roybaumeister.com/
Roy Baumeister: https://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/baumeisterr/baumeister.dp.php
Dr. Paul Wong: http://www.drpaulwong.com/
Dr. Paul Wong: https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/paul-wong-biography/
Clifford Geertz: https://www.biography.com/people/clifford-geertz-9308224
Carl Jung: https://www.biography.com/people/carl-jung-9359134
Carl Jung: https://www.psychologistworld.com/cognitive/carl-jung-analytical-psychology
12 common Archetypes: http://www.soulcraft.co/essays/the_12_common_archetypes.html
Emile Durkheim: http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/
Emile Durkheim: http://faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/felwell/www/Theorists/Durkheim/index2.htm
William James: https://www.biography.com/people/william-james-9352726
William James: https://study.com/academy/lesson/william-james-psychology-theories-lesson-quiz.html
Keith Karren – Body, Mind, Spirit:
http://pgrpdf.abhappybooks.com/mind-body-health-keith-j-karren-ph-d-pdf-5716009.pdf
E O Wilson Biodiversity: https://eowilsonfoundation.org/
E O Wilson - PBS on Ants: http://www.pbs.org/program/eo-wilson/
Anthropologist Malinowski: http://anthrotheory.wikia.com/wiki/Bronislaw_
MalinowskiSocial Anthropology - Malinowski: http://scihi.org/bronislaw-malinowski-social-anthropology/
St. Augustine (Catholic source): https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=418
St. Augustine: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/augustine
Konrad Lorenz: https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/scientist/konrad_lorenz.html
Konrad Lorenz: http://www.famouspsychologists.org/konrad-lorenz/
St. Gregory of Nyssa (Franciscan): https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-gregory-of-nyssa/
St. Gregory of Nyssa (wikiorg): https://orthodoxwiki.org/Gregory_of_Nyssa
Iroquois:
http://www.ushistory.org/us/1d.asp
Greek Mythology: Apollo and the Oracle of Delphi
https://www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Apollo/apollo.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/apollo-greek-god-sun-music-prophecy-111902
http://greek-gods.info/greek-gods/apollo/
https://www.coastal.edu/intranet/ashes2art/delphi2/misc-essays/oracle_of_delphi.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/7_p1.html
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/pythia-oracle-delphi-001641
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/pythia-oracle-delphi-001641
and wild