Issue 03, 2009

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This New Earth Perspectives (NEP) newsletter offers commentaries and perspectives on life and world events from the field of unified consciousness. It is this unified field of consciousness which will take us as a humanity into our future.

I therefore wished to make a small contribution to humanity's movement into this unified field of awareness by writing articles that reinforce the inclusive love-based nature we must learn to become living expressions of in order to truly liberate ourselves from the errors of our past. ~ the Editor, Simeon Nartoomid

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WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

Plato: for the greater good.

Karl Marx: it was a historical inevitability.

Machiavelli: so that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates: because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.

Jacques Derrida: any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD!

Thomas de Torquemada: give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

B.F. Skinner: because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Carl Jung: the confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: the possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.

Albert Einstein: whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: to actualize its potential.

Buddha: if you ask this question, you deny your own chicken- nature.

Howard Cosell: it may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.

Darwin: it was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: it didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Werner Heisenberg: we are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

Jack Nicholson: 'cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.

Henry David Thoreau: to live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.

Mark Twain: the news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Dr Johnson: sir, had you known the chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the need to resist such a public display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.

Oscar Wilde: why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.

Swift: it is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.

Hamlet: that is not the question.

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Big: Bangs, Crunches, Bounces and Smiles
by Simeon Chiron Nartoomid

Many astrophysicists are now carefully exploring the possibility that at some point in the future the expansion of the universe will not only stop, but will actually reverse itself and start contracting again. The ultimate culmination of this contraction will be what they call the "Big Crunch." This is the opposite of the Big Bang. In other words we would theoretically return to the state of the universe which existed previous to the Big Bang.

This theory also gives rise to some other related theories such as the Big Bounce. The Big Bounce is what could happen after the Big Crunch has occurred. This theory would lend itself to the idea of an eternal universe, one which expands and contracts as a cyclical movement continuing on into eternity never to end. I like this idea of the Big Bounce. I am never one to want to put limits on things, so this theory is my FAVORITE thus far in regards the intrinsic behavior of the universe.

While pondering such enormously long universal cycles it occurred to me that much of what happens to us as human beings on Earth might be related to micro-cosmic manifestations of the Big Bang-Crunch-Bounce cycles. The normal cycle of human birth, maturation and eventually death seems to me to fit into this pattern. Could it be a piece of the larger hologram appearing in the microcosm?

We are conceived (Big Bang, no jokes please), then we expand from that single fertilized cell into an embryo and then a fetus and finally a fully formed baby. We continue to expand as we are born, then we learn, grow and mature. As we pass the prime of our life we then physically begin to contract. As we get into old age we become more childlike often needing to be cared for and losing some portion of the capacities we developed earlier in our life. Our bodies even have a tendency to shrink as we age. Then comes the transitional release of death (Big Crunch) and we will at some point enter another incarnation (Big Bounce). Maybe this is even the subtle unconscious reason why we have the term "bouncing baby"?

It may be that even our shorter cycles of growth and human experience are further holographic manifestations of this grand universal cyclical movement. I am someone who is very sensitive to lunar cycles for example. It always feels to me like I am in expansion mode from the time of the New Moon through the Full Moon then I start to contract again right after becoming like the werewolf. Of course this is relative because we are as a whole continuing to expand along with the universe. However, just like when we walk up a steep sand dune we have little back slides even as we move forward up the dune. Although we must keep in mind that the backslides in this example are directly proprotional to the amount of beer in the cooler we are carrying.

It also seems plausible that many other cycles of human experience are also representations of the Big Bang-Crunch-Bounce cycle. Relationships, emotional events and even our economy all have cyclical dynamics of expansion and contraction inherent within them. This make sense to me given that the universe is a hologram and each of its components therefore contains what is necessary to recreate the whole universal image. Perhaps it is possible that a hologram can be reproduced in a microcosmic manifestation of the whole and applied to form in a variety of ways?

This line of contemplation raises a host of questions and answers none. Yet it is the nature of reality to respond to the questions we ask. The better the questions the more powerful the answers are to our process of evolution. This is why the Grail question was sooo important.

Ahhh yes, evolution, and what does the Big Bang-Crunch-Bounce theory mean to the concept of evolution? Does any information from one cycle of universal expansion survive the Big Crunch to then inform the next Big Bang and its subsequent universal expansion?

Well, time to let my brain cool down a bit! I gently breathe in and out through my heart to relax now and I realize that my lungs are expanding and contracting, every exhale ending as a Crunch and every inhale beginning on a Bounce. Hmmmmm, I seem to be having a quantum moment wherein the whole historical movement of the universe is present within everything I see and experience. Mmmm.

The interconnectedness of all things now appears to me to also be subjective as well as objective. The intrinsic form of something in its elemental manifestation is integrally connected to all other manifestations in the universe through the unified field. The subtle essential nature of everything is also interconnected to everything else in the universe.

This is similar to saying that through genetics we are all related physically as human beings and as such we are also interconnected through space and time to each other's emotions, thoughts and habits. We each have access to any thought or emotion or habit ever experienced here on Earth by any human being at any time in the entire history of our species. I'm not sure whether to be sad or happy about this just yet though.

Perhaps our species itself is subject to a Big Bang-Crunch-Bounce cycle. Is it possible that we see evidence of this in the myths surrounding various lost civilizations such as Atlantis?

Deep sublime abstract explorations these are indeed. Yet perhaps the real message is that if we strike out on a venture or journey of some sort (Big Bang) and come to a point where we experience a Big Crunch we can always look forward to a Big Bounce!

Smile, we don't want to take things too seriously do we?

A few links below for you explore on the serious stuff I mentioned in this article, but do keep smiling!

The Big Crunch

The Big Bounce

The Big Bang