Wishing a blessed Amartithi to my Meher Baba family around the world.
"Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart."—Avatar Meher Baba
Friday, January 31, 2025
AMARTITHI 2025
Wishing a blessed Amartithi to my Meher Baba family around the world.
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The more you shed light on Meher Baba the more I wonder if he had contact with Quakers. Who had been in India since the 1600s, and were the Brit’s NOT in favor of oppression it would be possible. There are overlapping concepts.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the Quaker beliefs also state that God exists in all people, and doing good is worship, and of course that God speaks to you in moments of silence.
Quakers also believe there are many pathways to God, and no religion has a monopoly. It is part of why they got along well with Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Native Americans.
But this also reminds me of a theory a friend of Mine has. She is from South America, and believes the reason Latin America remains more religious than other western countries is because their culture(s) are more centered around community and family. As such they feel the presence of God more in their day to day lives.
It is probably worth mentioning, her father was almost a priest until he met her mother and was lured away from the church by… some nice attributes.
Jack
No Meher Baba/Quaker connection that I've ever heard of. He was born Zoroastrian, but had followers who were Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist. And He embraced, and embodied, it all.
Delete"Nice attributes"? She must have had a stunning smile.
If you want to bring science into it…
DeleteSome scientists think there are animals that have a direct connection to quantum mechanics. Like birds that fly flawlessly at night with no seeming biological reasoning, or moths who know exactly where their mate is miles away.
They also think this may explain one of the biggest mysteries in biology… conciseness. They specifically used the term “all connected.”
As you are undoubtedly aware, being raised partially Jewish, in Judaism God is more of a conscious force in the universe. The idea of a human form only came around because of the mass conversion of Rome. Adopting the look of Zeus for The Judaeo-Christian God for easier understanding.
Similar ideas are found in some of the world’s oldest religions like Buddhism, and Druids have similar ideas to the divine being in the universe or the natural world.
By the way, there are no more druids… despite what they tell you at the hippie conventions… because it was all kept in oral tradition and the Romans sort of kept that from being passed on.
Jack
I think we all have a direct connection to quantum mechanics.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of God descending in human form has been part of Hinduism since the beginning. And the work of that "God in human form" is to remind us that we are all equally Divine, part and parcel of that "conscious force": God in disguise, if you will.
Hey, it's not even Sunday and we're doing sermons! ; )
But, it IS Saturday, and you are half Jewish. You can probably still claim the Sabbath.
DeleteBut the real question is are quantum mechanics just the word people are using to fit their modern vocabulary. Trying to force it into a world where the more basic primal elements are considered too primitive? Sort of the inverse of ancient astronaut theory.
In recent decades it has been said we are living in a simulation, saying life is a dream is a concept going back centuries, some have said split universes are to collect as many experiences as possible in humanity for a greater understanding. Even some Christian groups speak of being a part of the world but not of it.
Aren’t these all really the same basic idea? Just each group using vocabulary unique to their cultural experience to say the same thing?
Both the Noble Eight Fold Path and the Sermon on the Mount are explicit in how materialism clogs up one’s spiritual side. You just as easily say distracts you from the true importance of life, and have it mean the same thing in a secular context.
Jack
There have been quite a few books written about the connection between quantum physics and the mystic paths. Different ways of saying the same thing.
DeletePeel away the outer layers of time and culture, and you'll find the same eternal truth underneath.
Shabbat Shalom!
Well, since you brought up mysticism...
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz1uDad8S58
Jack
That was excellent. Thaks for sharing it.
DeleteSir, do you have anything in mind that could be implemented in Marvel/DC (comics)?
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a Marvel project right now, but it hasn't been announced yet so I can't discuss it.
DeleteOh Dematteis, we all know what the project is.
DeleteIt is the!arvel Team—Up mini series starring the Silver Surfer where he teams up with Swamp Thing, Jack Kerouac, Friman Hirsch (or pastiche), Rod Serling, Tom Joad, Number 6 from the Prisoner, The residents of Shangri-La, omega the Unknown, Walter Reuther, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Daffy Duck and of course, the ghost of Sunshine.
Is it weird I now want to read this series?
Jack
Not in the least.
DeleteI noticed the Dematteis-Buscema Spider-Man comics are finally getting an omnibus.
ReplyDeleteWhen you get your copy, will you have Buscema sign your copy?
Jack
That's a sweet idea...but mailing him that massive book will probably equal the cost of my mortgage!
DeleteWho said anything bout mailing?
DeleteI am picturing you driving two hours to a comic show, standing in line to buy a ticket, then waiting in line for 15 minutes holding the book at his booth.
Then setting it down and saying, “golly gee Mr. Buscema, I would love it if you signed. Y book. It would be a real honor.”
Then him saying, “you know Dematteis, if you wanted to meet we could have just met for lunch.”
You of course replying, “it will be a real honor sir, have five bucks.”
He then sighs, uncaps his pen and says, “always with the hippie crap.”
Jack
I'd give him at least ten bucks. And then take him out for a nice dinner!
DeleteDinner? Come on, Dematteis, no need for the cover up. You two are both Italian. We all know you two would spend the whole night doing oxygen. Both of you will be sucking it down all night.
DeleteAmazing Spider-Man #1000 comes out next year. Maybe my psychic messages will reach Marvel, and it willhave a new Dematteis-Buscema story as part of the celebration. That will sort it all out.
Jack.
I'd LOVE that, but my understanding is that Sal only inks these days. Doesn't want to pencil. He's 89...he's earned the right to do whatever he wants.
DeleteWell, Amazing Spider-Man #1000 is a special case. Maybe like a heist movie, this will bring him out of retirement for one last job.
DeleteThat having been said, maybe the inking thing would not be all bad. Have him come in to ink the story drawn by someone else.. Zeck?…even sit in on the meeting. Give some views on plot and penciling ideas.
You can even have Defalco call you up in the middle of writing and yell, “DEADLINEs, Dematteis! DEADLINES! Now stifle the hippie crap!” Really bring it all together.
Of course, that book won’t come out until near the end of next year, and hope spring eternal…until the comic industry extinguishes it.
That having be said, Mr. Buscema has given me so much joy over time, I would never want him to feel he has to do anything at this point. So Marvel, don’t steal,his beloved pet dog and hold it ransoms to get him to work on the story. I would not approve!
Jack
Nor would I.
DeleteSo we are agreed. Neither one of us supports Disney using pet abduction and extortion to manipulate beloved icons like Sal Buscema to their will.
DeleteI think that is a worthwhile moral stance.
And these days we need as many "worthwhile moral stances" as we can get.
DeleteMaybe Buscema inking Frenz again, they're a great pairing.
DeleteDavid
They are!
DeleteWell Dematteis, I just naturally assumed Marvel has extensive intense rules and testing for the use of Sunshine. Rules and tests even his creator, you, cannot easily pass.
ReplyDeleteJack
Years ago I made a deal that gave me complete control of the character. That's why there haven't been any movies yet. I haven't been satisfied with the many scripts they've developed.
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