Mid-morning. You are about to head to Pine
Hill Lakes Park so that Carol might do her walk in the woods.
0944 hours. How shall we construct this chapter Amorella?
The Supervisor will begin with an opening
statement to the Living explaining the allowance for Merlyn’s return in
Dreamtime.
** **
The Dreaming of the Aboriginal times
"Dreaming" is also often used to
refer to an individual's or group's set of beliefs or spirituality. For
instance, an indigenous Australian might say that he or she has Kangaroo
Dreaming, or Shark Dreaming, or Honey Ant Dreaming, or any combination of
Dreamings pertinent to their "country". Many Indigenous Australians also
refer to the Creation time as "The Dreaming". The Dreamtime laid down
the patterns of life for the Aboriginal people.
Dreaming stories vary throughout Australia,
with variations on the same theme. For example, the story of how the birds got
their colours is different in New South Wales and in Western Australia. Stories
cover many themes and topics, as there are stories about creation of sacred
places, land, people, animals and plants, law and custom. It is a complex
network of knowledge, faith, and practices that derive from stories of
creation. It pervades and informs all spiritual and physical aspects of an
indigenous Australian's life.
They believe that every person essentially
exists eternally in the Dreaming. This eternal part existed before the life of
the individual begins, and continues to exist when the life of the individual
ends. Both before and after life, it is believed that this spirit-child exists
in the Dreaming and is only initiated into life by being born through a mother.
The spirit of the child is culturally understood to enter the developing fetus
during the fifth month of pregnancy. When the mother felt the child move in the
womb for the first time, it was thought that this was the work of the spirit of
the land in which the mother then stood. Upon birth, the child is considered to
be a special custodian of that part of his country and is taught the stories
and songlines of that place. As Wolf (1994: p. 14) states: "A black
'fella' may regard his totem or the place from which his spirit came as his
Dreaming. He may also regard tribal law as his Dreaming."
It was believed that, before humans, animals,
and plants came into being, their 'souls' existed; they knew they would become
physical, but not when. And when that time came, all but one of the 'souls'
became plants or animals, with the last one becoming human and acting as a
custodian or guardian to the natural world around them.
Traditional Australian
indigenous peoples embrace all phenomena and life as part of a vast and complex
system- of relationships, which can be traced directly back to the ancestral
Totemic Spirit Beings of The Dreaming.
Selected and edited from
Wikipedia Offline
** **
This
is the line of logic. I, Amorella, follow this thematic Dreamtime as a
Spiritual Being and this is my entrance, so to speak, into my character, the
Supervisor, Custodian of the Dead. From my perspective this is authentic enough
for the intents and purposes of the Merlyn books and blog. In a sense the
Merlyn books are framed in a story line that Joseph Campbell would be wont to
tell. – Amorella
You
have stopped in the shade in a figurative middle of Rose Hill Cemetery for
reading time. Carol is on page eighty of The Last Man. Let’s go to the
working chapter. – Amorella
1131 hours. I have 339 words, the last three of which are “before they
flower.” This leaves me less than a hundred words each. Wouldn’t it be more practical
to have this as an Epilogue?
Reduce what you have to fifty words and communicate
the same. Post what you have presently. - Amorella
***
Chapter Twenty-one
Translucence
The
Supervisor has a little saying:
Ring-a-ring
o'rosies
A
pocket full of posies
"A-tishoo!
A-tishoo!"
We
all fall down!
We
rise from clay
On
Judgment Day
Be we dead or still alive.
Merlyn
has this little ditty above memorized, but I, the Supervisor, do not because the words are semi-transparent as is
this whole series. I am the character of a spiritual being the Custodian for
the Dead, and by Necessity it is my obligation to show my importance in
Merlyn’s sense of Dreamtime. Though he is not an Australian Aboriginal in the
strictest sense of the words, he is a Shaman, a spiritualist and
transcendentalist in his office. What else would one expect for Merlyn’s
character in these stories but to represent a bridge between the Living and the
Dead through Dreamtime. Dreamtime includes the sense of the multiple universes
and multiple dimensions within a broader and higher definition of humane
consciousness. That is, Dreamtime inherently allows for such transmigration of
ideas and concepts through the soul first, then through the heart and through
the mind into the physical brain and its connected physical body where such
things are interpreted, much as dreams have been over the centuries.
Merlyn
thinks of each of the four dream segments as the leaf of clover. This is fine;
however, I represent the stem and its root. As root to stem to leaf I do not
view this proverbial plant as Merlyn does. So, in this, the last chapter of the
first of three multi-dimensional and multi-universal books I bring things
together.
The
first three books, Braided Dreams, Run Through and Merlyn’s Mind are in one universe composed of five dimensions and Great Merlyn’s Ghost, volumes one, two
and three are composed of a second universe with six dimensions at a minimum.
The writer, Orndorff, while writing, represents a third universe and the
reader, while reading, represents yet another universe. Now, I shall review the
entangled four leaves of Great Merlyn’s
Ghost, Volume One, while still within the stem before they
flower. (339 words)
***
Moving
towards mid-afternoon. You have been cleaning your chest-of-drawers and
nightstand by your side of the bed. You threw out at least a full black
forty-gallon trash bag with old stuff, literally throwing it out like there is
no tomorrow. – Amorella
1339 hours. I am throwing it out like it makes no difference if I see it
again or not. I don’t consider myself old, old but Carol is talking about
moving eventually and we should just throw out what we wouldn’t take with us.
Sounded good to me so that is what I did. I still have to straighten what left
in the drawers and probably I’ll throw more out. I can remember my mother throwing
stuff out maybe three years before her death.
Shortly you will be heading to Subway for a
picnic lunch to take down to the Little Miami. And, you have in your pocket ten
pieces of reasoning from Carl Sagan that you feel are very important to keep. Before
you spend time copying them check online. – Amorella
1535 hours. We had are lunch and are sitting in the shade of a boxwood
near the west bank of the Little Miami River just south of Foster, Ohio. Carol
is on page 158 of Vince Flynn’s The Last Man. I completed my first
attempt at fifty words that conveys what I consider to be the summary of the
earlier explanation by the Supervisor character earlier today.
** **
This is the Supervisor,
Caretaker of the Dead. These books cause a transmigration of words from the
Dead into those reading within Dreamtime. The enlightenment occurs in the
deconstruction of entanglement within spiritual thought. The Humanity, the
Light, untangles many spiritual dimensions of mind to a singular focus:
reasonable thought. -50w-
** **
Take a break. Post when convenient. Later,
dude. – Amorella
1613 hours. The fifty words make sense to me. I'll stick with them for now.
1630 hours. It took a few minutes of searching but I found Carl Sagan’s
rules for critical thought. Here they are:
** **
1. Wherever possible
there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.”
2. Encourage
substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of
view.
3. Arguments from
authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past.
They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in
science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
4. Spin more than one
hypothesis. If there’s something to be explained, think of all the different
ways in which it could be explained. Then think of tests by which you might
systematically disprove each of the alternatives. What survives, the hypothesis
that resists disproof in this Darwinian selection among “multiple working
hypotheses,” has a much better chance of being the right answer than if you had
simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.
5. Try not to get
overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours. It’s only a way
station in the pursuit of knowledge. Ask yourself why you like the idea.
Compare it fairly with the alternatives. See if you can find reasons for
rejecting it. If you don’t, others will.
6. Quantify. If
whatever it is you’re explaining has some measure, some numerical quantity
attached to it, you’ll be much better able to discriminate among competing
hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations. Of
course there are truths to be sought in the many qualitative issues we are
obliged to confront, but finding them is more challenging.
7. If there’s a chain of
argument, every link in the chain must work (including the premise) —
not just most of them.
8. Occam’s Razor. This
convenient rule-of-thumb urges us when faced with two hypotheses that explain
the data equally well to choose the simpler.
9. Always ask whether
the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. Propositions that are
untestable or unfalsifiable are not worth much. Consider the grand idea that
our Universe and everything in it is just an elementary particle — an electron,
say — in a much bigger Cosmos. But if we can never acquire information from
outside our Universe, is not the idea incapable of disproof? You must be able
to check assertions out. Inveterate skeptics must be given the chance to follow
your reasoning, to duplicate your experiments and [to] see if they get the same
result.
Selected and edited from -
http://www.brainpickings-dot-org/index.php/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
** **
1638
hours. You were right Amorella, the list is online and a copy and paste is
faster than typing it out. I am sure I used this in my logic lecture; I may
have even run in off for distribution in my classes.
This will be good to measure this last
chapter of book one from. – Amorella
I still don’t see how this is going to be constructed.
We will begin with The Dead segments. –
Amorella
We will need to modify the words per segment to between 700 and 750. How
is this going to work?
We will modify the segment you already have
into accepting comments from the Supervisor. Let’s pick out a Stage Manager
example from Wilder’s “Our Town”. – Amorella
** **
“We all know that something is
eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t
even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal,
and that something has to do with human beings. All the grandest people ever
lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be
surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down
deep that’s eternal about every human being.”
(Stage Manager, Act III, p.87-88) – “Our
Town” by Thornton Wilder
From rcwalton-dot-com
** **
1655
hours. I always enjoy the intuitive ‘undertone’ of these lines. I feel they are
‘like-factual’ for many people. Everybody does not know but many feel there is
something ‘eternal’ about every human being. I suggest we have souls but this
cannot be proven. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence that we human
beings have hearts and minds whether we use them properly or not.
Now we need to drop in commentary from time
to time in each of the segments so that the reader can better experience what
you experience in the readings. Post. - Amorella
2222 hours. And,
therein lies the rub. Your dark humor appears endless Amorella, and I admire
you for it. Dark humor or not it is a reassuring frame of reference that puts
these books and blog in their place.
In here lightning greases the passion, my friend. - Amorella
2159 hours. Carol made delicious spaghetti and side veggie for supper.
We even ate at the dining room table. I later snacked on a partial bag of baby
carrots and lite veggie dip. We watched last night’s “Motive” and NBC News
after which Carol went upstairs to read while I finished the last two episodes
of “Revolution” which ended the season and conclusion as it will not be renewed.
It was a good evening. Tomorrow I mow and trim the grass to have it looking
good for Tim and Amy’s youngest child’s graduation party on Sunday. I am
curious to see how this ‘commentary’ will fit in with the various segments. I
like the idea but cannot imagine the words or their placement. I assume it will
help carry into book two. I don’t care if the reader sees my experience in the
writing and reading; actually, I don’t know what my experience is. If it
furthers the story, then fine. I still have those ‘say’ verbs to clean up. I
really am at a loss as to how to do this at the moment, but I can feel
the rising exuberance that comes with the near completion of this part of the
project. Dreamtime is neither in space or time nor is it in Before in the
Thunder myth. Somehow an allowance for it will have to be made. Those are my
concluding thoughts for the day.
Dreamtime is set in the Lightning, boy.
Post. – Amorella
2216 hours. I thought I was making this up earlier, thus I discounted it.
For all intents and purposes in the books
and blog, I, Amorella, am also in the Lightning.
This is completely unexpected. I was sure I made this up earlier. How can this be?
It can be only because the books are fiction,
young man. – Amorella
In here lightning greases the passion, my friend. - Amorella
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