Does Emerson have it right, that once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen? That may be what appears to happen, but knowing what I know now, after what happened to me in the woods, I know that nothing is separate, and that there is no separate “me” deciding…
Perspective is everything, for everyone…even Stephen Hawking, and God
Perspective is everything, for everyone…even Stephen Hawking, and God The newspaper headline reads, “God did not create Universe: Hawking.” Hawking is not immune to being a respected error-maker and now I may add him in second place to my all-time favourite: Descartes, who declared “I think, therefore I am.” “I am..” comes before the thought “I am a thinker.” There must be Knowing before thinking. As a result of this mistaken identity of being a thinker, many people have, in essence, come to worship the thinking mind, and their thoughts as truth. It would be closer to the truth to say “I am, therefore I think.” Oh well, to err is human, and other brilliant thinkers once concluded the earth …