Alone With The Gods

Lately I’ve been listening to the Podcasts from the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston. These are recordings of public lectures and they are incredible. Many are given by Swami Tyagananda, a powerful and engaging speaker.

Find them at iTunes or via the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society site. They are worth the time for their insight in Vedic thinking, philosophy and practice as well as the range of topics covered.

For those who aren’t familiar with Vedic thinking, I’d say check these out. Then, pick up the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads and give them a read too. What you’ll find is a powerful meditation as narrative on the nature of the true Divine, Holy Self and our inherent inner light.

I came across this great quote about imagination near the end of the Promethea Series by Alan Moore. It’s from the end of book five:

“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.”

As I read Michael Talbot’s The Holographic Universe, I find this notion even more striking. If reality is but a mere holograph then we certainly may be Spiritual Beings having a human experience as Chardin has suggested.

All of us are just ghosts, carelessly dancing, much like the Fool of the Tarot as we float off that ledge.