Speaking of Cycles

Speaking of the cycles of life such as the cycles of the moon, cycles of the year,  the orbit of the earth around the sun, just to mention a few.   It is important for us to consider the Halo we often see surrounding the heads of chracters in old paintings and which we tend to associate with religous or holy people.

For some reason when I see these renderings that most often come from the dark ages I tend to get a slight sickening feeling.  I am not sure of all the reasons why but it until resently I hadnpt given it much thought as to why they make me feel that way.

Maybe it’s my Jewish ancestry and I associate it with the Catholic Church and the Spanish inquistition of th 13th century.  I get a similar feeling whne I hear a German accent.   The reaction to anti-semitism is in my blood for sure, but in the last four or five years I have overcome my religous aversion to the halo over the heads of Mary Joseph and Jesus and other saintly people that we see from time to time in museums and the like, and the halo has taken on a new dimension of meaning.  At least it has to me!

The halo is  a circuit. So what is the point? Human beings which are finite creations do not generally think in curcuits, but rather in what I call linear though progressions. What is a linearuy thought progression?

The reason is that as we are trapped in finite body forms (body lattice) our general patters of thought are fashioned by the conceptualization that comes from our presumed and speculative physical time allotment. We tend to think of our life span as around 7o years, or so.  We live and then we die after approxiamtely 70 years. We are terminal in these present body lattices ,  and tend to think in terms of our bodies life span.  Our brain is trained by this defacto but pervasie conditioning which is a linear thought progression.

 Thus our minds tend to conceptualize reality within the context of “body time.”  “Body time” is linear, but heavenly time is circuitous.

The retraining of the mind to think in curcuitous patterns is the challenge that was accepted by those that had attained to halo status, and who we see represented in centuries old paintings.

God’s thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways, because we (in the flesh) think linear and He thinks circuitous.