“All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride” by Jaimal Yogis
In this meditative memoir—a compelling fusion of Barbarian Days and the journals of Thomas Merton—the author of Saltwater Buddha reflects on his “failing toward enlightenment,” his continued search to find meaning and a greater understanding of grace in the world’s oceans as well as everyday life.
Born to a family of seekers, Jaimal Yogis left home at sixteen to surf in Hawaii and join a monastery—an adventure he chronicled in Saltwater Buddha. Now, in his early twenties, his heart is broken and he’s lost his way. Hitting the road again, he lands in a monastery in Dharamsala, where he meets Sonam, a displaced Tibetan.
To help his friend, Jaimal makes a cockamamie attempt to reunite him with his family in Tibet by way of America. Though he does not succeed, witnessing Sonam’s spirit in the face of failure offers Jaimal a deeper understanding of faith. When the two friends part, he cannot fathom the unlikely circumstances that will reunite them.
All Our Waves Are Water follows Jaimal’s trek from the Himalayas to Indonesia; to a Franciscan Friary in New York City to the dusty streets of Jerusalem; and finally to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. Along his journey, Jaimal prays and surfs; mourning a lost love and seeking something that keeps eluding him.
The poet Rumi wrote, “We are not a drop in the ocean. We are the ocean in a drop.” All Our Waves Are Water is Jaimal’s “attempt to understand the ocean in a drop, to find that one moon shining in the water everywhere”—to find the mystery that unites us.
Will The Psychedelic Revolution Meaningfully Change The World?
| Under The Skin with Russell Brand
Published on Aug 13, 2017
Dr Robin Carhart-Harris (Head of Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London) discusses unlocking the unconscious, the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs, and why research into their benefits has been shut down for over 40 years.
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Must read article on how our lives will change dramatically in 20 years (linkedin.com)
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The following points are taken from Udo Gollub, the CEO of 17 Minute Languages Facebook post…
- Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.
- Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world
- Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties.
- Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.
- In the US, young lawyers already don’t get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans.
- So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% less lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.
- Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 times more accurate than human nurses. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.
- Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don’t want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving. Our kids will never get a driver’s licence and will never own a car.
- It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that. We can transform former parking spaces into parks. 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles (100,000 km), with autonomous driving that will drop to one accident in 6 million miles (10 million km). That will save a million lives each year.
- Most car companies will probably become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.
- Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of Tesla.
- Insurance companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.
- Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.
- Electric cars will become mainstream about 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact.
- Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. Energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that can’t last. Technology will take care of that strategy.
- With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination of salt water now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter (@ 0.25 cents). We don’t have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.
- Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the “Tricorder” from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it.
- It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medical analysis, nearly for free. Goodbye, medical establishment.
- 3D printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100 times faster. All major shoe companies have already started 3D printing shoes.
- Some spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports. The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amount of spare parts they used to have in the past.
- At the end of this year, new smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home.
- In China, they already 3D printed and built a complete 6-storey office building. By 2027, 10% of everything that’s being produced will be 3D printed.
- Business opportunities: If you think of a niche you want to go in, ask yourself: “in the future, do you think we will have that?” and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner?
- If it doesn’t work with your phone, forget the idea. And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st century.
- Work: 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time.
- Agriculture: There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all day on their fields.
- Aeroponics will need much less water. The first Petri dish produced veal, is now available and will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine if we don’t need that space anymore. There are several startups who will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It contains more protein than meat. It will be labelled as “alternative protein source” (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).
- There is an app called “moodies” which can already tell in which mood you’re in. By 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions, if you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it’s being displayed when they’re telling the truth and when they’re not.
- Bitcoin may even become the default reserve currency … Of the world!
- Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it’s 80 years. The increase itself is increasing and by 2036, there will be more than one year increase per year. So we all might live for a long long time, probably way more than 100.
- Education: The cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. By 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smart phone. That means, everyone has the same access to world class education.
- Every child can use Khan academy for everything a child needs to learn at school in First World countries. There have already been releases of software in Indonesia and soon there will be releases in Arabic, Suaheli and Chinese this summer. I can see enormous potential if we give the English app for free, so that children in Africa and everywhere else can become fluent in English and that could happen within half a year.
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“Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Mastering It” by Maria Popova
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.”
BY MARIA POPOVA (brainpickings.org)
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love,” the great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hahn admonished in his terrific treatise on how to love — a sentiment profoundly discomfiting in the context of our cultural mythology, which continually casts love as something that happens to us passively and by chance, something we fall into, something that strikes us arrow-like, rather than a skill attained through the same deliberate practice as any other pursuit of human excellence. Our failure to recognize this skillfulness aspect is perhaps the primary reason why love is so intertwined with frustration.
That’s what the great German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900–March 18, 1980) examines in his 1956 masterwork The Art of Loving (public library) — a case for love as a skill to be honed the way artists apprentice themselves to the work on the way to mastery, demanding of its practitioner both knowledge and effort.

Fromm writes:
This book … wants to show that love is not a sentiment which can be easily indulged in by anyone, regardless of the level of maturity reached by him. It wants to convince the reader that all his attempts for love are bound to fail, unless he tries most actively to develop his total personality, so as to achieve a productive orientation; that satisfaction in individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one’s neighbor, without true humility, courage, faith and discipline. In a culture in which these qualities are rare, the attainment of the capacity to love must remain a rare achievement.
Fromm considers our warped perception of love’s necessary yin-yang:
Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one’s capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.
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People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love — or to be loved by — is difficult. This attitude has several reasons rooted in the development of modern society. One reason is the great change which occurred in the twentieth century with respect to the choice of a “love object.”

Our fixation on the choice of “love object,” Fromm argues, has seeded a kind of “confusion between the initial experience of ‘falling’ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of ‘standing’ in love” — something Stendhal addressed more than a century earlier in his theory of love’s “crystallization.” Fromm considers the peril of mistaking the spark for the substance:
If two people who have been strangers, as all of us are, suddenly let the wall between them break down, and feel close, feel one, this moment of oneness is one of the most exhilarating, most exciting experiences in life. It is all the more wonderful and miraculous for persons who have been shut off, isolated, without love. This miracle of sudden intimacy is often facilitated if it is combined with, or initiated by, sexual attraction and consummation. However, this type of love is by its very nature not lasting. The two persons become well acquainted, their intimacy loses more and more its miraculous character, until their antagonism, their disappointments, their mutual boredom kill whatever is left of the initial excitement. Yet, in the beginning they do not know all this: in fact, they take the intensity of the infatuation, this being “crazy” about each other, for proof of the intensity of their love, while it may only prove the degree of their preceding loneliness.
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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.

The only way to abate this track record of failure, Fromm argues, is to examine the underlying reasons for the disconnect between our beliefs about love and its actual machinery — which must include a recognition of love as an informed practice rather than an unmerited grace. Fromm writes:
The first step to take is to become aware that love is an art, just as living is an art; if we want to learn how to love we must proceed in the same way we have to proceed if we want to learn any other art, say music, painting, carpentry, or the art of medicine or engineering. What are the necessary steps in learning any art? The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of the practice. If I want to learn the art of medicine, I must first know the facts about the human body, and about various diseases. When I have all this theoretical knowledge, I am by no means competent in the art of medicine. I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice, until eventually the results of my theoretical knowledge and the results of my practice are blended into one — my intuition, the essence of the mastery of any art. But, aside from learning the theory and practice, there is a third factor necessary to becoming a master in any art — the mastery of the art must be a matter of ultimate concern; there must be nothing else in the world more important than the art. This holds true for music, for medicine, for carpentry — and for love. And, maybe, here lies the answer to the question of why people in our culture try so rarely to learn this art, in spite of their obvious failures: in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power — almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving.
In the remainder of the enduringly excellent The Art of Loving, Fromm goes on to explore the misconceptions and cultural falsehoods keeping us from mastering this supreme human skill, outlining both its theory and its practice with extraordinary insight into the complexities of the human heart. Complement it with French philosopher Alain Badiou on why we fall and stay in love and Mary Oliver on love’s necessary madnesses.
“A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out On Charlottesville” by Janaya Williams, Stacey Vanek Smith
Christian Picciolini, founder of the group Life After Hate, poses for a photograph outside his Chicago home. Picciolini, a former skinhead, is an activist combatting what many see as a surge in white nationalism across the United States. Teresa Crawford/AP
August 13, 2017 (npr.org)
Christian Picciolini says he was a “lost and lonely” teenager when he was recruited by a white nationalist group. Picciolini immersed himself in the organization’s ideology and by age 16, he had emerged as the leader of a group called the Chicago Area Skinheads. He even helped recruit others to the cause. That is until, he says, he had an awakening after the birth of his first child.
Picciolini says he renounced ties to the Neo-Nazi movement in 1996 when he was 22 years. He went on to co-found a group called Life After Hate and wrote a book entitled Romantic Violence: Memoirs Of An American Skinhead.
Now the reformed white nationalist runs a nonprofit that advocates for peace.
Picciolini understands all too well the type of anger that was on display in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
He spoke with NPR’s Stacey Vanek Smith about his reaction to what unfolded, and about the divisiveness that’s been growing in country over the past several months.
Here are interview highlights
On what his reaction was as he watched the events unfold
It was both disheartening to me but also unfortunately, not a surprise because my organization and myself have been warning about this specific situation for many, many years. You know when we left the movement 30 years ago and have spent the last 20 or so years trying to help people disengage from these extremists groups. We’ve also seen that underground this has been growing, but it’s also been shape shifting. It’s gone from what we would have considered very open neo-Nazis and skinheads and KKK marching, to now people that look like our neighbors, our doctors, our teachers, our mechanics. And it’s certainly starting to embolden them because a lot of the rhetoric that’s coming out of the White House today is so similar to what we preached … but in a slightly more palatable way.
On the the car plowing into people and why he thinks someone would do that
I think ultimately people become extremists not necessarily because of the ideology. I think that the ideology is simply a vehicle to be violent. I believe that people become radicalized, or extremist, because they’re searching for three very fundamental human needs: identity, community and a sense of purpose.
If, underneath that fundamental search is something that’s broken — I call them potholes — is there abuse or trauma or mental illness or addiction? In my case, many years ago, it was abandonment. I felt abandoned, and that led me to this community. But what happens is because there are so many marginalized young people, so many disenfranchised young people today with not a lot to believe in, with not a lot of hope, they tend to search for very simple black and white answers.
Because of the Internet, we now have this propaganda machine that is flooding the Internet with conspiracy theory propaganda from the far right — disinformation — and when a young person who feels disenchanted, or disaffected, goes online where most of them live, they’re able to find that identity online.
They’re able to find that community, and they’re able to find that purpose that’s being fed to them by savvy recruiters who understand how to target vulnerable young people. And they go for this solution because, frankly, it promises paradise. And it requires very little work except for dedicating your life to that purpose.
But I can say that they’re all being fooled, because the people at the very top have an agenda. And it’s a broken ideology that can never work, that in fact, is destroying people’s lives more than the promise that they were given of helping the world or saving the white race.
On Charlottesville as a turning point for this country politically and philosophically
I believe that the world has now seen what we have been sweeping under the rug for many many years — thinking we were in a post-racial society. … I think that this catalyst shows the world 1. That it’s a problem, a real problem that exists in our country; 2: that white extremism should be classified as terrorism, and now that we attached the terrorism word to it, it will get more resources. It will be at the top of people’s minds.
What people need to understand is that since Sept. 11, more Americans have been killed on U.S. soil by white supremacists than by any other foreign or domestic group combined by a factor of two. Yet we don’t really talk about that, nor do we even call these instances of the shooting at Charleston, S.C., or what happened at Oak Creek, Wis., at the Sikh temple or even what happened in Charlottesville this weekend — as terrorism.
NPR’s Dustin DeSoto contributed to this report. NPR’s Denise Guerra edited audio for this story. NPR’s Maquita Peters produced this story for the Web.
(Contributed by Michael Kelly.)
SUNDAY NIGHT TRANSLATION GROUP — AUGUST 13, 2017
To quote Heather Williams, H.W., M., “Translation is the creative process of re-engineering the outdated software of your mind.” Translation is a 5-step process using syllogistic reasoning to transform apparent man and the universe back into its essential whole, complete and perfect nature. Through the process of Translation, reality is uncovered and thus revealed. Through word tracking, getting to the essence of the words we use to express our current view of reality, we are uncovering the underlying timeless reality of the Universe.
Sense testimony:
Since I had a breeched birth, my throat and tongue block my breathing flow and sleep,
Conclusions
- Life functions independent of throats, tongues or mothers, breathlessly flowing in Self-respite.
- The view or the Perfect One is Absolute and unrestricted Life Breath, breaking forth is the guiding star illumine Mind Changeless Change everlasting Power.
- The Truth of Each and Every Individuation of All One Truth is smoothly, tasting, breathing swallowing passing yielding, Self Evidently nourishing sound abundant quality flow, always and everywhere. —– The Truth I am is sound abundant nourishing flow always and everywhere.
- To come.
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Bible Series XI: Sodom and Gomorrah
Published on Aug 13, 2017
Often interpreted as an injunction against homosexuality (particularly by those simultaneously claiming identity as Christians and opposed to that orientation), the stories of the angels who visit Abraham, bless him, and then rain destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah are more truly a warning against mistreatment of the stranger and impulsive, dysregulated, sybaritic conduct.
Abraham opens his heart and hearth to the stranger. The denizens of Lot’s soon-to-be lost cities threaten them with violent rape. God exacts a terrible retribution. The warning is clear.
“The Path of Grief” by Suzanne Deakins, H.W., M.
A part of yourself is stuck in a moment when you grieve. Being stuck may not be grief but because you don’t realize you need to grieve. Grief is not exclusively about the physical death of a person. But can fit in many other categories. Certain grief can take years or months to work through others may take a simple moment of acknowledgment of grieve and feelings of loss.
My first experience of grief, from a physical death, was at 9 years old when my mother miscarried. I mourned for years, wondering what this sister would have been. When my own daughter died I came face-to-face with death. In this, I discovered that each of us develops our own manner of grieving. We grieve for a variety of reasons.
As we age we form relationships with many ideas, our loved ones, friends, things, ideas, and our sense of higher being. The loss of any relationship can cause us to mourn. Grieving is not a linear process where a person can say well this is what happens at first and this is the way you handle it.
What I have learned is that we loop in and out of different stages. Grief, for the most part, is about our identity. My grief as a nine-year-old was the loss of my identity as a sister to this unborn child. My daughter’s demise faced me with the loss of my title as a mother to her. It has been 30 years since she passed and there are still moments I must handle the grief. Personal identity is built out of relationships to everything around us. In the Prosperos we learn to build our identity on a singular concept as Truth, in the image or likeness of Truth.
In this past year, I have seen many of my friends fall into depression and grief over the election. The election was a sense of loss. What many felt was a loss of freedom, sanity, and humanity. All of these faced us with our identity as American Citizens. I found myself deeply troubled with the ideas of what I felt the American Citizenry had become. In short, I had lost my identity as an American national. This left me with a need to acknowledge the grief of the lost.
In using The Prosperos Class Releasing the Hidden Splendour I find that an incident must be relooked at many times in different settings. This is because an occurrence that adds to our identity permeates the whole of our unconscious mind. Hidden in corners grief raises its head in many ways. This is the same with a memory that needs to be relooked. When you release feelings, and emotions around a memory or grief it is simply that place in time you were stuck. You may find many other hidden places (in unconscious mind and life) where you are stuck.
In releasing any memory or grief you formulate a void. This void can be filled with many different ideas, but definitely relates directly to your identity. Therefore it is important that it be filled with the understanding that the Truth of you, that which is so about you rather than an old idea of attachment or pain.
Grief can crowd your heart; eat up your energy, and peace. Grief, like other emotions, plays a definite purpose in life. It gives you a chance to relook at what you value and how you define yourself. It, like all life, can be the stage for great growth. It can, if you allow it, to pull you from life’s illusion into a state of freedom. You can gain a freedom from being caught in a material world trying to give meaning to things and incidents that have no meaning.
Grief is an opportunity to embrace the spiritual side of all life. The very essence of existence can be explored. Like all life, by embracing the emotion we become aware of our nature and relationship to life in an existential manner.
Grief can come from many different areas of life, the loss of a dream, infertility, divorce, job loss, retirement, friendship, pet, or something like the loss of a memorabilia of a loved one who has passed. No one can define for you what you can grieve about. However, in my experience is it all about how we define ourselves and what void the loss seems to have left.
After my daughter died I had trouble leaving the hospital. I thought someone was playing a very bad trick on me. I kept feeling her in my arms and smelling her. This was a kind of denial, a protection until my mind could accept the grief and loss of identity I was feeling. It takes a while for the mist of denial to give away to the light of acceptance. Like all pain and hurt until we accept the responsibility for our emotions and feelings we cannot resolve the pain and move forward. We remain stuck in that moment of time. And each time we recall it the pain returns to a certain degree.
Comprehend: To get out of the loop and move forward (get unstuck) you must embrace your emotions. Embrace the idea that your heart is broken even if no one else understands, embrace the pain as yours coming from you.
Acknowledge: Grief does not have a timetable. When you recall a memory you may find a time many years ago that you needed to grieve and never did. Conscious grief begins when you recognize you need to grieve. Grief can fall into something that happened or didn’t happen and either way, you were/are left with a heaviness of spirit and heart.
Embrace: You must embrace the loss, anger, sadness, bitterness, resilience, compassion and other feelings you encountered during your loss. You become in touch with your grief when you make space for the feelings brought into your life by the loss. There is no way to move through grief unless you make contact with the feelings. You must fully feel the emotions as you embrace that one moment in time that brought you to this place.
Emotionally you must pick up the grief, feel its weight in your hands, your heart, and life. See how it is keeping you trapped. Your spirit or existence is immovable in that moment. Either you embrace the emotions and the weight and effect on your life or you will stay encased in the shell of pain and misguided sense of self.
Move: The grief and memories we harbor of pain and loss can begin to feel as if they are natural and part of our identity. Grief and the pain can become comforting in its familiarity. Releasing grief and the familiarity and moving toward something less predictable and less predictable can be scary.
You must move through the outer fringe and reach for the epicenter, the belly of where your grief lies. When you reach that center of the memory, the pain, and hurt attached to the grief and you embrace it and allow it to be released it becomes a spectacular event. The feeling of wholeness, totality, and connection to all life returns to your beingness. Your spirit returns to reside with you, as you.
Releasing grief takes five steps: You must 1. Recall the incident identifying all of the players in your grief. 2.Relive the emotions and incident. Go beyond the outer edges delve into the belly of incident and grief. Feel all the emotions, allow you to see how you’re stuck at that moment and the effect on your life. 3. Respond to others in the scene to the emotions, saying what you could not say at the time. Feel what you would not allow your self to feel. 4. Release your self from the anger, pain, hurt. Release all those who shared that moment with you. See that person, place or thing is simply mind unfolding unable to react differently at that moment. 5. Re-file the memory, the pain, and hurt from sorrow to joy. You give up or givef-for the old identity of self-built on things and emotions of pain and hurt for a new identity based on Truth. You release all those who participated in the scene. You will understand that the essence of all life remains and has always been. We may loose the physical appearance but our spirit has always been and remains. Allow your True Identity to shine forth, Truth, consciousness conscious of consciousness.
The Prosperos offers classes and mentoring to help you through this process of emotional and spiritual growth. This path is taught in the seminar called Releasing the Hidden Splendour.
“The Ophanim”

New Art!
“The Ophanim”
(a slight return to source!)
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With this piece, “The Ophanim”, I return to my collagist roots. It is a good thing to dip into the well once in awhile, and see where things are going…
I have long been interested in what many call, “Angelic Beings”. These beings have been recorded across cultures around the world, time out of mind. Often, they are shown to have wings, which is probably symbolic on multiple levels. There are reports that they intervene in matters human, during times of crisis and the like.
I am not religious, but I respect the spiritual drive found in most people. One does not have to be religious to have a spiritual path, or viewpoint.
What I find interesting is the symbology, and what it evokes in us collectively, and individually. I would posit that there is a template in all of us that responds to these images found throughout his/herstory, and that there are deep currents running through us all.
Bright Blessings,
Gwyllm