Friday, October 3, 2025

Lost In Awe...

 

Jane Goodall 
1934-2025



“Lost in awe at the beauty around me, 
I must have slipped into a state of heightened awareness. 
It is hard – impossible really – 
to put into words the moment of truth 
that suddenly came upon me then. 
Even the mystics 
are unable to describe their brief flashes of spiritual ecstasy. 
It seemed to me, 
as I struggled afterward to recall the experience, 
the self was utterly absent: 
I and the chimpanzees, 
the earth and trees and air, 
seemed to merge, 
to become one with the spirit power of life itself. 
The air was filled with a feathered symphony, 
the evensong of birds. 
I heard new frequencies in their music 
and also in singing insects’ voices – 
notes so high and sweet, I was amazed. 
Never had I been so intensely aware of the shape, 
the color of the individual leaves, 
the varied patterns of the veins that made each one unique. 
Scents were clear as well, 
easily identifiable: fermenting, overripe fruit; 
waterlogged earth; cold, wet bark; 
the damp odor of chimpanzee hair, and yes, my own too. 
And the aromatic scent of young, 
crushed leaves was almost overpowering.
That afternoon, 
it had been as though an unseen hand 
had drawn back a curtain and, 
for the briefest moment, I had seen through such a window. 
In a flash of “outsight” 
I had known timelessness and quiet ecstasy, 
sensed a truth of which mainstream science 
is merely a small fraction. 
And I knew that the revelation 
would be with me for the rest of my life, 
imperfectly remembered yet always within. 
A source of strength on which 
I could draw when life seemed harsh or cruel or desperate.”
~ Jane Goodall
"Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey"




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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

One with God




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The other morning in our mystical meeting, 
Stephanie played the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic.

While I was listening to it, I was very moved 
and had a very strong realization.
Being Jewish, I have been reciting the 
SHEMA every day for most of my life.

Sh’ma Yisre’eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.

The meaning is:
"Hear, Oh Israel, the Lord our God the Lord is One."

I have always interpreted it that we should all listen 
and know that there is one God."

But listening to the song of the Lord’s Prayer, 
it entered me and for the first time I had a 
much deeper understanding. 

It was for me to hear that it wasn’t that there was one 
God but that I was to listen and be one with God.



~P




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