Here’s an interesting article pointing to how Time is at the core of our being entitled, ‘January Is the Cruelest Month’. Read the entire article at the link below, but here are a few excerpts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/opinion/sunday/for-sleep-january-is-the-cruelest-month.html?_r=0
“Written inside of us is the birth of the solar system and workings of the planet itself.
Daily cycles are one of the most fundamental properties of life on earth. Examples abound, even in some of the disorders we suffer. In cases of advanced sleep phase syndrome, individuals typically fall asleep in the early evening, only to rise very early in the morning. People with A.S.P.S. have a very hard time changing this behavior, because the syndrome derives from a genetic mutation that causes a biochemical change to a part of their cellular clocks.
Our clocks tie us not only to other creatures, but also to the formation of the solar system itself. The spinning of the earth and rotation of the moon form a backbeat that thumps inside the chemistry of our cells.
With that great cataclysm came our seasons, months and the duration of days. Our internal timepieces, and some of the maladies we suffer, lie as artifacts of this moment in our planet’s history.
Carl Sagan famously reveled in the fact that “we are starstuff,†because the elements that compose us are derived from the birth of stars and the explosion of supernovae. These events are only the beginning of our deep connections to the universe.”
-David
Good Morning You Dynamic Duo,
Might it be that time vibrates a particular frequency and rhythm,
manifesting consequential appearances. A “read out” I believe Rinposhe says, all given together. If so, to solve the appearance of problem given within a read out requires we not explain the problem nor its solution within the terms of the read out.
Hayward
Loved your response Michael, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been struck by the insight of an awareness of my inner workings, and how often I felt or saw the workings of the Universe in me. (time, space, knowing) It seems to be most often when I see process manifesting in my ‘goings-on’.
David
Hi David,
An interesting article. It touches on many of the TSK themes we’ve recently considered in this on-going TSK class: the tropes of time, lineages, where we come from and where we may be going. I wonder what it means when the natural currents of our planet and its Moon pull on us so strongly that the condition is called a seasonal”disorder”. It feels natural to be influenced by the tug of the Moon and the tilt of the Earth, but I also wonder what the role of interest, engagement, and responsibility can be in how much energy we have and when we apply it. I was also struck while reading the NY Times article by how people with Multiple Sclerosis–an ailment that more often strikes people who have grown up in the North and also women more than men–are especially affected by heat and sometimes also cold. Considering that women have more currents of time flowing in their bodies than men, could MS, and it’s apparently increased incidence in our society, be one of many reflections of the cost of our artificial environments, which prevent our bodies from finding the ancient equilibrium of our evolution? — Michael