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Inside the book, Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime. Analysis of all the paintings of Johannes Vermeer. The book reveals for the first time that the women featured in the paintings of Johannes Vermeer were members of his own family, his daughters, his wife and mother-in-law, Maria Thins.

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FACTS vs POSSIBILITIES

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e-squared-smaller“I have a friend who shall not be named that regularly accuses me of being a pie-in-the-sky Pollyanna. She thinks talking only about the good and the beautiful is denying facts. But here’s my position. “Facts” are not that interesting. I much prefer discussing possibilities. Sure those studies, those government reports, those doctors’ prognoses declare what she might call irrefutable “facts.” But to me, they’re nothing but a catapult for something better. I believe the most important faculty we possess is our imagination, and that by aligning it with the field of infinite potentiality, we can create something so much better than “current facts.”

Harping on about “current facts” just calls in more of the same. To waste our time on “appearances” is denying the power we have to change things for the better. I would much rather deny “facts” than deny my own ability to imagine something better. My words are the seeds that plant the possibilities. We can continue to focus on “what is” or “what appears to be,” or we can focus on what we can better imagine. “What is” is simply what we’ve been focusing on. “What could be” is much more interesting. At least to me.” — Pam Grout, Author of  E-Squared: 9 Do-it-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality.

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REALITY IN FLATLAND

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Here is some interesting food for thought from Thomas Campbell’s My Big TOE (Theory of Everything):

“If you have read Flatland, it will be clear that the ordinary residents of a given reality can only observe and understand interactions within their own reality and the interactions of residents of realities that are more highly constrained than their own.  Residents of a more constrained reality cannot comprehend a less constrained reality because it lies beyond the limits of their normal perception.  

Each dimension of reality has its own rules that define its objective science.  Additionally, each dimension of reality experiences the next higher (less limited) dimension as subjective and mystical.  Consequently, your mysticism may be another’s science: It depends on how big a picture you live and work in, and the degree to which restraints limit your perception.  The perspective from the next higher dimension provides a bigger picture with a more complete understanding.  This more comprehensive, complete, and less restrictive knowledge is only accessible to lower dimensional beings (those with a more constrained awareness) through the experience of their individual locally-subjective mind. 

Consequently, a mystic could be a scientist from a higher dimension, or a delusional fool hopelessly caught in a distorted web of belief.  How do you know which is which?  A good question! ”

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as “a Square”,Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella’s more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

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WHAT IS LOVE?

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WHAT IS LOVE

“Love” is not a good word.  I don’t like it because it has too many different definitions! Most of the time people use this word in a sexual context, which is a very small and limited definition.  So, I spent a little time to study the different definitions of “love”.  Here is what I found out:

 Here is the dictionary definition of “love”:

 1 a (1) :  strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties < maternal love for a child > (2) :  attraction based on sexual desire :  affection and tenderness felt by lovers (3) :  affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests < love for his old schoolmates >

    b :  an assurance of affection < give her my love >

2 :  warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion < love of the sea >

3 a :  the object of attachment, devotion, or admiration < baseball was his first love >

   b (1) :  a beloved person :  darling —often used as a term of endearment (2) British —used as an informal term of address

4 a :  unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another: as (1) :  the fatherly concern of God for humankind (2) :  brotherly concern for others

   b :  a person’s adoration of God

5 :  a god or personification of love

 The origin of the word “love” in English is from the Old English word lufu; akin to Old High German luba, or Old English lēof (dear), Latin lubēre, libēre, which means “to please”.

 The Greeks used the word “agape” to express a purely spiritual love.  

The word “Platonic” is Intellectual love, like the love of Art, or Beauty, or love of Learning, etc…  This also applies to a genuine affinity or admiration between non-sexual relationships, as between friends, or companions.

 “Amorous” and the Greek word “Eros” (erotic) are words for sexual or romantic love.  For example, it is very easy for sexual partners to feel “amorous” toward each other, which is simply the “attraction” or “chemistry” caused by the biological programs inherent in many life forms.  However, this does necessarily include a perception or understanding that there are spiritual beings inhabiting the bodies of the “love makers”. 

The word “affinity”, which is the perception of how CLOSE or how DISTANT one feels emotionally, intellectually, spiritually or physically toward a thing, a being, or subject, or idea is a more accurate definition for non-sexual “love”. The CLOSEST that two entities can BE is to BE THE SAME, i.e. there is NO Distance between them. 

In the book Alien Interview, the UFO pilot, Airl, uses the word “admiration”, which she says Is-Bes all desire more than ANY other quality.  

“Another common denominator of IS-BEs (spiritual beings) is that admiration of one’s own illusions by others is very desirable.  If the desired admiration is not forthcoming, the IS-BE will keep creating the illusion in an attempt to get admiration.”

Admiration means:

1  archaic :  wonder

2 :  an object of esteem

3 :  delighted or astonished approbation

4: : a feeling of great respect and approval 

There are words like “devotion” and “adoration” or “worship” that express a very intense “admiration” that contain “reverence”, “honor” or “respect”. 

Then there are the concepts of “care” and “compassion” and “benevolence” which are often used for the feeling or emotion of mother and child, or between friends and companion, or by an individual for other members of their own race, or for life forms, or the universe at large.   

This may be a quality of “love” of god for its own creations.  This necessarily implies the willingness and ability to be Responsible for the creation and continued existence of what has been created. This kind of “love” may be all-pervasive, and eternal. 

Ultimately, each individual has a personal experience, feeling or understanding of what “love” means for them.  There may be as many definitions of “love” as there are beings who create or experience it.

— Lawrence R. Spencer. 2014.

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HALLOWEEN IS FOR DISEMBODIED BEINGS

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A “MUST READ” FOR HALLOWEEN…..This book is dedicated to all living beings who expect to die sometime and to all of the dead people who ever lived who may still be living somewhere, sometime, somehow. This book is also dedicated to all of the people who are living that may need some ideas about what to do with themselves after they die. Finally, this book is dedicated to all the people who will soon be living by virtue of one or more of the following circumstances: birth, rebirth, resurrection, reincarnation, transconfiguration, cryogenic resuscitation, invasion of alien beings, angels falling out of grace, an act of one or more gods, transformation or transmigration, arrival from a different time / space / universe / plane of existence, unimaginable others, Whoever you were, are, or will be, I trust that you will enjoy the “Rest of Eternity”.   — Lawrence R. Spencer

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ALIEN INTERVIEW AVAILABLE ON iTUNES

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Alien InterviewThe ALIEN INTERVIEW book is NOW available on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iBooks and on your computer with iTunes.View In iTunes

Alien Interview. It does NOT include FOOTNOTES, INDEX or TABLE OF CONTENTS. Only the letters, personal notes and copies of top secret government interview transcripts from Roswell, N.M.. The interviews were conducted with the pilot of a crashed UFO at the US Army Air Force Base in July and August of 1947 under government direction by Flight Nurse Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy. (deceased)