{"id":1464,"date":"2011-09-10T10:40:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T10:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2011-09-10T19:47:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T19:47:59","slug":"feel-the-cosmic-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/feel-the-cosmic-rhythm\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel the cosmic rhythm."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us ignore the spiritual dimension.\u00a0 The pressures of daily life, the pursuit of material objectives, the desire for new things and experiences take up all our thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes we feel the invisible.\u00a0 We have empathy for another.\u00a0 Or we reflect on friendships, family or love.\u00a0 Perhaps we feel fulfilled by a religious experience.\u00a0 We can not deny that we have spiritual experiences, that there is a spiritual dimension.\u00a0 But we rarely respect it, we know little about it and we don&#8217;t even have a common language for it.\u00a0 But it is there.\u00a0 Socrates knew 2,500 years ago, what quantum science tells us today, &#8211; that the invisible is greater than the visible.<\/p>\n<p>When physical stimulii are reduced (as in meditation) the spiritual sensitivity is enhanced. Scientific research recently showed how sightless fish deep in the ocean sense the cosmic rhythm and live to its cycle.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-14844053\">report is linked here<\/a>.\u00a0 Another reason to reduce our desire for more stuff, more control, more power and to make space available in our spiritual dimension to feel the cosmic rhythm and learn to dance to its beat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us ignore the spiritual dimension.\u00a0 The pressures of daily life, the pursuit of material objectives, the desire for new things and experiences take up all our thoughts. But sometimes we feel the invisible.\u00a0 We have empathy for another.\u00a0 Or we reflect on friendships, family or love.\u00a0 Perhaps we feel fulfilled by a religious &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/feel-the-cosmic-rhythm\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feel the cosmic rhythm.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holonics","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-nC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}