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1/14/2013

 
The ever-increasing technology of mobile phones astounds me. However, the apps included don't interest a woman of over seventy years. For me, there is too much of interest going on in life around me. Today, the forecast cold snap has arrived and snow covers the ground outside my window. I can't see any birds and the reduced passing traffic is strangely silent. Opposite a strip of forest and surrounded by fields at the front and back, I live on a busy road in the center of a steep hill. I use the term, road, loosely. Although it's an artery in and out of Borehamwood, the narrow strip passing through my small historic village consists of only two lanes. I'm connected to life in the steady stream of cars, busses, lorries and the occasional blaring police car and ambulance. But not today.

Communication on mobile phones reminds me of an idea Edgar Cayce spoke about in the 1940's. Called the sleeping psychic, he used a trance-like state to discover possibilities he'd never thought possible. A simple Christian man didn't want to find out about a complicated afterlife. However, every time he relaxed for a trance, his family recorded his words, now published in many fascinating books.

He travelled through the different levels people achieve after they die and came to a happy place that we might think of as heaven. Here, peaceful people work on things they love like painting or participate in discussions in what we call the universal consciousness. They build their homes using the mind and communicate with their friends without need for devices like mobile phones. They could travel just by wishing it so—no need for airplanes.

Perhaps, mankind is striving for the heaven they left behind and will return to again.

Kina Diaz DeLeon link
1/13/2013 05:49:07 pm

Francene,
Where you live sounds like a slice of heaven. A friend of mine posted a thought earlier about mobile phones: "Your mobile phone has more computing power than all of NASA in 1969. NASA launched a man to the moon. We launch a bird into pigs.

Thought provoking post, thank you.

Suzy link
1/13/2013 05:51:42 pm

Great post. I have read a few of Edgar Cayce's books and find them fascinating. Dropping by from UBC.

Rebecca Mugridge link
1/13/2013 06:21:22 pm

Your home page is SO beautiful!!
I loved it.
Just reading above what Kina said about mobile phoens and Nasa - wow.
My mum often sends me blank text messages with hers. Its not that she cant work it, she just doesnt like them :)
I am going to google Edgar Cayce, sounds fascinating!
Dropping by from the UBC x

eyenie link
1/13/2013 07:26:54 pm

Hi Francene! I first read the poem on your homepage--it is stunning. I'm in my 30s, and already feel like I have "so many stories"...thank you for that beautiful gift.

I adore how you liken new cell phones to heaven--in a way people have become detached from what's going on around them, focusing all of their attention and energy on the goings on in their device...i never thought of it as a desire to ascend to this heaven, but you may just be onto something! Thank you! :)


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    Born in Australia, I moved to Britain half way through my long life.

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