“Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,— act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!”

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life

The Quote is from a poem titled “A Psalm of Life”. We should expect, therefore that it is about life, and it is. But it is not just about the fleeting life in physical form. It is also about eternal life in spirit. That is the life that really matters.

Life is not, we are assured, a mere dream. Nor is it empty, meaningless. But it is those things if we look only at physical life, which is brief and full of misery and illusions.

Sleeping Soul

Longfellow tells us this negative view of life happens only to those whose soul is sleeping. This makes one wonder who that might be.

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on DECEMBER 17, 2018

The first ever picture of a black hole: It’s surrounded by a halo of bright gas PHOTO CREDIT: EHT

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.

It measures 40 billion km across – three million times the size of the Earth – and has been described by scientists as “a monster”.

The black hole is 500 million trillion km away and was photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the world.

Details have been published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight linked telescopes.

Prof Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, who proposed the experiment, told BBC News that the black hole was found in a galaxy called M87.

“What we see is larger than the size of our entire Solar System,” he said.

“It has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. And it is one of the heaviest black holes that we think exists. It is an absolute monster, the heavyweight champion of black holes in the Universe.”

Read the entire article by BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh posted online April 10, 2019 at bbc.com and watch the video.

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PHOTO CREDIT: NASA/SDO

• Climate change and global warming are among the greatest challenges mankind has faced up until now.
• Researchers at Harvard have put forward a new solution — they want to reflect some of the sun’s heat back out to space.
• The process is referred to as “solar geoengineering” or “solar geotechnics”.

Read the entire article posted March 21, 2019 online at businessinsider.com.

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“Reason will object and say, is it not right for a man to attain the Light of God, and also the light of the outward Nature and Reason, that he may be able to order his life wisely, as the scripture directs?

“Yes, it is very right; nothing can be more profitable to a man, neither is he capable of nay thing better; nay it is a treasure above all earthly treasures for a man to have the Light of God and of Time, for it is the Eye of Time and of Eternity.

“But mark how thou ought to use it;when the Light of God first manifests itself in the Soul, it shines forth like light from a candle and kindles the outward Light of Reason immediately; yet it yields not itself up wholly to Reason, so as to be under dominion of the outward man.” ~Jacob Boehme

The Greater Light

There are a number of ways to categorize types of light, but we will limit it to a simple one for our purposes. There is mundane light that comes from the universe of matter. This is the light we see when we look at the stars or the sun.

There is another Light that is invisible to most of us. Yet it is the brightest Light of all. It can be called Spiritual Light, Divine Light, or the Light of God. Whatever you call it, it remains the greater Light of the two kinds. It is the greater light because it comes directly from God. It may reach us through an intermediary, primarily the spiritual sun, but it is still coming from God and serves as a path of communication between us and God. In fact, it links us to all being of higher consciousness.

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on DECEMBER 12, 2018

The Sun in reverse light. PHOTO CREDIT: Alan Friedman.

Jan 18, 2019

The Sun is not a ball of (con)fusion.

“’In a low density plasma, localized space charge regions may build up large potential drops over distances of the order of some tens of the Debye lengths. Such regions have been called electric double layers. An electric double layer is the simplest space charge distribution that gives a potential drop in the layer and a vanishing electric field on each side of the layer. In the laboratory, double layers have been studied for half a century, but their importance in cosmic plasmas has not been generally recognized.’” (Hannes Alfvén).

“Electric Sun theory proposes that the Sun is a positively charged electrode in a vast galactic circuit. The Sun’s negative pole is the heliosphere, billions of kilometers away, which acts like a “virtual cathode”. Double layers, so often mentioned in these pages, isolate the Sun from the Interstellar Medium (ISM).”

Read the entire article by Stephen Smith posted online January 18, 2019 at thunderbolts.info.

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“Why is any one on Earth? To study and learn. To study and learn how to transform his human consciousness into Divine consciousness.

“Manifesting patience is manifesting Wisdom. God favors those with patience. …

The manifestation of God connects you with Love. Your connection with love is the most important connection you have.

“Money in Heaven is the goodness you have done on Earth. The ability to learn, to think, to perform good actions, to love, are great instruments that you must use to get back to Paradise.

“What you learn, think, and love matters a lot. There is higher knowledge and there is lower knowledge. … You determine where you want to be.” ~Biensa Douno

Man Transformed

Not every spiritual school agree that we were sent to Earth to learn. But most do agree that we need to transform. That doesn’t mean turn into a car. It means that we need to transform into spiritual beings again. We need to transform our lead consciousness to golden, advanced consciousness. We need to awaken our souls and use them.

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on OCTOBER 31, 2018

“Various sounds such as those emitted by pulsars, the Sun, Jupiter and its moon Ganymede, black holes, the Aurora Borealis and interstellar space have been recorded by Roscosmos with the help of special radio telescopes.

“Russian experts said that these sounds can’t be heard in the conditions of the space vacuum. For example, solar flares, the collision of asteroids and explosions of stars occur in complete silence.

“However, using a radio telescope, they were able to decipher the sound waves and transform them into sounds.”

Read the entire article and hear the sounds on a YouTube video online at sputniknews.com. (1:36)

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“You ask how one who desires to follow the movements of God’s Spirit may distinguish these movements, from the natural operations of the mind. There is not, at all times, a positive certainty regarding divine movements. It it were so, we should become infallible as the angels, that is, if we were pure in intentions. We must walk with God, in entire abandonment and uncertainty, at the risk of sometimes making mistakes, which in the infancy of experience is unavoidable. …

“A pure soul acts in simplicity, and without certainty, being persuaded that what is good comes from God, and what is not good from self. … The soul in this state is only a simple instrument that the Word, which is in her, moves, so that it is the Word which speaks and not herself. … I have an experience of many years, that God often makes known His Will, only in the time of action.” ~Madam Guyon

God’s Will

It is always a good idea to follow the Will of God. Especially if you are trying to develop your spiritual side. The most obvious reason for this is that no being knows better than God Himself which is the best, most direct, and least dangerous path to follow. There is a reason why people who are successful in a field often write self-help books about it. They know the path that works. Sadly, when it come to spiritual development, there are many who will insist on following the philosophy that there is no correct path. Each of us, they say, must follow his own path. Twenty years later, those people will still be going around in circles and making no real progress. Sure, there are many paths you can take. God knows which is best.

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Woman stands in praise before a beautiful night sky.

“What is the most sublime of concerts? The sunrise. God is the Sun of Life When this Sun awakens, you will see and understand the world in the right way.“If you wish to remain free, be like light. Light is free. If you wish to be strong think of light. Light is strong and alive. Love light and be free.

“For those who are able to see, everything in living nature is light. Everything on earth, all minerals, plants, animals, as well as the bodies of men, are nothing more than light. …

“When we say that people should lead pure, sacred and wise lives, we have in mind that they should tap the appropriate energies of the Sun.” ~Biensa Douno

Concert of the Sun

It may seem strange to refer to the sunrise as a concert, but it isn’t. Many who practice spiritual sun-gazing (not the same as gazing at the physical sun) hear divine sounds while doing so. We could also say that a concert is about hearing pleasant frequencies, frequencies that help us vibrate higher. Such frequencies come to us from the spiritual sun, even when we don’t hear them.

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on OCTOBER 26, 2018

“NASA’s photonic propulsion will make it possible to travel to Mars in three days. Instead of six months, NASA researchers are crafting a new laser technology known as photonic propulsion, which will propel a giant sail to Mars in as little as three days.”

Read the entire article online at spradit.com. >

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