Even Life itself (and therefore, God, perhaps) seems Self-experimental. When you think about it, and most of us may not have yet come to this kind of realization, are we are not our own experiements, by virtue of being human, at least to some degree?

What you are when born may be a given. We don’t have (scientifically speaking) recollection or knowledge if we had any choice in that matter, although a few claim to have pre-birth knowledge & recall. What you are becoming is largely a matter of experimental and/or experiential life choices.

Once it is realized that you are creating yourself, or at least that you are a co-creator in the process, it’s possible to mentally somewhat detach from your named-self, and to view it as an experimental subject for those things which you wish to build into yourself – experience, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, character qualities, memory, languages, skills, enhanced creativity & talents, physical qualities, etc. In the process, of course, there are obstacles, questions and challenges to overcome, naturally.

Glad you are self-experimental and have developed a balance of unconventional thinking skills with conventional. Or maybe you’re thinking is finely unbalanced – tilted toward the unconvential when it comes down to it…a good, healthy mix for creativity, I think.

OK, For tonight, I’m done reading your thought provoking blogs and leaving haiku for you to ponder.

losing-it

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gazing into
Dad’s old microscope, I wonder
how small God is

cocooned moth—
underneath, the sky unravels
from a raindrop

DW Bender
From a Haiku Editor’s Desk,
World Haiku Review (Dec. 2005)
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/3-2/editorsdesk_dwb1.shtml

My congregation has at least thirty people on the diet. There have been about five books purchased (not counting misc. books I’ve bought for people outside of the group). Three I gave to people in the congregation and two people bought on their own.

Of that group, at least twenty friends are also in the diet.

So, the diet is currently propogating, at least in that group, in numbers vastly beyond the book sales or internet connections (two people have read the on-line material I put up, none have posted, both contacted me personally).

In people I knew who were doing Atkins or South Beach, the ratio was 3 books for every 4 people on the diet.