Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass.... Humans are very slow to think in an independant way, and sometimes slower to grasp what is true and sometimes obvious. We're shackled by fear and uncertainty and basically unable to shrug off beliefs handed down from the ages although a thought session attended only by oneself with logic as the arbitrator would clear up most of the demons we carry around. Most Americans believe in a supreme being and in the stories handed down and also in writing. While many will defend their religious convictions to the death it is doubtful that any have seen an angel as did the early formers of Christianity. No one else of current credibility has either. Oral Roberts had a 1950's television show on which he healed everybody that came in front of the TV cameras, lame, dumb, deaf, blind, or whatever could be imagined. He seldom failed and left behind a stage littered with discarded crutches and wheelchairs by those who no longer needed them. By around 1960 his healing demonstration show ended to never go to the airwaves again. One must ask, how could such a miraculous and wonderful event as that just stop? It is an absolute that there is no shortage of those who need healed. If God was willing to do it through Oral Roberts in 1958, why not now? Or could it be that an aggressive news media would ask too many questions now of the ones who were recieving all that healing? Do background checks on them and generally check things out? Or have we just outgrown all that now? Oral says he still believes but he never televises healings now. He just sells prayer cloths and such. This Dumb Ass is not actually about religion and the validity of it...or not. But one must visit religion somewhat to get to my point. In the early 1500's Copernicus figured out without a doubt that we revolved around the sun as did other planets. For that he took a lot of heat from the church. More than a hundred years later Galileo confirmed what Copernicus knew, but didn't make his findings public because the church said the earth was the center of everything and the sun revolved around us. He knew things would get tough for him if he said such a thing, so he remained silent until he was an old man before he went public with what he knew. Just as he feared, he was arrested, and spent much of his remaining life under guard for the crime of heresy. Today no one disputes how our solar system operates as far as movement. So..... my point is made about the way we think, and how hard it is to simply let our mind grasp at all things possible without being hindered by old fears and what we think we know. I've been bothered all my life about time and whether or not it's the same for all things. I think it's different for all living things, I just don't know how to think about it in ways I can understand. I think its dimensional. I also am very aware that I, nor any one I've ever heard of including Einstein or my modern hero, Stephen Hawking, have the ability to truly understand anything beyond the fourth dimension although all agree that many more exist, it's just that no one knows what they are or how they work. I watched a program on Nova awhile back about parallel universes, and very credible scientists believe such a thing exists, they just don't know how to find them. I wonder if there's a simpler approach, and within ourselves. I wonder if each one of us is in fact a parallel universe in our being. I see everyone in my sight, and can touch them, but no one within my sight feels exactly what I feel and if I get injured as they're watching me, they have no understanding of the pain I might or might not feel. This is a simplistic approach to a definition of a parallel universe, but since no one knows where or what they are, why couldn't this be considered? I have a head ache now..........