A Solstice Surprise

A few words now in celebration of today's solstice event. I am quoting Jan Cox. Normally I avoid this in any large amount since this blog celebrates the HOW he showed his students, the how of orienting your attention, and remembering.  Original thinking was a big part of this, and so that is what I do in this blog.  Not for its own sake, but because original thinking helps loosen the grasp of the mechanical cerebrations that are an  aspect of the planet.

Today though, a little holiday:

It was in the 1970s the Jan Cox mentioned to his students that the state of religion, at least in the western world, was "putrefied." He did not seem to think the way established religions operated then, could be reversed.

And in the 1990's he said, "Now people have nowhere to go." Both comments illuminate current events.  Especially the last, since it speaks to the planet as a whole. A glimpse of history shows migration as a common, maybe defining, process. "Now people have nowhere to go."

One more, and this will confound many. In the 1980s he said there is not life elsewhere in the universe, and there are no extraterrestrials. My take on this is that the strength and recurrence of sentiments in favor of such scenarios, speaks to a basic urge in human nature. Of course Jan also said, there is no god.

"There is no god that you can name."