{"id":1064,"date":"2013-07-05T18:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2013-07-05T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T02:39:10","slug":"lubricating-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Lubricating “Grace”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now there\u2019s been some talk about how I doodle and make things up. I admit to this, but the process is more subtle and complex than it seems. To dismiss it as \u201cjust imagination\u201d is as shallow as dismissing, well, imagination, as \u201cjust\u201d imagination. What\u2019s this \u201cjust\u201d stuff? As if we are entitled to make judgments about what we do and do not admit into what is believed to be consensus reality. A hint about this was discussed in a book titled \u201cThe Three \u2018Only\u2019 Things<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the specific criticism was about the \u201clittle men\u201d who accompanied the Boze-Higgs-on<\/a>. So I need to explain little men drawings: There are those who organize the cosmos, and they in turn are organized into a hierarchy of angels\u2014or that\u2019s how humans have intuited this. And the problem is that these folks\u2014of course they exist, in a certain, non-material way!\u2014how do you think Grace happens?!?\u2014operate alone. Not at all! They need the little people (the elves, fairies, trolls, pixies, etc.) to\u2014I guess the English equivalent would be \u201clubricate\u201d the process. It\u2019s important that a giggle and some slippage and random silliness operate around the edges. If one takes any of this at all seriously it \u201cjams\u201d the process.<\/p>\n

Of course humans have tended to take things seriously. As the chief operating elf-angel (there are grades here as everywhere) says:<\/p>\n

\"07-05b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Translation is that \u201cOh, people are lazy, so they leave the making-up to visionaries who can\u2019t help it. Then they believe it literally and that congests the dynamic.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis\u201d assistant (they don\u2019t really have gender), Elf-angel-2, pipes up: <\/p>\n

\"07-05e\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Which means that as technology and mythology advances, people are getting ready to make things up, know they\u2019re making things up, and do it more prolifically, which will result in a more prolific rain of Grace also known as helping-you-out. That\u2019s not a literal translation, of course. <\/p>\n

The pipsqueek elf is just learning this stuff but helps by being cute. He says: <\/p>\n

\"07-05d\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So that\u2019s it for now, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now there\u2019s been some talk about how I doodle and make things up. I admit to this, but the process is more subtle and complex than it seems. To dismiss it as \u201cjust imagination\u201d is as shallow as dismissing, well, imagination, as \u201cjust\u201d imagination. What\u2019s this \u201cjust\u201d stuff? As if we are entitled to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}