Gilfur Ashardi's Page

I posted the following in response to a discussion started by Ritalin-Bunny entitled "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together?".  It was intended to show that even though we are individuals, we are also all connected.

As I see it, each of us is an endpoint of awareness in an extension of All.  We are the mirror by which the Comprehensive Intelligence regards Itself.  The idea of "free will" is for the purpose of expression by this Entity from any possible perspective.  If all of these infinite perspectives were predetermined, then the potential for Self-expression would be limited by the boundaries of their individual definitions.  As far as I know, there are no limits at all.  The farther we reach, the more we see beyond.

Though I have a sense of my…

This is a compilation of several blogs I wrote a couple of years ago on MySpace, before I discovered PaganSpace.  If you're a Christian or have strongly held beliefs of a limited god/dess, this is not for you.  In fact, it is in your best interests to ignore this.



When the Wizard of Oz admonished Dorothy to "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain," he was stating the most basic rule of this game called life. 

Consider this.

Let's say you choose to involve yourself in a role-playing game with strict parameters of play. So long as you play within…

Concerning our "higher selves" and a spiritual existence beyond life, I always wanted to understand what eventually happens to one's identity after the death of one's body.  I woke up on 12/23/11 with an inspiration that was too complex to capture easily, so I immediately began writing.  The phrase "entropy reigns" kept running through my mind.  

In order to keep it from becoming a book, I had to simplify concepts I had already reconciled in my mind, so there are a lot of points that you may think are unfounded assumptions, but I can support them.  And, many of the ideas here require a certain level of understanding to begin with, so I fully expect to be challenged.  If you think I sound pedantic, it's only to try to keep the discourse as concise as possible, so I try to compress a lot of thought into each expression.  To me, the English language is a work of art that I…

I've discovered the value of allowing serendipity in my life.

Like most things, when your awareness of something becomes stimulated, your experiences of it increase; in both amplitude and frequency. In other words, the more you perceive the serendipities around you, the more powerfully they happen, and the more often.

Serendipity is very much akin to Providence, an unexpected Godsend. It is the child of synchronicity.  A serendipity is when the accidental [some say it's only coincidental] confluence of unrelated events coalesce into a nexus of new meaning that provides the answer you didn't know you needed, and your reality takes an alternate path. 

And, it's always good.

There's a trick to it, though, as serendipities are both fragile and fleeting.

They occur around you all the time, but if you don't notice them, they can't help you. On the other hand, every time you recognize one it adds a measure of quality to your experience…