A discussion with Matt Phelps on Benner-Nooz-List@yahoogroups.com inspired
me to write the following:

The third eye looks inward.
Look inward to see outward.
Look outward to see inward.

I wish I could reproduce that line I originally heard/read about the third
eye. But maybe it wasn't a single line, maybe it was an epiphany years in
the making. Once I had the knowledge it seemed so simple that it must have
been a simple sentence. I will try to be brief.

The third eye is not just a metaphysical concept, it is a real organ. The
pineal gland is an eye -- with a lens and a retina -- which looks at the
brain. But buried inside the head it can't focus light. What does it
see? God? Signals from another dimension? Dreamtime? Brain
waves? Perhaps all these things. By using the third eye to look inward,
we see ourselves. Once we know out true selves the third eye is "released"
(for lack of a better term) and we see outward.

The hardest part of searching for the miraculous is accepting that the
miraculous is so mundane, so ordinary. Life is a miracle. Once you see
that you are a miracle and that other people are very much like you, you see
that you are surrounded by miracles. And a cat is a miracle and a
butterfly is a miracle and even an earthworm is a miracle.

Sunrise and sunset are miracles. The seasons are miracles. These cycles
are the miracles that drive the greatest miracle: Evolution. There are
some people who say God created life. There are some people who say life
was created via evolution. These people will argue and call each other
fools, yet they both miss the simple explanation: God created life via
evolution.

The "religious" nay-sayers contend that life is too complex to arise by
chance chemical reactions. They say that God must have intervened to turn
the primordial soup into life. But they are missing God's greatest
miracle: From the moment of creation the universe was designed so that
evolution would occur.

Some say this is the only planet with life. If so, why did God create so
many stars? Are they just there to decorate our sky? We can only see a
fraction of the stars in this galaxy. We now know there are googols of
googols of galaxies, there are googols of googols of planets, and there are
googols of googols of planets with life. To say anything less is to claim
that God is incompetent.

The "scientific" nay sayers contend that the laws of the universe provide
an environment in which life evolves. But who created evolution? Who
created the laws of the universe?

In the Judeo-Christian mythos, God said "Let there be light" and the
universe came to be. Scientists now call this moment the Big Bang. It was
a single humongous flash of radiant energy. Moments later some of this
radiant energy congealed into matter. Genesis tells us the God divided the
light (energy) into light and darkness (energy and matter). In just the
past century, we have built telescopes that let us see enough of the
universe that we can understand the Big Bang. How was it that thousands of
years ago someone knew this well enough for Moses to write it down?

As we understand the Big Bang more, we see it was not just the beginning of
the universe it was the beginning of time. In the Greek mythos, Uranus
created Chronos (time) who created Zeus who created the world. But how
could Uranus create time? Creation is an action, a change over
time. There was no time before time, there was no "before" before
time. This is a mystery which we struggle to understand. What is the
Prime Mover -- the Uncaused Cause? Perhaps the Prime Mover does not move;
perhaps the Uncaused Cause does not cause. Existing in eternity beyond
time -- before and after time to use preposterous terms -- God just
is. The great I Am.

(Thank you for the inspiration, Matt.)
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