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Science Documentaries for Youngsters?
An anonymous reader writes "My 7-year-old daughter is asking some interesting questions, such as, 'How did everything get created?' I've explained, in general terms, our family's non-religious views on the subject of creation and the Big Bang. I'd like to find some documentary videos geared to this age level that may explain better these concepts and theories. I've found a few PBS specials online - Stephen Hawking stuff - but they seem to be geared for young adults and older. Does anyone have recommended titles that might be better geared to children of this age bracket?"
> Mysticism is a response to the unknown.
:-)
I don't know which mystics you have been interacting with, or where you read your definition, but that is why you are not a mystic - because that is not its definition.
A mystic is someone who realizes, understands, knows, and is able to tap into deeper insights that there is significantly more then what the usualy limited 5 perceptions led us to believe. Their true knowledge is based on gnosis, not pseudo-intellectual knowledge that others tell them.
i.e. You could be told "You are not your physical body. You are a spiritual being having a human experience in a physical body. You are dreaming -- the goal of life is 'wake up', or 'enter the light', or as it is more commonly called 'enlightenment.' (which is also a journey, not only a destination.)", but all this wouldn't mean anything, until _you_ have proved it to yourself.
A mystic is also someone who realizes that True Religion is a way to prove your beliefs, by the way you live. If you do nothing with your beliefs, they are just that, beliefs.
The same way that a child can't do advanced math until it develops its mind, is exactly why people are generally ignorant of the consciousness of the universe, let alone themselves. A few scientists realize there is much, much more...
* "Today there is a wide measure of agreement... that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine
- Astronomer James Jeans
* "The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff"
- Astronomer Arthur Eddington
* "... our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space. The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe."
- Cyberneticist David Foster
* "The scientist has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
- Robert Jastrow, (was head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies), in his book "God and the Astronomers"
The "problem" with mystics is that they are unable to communicate precisely what they know, because others don't have the same frame of reference. i.e. If you were color blind, someone telling you about the color "red", or "green" would be absolutely meaningless to you because you have no valid frame of reference.
The more important question is, "How did they get to know what they know"
Bereishit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz