Stargazing at home
September 30, 2009 by JoelC2009
Anyone who has ever seen the night sky full of stars with no light pollution from big cities around will most happily agree that this is one of the most magnificent experiences you can have. It makes you feel small and humble and at the same time you stand there staring and are just thankful the unbelievable beauty nature has to offer.
If you even had the chance to see for example saturn through a telescope like I had last year in Australia, then most probably the astronomy virus got you! The pictures of the universe are perceived as beautiful all over the world, there are no cultural borders for this – it is truely “universal”.
Unfortunatly it is not always possible to go out and have a look yourself – many of the most wonderful images are hidden to the bare eye. You need strong telescopes and often you need equipment to be able to “see” in other wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. But you can enjoy those images nevertheless, even everyday if you want to: Have a look at the Outer Space Picture Calendar 2010 on lookatstars.com.
But you can adore those pictures not only in print but on your computer screen as well. Read more about how to view astronomy pictures of outerspace on your personal computer screen. There are many tips and tricks on how to find star constellations and get info about any celestial object in a very huge database.
Did you ever wonder where all these pictures of space come from? Hmm, isn’t it obvious, that many of them are from NASA. And best is, as most missions are publicly funded, the resulting images are public domain. Read here about where to find an incredibly collection of beautiful pictures of outer space.
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On the title: “The Sacred From Below”
There is an old saying: “As Above, So Below” which I read something about, from within an esoteric Christian tradition based in the Middle East, where the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam naturally converge through the indigenous population base. It was originally a Kurdish Dervish philosophy which I connected to.
What I read, defined that the saying “as above so below” is very often miscomprehended, but is in fact a more simple understanding than men have often accepted. At times people have imagined wild ideas like using star constellations to diagnose human disease and health, was what “as above so below” had supposed to mean. However, its real meaning is that to know what we know in any level or layer of knowledge, we need also study the same phenomenon in a higher level of knowledge, and also in a lower level of knowledge. That comprehension has very immediate correlations, such as: to comprehend human health at the level of our cells, we need study both molecules and organs of the body. To comprehend our solar system, we need study both the stars and the Earth's geography.
When we have the idea of “as above so below” consolidated in our understanding of how we perceive knowledge, and how we learn; then the idea of understanding the sacred from below is obvious. That is, an obvious necessity.
When we pray and read the Bible we are involved in study of human society from Above, (by contrast to simply studying sociology), yet to truly grasp the sociology we have studied from above, we also must in the imperative, study from below. So we study nature. We look at land forms and animal behaviours and the growth of flora, so as to learn to understand our own human nature and human society.
The lessons we might gain by observing the behaviour of a platypus, for example, may instruct us in our own strenghts and weaknesses, in respect of how our own lives can be correlated to a platypus.
Yet Aboriginal cultural tradition is not only adept at studying man and his society from below, but also from above, through our stories, dreamways, songlines, and the prayer mind we enter into in Corroboree, Song, and Dance, which is often named 'The Dreaming'.
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