Diana C.’s 30-Day Poetry Challenge | Days 18 and 21
Syncresynthesis
Tanka of wisely loving the whole oneness that comes from the marriage of science and spirituality
Wise ask right questions Wise alchemize the answers Wise see many truths Emotional foundations Balance and support structures
Decoder Ring
This tanka is inspired by the thoughts behind the day-18 and day-21 prompts: “Wisdom is loving the whole” and “A path that marries science and spirituality,” which triggered many thoughts in me reflected by and in the following:
“Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion than a particular religion — and this no known religion can tolerate. Religion encourages you to explore the thoughts of others and accept them as your own. Spirituality invites you to toss away the thoughts of others and come up with your own.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God
Wikipedia defines Syncretism as:the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths.
Reverie writes in:
The way I see it, the quest for science and the quest for spirituality are the same quest. The quest for truth.
Keri Mangis writes in:
In Ayurvedic philosophy, everything that we can see, and not see, in the Universe is comprised of some combination of the Five Great Elements. This includes the stars, the trees, the oceans. It also includes our bodies, our thoughts, and, of course, our emotions.
The goal of Ayurveda for personal health and well-being is to bring about balance. Balance is achieved when the elements work in harmony with each other — i.e., not too much or too little of any one element.
Just like the earth finds balance through an earthquake, a hurricane, a thunderstorm, we, too, find balance through expressing our emotions in healthy ways.
Back at the beginning of March I wrote in:
I am sick and tired of this nonsense about “ego death.” Greg’s experiences are very much imprinted upon the soul of Marcus. We are the same being.
The ego does not die. It evolves. I evolve. I integrate and align.
Keri responded yesterday:
me too. I’m tired of the spiritual community telling us that ego is bad, that to move or live from ego is bad. We learn different things via our egos than we do our souls. That’s entirely what I was trying to show with my book — Séri was in the Soul Realm learning, Keri was in the Earth Realm learning, they were both learning and evolving from each other.
I replied:
Binaries rearing their ugly head in spirituality too!! I have a piece brewing in me about how the soul would be defenseless without ego to protect it from time to time. Soul and ego need each other to survive the Earth Realm.
For Keri’s deep-dive-depictions of the Earth and Soul Realms you may begin here:
A selection of favorite entries of mine in Diana C.’s 30-day challenge:
Strangers in the night Yet familiar like old friends Twas love at first sight Her passing awakened them Infinite eternal love
Take all I’ve known Burn it to the fucking ground From ash birth astound Cynicism melt away Mature innocence take sway
Handcuffed by science Minds of materialists Suffocate on proof Spiritualists thriving Embracing uncertainty
Incarnate handsome Book-smart wealthy privileged Behind these 8-balls Face yours and others’ demons Emerge confident and Light
In Rama I create,
