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Comment by Julie Simon Lakehomer on April 12, 2010 at 9:57am

Read the Zeeya Merali piece on time flowing backward and I loved it! Here's another of those quantum "spooky" actions at a distance that Einstein complained of. Personally, I love finding out that all is definitely not as it appears to us humans. I want very much to live in an astonishing, magical universe. I want the God of my understanding to be waaaaaay more powerful than the cookie cutter god of fundamentalists of all faiths. And so far, this is what we're all finding!

Comment by Priscilla Long on April 1, 2010 at 9:42am

Lorraine, The article on time flowing backwards, allowing the future to influence the past, is called Back from the Future by Zeeya Merali, in Discover (not Discovery, sorry) April 2010. My continuing reaction: Hmmmm.

Comment by Wendy Babiak on April 1, 2010 at 5:50am

Julie, the agent reaction made me laugh. Whenever someone tells me something can't be done with writing, I think, "Watch me."

Comment by Lorraine Schein on March 31, 2010 at 11:09pm

Which issue was this in--March? Sounds very interesting. I am a poet and sometime fiction writer and like to explore questions of science and goddess spirituality, with some Jewish and agnostic viewpoints thrown in sometimes. I will also be teaching a class on Spiritual and Occult Writing in NYC this summer.

Comment by Priscilla Long on March 31, 2010 at 9:57pm

I recently read in Discovery Magazine the article about how the future may well affect the past. My comment on this: Hmmmmm.

Comment by Julie Simon Lakehomer on March 12, 2010 at 5:18pm

So glad to hear from you, Janine. I'm querying agents re my book about DNA researchers and their scientific and spiritual journeys. Just got a pretty negative reaction seeming to say these are two entirely separate topics that must not come together. So your comment is just the antidote I need.

Comment by Janine M. Donoho on March 12, 2010 at 1:51pm

In addition to my fictional and published writing, my essays delve into conservation biology. Despite the heavy lifting required by the scientific left brain, I also explore the fuzzy spiritual right brain with each writing endeavor. And yes, I choreograph and teach tribal dance, too. So many hats...

Comment by Mary Jean Port on November 13, 2009 at 9:55am

Hi. I am working on a book that combines memoir and natural history. I am wondering how you all work with science and spirit in your writing. (I was a big Loren Eiseley fan in college oh so many years ago, and after reading your entries I'm inspired to read him again.)

Comment by Lauren B. Davis on August 28, 2009 at 5:13am

Hi Wendy -- nice to meet another Loren Eisley fan! I agree with your thoughts on the toxicity of certitudes in any variety -- my sense has always been that if you can define "God" you've got it wrong, since The Sacred is, by definition, ineffable. Someone once said God cannot be defined, only experienced, which is why I like Raymo's writings so much. He calls himself a "religious naturalist" and has a better sense of the holy than most priests I've met!

So like you, I have a special affinity for earth-based spirituality (my father is First Nations, my mother Irish), although I also respond to the symbols of Christianity. Elaine Pagels (who is a member of my church) once said that "It is through the symbols of Christianity that I see the glimmer and possibility of Spirit." I agree, although, for me, not exclusively through those symbols.

Comment by Wendy Babiak on August 26, 2009 at 11:30am

I'm also a big fan of Loren Eisley. I'm an agnostic secularist myself (in this day and age, the certitudes of organized religion strike me as toxic and dangerous), but gravitate towards the insights of Buddhism, Taoism, and earth-centered spirituality. I look forward to watching this group grow and investigating how we as writers can work toward creating a better understanding of the importance of science and a spirituality that embraces it.

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