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Mark and Eric talk about a philosophy of God that might work for you if simple answers do not. How does human religions actually work in real time? Is God something we can actually name and put in a box? Or it is a moving target of an ideal that humans cast out before themselves to deal with the difficulty of reality?

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Heart,
Mark and Eric

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YOU ARE ONLY A WATCHER.

Have the humility and awareness

to open your eyes to the unseen

and you will find the face of God.

I don’t mean spirits or daemons

or old gods disguised as just another object.

No. You are invited to the thing behind all things—

big bang’s banger,

electric in lightning,

fortitude in blood cell—

the only wisdom frightening

enough to hold light and dark matter

in one weird-science jar and say, “Oh well.”

Let’s just see what you have to say

to the morning sun that brings in day.

You can predict it will arrive and leave

but that should never give you any reprieve

from the fact that you are only

an ancient-future Watcher

of the only One truly lonely

when it comes to pulling on unseen string theories;

making it all go. And so no, your existentialism

does not impress me and it draws the furies.

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Mark and Eric talk wealth gap, systemic overhaul, and the scandal of politics in the fading western empire. Along the way, they talk about Jesus as a Second Temple Period human sage, a different kind of kingdom, and how to treat people in hard knock times.

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Heart,
Mark and Eric

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MR. SMITH STAYS HOME.

I’ll save all of my Hallelujahs,
for a world without hunger
and all of my thoughts and prayers
for the younger generation,
in a private room where I con—fess
just how scared I am to be blessed
by the modern world and all its current religions.
Conservative or Liberal,
Democrat or Republican,
all the same, there and back again,
whatever the name—
The churches in the capitol city
raise praise to capitalism
and corporate identity
while ignoring the fact that
we know all their ideologies,
are just dressed up in their best
for the funeral of the old West.
We are in an Age
of great overturning and rage;
some of us are prophets
intuiting your profits, Mr. Senator,
or at least we can see,
that yours is a labyrinth free
of any real threat of a minotaur.
I ony see Uncle Scar
and a pack of scrapping hyenas
lost to the realities of the hunt;
a troop of foreign policy runts.
And besides, a modern Mr. Smith
stays home alone like Kevin,
or dreaming of heaven—
he already learned and replied—
a good man can never go to Washington
and remain virtuous inside.

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Mark and Eric kick around the idea of awareness as a philosophical pillar for meaning, life, and even divinity, before performing an original poem entitled "Awareness."

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Mark and Eric

AWARENESS.

Awareness is the first and greatest gift of God. Look, traveller:

in an age that worships intellectual knowing,

be mindful of the primal gift of awareness,

constantly observing the empirical evidence

in the first place. What is the I that thinks and feels?

You can thank Rene Descartes, for the idea’s first expression.

Or think of Yahweh’s words to Moshe,

or recall Jesus’ allusion to that same theophany—

all are naming existence before any other discernible fact.

Awareness is the means you have for observing.

No experiment is possible without the observing eye;

no observation of tree line or big sky comes

without center of self and mystic intuition under the mind.

All this is theoretical and heady, but think of the implications

when you actually taste the spaghetti:

Who says you are old or young?

Who says you’ve been here only this long?

Who says when you leave you are really ever gone?

Who says where awareness goes when the body expires?

Who says you have this short time—so make the best of it?

Who says there is no such thing as a silver thread?

God says the answers to all these questions,

but is not interested to spoil the surprise.

Instead, God provides and sustains your awareness

so you can marvel, wonder, and take in the dawn.

If you are an enlightened one,

you have realized the absurdity of assumed finality.

You wonder how you came to the House of the World,

and how many times, and where you might go next.

Now when you read, “in the beginning”

you ask with the rabbis, “which beginning?” and laugh.

Your cosmology and individuality dances with the idea,

that awareness is the first heavenly light:

A star factory divided into a billion souls across the ages.

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