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Guess you'd say my style leans toward impressionism. Have no art history books in the art library, just technical "how to's. "The Painterly Approach" by Rohm is a decent one as to impressionistic landscape painting. Heck, if you're not a great realistic painter, impressionism is the way to go...

I'd agree that painting is often a "flow" experience and find quite often that the process of painting seems more important than the finished product-actually a sort of anti-climactic feel to it once finished. Painting can and does seem to be a natural "meditative" experience. earl

My hobby is landscape painting-acrylics. 10 years of doing it and on rare occasion end up with a finished painting I wouldn't toss. So what does it feel like? Moments of frustration, punctuated by moments of rapt flow and contentment.:p earl

Hmm? light and planes, eh? As I push paint around a canvas, might be an interesting discussion topic. Though after a decade of pushing paint around, unsure how much I'd be able to offer.:) earl

Well, haven't really "joined up" with any. Though to me fitting into a religion may be a bit like buying clothes off the rack-which I've always done by the way:)- vs. getting them tailored to actually fit your form. Some folks don't comfortably fit into ready-made clothes. But, my views of...

NDE's = absence of consiousness? Me thinks not! Vistas expand.:p There are Buddhist "hell" regions of consciousness per dogma. But, then, per their view, all is impermanent and afterall, my "karma did run over my dogma.";) earl

Welcome. Many of us here do not neatly fit into standard religious categories.:) earl

Even in Buddhism the intermingling of faith and experience was central. The Buddha obviously sought to instill among his students faith that, if treading a path similar to his own, they, like him, would reach the same realization. Though famously also said words to the effect, don't just take...

I'd agree with Paladin that this may be a false dichtomy, but not for perhaps the same reason he does. Krishnamurti may have famelessly spoke of how Truth is a "pathless" land but then spent many decades attempting to point folks to the same realization he had attained, perhaps having faith it...

Thanks Snoop. Fortunately, my wife has endless tolerance of me.:D earl

However, welcome back, Linda. earl

In the Beginning: An Interview with Olivera Petrovich Paternal Life Interesting bit of research on an apparent innate predisposition toward belief in "God" among the very young. earl

As to the fascinating question of whether very young children have what can be termed "spiritual" or "psychic awareness that most adults seem not be privy to, the literature which has emerged during the past 7 years- not to mention anecdotal information some adults have been aware of from time...

Thomas, musings on the "unborn" aspect of soul-or "God" for that matter-puts me in mind of Buddhism again as it's replete with references related to discovering the unborn and uncreated. Here's a brief blurb from the Buddha himself on the matter: Netscape Search take care, earl

Well congrats! Hadn't seen Q around here much in a long time. You must have been keeping him busy.;) earl

Yes, Sancho, many of ME's words sound Buddhist. As to that view of time, certainly Dogen's thoughts on "Being-Time," (Uji), might strike a similar chord. Perceptions of time-linear vs. "Spherical," (where past, present, and future seem a seemless whole), seem to occur based on states of...

Path, I suspect this briefly stated discussion of the relationship between consciousness and the perception of time may get at what you meant about time and timelessness. It discusses "spherical time." As to the metaphor-or is it a metaphor?- of spiral processes in all evolution a spiral could...

Defining what constitutes a religion? Guess, while interested in dogma, creeds, theologies, etc. to some degree, I tend toward the experiential-how one's "religious" approach or practice affects one & I see it as a feedback loop between experience and belief. But keeping it simple, think the...

Welcome Honza. Never heard of the forum you mentioned. I find that this forum covers quite a nice array of spiritual, quasi-spiritual, and other non-spiritual notions quite nicely. earl

Happy Birthday! earl