I wish I could share…

[donq]

When the boundary of science is blurred, it sounds so spirituality.

This might be the most beautiful beach I ever seen. It’s the scene from the movie “Contact” (1997).
I used to watch its DVD and it was so clear and beautiful. Music is also great (by Alan Silvestri).

On the beach:




Jodie Foster in this scene is so great and so touching (from “final hearing” scene.)

I wish I could share..:

[sparklekaz]

This is one of my all time favourite films Monty. There are some films that just have the most amazing spiritual & philosophical quality to them isn't there. I've watched it many times, and each time there are lines that jump out at me and are very moving. When I watch the night sky and gaze up at the stars I'm always stirred in some deep inexplicable way. A kinship felt, which is hard to explain. As upon the surface, space can seem a cold and unfeeling place. Yet for me I always feel a yearning and a sense of knowing.. though knowing what... is always just out of reach.

Thanks for sharing this.

Love and light
Kaz

[donq]

“When I watch the night sky and gaze up at the stars I'm always stirred in some deep inexplicable way. A kinship felt, which is hard to explain. As upon the surface, space can seem a cold and unfeeling place. Yet for me I always feel a yearning and a sense of knowing.. though knowing what... is always just out of reach.”

Well put, Kaz. It’s beautiful!


I loved the beach scene in the movie because it reminded me of the real beach I used to live nearby 2 decades ago:


I was standing on the long white beach. It was a very peaceful night with the millions of millions stars above. And over there, I saw the Milky Way with my naked eyes for the first time in my life. The vast sea stayed calmly, though its wave still scrolled softly to the shore like the breath’s rhythm of a sleeping giant. I saw something fluoresced in its foam, some fluorescent jelly fishes? When I strode slowly, I could see something glittered in the soaked sand like the fire scraps beneath my feet. Maybe they were many tiny seashells rebounding the shiny starlight above? Here, it was I standing in front of the great universe, only me and the universe. I suddenly felt that there was no I who was watching the vast universe in front of me anymore. It was something else watching me and the universe.

[sparklekaz]

Your words are simply beautiful Monty. Painting a picture so vivid, I was there in my minds eye with you. I too have felt that dissolving of self, a becoming one with the night sky. A swelling and expanding of the senses where 'I' disappear and become part of the fabric of the universe. It is said that we are made of stardust. A poetic term, but one which resonates with me in the deepest part of my soul. Whenever I feel lost and alone, I find looking up at the stars, rekindles in me a sense of deep connectiveness to something more then my personal world, and I stop feeling so lonely. Odd though it may seem, I feel the gaze of a benevolent eye watching over me.

Thank you for sharing this.

Love and light
Kaz

[donq]

wow! today you wrote everything as if the poetry! The night stars are really your muse.

The fowling will be off topic (except maybe about the stars.) :-)

A few night ago while I was chatting with one of our friends I thought of this song. I liked its melody a lot and even could play the guitar (picking). But yes, that was very long time ago. lol


Peter Paul and Mary, Tiny Sparrow:



Come all ye fair and tender ladies,
Take warning how you court your men.
They're like the stars on a summer's mornin'
First they'll appear and then they're gone.
If I had known before I courted
what all his lyin' could have done
I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden
and never would have courted none.
I wish I were a tiny sparrow
and I had wings and I could fly.
I'd fly away to my own true lover
and all he'd ask I would deny.
Alas I'm not a tiny sparrow
I have not wings nor can I fly
And on this earth in grief and sorrow
I am bound until I die.
Come all ye fair and tender ladies
Take warning how you court your men.
They're like the stars on a summer's mornin'
First they'll appear and then they're gone.

[donq]

It took me 30 minutes to find this thread. My memory is really bad now.

I’ve just found the photos and have known the word that it is called "Bioluminescent Phytoplankton." 

[sparklekaz]

Gorgeous pictures Monty.. thank you for sharing them.

[gruntal]

I never got around to seeing this film in it's entirety but I remember one very telling scene at the end. A bone of contention was the fact the woman claimed to be on a journey that lasted hours when in point of fact those that were observing her only lost contact with her for a few minutes. Her surveillance camera showed nothing but static.

Only at the near end of the movie was it questioned why the surveillance cameras had hours of of admitedly nothing when the women was only gone for minutes in real time. Twelve hours of non-existance? How did they even manage to operate for hours over a time span of mere minutes?

I like to think in the real world we would notice things like that. Only in a Hollywood movie could this happen. I guess. Is there anything else out there so inconsisant to reality it is denied?

[sparklekaz]

Hi George,

The way I interpreted that part of the film, was that she and the capsule had gone through some kind of worm hole into another dimension. (It's worth noting that this is a theory that is pretty well accepted in quantum physics as being a very real possibility in the future, when our technology is further forward. A hypothisis that is put forward as a means of traveling vast tracts of space to explore other planets, in relatively short spaces of time). That time spent traveling and in that 'other dimension' was recorded as in time used up on the tapes.

If I remember rightly, there was a blinding flash and the capsule was still there, appearing to have gone nowhere. I'm guessing the flash was the exit and return. Appearing to have gone nowhere. The only proof, if proof it could be called, was the used up time on the tapes.

It's a great film, and full of very spiritual and philosophical one liners, as well as a debate on the existence of God. Jodie Foster starts off in the film as being a women of science and with no religious/spiritual belief at all. A confirmed Athiest. At the end of the film, her thoughts change. I wont spoil it for anyone who has not seen this film by saying anymore. It's definitely worth watching. I loved it.

Love and light
Kaz

[donq]

Hi Kaz,

To avoid being sued because of the copyright, I have to say that those were not my photos. I found them on the internet and share them here because they looked so alike to the beach I used to stay. Sorry that I forgot to mention the owners (It was Tristan Rayner)

Anyway, I still have my bias that my beach was a little bit more beautiful. Hahaha.