What is Life?

What do you think of when you hear the term “LIFE”?

What do you think of when you hear the term “LIFE”?(It’s used in so many different contexts these days)

What do you think of when you hear the term “LIFE”?(It’s used in so many different contexts these days)

“It’s your one and only life.” (a summation of your time on earth)

What do you think of when you hear the term “LIFE”?(It’s used in so many different contexts these days)

“It’s your one and only life.” (a summation of your time on earth) “All of life on Earth.”

(noun)

What do you think of when you hear the term “LIFE”?(It’s used in so many different contexts these days)

“It’s your one and only life.” (a summation of your time on earth) “All of life on Earth.”

(noun)

“What do you do for a living?” (equating life with money)

What do you think of when you hear the term “LIFE”?(It’s used in so many different contexts these days)

“It’s your one and only life.” (a summation of your time on earth) “All of life on Earth.”

(noun)

“On the 3rd day, God created life.” (a religious concept)

“What do you do for a living?” (equating life with money)

What do you think of when you hear the term “LIFE”?(It’s used in so many different contexts these days)

“It’s your one and only life.” (a summation of your time on earth) “All of life on Earth.”

(noun)

“Hey buddy, go get a life.” (just plain old funny ; )

“On the 3rd day, God created life.” (a religious concept)

“What do you do for a living?” (equating life with money)

What do you think of when you hear the term “LIFE”?(It’s used in so many different contexts these days)

“It’s your one and only life.” (a summation of your time on earth) “All of life on Earth.”

(noun)

“Hey buddy, go get a life.” (just plain old funny ; )

Now, none of these uses of the term are “wrong”…

“On the 3rd day, God created life.” (a religious concept)

“What do you do for a living?” (equating life with money)

But for the sake of clarity: in this presentation we’ll be approaching the term “Life” from that place where science

meets mysticism.

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But for the sake of clarity: in this presentation we’ll be approaching the term “Life” from that place where science

meets mysticism.

Not only as the normal, physical, personal, natural, or spiritual form that one may commonly associate it with,

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But for the sake of clarity: in this presentation we’ll be approaching the term “Life” from that place where science

meets mysticism.

Not only as the normal, physical, personal, natural, or spiritual form that one may commonly associate it with,

But as that spark-between, holding all these forms together…

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But for the sake of clarity: in this presentation we’ll be approaching the term “Life” from that place where science

meets mysticism.

Not only as the normal, physical, personal, natural, or spiritual form that one may commonly associate it with,

But as that spark-between, holding all these forms together…

At it’s very essence.

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If we were to offer up some more mystical definitions of this one-precious-thing we all share

in common, we’d say something like:

If we were to offer up some more mystical definitions of this one-precious-thing we all share

in common, we’d say something like:

LIFE:

If we were to offer up some more mystical definitions of this one-precious-thing we all share

in common, we’d say something like:

LIFE:“That mysterious force inspiring Matter to wake up and animate itself…”

If we were to offer up some more mystical definitions of this one-precious-thing we all share

in common, we’d say something like:

LIFE:“That mysterious force inspiring Matter to wake up and animate itself…”

“That most sacred & dynamic of dances between Spirit and Matter…”

If we were to offer up some more mystical definitions of this one-precious-thing we all share

in common, we’d say something like:

LIFE:“That mysterious force inspiring Matter to wake up and animate itself…”

“That most sacred & dynamic of dances between Spirit and Matter…”

“That emergent evolutionary impulse drawing us all closer to ‘God’…”

If we were to offer up some more mystical definitions of this one-precious-thing we all share

in common, we’d say something like:

LIFE:“That mysterious force inspiring Matter to wake up and animate itself…”

“That most sacred & dynamic of dances between Spirit and Matter…”

“That emergent evolutionary impulse drawing us all closer to ‘God’…”

“That incomprehensible impetus which creates and sustains all relationship…”

If we were to offer up some more mystical definitions of this one-precious-thing we all share

in common, we’d say something like:

LIFE:“That mysterious force inspiring Matter to wake up and animate itself…”

“That most sacred & dynamic of dances between Spirit and Matter…”

“That emergent evolutionary impulse drawing us all closer to ‘God’…”

“That incomprehensible impetus which creates and sustains all relationship…”

“That transcendent spark from which ‘being’ germinates…”

“ T H E E S S E N C E O F L I F E I S F O U N D N E I T H E R I N T H E C R E AT O R O R T H E C R E AT E D ,

B U T I N C R E AT I V I T Y I T S E L F. ”

~BB

To be continued…