I stood once on a hot Summer’s day besides the pool and contemplated a water-lily which had spread its leaves evenly over the water and with an open blossom was basking in the Sunlight. How exceptionally fortunate, though I, must this lily be which above basks in the Sunlight and plunged in the water—if only it might be capable of feeling the Sun and the bath. And why not? I asked myself. It seemed to me that nature surely would not have built a creature so beautiful, and so carefully designed for such conditions, merely to be an object of observation. I was inclined to think that nature had built it thus in order that all the pleasure which can be derived from bathing at once in Sunlight and in water might be enjoyed by one creature in the fullest measure. I cling more and more firmly to the reverence for God this manner of knowing moves from the adequate idea of the formal essence of attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the spirit of things, these words give me courage to devote my entire life to the contemplation of the nature that I can reach and whose essentia formali I can hope to fashion an adequate idea. The mental factor made its appearance out of the blue at some date in the World’s history. Panpsychism is the theory according to which all objects in the Universe, not only human beings and animals but also plants and even objects we usually classify as “inanimate” have an inner or psychological beings, which means your car could have a soul, a rock could have a soul, and trees could have souls. So treat everything you come into contact with with care and respect. Where we see inorganic life Nature seemingly dead, there is, in fact, conscious life as surely as there is any Being present in Nature at all. All motion of al matter in space may be explained as a natural expression of the inner status of beings that seek or avoid one another with a feeling of their need. The whole of the World of sense is but the veil of an infinite realm of mental life. It is the best, clearest, most natural, and most beautiful account of the Universe, and renders the operation of things more comprehensible and also enables us to act upon them more successfully. All bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense yet have perception, which expresses a more fundamental truth than do the materialistic concepts which were then being shaped as adequate for physics. 

Nevertheless, there is a night-view of the Universe—an outlook natural in a mechanized civilization in which people are incapable of noticing and appreciating anything that cannot become the subject of measurement and calculation. There are vast emotional benefits to believing in the immortal soul and recognizing that everything is alive. For instance, many people think that glass is solid and inanimate, but if you look at Victorian houses, which still have the original windows, you will notice waves in the glass because over hundreds-of-years, it is slowly moving. Panpsychism indicates the pervading animation of the Universe, the aesthetic view of Nature may lawfully fill out the sum of what exists. If we are panpsychists we no longer look on one part of the cosmos as but a blind and lifeless instrument for the ends of another, but, on the contrary, find beneath the unruffled surface of matter, behind the rigid and regular repetitions of its working, the warmth of a hidden mental activity. The fullness of animated life is even in things as the dust trodden by our feet [and] the prosaic texture of the cloth (drapper) that forms or clothing.  By now, you may be wondering: Where do comets come from? And what are they? Dust only to one whom it inconveniences, but remember that human beings who are confined in a low social position, in which the outflow of intellectual energy is greatly impeded, are not by any means deprived of their high density. Our solar system was born about 4.5 billion years ago, and this took place 25,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy (Milkyway), where an interstellar nebula (a region rich in dust and gas) began to fragment and contract, probably due to the shock waves caused by one or more supernova explosions. Supernovas are massive stars that have reached the end of their lives, and they explode either completely or partially and expel an enormous quantity of energy and a variety of chemical elements into space. They also produce shock waves that create ripples in the structure of space like the ones that break the surface of a pond when a stone is thrown into it. When these irregularities come into contact with gas or dust in space, they produce significant perturbations in the interstellar material.  

This fragmented the original nebula into clouds, each of which began to rotate as a result of the shock sustained. Under the force of its own gravity, one of these clouds—the one which would eventually form the solar system and which we will call the protosolar nebula—began to contract more. By the of conservation of angular momentum (the same one that makes a skater spin faster when she wraps her arms around her body), the cloud’s rate of rotation sped up as it got smaller. This in turn produced a flattening of the cloud by centrifugal force. Still under the force of gravity, most of the material was deposited at the center of the cloud, where, at certain point, having reached sufficient pressure and therefore a high enough temperature (about six million degrees), the nuclear reactions that led to the creation of our sun became possible. The rest of the cloud, meanwhile, quickly became a relatively thin disk. Dust particles along the plane of the disk continued to collide with each other at an ever-increasing rate Through this action, as well as the concomitant magnetic and electrostatic forces, the particles began coalesce, forming granular masses about a meter in diameter.  At this point, gravitational forces gained the upper hand, and the coalescing material began to pull together ever more forcefully. This caused even more sizable objects to form, with dimensions on the order of a few kilometers. Called planetestimals, these objects orbited the Sun on trajectories with various inclinations and eccentricities. At the same time, the young Sun began to blow a strong “wind” loaded with charged particles (protons and electrons), which almost completely stripped the inner part of the solar system of gas. Then a kind of planetary billiard game came into play. Planetestimals on intersecting trajectories sustained collision that were destructive if they happened at high speed and aggregative if they took place at a lower velocity. The latter prevailed, and in the end, bodies about the size of the Moon were formed (roughly 3,000 kilometers in diameter) that orbited in barely inclined and not very eccentric trajectories. These survivors of the game eventually grew to become planets of the “terrestrial” type—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—and wound up in stable, nearly circular and only slightly inclined orbits that kept them from colliding with each other. This process probably lasted for 100 million years for the Earth, a little less for Venus and Mercury and a little longer for Mars. 

So in essence, a comet is a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust an, when near the sun, it forms a tail, or even two separate tails—one of dust and the other of ionized gas (plasma). Comets are known to be the origin of human life, as well as all life on Earth. The oppressed fragments of humanity are this dust of the spiritual World, and we may yet affirm a divine origin and a celestial goal, then we have far less reason to deny an inner life to physical dust particles; uncomely as these may appear to us in their accumulations, they are at least everywhere and without shortcoming preform the actions permitted to them by the Universal order. Nothing is destitute itself of life and reason, can generate a being possessed of life and reason; the World does generate beings possessed of life and reason; so many believe it is true that there is a cosmic reservoir of consciousness in which all lesser souls are contained, and this is why people maintain that plants and inanimate objects have an inner psychic life, as we all come from the same space dust.  And even the Earth is a living creature, a unitary whole in form and substance, in purpose and effect and self-sufficient in its individuality. It is related to our human body as the whole tree is to a single twig, a permanent body to a perishable, small organ. The Earth since it produces all living and animated beings and harbors them as parts of life, may itself be plausibly regarded as alive and animated. Many people are shocked that the luxurious condominium towers in San Francisco, California USA, known as the Millennium Tower, which is a 58-story high-rise building is sinking. In fact, it has sunk 16 inches since its completion in 2008, and it is also sinking unevenly and has begun to lean, but it still not enough that anyone would notice.

 ‘However, I am surprised that people are shocked. As houses get older, and buildings, architects notice that the floors and walls become uneven. People have to remember that the Millennium Tower is heavy and the Earth is moving, alive, and mostly made of dirt, so excess weight will naturally compress the soil. The only people who are not open to the inner life of things will find it difficult to regard the Earth as a unitary organism with an inner life as well as a body.  To demand to be shown the eyes and ears, the mouth and digestive system, the skin, and hair, the arms, and legs, the nervous system and the brain of the Earth is quite improper. Unlike an animal, the Earth does not need a mouth and a stomach because it does not have to take in substances from the outside. An animal pursues its prey and in turn attempts to escape its pursuers, and hence it needs eyes and ears, but the Earth is not a pursuer and is also not pursed. An animal needs a brain and nerves in order to regulate its movements in response to its environment, but the Earth moves around without any such assistance. It has regulated its relations to the external World in the most beautiful and becoming manner. The Earth is strangely like a human soul. It has its dark and bright days, its troubles from within, and its disturbances without. The soul, as you conceive it, is not a spiritual conception, but some kind of organization—a ghost, in short, having functions, but the Devil himself cannot define its structure. Life the Sunbeams, the soul of humans pervades and enlightens surrounding matter. You cannot hide the soul.  

CRESLEIGH HAVENWOOD

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No appointment needed! Cresleigh Havenwood features four distinct floor plans ranging from 2,293 – 3,377 square feet and offering up to five bedrooms.  Each plan has been thoughtfully designed and includes great features such as single story homes, guest suites, optional offices, garage workshops, and more! Get the most out of your new home with Cresleigh’s All Ready smart home featuring all the connectivity needed to keep your house running. Best of all, each Cresleigh home comes with owned solar included! 

Located off of Virginiatown Road and McCourtney Road, residents of the 83 homesites of Cresleigh Havenwood will benefit from a brand new neighborhood in the charming City of Lincoln. Palo Verde Park, is  just down the street and there’s plenty of recreation to take part in all around town.