Stardust Memories
"The body is a divine vessel, channeling the very essence of the universe."
"Even the elements in our chemistry have their stories. Except for hydrogen, they were all created by stellar explosions, supernovae prepared by billions of years of thermonuclear combustion. Iron, boron, carbon, and nitrogen all carry stardust memories into the core of each living cell. There are parts of us that go way, way back, and at the moment of birth, the cutting edge of time, they all come together to hurl new life into the world. The Zen masters tell us that no flower can bloom without the whole spring behind it. Just so, it takes the life of a star to make the make the life of a child."
--quotes from "The Wild Within" by John Tallmadge, in the January-February 2005 issue of Utne magazine
When Joni Mitchell, in her song "Woodstock," sang, "We are stardust..." she was being factual as well as poetic. Every element on earth, except for the lightest, was created in the heart of some massive star. And the heaviest elements -- such as gold, lead and uranium -- were produced in a supernova explosion during the cataclysmic end of a huge star's life, says LSU physicist Edward Zganjar (pronounced Skyner). "Those elements were ejected into space by the force of the massive explosion, where they mixed with other matter and formed new stars, some with planets such as earth. That's why the earth is rich in these heavy elements. The iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were all forged in such stars. We are made of stardust," Zganjar said.
-- from the website, Perennial Wisdom
O love that fires the sun
Keep me burning
--from the song Lord of the Starfields by Bruce Cockburn
"Even the elements in our chemistry have their stories. Except for hydrogen, they were all created by stellar explosions, supernovae prepared by billions of years of thermonuclear combustion. Iron, boron, carbon, and nitrogen all carry stardust memories into the core of each living cell. There are parts of us that go way, way back, and at the moment of birth, the cutting edge of time, they all come together to hurl new life into the world. The Zen masters tell us that no flower can bloom without the whole spring behind it. Just so, it takes the life of a star to make the make the life of a child."
--quotes from "The Wild Within" by John Tallmadge, in the January-February 2005 issue of Utne magazine
When Joni Mitchell, in her song "Woodstock," sang, "We are stardust..." she was being factual as well as poetic. Every element on earth, except for the lightest, was created in the heart of some massive star. And the heaviest elements -- such as gold, lead and uranium -- were produced in a supernova explosion during the cataclysmic end of a huge star's life, says LSU physicist Edward Zganjar (pronounced Skyner). "Those elements were ejected into space by the force of the massive explosion, where they mixed with other matter and formed new stars, some with planets such as earth. That's why the earth is rich in these heavy elements. The iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were all forged in such stars. We are made of stardust," Zganjar said.
-- from the website, Perennial Wisdom
O love that fires the sun
Keep me burning
--from the song Lord of the Starfields by Bruce Cockburn
posted by Darrell Grizzle | 1:46 PM
2 Comments:
Wow. Very beautiful, very inspiring. Somehow, "A Wrinkle in Time" comes to mind with those three wonderful women, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which, who revealed that they were stars. Likewise, the Lord Jesus revealed that he (and we) are "the light of the world" (like our star the Sun).
You are the light of the world, made from the lights of the world. Amen!
This was beautiful, Gratefulbear, thank you. And thank you for your kind comments on my blog. I see we resonate. It is a wonderful thing.
In Light,
M
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