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    Numinous Mirrors: Empirical Science --- the Poetry of Nature
    Numinous Mirrors: Empirical Science --- the Poetry of Nature
    Numinous Mirrors: Empirical Science --- the Poetry of Nature
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    Numinous Mirrors: Empirical Science --- the Poetry of Nature

    By Robert Milton Ph.D.

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    Numinous Mirrors is a short book of poetry reflecting ideas that cross the boundaries between nature and science; between comprehensible evidence and incomprehensible magic. When the traditional religious impressions of my youth were gradually replaced by the distinctive facts provided by university studies of history and science, I discovered that spirituality still resides within the realms of curiosity and discovery. I live today in an almost constant state of awe, wonder, and amazement -- as I skeptically ask questions and claim answers that lead to more questions. To live in a state of awe is spirituality.

    Rhetoric is what emerges in squabbles with experts

    Poetry is what emerges in quarrels with ones self

    These poems are an attempt to offer to myself partial illumination, contentment and surprise to a few of my ever-surfacing questions. Then inevitably, curiosity arrives once again to announce additional provisional questions followed by empirical evidence leading to still more contemplative resolutions. Like inhaling and exhaling the cycle of science continues to provide new life.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 28, 2013
    ISBN9781491826522
    Numinous Mirrors: Empirical Science --- the Poetry of Nature
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    Robert Milton Ph.D.

    Dr. Robert Milton has been a University Professor, a psychotherapist, and the author of seven books. He currently lives Palm Springs, California with his Aussie Sheppard dog---Mr. Dugan.

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      Numinous Mirrors - Robert Milton Ph.D.

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      © 2013 Robert Milton Ph.D.. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 10/17/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-2651-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-2652-2 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013918562

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      DEDICATED TO

      The wondrous gift of ‘being’ for a short time

      …the lucky ones…

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Naturalism

      If - No Doubt

      Mind Strolling

      Always – Blasphemy

      Love’s Vacuum

      Dreaming

      Genesis

      Tree of Life

      Virus Buddies

      Women Waiting

      Consciousness

      Moral Terror

      Passionate Life

      Heroes—Ask Alice

      Abstraction Anathema

      Define Me

      I Abhor

      The Real Danger

      Intentions

      Talent and Genius

      Wave Fable

      Ocean Waves Metaphor

      H2O

      Placebo

      Free Will

      Wrongly They Say

      Poetry

      Where I’d Like to Go

      Peril of Risk

      Dance with a Shadow

      Yellow Cub

      Blind Dating

      What’s the Point

      Metaphysics

      Sincere

      I Don’t Know the Meaning

      I Don’t Know How to Describe

      Gray Questions

      Brain Evolution

      Megatropolis

      Yosemite Night Sky

      Buddhism

      Existential Pool Blather

      The Deep Inside

      Good ol’ Days

      Dawn sans Heroes

      Dawkins the lucky ones

      INTRODUCTION

      I have wondered:

      What is this thing called, in ancient as well as modern times, a mystical experience or sometimes just plain faith?

      Is metaphysics a mere soothing consolation for our flawed human existence?

      Why and how does our evolved brain trick us into thinking we are not

      animals?

      What is the role of women, the superior gender, in our contemporary world?

      How do obsessions (belief hope and faith) continue to hold our attention? Or keep us distracted — depending on your point of view?

      And of course, Love — The ultimate human desire, aspiration and mystery.

      Childhood is for most — it was for me — a time of fable, fairy tales, and fabulous magic! In my mind, I was completely satisfied when correlation was called causation and when told God moves in mysterious ways. I considered that was a factual answer and not simply a way of dismissing additional inquiry. Further, I was in total

      awe at every seemingly undiscoverable (not yet understood) phenomenon. Magic indeed!

      Then, it happened! A grown up person usurped my body and my

      brain. In rapid succession, some beliefs were replaced with some facts. Logic and a lot of questioning came into being — and more recently morphed into skepticism. When I read that Einstein said,

      "The most incomprehensible thing in this universe is — it’s all

      comprehensible— that did it. I knew that bona fide real" consensually validated answers were available; it was just up to me to search and find them.

      The traditional societal and religious impressions of my youth gradually faded in a measured manner while facing the distinctive facts that university studies of history and science offered. I admit that today I live in a state of almost constant awe, primarily because I

      have been blessed with a curious mind and have an almost insatiable need to turn over stones rather than just take another’s best guess at what might be revealed. Curiosity then, remains my

      aperture to spirituality. Yes, wonder, amazement and awe are relentlessly presented to me as I skeptically ask questions and find myself standing in a state of spiritual awe as one answer after another unfolds revealing still more questions.

      Even as questions invade, I know now for sure, there are not enough

      days of sunlight left for me to discover all my answers to the unending stream of questions coming my way. My willingness to say

      YES to the quest for openness, is for me, even at this late stage,

      what intimacy with the other truly means. To grasp, even for a second, the synergistic miracle of being in love is like experiencing a

      Doppler sound. One can encounter and embrace its

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