A long time ago, I decided to get closer to the sources, opinions, voices and curators that I thought were right for me. Being exposed to Krista Tippett interviews have changed my point of view in some cases, in others have enriched my own findings and thoughts. This post serves as a way to point out some resonance of this interview, that in any case, may find another listener who can be benefited by them and the voices within each podcast.

Guy Consolmagno and George Coyne -Asteroids, Stars, and the love of God

Excerpts from the Krista Tippett interview Podcast at On Being

-It’s only human beings that have this curiosity to understand: What’s that up in the sky? How do we fit into that? Who are we? Where do we come from? And this is a hunger that is as deep and as important as a hunger for food, because if you starve a person in that sense, you’re depriving them of their humanity. And being able to feed this, being able to make a person more human…

-Whoever’s responsible for this universe has a great sense of humor, because whenever you’re expecting something, you get what you expect, but from a very, very different angle than the way you were expecting it.

-And so earthquakes and hurricanes are all part of the of science that I’ve studied that explain how “the world,” planet Earth, actually works. And yes, it’s destructive. And yes, it causes this terrible human tragedy. And at the same time, I can marvel at volcanoes, even as I know volcanoes kill people. I can marvel at space images of hurricanes and then also remember that, yeah, that’s destroying cities underneath those hurricanes.

–BR. GUY CONSOLMAGNO 1

-…my personal life is built upon the following: I’m a scientist. I try and understand the universe. My understanding of the universe does not need God.

-I think to drag God in when we find that our science is inadequate to understanding certain events that we observe in the universe, we tend to want to bring in God as a god of explanation, a god of the gaps. And we constantly do that. Newton did it, you know? If we’re religious believers we’re constantly tempted to do that. And every time we do it, we’re diminishing God and we’re diminishing science.

-…if God created this universe — “if,” a big-I “If” — why don’t I use my scientific knowledge to reflect upon what kind of god would make a universe like this that I know as a scientist? And when I do — I marvel at this magnificent god. He made a universe that I know as a scientist that has a dynamism to it. It has a future that’s not completely determined. We know that as scientists. The evolutionary process — if you want to take evolution in a very broad sense of cosmological, physical, chemical, biological evolution, this is a magnificent feature of the universe.

-So there is a unity in our scientific knowledge if we search for it. I mean, human life is so rich with life and death, with suffering, with music, and art, and love, and hatred. To limit our human experience to our scientific knowledge is to really impoverish all of us and I’m afraid many scientists do that. Science is the only way to true and certain knowledge; a kind of scientist. And I think that really impoverishes all of human culture.

– FR. GEORGE COYNE 1

Source:

1. Taken from the transcript for Guy Consolmagno and George Coyne -Asteroids, Stars, and the love of God. September 24, 2015
   http://www.onbeing.org/program/guy-consolmagno-and-george-coyne-asteroids-stars-and-the-love-of-god/transcript/7956#main_content
   

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“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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Percepción¹

“La <percepción> parece a primera vista algo perfectamente claro. <Percibimos> el sol y la luna, las palabras que oímos hablar, la dureza o blandura de las cosas que tocamos, el olor de los huevos podridos, o el sabor de la mostaza. No hay duda acerca de los hechos que describimos de esta manera, pero lo que es discutible es nuestra descripción. Cuando <percibimos> el sol, ha habido un largo proceso causal, primero en los noventa y tres millones de millas de espacio intermedio, luego en el ojo, el nervio óptico y el cerebro, no podemos suponer que el acaecer <psíquico> final que llamamos ver el sol tenga mucha semejanza con el sol mismo. El sol, como la cosa en sí de Kant, permanece fuera de nuestra experiencia y sólo es conocido, si acaso lo es, por una inferencia difícil a partir de una experiencia que llamamos <ver el sol>. Suponemos que el sol tiene una existencia fuera de nuestra experiencia porque mucha gente lo ve así de inmediato y porque muchas cosas, tales como la luz de la luna, se explican muy sencillamente suponiendo que el sol ejerce efectos en lugares donde no hay observadores. Pero ciertamente no <percibimos> el sol en el sentido directo y simple en que <parece> que lo hacemos antes de que nos hayamos dado cuenta de la elaborada causación física de las sensaciones. pp 88-89.

“Podemos decir, en un sentido libre, que <percibimos> un objeto, cuando nos sucede algo cuya causa principal es ese objeto, y cuando es de tal naturaleza que nos permite hacer inferencias respecto al objeto. Cuando oímos hablar a una persona, las diferencias en lo que oímos corresponden a las diferencias en lo que ella dice; el efecto del medio interpuesto es, poco más o menos constante y puede ser, por consiguiente, más o menos ignorado. De manera semejante, cuando vemos  una mancha de rojo y una mancha de azul lado a lado, tenemos derecho a afirmar alguna diferencia entre los lugares de donde viene la luz roja y azul. De esta manera podemos intentar salvar el concepto de <percepción>, pero nunca lograremos darle exactitud. El medio interpuesto tiene siempre <algún> efecto deformante; el lugar rojo puede parecer rojo a causa de una niebla intermedia, o el lugar azul porque llevamos anteojos de color. Para hacer inferencias respecto al objeto, partiendo de la experiencia que, naturalmente, llamamos una <percepción>, debemos conocer la física y la fisiología de los órganos de los sentidos y tener una información exhaustiva sobre lo que hay en el espacio intermedio entre nosotros y el objeto. Pero todo el calor y la inmediatez implícitas en la palabra <percepción> se habrán desvanecido en este proceso de inferencia por medio de fórmulas matemáticas difíciles, En el caso de objetos distantes, como el sol, esto no es difícil de comprender, pero es igualmente cierto de lo que tocamos, o leemos y gustamos, puesto que nuestra <percepción> de tales cosas se debe a elaborados que marchan a lo largo de los nervios hasta el cerebro. pp 89-90.

“La ciencia depende de la percepción y la inferencia; su credibilidad se debe al hecho de que las percepciones son las que a cualquier observador le es posible verificar”pp 122-123.

¹ Russel Bertrand, Religión y Ciencia, Fondo de Cultura Económica, tr.Samuel Ramos,1951,México, D.F.

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When I read the writing of Marianne Williamson “Our deepest fear” I couldn’t scape the temptation to re-write it as if I were telling this to my son, but then I would be lecturing him, something that does not work. I know him free to choose. Nevertheless, here it is for him. Because this though, one way or another will find him.

Our Deepest Fear

By Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

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I have a teenager and as some of my peers, we have our kids wondering about school and careers to choose from. I have to admit that the emotion, maybe is equal to what our youngsters feel. Uncertainty. Uncertainty about the future, about their choices and most of all, about their freedom to choose and be their best at whatever they want without loosing their curiosity to drive them through anything. As time goes by, my curiosity gets bigger and bigger about what is out there for parents as myself to be guided, to find those intelligent articles and resources to grab on. To find the illusion of certainty while we let go our kids.

As I’m in to browsing the worlds intelligence, I found this article from 2009 at the New York times” written By EILENE ZIMMERMAN. I hope you find it interesting as I did. At least the feeling of sharing and resending this out may find someones to find as I did, a little bit of calm.

Enjoy!

JOB MARKET  | CAREER COUCH

Helping Teenagers Find Their Dreams

By EILENE ZIMMERMAN

Q. What, if anything, can parents of high-school-age children do to guide them toward their true professional calling? 

A. Some parents are apt to put pressure on their children about choosing a first career, thinking that it will determine the course of their lives. Yet as adults, we often reinvent ourselves more than once, moving among professions. So whatever your children choose now won’t necessarily define their future.

“I see many teens who jump on the first career track that someone recommends just to avoid being directionless, only to find themselves miserable a few years later,” said Tamar E. Chansky, a child-and-adolescent psychologist in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., and author of “Freeing Your Child From Anxiety.”

Ms. Chansky says it’s best to have conversations with teenagers about their strengths and interests, rather than a specific career, and then to listen to what they have to say. “If the parent is putting out all the ideas, you wind up with the parent’s dream, not the kid’s,” she said.

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You may feel compelled to give career advice because you see particular talents in your child, but parents are more limited by their own experience than they think, said Steve Langerud, director of career services at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. As well-meaning as the advice might be, it “doesn’t take into account what’s going to be available to your child in the future,” he said.

“The market is changing so fast there may be careers that exist when a student gets out of college that simply didn’t exist when they started,” he added.

It can be more effective to have children look at themselves functionally. Rather than asking, “What do you want to be?,” pose these questions: “What skills do you have? What kinds of people do you like to work with? In what kind of environment?” This is a way to think about a career without necessarily naming it, Mr. Langerud said. “You describe yourself in a functional way and then figure out what that’s called and if people get paid to do it,” he said.

Q. Discussing the future and potential careers can be overwhelming for a teenager. How do you break down the process so it’s less daunting?

A. Robert Hellmann, a career consultant in private practice in Manhattan who teaches career development courses at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University, suggested an exercise called the Seven Stories. In it, young people offer 20 examples of times in their lives when they enjoyed doing something and felt they did it well.

“Pick the top seven stories, the ones most meaningful, and you both look for patterns across them,” Mr. Hellmann said. “As a parent, you can help by asking things like: ‘What is it that you enjoyed about this? What do you feel you did best? Why did you do it? What was your relationship in those activities with other people?’ Write down those answers. This gives your child an opportunity to discover for themselves what they are good at and what they want to do.”

Q. How do you steer your children toward meaningful work experiences, internships or mentors?

A. You can certainly help make connections and introduce them to those with advice and information, but your teenager needs to be the one who takes action, said Joan E. McLean, associate dean for academic advising at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.

“Part of guiding high school juniors and seniors toward their calling,” she said, “is allowing them to find that calling, to see what best suits their still-developing values and interests.”

If your child wants to be a professional singer, he or she might shadow a singer or a voice coach to see what that person’s life is like, read biographies of singers and talk to those in the profession about the needed education and what they did to build careers.

“That’s the research,” Ms. McLean said. “Then your child experiments, maybe joining a community singing group or participating in summer musical theater. At any step they can change direction. I think finding what you don’t want to do is as important as finding out what you do want to do.”

If you fear that your child is choosing a profession at which success seems highly unlikely — either because of a lack of talent or because it’s unrealistic — bite your tongue, Mr. Hellmann said. “Don’t say, ‘that will never happen’ because you really don’t know that,” he said. “Your child will discover soon enough if they aren’t cut out for what they are choosing.”

Q. What if your teenager has no idea what career to pursue and no desire to discuss it? 

A. That’s the time to back off, Ms. McLean said, because some students just aren’t yet ready to explore questions about their future. “They will figure it out eventually, as long as you bring it up periodically and leave open the possibility of a dialogue,” she said.

Remember that it’s rare for 17-year-olds to know exactly what they want to do in life, Ms. Chansky said. “Help them identify the things they do know about their likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses,” she said. “This will show them they have some information, even if they don’t have it all,” and they can eventually translate that data into potential career pathways.

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