I Just Had A Spiritual Experience

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I just had a *spiritual* experience.

I was having an after breakfast, hair of the dog-smoke (both kinds simultaneously) in front of the #cutegirlrestaurant and five fall/autumn (1) trees just did  something while I was out there. In the middle of the experience I thought to myself, "It's a fuckin' ghost." And then I watched the rest of the experience unfold.

It began with a gentle breeze. If you don't live in Sac Town right now, you don't live anywhere. Having my smokes, standing in the sun (it must be 60 something degrees right now) and zoning out on the red trees with some yellow and the yellow trees with some red across the street is what is called, gee I dunno...the best. So, from right to left the leaves (red)  on the first tree across the street started to fall. I felt it next. The second tree's (mostly yellow) leaves also started to fall from right to left.

I wondered if the third tree's leaves (red) were going to fall right to left, also. They did. I was in open mouthed awe as gravity made it look like the leaves were dancing on the way to the ground. It is here I thot, "Ghost bro(?)." Then I started thinking about ghosts..then I started thinking about the ancients...then I started thinking about how the ancients thot there wuz...ghosts.

The pattern continued to the last tree on the block, then (I guess) the breeze that touched my smoking face basking in the 60* sun, crossed that street and the pattern continued down the street.

As I put out my cigarette I was negotiating in my mind "did I just have a *spiritual* experience. Really you guys, it was the shit. Standing there watching this thing unfold while simultaneously contemplating "is this even a thing", I'll admit it...I was in awe. Walking back to my table I thought about that other dude that was in awe because nature went all nature right into front of his/our mere human eyes.

Ladies and gentelmen...Franky "DNA" Collins.

The super smart and mostly pretty awesome Francis Collins (I won't say it this time) also had a *spiritual* nature experience. Nutshell: he was walking in the woods in the winter and he saw a magnificent frozen waterfall. It looked totally neat and after that, this super smart scientist and atheist joined the Jesus Team. Not only that he has become an eloquent defender of evangelical, bible believing Christianity (I would not at all refer to it as a liberal variety) and one of those reconcile-ers of science and religion (me, they don't fuckin mix, so there).  

If it looked like this that would be cool.

No reason...I just like this.

What happened to him that day, and even today-to me-just now, could be filed in the it's the voice of God folder. It really should be called this is "The voice of God folder...that is if you choose to believe that to be true folder." Is it really that. No fuckin' way.

I can't blame those ancients, ya know those ancients that we always talk about in the atheist blogosphere, for not knowing any better. They didn't know about germ theory or how the weather works or even have cable TV (jk). Hell they didn't know shit from shinola. But we do.



The leaves across the street fell to the ground because a breeze passed by from a North to South trajectory down Freeport Blvd. The leaves fell because they are old and ready to fall. Ewh, what if I simultaneously thought of a dead relative and the falling leaves thing happened I would have/could have thought/believed that it was their presence, or something, a message that said "I love you." Aaaaaa!!! No.



Collins and his waterfall are the same thingy. I don't know why this one particular waterfall impressed Collins so much. It seems common and explainable to me. No mystery or mysterious needed. (You ask...) Were both experiences  beautiful and wonderful and magnificent. Did I enjoy the experience of watching this thing unfold in front of me, the colors, the flying, the nature, the grand spectacle of it all, oh...and I let my thoughts travel also. You betcha.

Here's the razor. Leaves fall because leaves fall. No ghosts needed.

(1) I don't think a winter really happens in sacramento. Sorry, that's just how we roll.

* That last sentence is very Taoist...which for the most part, I'm cool with.

* Oh fuck, stupid-stoner me....I wanted to mention using the word "transcendent" as opposed to "spiritual." Spiritual has been hijacked so all the cool atheist kids can't use it, but as Greta said...transcendent. Awesome.

* I'm callin' this NO EDITINF FRIDAY..IT IS FRIDAY, RIGHT

* Franky Collins

* Biologos...these are the *smart* evangelical bible believers that know science.