Gregg William Geist
 | | Biographical Information  I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body & mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination: Imagination the real and eternal World, of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow, & in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies, when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more. The Apostles knew of no other Gospel. What were all their spiritual gifts? What is the Divine Spirit? is the Holy Ghost any other than an Intellectual Fountain? . . . What are all the Gifts of the Gospel, are they not all Mental Gifts? Is God a Spirit who must be worshipped in Spirit & in Truth and are not the Gifts of the Spirit Every-thing to Man? O ye Religious; discountenance every one among you who shall pretend to despise Art & Science! I call upon you in the Name of Jesus! . . . What is the Joy of Heaven but Improvement in the things of the Spirit? What are the Pains of Hell but Ignorance, Bodily Lust, Idleness & devastation of the things of the Spirit? Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & Science, which alone are the labours of the Gospel: Is it not plain & manifest to the thought . . . That to Labor in Knowledge, is to Build up Jerusalem: and to Despise Knowledge, is to Despise Jerusalem & her Builders. - William Blake, Jerusalem, lines 77:8-39 |
My name is Gregg Geist. I am 41 years old, have long dark hair and brown eyes. I am a programmer for the Apple Learning Interchange, a forum and online information source for K-12 teachers. I was a middle and high school instructor at Duane Lake Academy in Austin, Texas for several years. My interests outside of work include space science and exploration, amateur astronomy, the Metaphysics as elucidated (some say complicated) by quantum mechanics, and linguistics. I am also into such recreational activities as hiking and caving, photography (the most dangerous form of insanity), role-playing games, science fiction and fantasy, and (sometimes) creating music for instruments that cannot exist. I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and since my best childhood memories were of my grandparents' home and farm in Naponee, Nebraska, I still count Nebraska as my home state, though I did most of my growing up in Phoenix, Arizona. I went to Washington High School in Phoenix, which was for me an island of learning amidst a sea of conflict - a description too few schools have these days. I have a BS in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Arizona and innumerable and various hours in nearly everything (mostly Russian and philosophy) from the University of Texas. At the U of A I was a member of the Students of Space and their Successor, UA SEDS. At UT, I belonged for a long time to UTSEDS, then to their successor, the UT Astronomy Students Association. While at the University of Texas I participated in two trips to the Soviet Union, the first to Moscow and Leningrad, the second to Novosibirsk University in Akademgorodok, Russia. I spent most of the summers of 1991 and 1992 in the Rocky Mountains and traveled in August, 1999, to see the total solar eclipse in France. My latest trip was to Australia in 2001 at the time of the Leonid meteor storm, an experience I will never forget. My travel experiences have been some of my most fulfilling experiences.
Of course, you can also learn a lot about me by reading the preceeding and following quotes, looking at my pictures, or checking out my other pages. Enjoy.
We accomplish the most when we try to change "the things we cannot change."
In The Beginning,
When the King conceived ordaining he engraved engravings in the luster on high. A blinding spark flashed within the Concealed of the Concealed from the mystery of the Infinite, a cluster of vapor in formlessness, set in a ring, not white, not black, not red, not green, no color at all. When a band spanned, it yielded radiant colors. Deep within the spark gushed a flow imbuing colors below, concealed within the concealed of the mystery of the Infinite. The flow broke through and did not break through its aura. It was not known at all until, under the impact of breaking through, one high and hidden point shone. Beyond that point, nothing is known. So it is called Beginning, the first command of all. "The enlightened shall shine like the Radiance of the sky, and those who make the masses righteous will shine like the stars forever and ever." Radiance, concealed of the concealed, struck its aura. The aura touched and did not touch this point. Then this Beginning emanated and made itself a palace for its glory and its praise. There it sowed the seed of holiness to give birth for the benefit of the universe. The secret is: "Her stock is a holy seed." Radiance, sowing a seed of glory like the seed of fine purple silk. The silkworm wraps itself within and makes itself a palace. This palace is its praise and a benefit to all With the Beginning the Concealed One who is not known created the palace. The palace is called Elohim. The secret is: "With Beginning, __________ created Elohim. " Zohar (= Radiance) 1:15a transl Daniel C. Matt in Zohar, the Book of enlightenment (Aramaic "zohar" to "Radiance" in my rendering)
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