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| Voyager Golden Record (NASA Photo) |
As Voyager I gets closer and closer to exiting our solar system, it takes with it a Golden Record that portrays slices of life from planet Earth circa 1977.
This Golden potpourri of sights and sounds from around the world includes the following: singing birds, rolling thunder, greetings in 55 languages, Mozart, crashing surf, Bach, whooshing wind, Chuck Berry, DNA replica, animal pictures, mathematical equations, whale sounds, human anatomy - people dancing, laughing, working…
How about people worshipping? Believing? Praying? Meditating? If a team of today’s interfaith leaders were to select a sampling of images and sounds that best reflect human spirituality, what would it look and sound like? Would it include Da Vinci paintings? Buddhist statues? Yoruba figurines? Qur’an calligraphy? Torah scroll work?
Would there be some chants? Gospel greats? Bluegrass hymns? Call and response? Sermons? The Lord’s Prayer? Great Spirit Prayers? Carols? Mantras? Kirtans? Doxologies? Incantations? Bells? Gongs? Drums? Flutes? Harmoniums? Sanskrit? Latin? Hebrew? Aramaic? Swahili?
Interestingly enough, some Theosophists and Hindus believe that a spiritual record of all that has ever occurred (here on earth and throughout the cosmos) already exists. It is known as the Akashic (Sanskrit for Aether, Sky or Space) Record, and exists in a non-physical realm of consciousness. This Record is allegedly updated automatically and continuously – and includes such esoteric knowledge as the history of Atlantis, and the 28th-century future of Earth. It has also been referred to as the “Hall of Records” and the “Book of Life.”
Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Voyagers20years.html
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records
http://www.amazon.com/Murmurs-Earth-Voyager-Interstellar-Record/product-reviews/0345315367/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
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