This Blogger has a special affection for the concept of TIME; he became a fervent Believer in Divinity while reading Stephen Hawking’s A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME.  In explaining the creation of the Universe, Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking asked his Readers to imagine a time, before the Big Bang,  without Time, a Time before Time, a Time without Time.   In reading Hawking’s request, this Blogger came to the conclusion that Astrophysics was a Holy Text; a Belief System wrapped in transitory  Science; a Holy Text on par with the Torah, the Old Testament, the Koran, the New Testament, or  the Mahabharata.  If anyone can imagine a time before Time, without Time, one can reasonably believe that a whale swallowed Jonah.   If one can believe in a Time without Time, one can easily believe in God. For it can be argued that God invented Time; for if TIME was a natural phenomenon, Mankind could go both back in time, and forward in time; physics tells us that should b...

This Blogger’s brother had an urge to see Urubamba, in the Sacred Valley of Peru. This was during some dangerous times in Peru; so, this Blogger tried to talk his brother out of such a fool hearty adventure. Instead, this Blogger’s brother talked him into going with him.   The Brothers went and saw Urubamba, the Urubamba River, Cuzco, the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu; as befits two foolish brothers in a revolutionary war zone; they were shot at by revolutionaries. Shots which were not warning shots.   After ducking revolutionary bullets, the Brothers decided to see the     Nazca Lines.  Th e Nazca Lines are an archaeological mystery; created in the Peruvian desert by pre-Inca Native Americans. Science knows they were created between 500BC and 700 AD by the Nazca, Topara and Paracas tribes.   They are magnificent geoglyphs.   Anais Nin once stated :” There is always more mystery.”     The mystery of the Nazca Lines is that Inca, conqui...