"We are ever dying to one world and being born into another."
---Henry David Thoreau
This weekend I was at a local library and I picked up a book that I had to glance through despite the fact that reading it caused me to balk and feel so contentious. Reading it was like how I used to watch horror flicks when I was young. I would cringe---even hide---to avoid the parts that stung too hard---the parts that were too scary. I really try to maintain an open mind as much as possible. In the past, I have noticed that opportunities lie in happenings like the "library book" aggravation. If I shut out and batton down the hatches of my heart and mind, I am apt to lose something I could have, at least, been witness to; something I could have grown from.
After flipping through the pages of the book, I decided to check out a Wayne Dyer book instead. I felt like Wayne's words were much more synchronous with my emotional guidance system. But, the other title did make me think of some stuff.
The first thing that spoke to me from the title was "responsibility." Josiah Charles Stamp said, " It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
I highly believe that personal responsibility is paramount to living with integrity and strength. In other words, I believe that the "buck stops here." Looking at the chakra system, chakras one through three define our sense of personal responsibility. The muladhara creates personal responsibility in an individual by setting a foundation for instincts, security and survival. The Swadhisthana creates personal responsibility in an individual by developing a strong emotional system that is healthy and productive. Furthermore, it develops an individual's creativity and sexuality within the same terms. The manipura creates personal responsibility by aiding the transition of simple emotions into complex emotions. An individual's energy is assimilated in the manipura.
Too often these days, I am caught in the dilemma of rejecting ideologies that diminish personal responsibility. Yes, I very definitely believe in our power to choose what we do with the aspect of our lives that we are co-creating. I, also, believe that our stance on things can frequently make or break us, and that those lessons help us achieve a path which takes us to our Higher Self. But, most importantly, I believe in the human body and its innate wisdom.
I have spent much of my life "paying the price" illness-wise for depriving my body of its rightful place in my life [actually, better stated, understanding my body's rightful place]. And because for years I have equated my body to that of a holy temple, I guess it is now pertinent to examine why I believe that.
The number one reason for that "temple" belief is my spiritual upbringing. Since I was a small child I heard that my body was a temple so I just accepted that it somehow was. Right or wrong that is how the belief transpired. The second reason for the belief is that we only get one body per incarnation and it is unique. That makes the body extremely rare and valuable. The third reason for the belief is that I have come to know through the years of my life how a temple works and how my body is a metaphor for that temple in various different capacities.
I especially think the chakra system defines the very platform of a holy temple. Each of the seven levels bring us easily through the human body to worship and relate with God who is very real and extremely tangible. And each of the seven levels is laid out in an orderly fashion within every human's energy network.
I say that the chakra system brings each human being easily through the body to God because for decades I had a very pronounced context of spirituality that made things difficult for me. In other words, I was so far up in my head and heart but I had little grounding. [And what I did have, I really lost when my family fell apart] Unbeknownst to me, I was locked into excessively open upper chakras in order that I might experience God and the mystical; and this particular position in my energy network was such a strain that I believe it tore me in half. I, literally, blew through the "glass ceiling." I experienced psychosis not once but several times.
Yes, my energy system was so far out of whack that when my body developed and matured according to its natural divine blueprint, I eventually just split. My bodymind became: body<<---->>mind [and sometimes just: body---->>>mind].
I have a chronic illness known as Bipolar disorder. It has a strong genetic component. But, at this time in my life, I must speculate that if I had learned about my energy network when I was young, would my disease be so intense today? Would the "kindling" have become so horribly hazardous to my body? OR could I have learned how to better balance every aspect of my overall energy patterns? (I did have some extraneous medical treatment back in the early 90's that I believe created a big physical disparity, also; but I believe that is outside the scope of this blog).
My ex-boyfriend initially taught me about the chakras, energy and how they can impact my health. I have continued the work he started. It has been quite a trek. I have branched into yoga, acupuncture, Bodytalk, Reiki, craniosacral, etc. [Of course not all at once, and I have not been able to sustain many of the practices regularly due to time and/or finances.]
What I do know is that I am healthier now than I have been in ten years, and I am so grateful for that. I work very hard to maintain my body's balance. And I am constantly developing my confidence in me which helps for sure!
I see the human body as a vessel that enables us to interact with God and other life forms on the spiritual, energetic and material planes. Moreover, I know of (and have experienced some directly) seven formative energy field bodies. The energy field bodies are the physical body, the etheric body, the emotional body, the mental body [which incorporate ordinary reality represented in time and space], the astral body [incorporates gradations of light], the etheric template body, the celestial body and the causal body [which incorporates spiritual reality].
As I was growing up I heard all sorts of spiritual propaganda regarding the importance of the the body. Many Christians will tell you that Christ's passion, His crucifixion, was the most heart felt plea as to the importance of our current incarnation. And since that was my foundation, and I tend to operate from a quasi-Native American perspective that says every part of the "animal" is just as important as any other, and that every part must be used, I tend to buy into the passionate view. In addition, to my Christian foundation, I have since done a lot of research regarding the Tantric belief system. Tantra is the religion of the body. It honors every aspect of the human body, especially its sexuality. So I think the two views complement rather than oppose one another.
My reason for saying all this is that I want to try to impress on people the connection between the importance of the body in conjunction with our sense of personal responsibility, as well as our co-creating "leading-edge" thoughts. Again, I feel I must address the most obvious aspect to my perspective which is, despite the fact that we have a Higher Self which is eternal and free of the ego; we, too, have a set of bodies that incorporate our ordinary world---that incorporate and support the Illusion known as Maya. And pain and death are strong attributes of the ordinary world. Because we all experience pain and death, I want to contend that we must be aware of ourselves and our fellow life forms that inhabit the universe with us.
There may come a time, and I believe it could happen at any moment, when these factors are not so important to consider; but, right now, the vast majority of the planet is affected by these "types of relationships" that we share with one another.
We have incredible amounts of power to overcome and succeed at this thing called life. Certainly many of us recognize higher levels of understanding that enable us to disregard various levels of pain as creative pathways to a more rich and diverse life. Some of the levels even enable us to totally recreate our existence as we know it. But many...many...many people and beings do not currently have access to these by-ways.
I am a highly sensitive human being. I work on developing "shields" that keep me from experiencing pain and/or disturbance within my various bodies. Nevertheless, I would appreciate it if the individuals of this earth would learn to take the personal responsibility to love first and act second.
I have learned to love my Selves over the last 3.5 years; but I am still expanding my knowledge and my consciousness. And I feel that when I learn effectively, I will teach. Learning then teaching is my nature---my overall purpose at this juncture.
Life IS/was/Will BE about love. Everything in the universe was intentionally created with love and joy for love and joy. I implore everyone to recognize their roles in loving themselves and in loving others. It is the most important thing we can endeavor to do. For as we love ourselves, we love the universe around us. Ultimately, love is where we need to be, and who we already ARE. Please join with my heart in learning how to practice your love---our love---Love. It is not easy, but it is simple. Believe!
Monday, April 14, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
"The Earth is what we all have in common." Wendell Berry
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
---Henry David Thoreau
"Prophecy might be based, not on haphazard fantasy, but on attunement to subtler levels of reality – on forms of awareness that the modern West forfeited, temporarily, in order to develop empirical and rationalist thought. As Armin Geertz, an anthropologist of the Hopi culture, writes: “Prophecy is not prediction, even though it purports to be. Prophecy is a thread in the total fabric of meaning, in the total worldview. In this way it can be seen as a way of life and being.”
---Daniel Pinchbeck
"The problems in relationships begin when we imagine that the warmth ignited in our heart isn't really ours, that it's transferred into us by the other person. Then we become obsessed with the other as the provider of love, when in truth the warmth we feel comes from the sunlight of great love entering our heart....
No one else can ever provide the connection that finally puts the soul at ease. We find that connection when the window of the heart opens, allowing us to bask in the warmth and openness that is our deepest nature. When we look to others for this ground, we wind up trying to control and manipulate them into being there for us in a way that allows us to settle into ourselves. Yet this very focus on trying to get something from them prevents us from resting in our own ground, leaving us outwardly dependent and inwardly disconnected."
---Unknown
"As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and the work. You seldom achieve all the elements of the ideal, but it travels with you as the criterion and standard of what true belonging could be."
---John O'Donohue
"Duality is not merely a philosophy; it is a physical state of being as well. The very atoms that make up our cells are based on positive and negative charges whose opposition sustains a certain life-form. Lipton has coined the phrase the “biology of consciousness” to summarize the transformational idea that living organisms, including humans, rather than being empirical givens, are actually malleable thought-forms. In other words, adopting a quantum perspective, we are basically waves that only cohere as particles through an act of consciousness. By changing our consciousness, we change our physical form and functioning."
---Sol Luckman
"The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you."
---Eckhart Tolle
Who am I? I AM. [I have been repeating this since my youth. I clung to the phrase "I AM" instinctively. It wasn't until much, much later that I stumbled upon a whole groupthink that centers itself around the same phrase.]
But what does all this mean??? I am still trying to figure out the bigger picture. I like to read Tolle. My mind expands when I do; but, his writing, also, makes my head hurt. Maybe if I spent a day with him I would better understand. I am sure he could simplify his concepts for me. That is what I need...simplification.
I currently live within the illusions we have been weaving since the dawn of Time. And, I wonder if at one place in our history if we lived as One---One with God, One with man, One with woman, One with The Cunning Serpent who was said to be the angel Lucifer transformed. Just One. I can imagine the infastructure of the various planes of existence linked and strong---fluid. Why, and according to Protestant Scripture, even the dirt and the rib were woven together at the very start. Try that in the song that goes, "The hip bone is connected to the thigh bone..."
It sounds inconceivable. But, I suppose we must go back to the beginning where we were God unfurled. [Oh, sounds heretical, huh???]
Big questions I ponder are, "When did God decide He wanted all of us; and, furthermore, when did He decide He wanted us to just mulitply over and over? Not to mention, what was a day like before Time? How long was the sun in the sky? How long was the moon?"
Thomas Troward said, "The great secret in life is learning to see things in their wholeness, and to realize the inside and the outside simultaneously." I really like this thought. I imagine all things as whole [which, from where I sit, they actually ARE]. I see the universe and all its galaxies as breathing in and out as One giant organism. I cultivate the preconceived notions of the various systems I know about [and don't know about] and I turn them into this miraculous Body that is working efficiently and effectively---smoothly. No illness permeates its Being. It is complete. It is beautiful. It is Christ.
But then, ironically, I remember, all at once, that knowledge taken before life "severed" all easy and coherent ties between LIFE. The elixir of separation BECAME seemingly infinite. However, separation was not. Knowledge is merely a lot of thought put together and defined as such.
"Knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas -- John Locke
Locke gave us the first hint of what knowledge is all about. Since that time, others have tried to refine it. Davenport and Prusak (1998, p. 5) define knowledge as, 'a fluid mix of framed experience, contextual information, values and expert insight that provides a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information.'
Notice that there are two parts to this definition:
First, there is content: 'a fluid mix of framed experience, contextual information, values and expert insight.' This includes a number of things that we have within us, such as experiences, beliefs, values, how we feel, motivation, and information.
The second part defines the function or purpose of knowledge, 'that provides a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information." Notice how this relates back to Locke's definition -- we have within us a framework (one idea) that we use for evaluating new experiences (the second idea).' " [http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/knowledge/knowledge.html]
I can fathom that when the "ax fell" on humanity [And I believe our minds had to think of our lives that way in order to process things as efficiently as possible] thoughts seemed all powerful. I am sure thoughts felt heavy and cumbersome. I am sure they seemed omnipresent. Afterall, if we follow the Scripture a bit further, Adam and Eve had pure consciousness with God. And then suddenly, at the bite of the "forbidden" fruit, Adam and Eve KNEW everything lock, stock and barrel. Boom! But they had no information specialists to help them sort and understand the mother load. They were newly "created" beings. Naive. Innocent??? They went from being an "infant to being fully grown" mind-wise rather instantly.
It must have felt like a giant room full of ominous clutter. And the room probably often appeared to have shadows and demons that were like the creatures in Where the Wild Things Are.
But despite all this hubub, eternal life continued its faithful course of Being just as knowledge---through some form of education---began to make more and more sense to all the creatures known as Man. The only trick was that God removed the eternal life factor from the hands of Adam and Eve because He knew it was a virtual loaded gun (An Anarchist's Cookbook for the masses)because it was an incomplete picture of God's perfect Heaven; and that, for an eternal viewpoint would be hell.
But God had a plan from the start. He knew His creations---His children. He knew He would deliver eternity (whole and precise) back to "their" hands many, many years later--- many millenia, actually.
Nevertheless, the Stream of Life was always "around..."waiting for the faithful sort to jump in and take a swim. Each new generation yielded the same dose of pure consciousness with God. [Think of Noah, think of Abraham, think of King David...]
But, each new generation, also, yielded bodies that would continue to diminish and, eventually, die. Afterall, genuine separation did occur between God and humanity. Our life cord was cut to give us our freedom. And that cord cutting BECAME a schism [a thought form] that created a new definition of life. Many individuals could no longer instantly perceive their connections to God. They felt alone, perhaps estranged. They had to do something to replace the "loss." Often, they knew the word survival before they could understand the word love.
Yet, the divisions and separations BECAME a pass time for the human race. Divisions and separation made learning easier. As the human brain is categorized into the right and left hemisphere, the earth is categorized into the East and West hemisphere. People of each hemisphere have slowly but surely over time begun to learn and grow and be. Each hemisphere has brought forth gifts and abilities, ideas and projections that have often become so solid they are seen as material.
Both hemispheres have offered the spirit of illumination and mysticism. Primarily, the West brought forth Christianity and Judaica and the East brought forth a myriad of religions and schools of thought to enlighten. Both hemispheres housed some form of paganism.
I come at life from a "Cosmic" Christ perspective. I "know" eternal life through the Son of God. But it is my position that eternal life is freely available to us all at this point. No strings and no catch. Just pure Agape Love flowing freely between the Creator and the created. I found great discension in the Christian concept that one must be saved. I didn't "come" to Christ through salvation. I "came" to Christ through joyous relationship. I was six years old. What did I really know about needing salvation??? But, I assure you, I knew God.
I believe we are all of the Body. Period. We cannot be out of the Body---ever. We are energetically connected to "our place" in the Body and we will remain an inherent part of its functioning forever.
Tolle talks of the ego. [I haven't read his most recent title, yet.] The ego is the lesser self, in my opinion. ACTUALLY, what I mean by that is the lesser self is still BECOMING while the greater Self just IS. And the ego, to me, is important---as is every part of our finite body. We do live in a world that still bleeds. We must be cognizant of that or we can damage someone to the point of death.
I don't easily distinguish between mental, emotional, spiritual or physical pain. That is probably why I am enraptured with Holistic and Alternative lifestyles and/or healing modalities. I have a chronic disease that flares on all four pain fronts at one time, and it can be overwhelming.
To give an example of how I recently witnessed the body-mind react as One. I had a massage. I had been undergoing a lot of emotional pain prior to the session, but I thought it was tolerable enough. I thought I had it "under control." I just wanted to experience relaxation. Just following the massage, I became excessively snippy. Overwhelmingly so. It didn't take me long to realize that I had experienced an emotional release when I was on the massage table and it was working itself out of my body-mind system. Oh ugg! I prefer something a little less intense.
I am at a place in my lesser life that is shifting deeply, profoundly. I am beginning to know my higher Self more and more regularly. I am learning to accept all parts of myself. It is a weird thing. I view life from a continuum. I believe we were, are, and are to come. I am not sure when the human body is going to become resilient and immortal, but I can certainly conceive of the possibility.
When I look at the world around me I see pockets of thought>>>pockets of energy. I acknowledge different groupings that bring about significant change. And I wonder how I can interject a thought or two that will create the world I can imagine. My ego is filled with growing pains. But I AM full of love. That Love is what I want to share and gather. It seems as if love must pour through each of us; and when I gaze about I wonder if some humans experience love at all.
How does a world of One become dark and filled with question? When will the illusion turn inside out and upside down? The earth is what we all have in common. We came forth from its womb. Love penetrates every molecule---every speck of it. Love can bring light to the shadowlands and overcome the oppressions. The love begins with the heart and processes to the mind. Our thoughts create forms. Our forms make the world go 'round.
It starts now, right here, with my choice to give and to receive. Will you join me? All you need to concentrate on is this moment. Believe in your power to love. Love is alive. It will automatically grow. My thought and your thought will bring the deepness to pass. Trust. We ARE One. We have been One. We will be One.
---Henry David Thoreau
"Prophecy might be based, not on haphazard fantasy, but on attunement to subtler levels of reality – on forms of awareness that the modern West forfeited, temporarily, in order to develop empirical and rationalist thought. As Armin Geertz, an anthropologist of the Hopi culture, writes: “Prophecy is not prediction, even though it purports to be. Prophecy is a thread in the total fabric of meaning, in the total worldview. In this way it can be seen as a way of life and being.”
---Daniel Pinchbeck
"The problems in relationships begin when we imagine that the warmth ignited in our heart isn't really ours, that it's transferred into us by the other person. Then we become obsessed with the other as the provider of love, when in truth the warmth we feel comes from the sunlight of great love entering our heart....
No one else can ever provide the connection that finally puts the soul at ease. We find that connection when the window of the heart opens, allowing us to bask in the warmth and openness that is our deepest nature. When we look to others for this ground, we wind up trying to control and manipulate them into being there for us in a way that allows us to settle into ourselves. Yet this very focus on trying to get something from them prevents us from resting in our own ground, leaving us outwardly dependent and inwardly disconnected."
---Unknown
"As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and the work. You seldom achieve all the elements of the ideal, but it travels with you as the criterion and standard of what true belonging could be."
---John O'Donohue
"Duality is not merely a philosophy; it is a physical state of being as well. The very atoms that make up our cells are based on positive and negative charges whose opposition sustains a certain life-form. Lipton has coined the phrase the “biology of consciousness” to summarize the transformational idea that living organisms, including humans, rather than being empirical givens, are actually malleable thought-forms. In other words, adopting a quantum perspective, we are basically waves that only cohere as particles through an act of consciousness. By changing our consciousness, we change our physical form and functioning."
---Sol Luckman
"The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you."
---Eckhart Tolle
Who am I? I AM. [I have been repeating this since my youth. I clung to the phrase "I AM" instinctively. It wasn't until much, much later that I stumbled upon a whole groupthink that centers itself around the same phrase.]
But what does all this mean??? I am still trying to figure out the bigger picture. I like to read Tolle. My mind expands when I do; but, his writing, also, makes my head hurt. Maybe if I spent a day with him I would better understand. I am sure he could simplify his concepts for me. That is what I need...simplification.
I currently live within the illusions we have been weaving since the dawn of Time. And, I wonder if at one place in our history if we lived as One---One with God, One with man, One with woman, One with The Cunning Serpent who was said to be the angel Lucifer transformed. Just One. I can imagine the infastructure of the various planes of existence linked and strong---fluid. Why, and according to Protestant Scripture, even the dirt and the rib were woven together at the very start. Try that in the song that goes, "The hip bone is connected to the thigh bone..."
It sounds inconceivable. But, I suppose we must go back to the beginning where we were God unfurled. [Oh, sounds heretical, huh???]
Big questions I ponder are, "When did God decide He wanted all of us; and, furthermore, when did He decide He wanted us to just mulitply over and over? Not to mention, what was a day like before Time? How long was the sun in the sky? How long was the moon?"
Thomas Troward said, "The great secret in life is learning to see things in their wholeness, and to realize the inside and the outside simultaneously." I really like this thought. I imagine all things as whole [which, from where I sit, they actually ARE]. I see the universe and all its galaxies as breathing in and out as One giant organism. I cultivate the preconceived notions of the various systems I know about [and don't know about] and I turn them into this miraculous Body that is working efficiently and effectively---smoothly. No illness permeates its Being. It is complete. It is beautiful. It is Christ.
But then, ironically, I remember, all at once, that knowledge taken before life "severed" all easy and coherent ties between LIFE. The elixir of separation BECAME seemingly infinite. However, separation was not. Knowledge is merely a lot of thought put together and defined as such.
"Knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas -- John Locke
Locke gave us the first hint of what knowledge is all about. Since that time, others have tried to refine it. Davenport and Prusak (1998, p. 5) define knowledge as, 'a fluid mix of framed experience, contextual information, values and expert insight that provides a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information.'
Notice that there are two parts to this definition:
First, there is content: 'a fluid mix of framed experience, contextual information, values and expert insight.' This includes a number of things that we have within us, such as experiences, beliefs, values, how we feel, motivation, and information.
The second part defines the function or purpose of knowledge, 'that provides a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information." Notice how this relates back to Locke's definition -- we have within us a framework (one idea) that we use for evaluating new experiences (the second idea).' " [http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/knowledge/knowledge.html]
I can fathom that when the "ax fell" on humanity [And I believe our minds had to think of our lives that way in order to process things as efficiently as possible] thoughts seemed all powerful. I am sure thoughts felt heavy and cumbersome. I am sure they seemed omnipresent. Afterall, if we follow the Scripture a bit further, Adam and Eve had pure consciousness with God. And then suddenly, at the bite of the "forbidden" fruit, Adam and Eve KNEW everything lock, stock and barrel. Boom! But they had no information specialists to help them sort and understand the mother load. They were newly "created" beings. Naive. Innocent??? They went from being an "infant to being fully grown" mind-wise rather instantly.
It must have felt like a giant room full of ominous clutter. And the room probably often appeared to have shadows and demons that were like the creatures in Where the Wild Things Are.
But despite all this hubub, eternal life continued its faithful course of Being just as knowledge---through some form of education---began to make more and more sense to all the creatures known as Man. The only trick was that God removed the eternal life factor from the hands of Adam and Eve because He knew it was a virtual loaded gun (An Anarchist's Cookbook for the masses)because it was an incomplete picture of God's perfect Heaven; and that, for an eternal viewpoint would be hell.
But God had a plan from the start. He knew His creations---His children. He knew He would deliver eternity (whole and precise) back to "their" hands many, many years later--- many millenia, actually.
Nevertheless, the Stream of Life was always "around..."waiting for the faithful sort to jump in and take a swim. Each new generation yielded the same dose of pure consciousness with God. [Think of Noah, think of Abraham, think of King David...]
But, each new generation, also, yielded bodies that would continue to diminish and, eventually, die. Afterall, genuine separation did occur between God and humanity. Our life cord was cut to give us our freedom. And that cord cutting BECAME a schism [a thought form] that created a new definition of life. Many individuals could no longer instantly perceive their connections to God. They felt alone, perhaps estranged. They had to do something to replace the "loss." Often, they knew the word survival before they could understand the word love.
Yet, the divisions and separations BECAME a pass time for the human race. Divisions and separation made learning easier. As the human brain is categorized into the right and left hemisphere, the earth is categorized into the East and West hemisphere. People of each hemisphere have slowly but surely over time begun to learn and grow and be. Each hemisphere has brought forth gifts and abilities, ideas and projections that have often become so solid they are seen as material.
Both hemispheres have offered the spirit of illumination and mysticism. Primarily, the West brought forth Christianity and Judaica and the East brought forth a myriad of religions and schools of thought to enlighten. Both hemispheres housed some form of paganism.
I come at life from a "Cosmic" Christ perspective. I "know" eternal life through the Son of God. But it is my position that eternal life is freely available to us all at this point. No strings and no catch. Just pure Agape Love flowing freely between the Creator and the created. I found great discension in the Christian concept that one must be saved. I didn't "come" to Christ through salvation. I "came" to Christ through joyous relationship. I was six years old. What did I really know about needing salvation??? But, I assure you, I knew God.
I believe we are all of the Body. Period. We cannot be out of the Body---ever. We are energetically connected to "our place" in the Body and we will remain an inherent part of its functioning forever.
Tolle talks of the ego. [I haven't read his most recent title, yet.] The ego is the lesser self, in my opinion. ACTUALLY, what I mean by that is the lesser self is still BECOMING while the greater Self just IS. And the ego, to me, is important---as is every part of our finite body. We do live in a world that still bleeds. We must be cognizant of that or we can damage someone to the point of death.
I don't easily distinguish between mental, emotional, spiritual or physical pain. That is probably why I am enraptured with Holistic and Alternative lifestyles and/or healing modalities. I have a chronic disease that flares on all four pain fronts at one time, and it can be overwhelming.
To give an example of how I recently witnessed the body-mind react as One. I had a massage. I had been undergoing a lot of emotional pain prior to the session, but I thought it was tolerable enough. I thought I had it "under control." I just wanted to experience relaxation. Just following the massage, I became excessively snippy. Overwhelmingly so. It didn't take me long to realize that I had experienced an emotional release when I was on the massage table and it was working itself out of my body-mind system. Oh ugg! I prefer something a little less intense.
I am at a place in my lesser life that is shifting deeply, profoundly. I am beginning to know my higher Self more and more regularly. I am learning to accept all parts of myself. It is a weird thing. I view life from a continuum. I believe we were, are, and are to come. I am not sure when the human body is going to become resilient and immortal, but I can certainly conceive of the possibility.
When I look at the world around me I see pockets of thought>>>pockets of energy. I acknowledge different groupings that bring about significant change. And I wonder how I can interject a thought or two that will create the world I can imagine. My ego is filled with growing pains. But I AM full of love. That Love is what I want to share and gather. It seems as if love must pour through each of us; and when I gaze about I wonder if some humans experience love at all.
How does a world of One become dark and filled with question? When will the illusion turn inside out and upside down? The earth is what we all have in common. We came forth from its womb. Love penetrates every molecule---every speck of it. Love can bring light to the shadowlands and overcome the oppressions. The love begins with the heart and processes to the mind. Our thoughts create forms. Our forms make the world go 'round.
It starts now, right here, with my choice to give and to receive. Will you join me? All you need to concentrate on is this moment. Believe in your power to love. Love is alive. It will automatically grow. My thought and your thought will bring the deepness to pass. Trust. We ARE One. We have been One. We will be One.
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