Over the Hills-18th June, 2023

There is a quiet sense of humour beneath every circumstance, every event, and every being in existence. For humour belongs to its family of virtue whereby life is swiftly inebriating that which it infills - and bestowing heavenly qualities of vim and fervour throughout.

The Holy Spirit is humour personified. The words: ‘it can’t be, yet it was, here it is” is a process of the magic of rapid change and manifestation. With humour we are compelled by surprise and then taken into a different space ... something appears that was not hitherto before, and as a divine example of penultimate copula - there is humour.

And even when we are overwhelmed with dire circumstances it will be humour especially that may save the fragile soul from despair. And within this there becomes also both incarnation and newness arising.

There is most obviously the mirth of little children to whom all things are new and appear ridiculous to their sensibilities. The unexpected gives the mind a shock however this startling is also enlivening sweeping away the dusty mindset and former presuppositions of bias and control.

For stability is but surreal - the worlds are ever changing, and with that we truly are the children of the universe, happy and excited to see what comes next.

On the Other Side - 11th June 2023

The sheath of life is a membrane that does not separate one world from another, but rather enables a particular exchange to pass through it, backwards and forth - it joins the realms - and affords a certain passage of continuity to occur. 

And so you can understand from this that a membrane is not as a wall or fence or obstacle per se - it is an enabler - and meant for both to coexist, and allow for this and that, back and forth, and so on. 

In spiritual terms last century it was referred to as ‘the veil’ when a medium could perceive something of the souls who had dissolved their physical bodies and relaxed into their more familiar forms. 

To be able to see beyond the veil was to be able to sense through this membrane; however, and nonetheless, this partition to both remained, and the visions were never truly as clear and concise as the reality was on the other side. 

And even within our dreams, our consciousness and recollections, membranes are there of many kinds: personal and worldly, for which images and meanings distort, going from one to the other. 

And so it is not impossible - in fact it would not be practical - for ourselves to remain solely within the physical realm without such constant transport … the soul at all times belongs in the realms that lie further - in their own natural space. However, in waking life, and on the other side, our conscious recollections are mixed and muddled, confused and unclear. 

In near-death experiences an individual will have a physical connection (a body etc.) remaining and often you may hear their account in the spiritual worlds of being. And then they are told of their life, reminded of their purpose, and guided back so that they can continue on. 

Now had a physical death occurred, the consciousness is both expanded and compacted to a much larger degree. When some time has passed and a good many
processes besides, the individual will be mindfully far clearer and distinct, organised, awakened, and intelligent in the spiritual worlds thereafter. They do not behave as in the dream state, or as remembered, but are incarnating well, and where they are. 

Similarly and by contrast an individual can be fully present within this world; or may daydream permanently, living their best part into the spirit realms, losing their definitive consciousness within the physical world.

With this the spirit takes in fleeting impressions of the physical world which then becomes similar to our recollections of dreams: often nonsensical, incomplete,
crumpled, associative, emotional, and somewhat lacking continuity to reality overall. 

Crimes are most often committed in this condition. Delusional behaviour and self aggrandising proves the opine between the inner dialogue and reality ‘living the
dream’ as it were. In the extreme there develops senility and then death. 

Day-dreaming, meditation and imagining are all relatively safe practices so long as the individual self-consciously embarks on entering into the borders of their being knowingly, with the distinction and understanding that their impressions gleaned are
at best substandard to the underpinning realities experienced. 

The comfort to be had is that we are far far more present in our consciousness, and are in control of ourselves after we have passed over into death than realised whilst alive; and although dreaming and the memories of such afford us small insights, they
are not representative of the completeness we will experience, or of our heavenly abilities and endeavours once there.

Behind the Curtain- 4th June, 2023

Instincts come to us in two varieties: those in which we share commonly and are referenced superficially, and instincts which are personal to that of our own ‘knowing’, reference and experience.

The instincts of the first class come within an even larger family of category for which the blueprint of life as it were is readily accessible - that animal, man, species, may incorporate this knowledge to build and replace those parts of themselves as required - minute by minute, breath by breath - aside from their awakened consciousness. It is a reservoir of operating wisdom that is accessible to all.

And this applies throughout the many types of beings.

A persuasive definition of death and dying is when this instinctual referencing is interrupted and the wisdom can no longer be carried out, there becomes a ‘disconnect’ occurring, and nerve by nerve, thought by thought, there follows a letting go.

It is therefore not so much a problem of the materials at hand, but rather whether or not they may be utilised as before, facilitated by the instinctual key of outcome.

The incorruptible saints prove this (and much more of course) that there is never really an issue of death causing dying or the vulnerability to the dissolution of the physical body - it is moreover the connection, the living connection, that is required in order for the body to go on as before, replacing form with the same or similar form.

And so the question is not so much asking how do such saints remain, but rather how it is that we do not?

What of the dissolution of the mind and the body? In materialistic terms one might fight to understand this in order to gain eternal life on earth or even in the thereafter, where it was that they perceived it to be ‘safe’ and immortally so. 

In and of itself it is however missing the necessary parts i.e. the importance of the higher instincts - the second variety mentioned at the beginning of this paper.

The ‘higher’ instincts incorporate the consciousness and ultimately, although separate to both Man and god etc they are interdependent - a living tissue cohabitating the same Grace that becomes life and the drivers of such life also.

What is meant by this is that there is a correlation between divinity and its manifest where the surprises and joys are reciprocal.

A man’s consciousness for example is experienced concurrently in a great many places and shared with beings throughout - right up to the actual instinctual realms of spirit.

Consciousness is palpable and experienced by those beings who live within our spiritual environment, and particularly the very thoughts of men, women and children are keenly felt and perceived weaving a corporeal substance of its own.

Somewhat unique - we cannot walk the Earth and take from it only; there needs be an exchange throughout.

Now it can be specifically to men (as in humankind) that the physical connectivity has for one reason or another deteriorated and the mind or body or organs no longer receive or give out certain virtues, or to their corresponding physical attributes accordingly.

The higher instincts will soon also have difficulty then in being received - not necessarily, but very possibly.

It must be noted too that the physical life does not represent the soul faithfully - for the incapacitated disconnected individuality in the physical world still has their heavenly connections and consciousness even if they cannot follow the threads to get to them in this world.

Little by little the lights go out, the connections are gone, and understandably there are more compelling forces drawing a person heavenward than those keeping them in the physical world.

Individuals within their true nature are wonderful loving beings. Our instincts when realised within us are always confident in the beauty and sustenance of the goodness around us.

We most naturally love God and have the heart of a small child that is accepting, trusting and completely reliant upon those who would feed and carry us.

At present the physical world has many pot holes and dark places. If you can walk (or sit) in nature you can renew connections that have been weakened formerly and almost been lost ... connections to all of the instincts which give you the very keys of life.

Similarly acts of love and charity will involve such a renewal too, for there becomes an exchange of instinctual gifting - although unseen it is inspired and reciprocal and a mystery all of itself.

Away with the Fairies- 28th May 2023

Time and time again the sea's roar and the wind's murmur speak of the incandescent beings who live amongst the froth and fervour deep in the oceans, riding the waves, skimming the lakes, high on the wind’s bellow, surfing the breeze - these fundamental fellows of the aether and of the water.

Now there are many beings to which our world and life comprise - beings condensed within the one Earthly sphere of activity; and as experience proves, they are both interdependent and independent of one another.

Added to this is the question of consciousness and its range, its scope, and breadth of such ... and that it will vary, similarly to those differences that exist between men, and with stages of development from infant through to man, etc.

Beings throughout experience gradients of consciousness, lit with modicums of insight, emotion, virtue, intelligence, intuition, co-operation, observation and fellowship.

Every species and type will have these universal gifts to some degree - at times some more than others - and they will invariably influence one another in this also.

Yet distinct from this becomes the mind of Man with his divine obstinacy, a characteristic which sets his being apart from all others.

This obstinacy is a gift (not necessarily a talent) that they may be unaware of so much and so many - perhaps even becoming detached from their very own reality; inert to the movements around them, and thus discriminatory, contained, and unpersuaded.

This ability to filter truth, reality and being, is truly valuable on the evolutionary path to individuality - and yet also potentially quite dire on that very lonely journey.

It can be as the pilgrim who tires of carrying his provisions and leaves them behind, only to find his hunger now follows him down the road.

Humans beings (and by default association animals also) are the only beings in the Cosmos to experience loneliness. Within the hierarchies the multitudes of beings hold an ever-present awareness of the interconnectivity of all - they do not feel separate or alone, as this literally is inconceivable to them.

Both laterally and from the bottom up they function within this living knowledge of universal connection, and this reality “is what it is” for its divine co-inhabitants.

Individuality can be a cruel mantle of stupidity, or eventually when developed, become the endowment of a young god - it can give to the Master the eyes to see the greater God - the ability to truly envision distinctly the majesty of the Heavenly Powers, in contrast to the smallness of self and the meekness within.

Individual consciousness and egoic appropriations can bring the soul to reverence: perceiving the greater for what it is in relation to what we are.

And in this we come to an exalted happiness and sadness concurrently - yet also with the blessing of the peace that follows by knowing one’s place both in and out of time.