Christ as a Tree- 10th April 2009 Easter

LEAVES breathe for the tree, and when the leaves are gone the tree excarnates. Its spirit withdraws back into the timely place of its beginnings; ever present, but agone, its consciousness of here, now there, manifesting within the life-filled realm it sprang from.

And should it breathe again with new budding green and living lung, its presence will stir and awaken again. And what was tree within the world will now return.

Our beloved Christ is as a tree and His Life's Leaves are the faith of this Humanity by which He Breathes; for to enter fully into this Worldly Life there needs to be the living aspirations by which He can come.

At the time of Calvary, the tree as it were, was bare. Not since the Golden Age of Man long past, had its wintery nakedness known life. For you can have a tree without leaves and a life without life, in appearance and in form, in the ghostly manifest of the worldly silhouette that has but a fine film of presence to it. 

Many men appear present but have so withdrawn. Many values seem to be fine and worthy, when they are but shells - as truths also that have no bearing or petition, can appear to make sense when they don't.

More often than not, the things that happen within this World have long before occurred in spiritual pretext. Those events that bring with them a finality, also too are often the summary of a spiritual story whose time had concluded. Not the least which, our dear and Holy Christ entered into His worldly death at the summation of a very slow and painful spiritual one. For He had been so cut away from this World for many eons before - from that which He so Loved - that this trial of Incarnation was that synthesis which blended past sorrow with the now obvious.

His sadness and His outcast had parleyed a slow and decadent dying. Not as violent as the end did show, but as perilous. For this World and the one before, had itself begun to wither back and die - no leaves, and then soon to be, no tree. One by one the hearts of the people had forgotten who they were. The material seduction had encaptured their souls to the point of their dismissing their heavenly values. 

Even before the egoic awareness, a selfishness pervaded and infected their hearts; and whilst some retained their goodness, they fell back under the pressures of the fear and hardship to follow.

Added to this, the veils separating our World and the Spiritual Heavens became impenetrable, and men and women became ever more afraid, for they thought in truth that this life was their only sanction, and their desperation the only way it was.

People get used to being downcast and despondent. They very quickly adapt to depression and disappointment. And the spirit soon withdraws - individually and collectively, into a wintery death.

And so you see that although events might have been a very long time coming, it is not until their summary and conclusion do we recognize and accept the causality. It can take until the end of the chapter for us to review and interpret every word that led us there. It is peaceable to know this.

In many respects it is simply symptomatic of consciousness itself. This is the true meaning of the expression: "the end justifies the means" - not to say that you may do as you wish to get to a desired outcome, but rather to say that it is only at the end we see the qualification and reality of what has led us there. Not always is this good - most often it is mixed at best.

The conclusion of Christ's Life, offered so upon the dead wooden Cross that did hold Him, was a poor ending to a terrible story of hardship that spanned the eons and the lives that went before - the suffering of a spiritually disconnected peoples and the subsequent suffering of the very Being who had heard every anguished word...

This was not just a three day pantomime. In truth, it had been a very long time coming. And Christ knew that it was only by summation could there be a time of change to follow.

To end and then to begin again.

To end but then to live again.

And this was so.

See now the tree with its mane of countless leaves! And the breathing becomes one sweet breath, as new life daily springs from each laden branch, as each dear heart is connected now, not only to the Heavens that support them, but to one another as well; and, to our Living Christ who is verily strong enough to hold all of us so.

Friendships- 15th March 2009

From tides of time and back again,

The undertow is strong,

For all the friends we meet again,

For now we say - so long!

OVER many many lifetimes there are a multitude of friendships one acquires - where trials have been encountered together, and numerous happy moments besides. And although our friends are not present with us throughout most of the time to follow, we are in constant connection with them in the spiritual worlds - during sleep and after death and beyond.

Generally speaking, there can be a very great personal sadness from most individuals in that they sense the separation from their soulic companions in fellowship. Everyone experiences this during their life; even though it might be moreover mentally framed as in being in a certain time or place that they are wanting, rather than the actual friends of lives now gone. 

It is the number one cause of sorrow within the human spirit (and in a similar fashion, so too the animal spirit besides) that such dear and loving friendships are not in this moment with us - that you know of folk that you miss but cannot name. And with this current spiritual dementia experienced, being born into this world makes it all the more difficult to determine, even who it is that we might be longing for. And there are so many.

For truly every soul upon this earth has acquired countless strong, true and lasting bonds with others over time. And although during any one life we are not capable of sustaining more than a handful of close relationships (this is for many reasons - all worldly) there have been thousands of eons of happy meetings and paths traveled, that it would be almost impossible to avoid having them as we do. 

Every time an individual meets up again with such a good friend there becomes a nuclear light all around them - such as you could power the universe by (or something similar) :). This is no small matter because such affection, genuine affection and recognition of another, does empower our reasoning, our yearning, our living and our extraneous life to follow.

When youths take guns into schools and turn against the students there, it is because they are sensing a friendship missing from their life that is not present, and at the same time sensing the friendships that they do not share with the crowd around them. If they did not care about such things they would be content to be alone and live alone and not be understood or befriended. But often the theme to their disasters is that they would prove or show or demonstrate to those who did ignore them. And of course ignoring is natural if you do not have the affiliation in the first place.

The students are not to be blamed for this at all. If they were cruel or condemning, this may have made the separation more apparent to the witless gunman. It is not to say that such acts are to be totally explained or even forgiven in this context spoken of, but it is to say that at the core of even extreme human behavior is this essential yearning. It is fundamental to every human being without exception.

Gangs of criminals have their own forms of camaraderie, which once again may or may not have substance, yet is born from the essential yearning of their soulic affiliates elsewhere.

Drunks mourn lost loves. The elderly fantasize what might have been. The ideas may not be rooted in reality within the lifetime itself, but do have causes that are very real outside of that existence from former times. And this is a good thing - good that it is not all nonsensical, and good that there is a genuine companionship that can be resumed and experienced at some point if not now.

It is very positive that folk have these longings, for in every instance it does bring an individual a way of perceiving life outside of their own beings. It draws them out into appreciations for all kinds of beauty to follow.

As spiritual beings we all know within ourselves that things come and go. Conditions change, and yet we wonderfully endure and last throughout these times. Our faith is not with worldly conditions remaining, because we know that they do not. Our investments really do not matter to us unless they be of the spirit - and even then, from one to another, and to our friends, to our Father and to Christ.

Animal Consciousness- 8th March 2009

BEFORE the day begins there is a brief time when, if the consciousness is bleakly stirred, we can all forget the details of ourselves and the world about us, and simply live in the consideration of the quiet - devoid of feeling our own personality, age or ability. The animal in his awareness, lives in this space within his wakeful consciousness daily. He does not feel identity or age, nor does he count or measure the days. He is more interested in most things outside of himself, than himself, within his own mind.

The animal does not think that he himself is interesting - even though he assumes total self importance. He does not reflect, but can be questioning - he might be curious as to what is beyond his fence for example, but not reflective about his own abilities to get there. Often this is why there is so little restraint - other than what has been put upon him either physically or behaviorally. There is no reflection as to choice or holding back - little consideration and reference time required.

With this form of consciousness a being is very much present in the moment - moment by moment. There is no projection forward or envisioning of the past - once again, the predawn moment of the moment, settled at the core and into place of being, a blessed fix within true time as the world itself goes on.

Animals ordinarily, by their nature, do not intend harm for harm's sake. They do not behave in a rabid way. They generally care for their young and act from necessity. If animals were truly ''wild" as they are made out to be, they would be fiercely attacking anything and everything without respite. Human beings and animals who do this have lost their mind, and their natures are perverse - this is not a normal condition or type for either to act out.

Similarly, when animals mate with each other their consciousness is still very much predawn and quiet, and mentally disconnected from the experience of the act itself. In other words, even though it may appear otherwise, animals do not actually feel what it is that they do; and it is nothing (even physically) similar to the human experience. Human beings in one instance, experience an actual release out from themselves which an animal cannot and does not feel joy in. The astrality, the nerve processes, are very different from what we imagine. When it comes to humankind, one of the mysteries of our own processes is that the greater ecstasies are actually remote from the physical act completely. 

In relation to the castration of male animals, the life forces will be taken up and dispersed less radically. The energy level will become more like the females. Male animals who are relieved from their pursuits to procreate are not deprived, yet are of course, physically afflicted. Such surgery is far more humane when done under anesthetic, and the animal does not consciously experience the violence of the act. The recovery and life experience afterwards is little altered providing the health is resumed thereafter.

Human beings tend to miss the point with many experiences of our wonderful life. The point to food and eating is nutrition. It can be and is a great experience, but firstly it is all about nutrition. If men and women stuck to that point there would be no obesity or food related obsessional problems.

The 'experience' of eating and all of the things now that go with that, is completely different to the very simple causality involved. This is not to say that it is simple to merely disregard food related problems, or that their cause has anything to do with food itself, it is just a comment that folk have literally lost the point of it in the first place.

The point to speaking is relating to one another truthfully. There is no good point to dishonesty. Even the romance and wit of the poets departs the first point sometimes; and yet at others, can be strikingly candid and inspiringly accurate. However, in conversation, there often is aversion, there becomes coercion, there are phrases and clichés that implicate and associate rather than specifically relate at all. 

And the point to life itself is not sex and food. It is not about merely maintaining yet more life - but rather finding the purpose and our purpose beyond that.

The mysteries of Existence are exalted within themselves, and by us also. These mysteries are not about carnal needs or pleasures, which are but a by-product to the life so lived amongst them.

Parallel Realities- 15th February 2009

THE Spirit of all of Humanity is essentially happy and illumined with all of Creation's enthusiasm. It knows inspiration, it breathes inspiration, and has no time or perspective for the cache of sorrows borne by the soul. Yet having said that, the soul also does not experience sorrow as we might directly know of it. The soul has a poetry, a romance - a string of ballads dedicated to those melancholy and desperate times gone before... and a courage and a steeling which would defend some and resist others because of it. 

The soul has grown - has come out from its gaiety and dreaminess into the perplexities of contradicting experiences, with a recall of each and every one of them. For sorrow and hardship known firsthand within this world, definitely promotes such paradoxical contradictory impressions within our own souls. 

We are firstly and typically, enlivened by any change that is before us. This is our nature. Our nature is curious and knows spiritually that the parade of events are all relatively transitory - our Spirit has outlived so many catastrophes, that our self-on-high is not truly perturbed.

The Spirit rejoices for those who pass through to death yet one more time, for it knows the beauty and the relief that is there for them. The Spirit sees cataclysmic events as historical landmarks for enormous change... and perhaps, on a seldom talked about level, is even excited somewhat about its own impending and possible death. For truly our spirits are untouched by the world and all in it - nothing can assault or insult, and no grief or woe penetrates through to them.

Our souls, on the other hand, are tediously and yet wonderfully, faithful to other souls, creatures, beings and guides that are cataloged in a most permanent memory that is soul itself. Someone once remarked that our souls hold much more of everyone else than they do of themselves. This is true of course, for our loving experience of others that remains with us, is of them and does not need to reference itself. Whereas within the ego today of most men, the stories enjoyed within their memory are of their own parts played within any interaction. You will find folk recite to themselves about what they did on any one occasion, skipping over the part of others for the main part, of their own historical dialogue. 

And it is the soul that drives us to care for others when we leave this world - that we might meet up and perhaps be with them, or help them again - whether they be still living, or excarnate also. It is this part of us which finds that part of them - not the ego of a man, and not his selfishness either. 

So this is interesting, because if a person is driven by pure selfishness to find someone (like for example a stalker in this world) but has not the knowledge of them from the soul and the true love of them within his wisdom, then they have no means to find them thereafter - whether in the spiritual worlds or in the physical at a later time. If that person has not loved them, there is no soulic reference for the finding. And of course this is awkward because if the same stalker is searching from will and want, from ego or mind, then without the soulic reference they could go on to mistake anyone for the person that they want to be with; and so it goes, time and time again.

However most folk do have the inner knowledge of whom it is that they have a genuine and constant rapport with, and it serves them well. There is a very real difference between the folk that we know casually and the individuals we know, truly know, with this measure of soulic love.

Returning for a pause to the condition of the Spirit within: it is not to say that this Spirit of ours is indifferent to life, or lifeless in love. This is not the case at all, but rather the opposite. However, the grandest aspect of our own spirit's fire within, is incredibly godly. It is, as if, a very long way from us in time. The memories predate physical existence and countless others before that; and the far reaching vision of the Spirit travels beyond our interludes and travails besides. It is noble and direct and pure. And each living being has this Spirit.

Sometimes, if you are mindful of this, you can see the representative of the Spirit in a different light; whereupon their character as you thought you knew it, is really not at all as it is.

And with ourselves also, should you ever want to change something about yourself in thinking or behavior, you can go look to the Spirit within at its highest and most pure aspect, and literally start again - beginning from that essential self that is not contaminated in any way by anything. You can make wonderful changes with this perspective, for the better.

The experiences of living within the World today are definitely confusing to our beloved souls, that generally prefer to keep things simple - simple needs, simple loves, simple purpose - whereas our demands in quiet times provoke all kinds of sympathies and antipathies. Whilst in times of personal or worldly sorrow, we are torn between the spiritual truth and the physical realities before us. Spiritually our spiritual selves always know that we are just fine; even and especially in the heaviest times of hardship and sorrow, this is so.

Death, granted, is unkind. There is very little that could be said about the experience of death within the world that makes it acceptable on any level of thinking or contemplation. But death to those who have just died - on the other side of the experience - is as wonderful to them as it is grim to us. It is as beautiful to them as it is grotesque to ourselves. It is as life-giving to the deceased as it is as final to those who remain.

We live with parallel realities and this can be confusing - sometimes heart-breaking to those who try to navigate through them. 

The greatest horror the soul and the ego of an individual can experience, is of what is unthinkable to them; and that is of unkindness, of brutality, of the inhuman human. It is incomprehensible to the goodhearted individual that ruthless people can be allowed to exist within their already difficult world. And although evil intent and even its actions, cannot really harm us in the long term, they are a sadness and a suffering of sorts for everyone.

Individuals are resilient and pass through to death very happily - even if they have known pain just moments before, or the strain of limbs that could not bear their own weight and the pressure of a world that pushed down on them. Individuals can recover very quickly and the soul is philosophical about different experiences, loving the retrospect album of recollected memories. But it cannot reconcile evil at all; cannot process, cannot understand, cannot see the purpose or the good in evil being done for evil's sake.

There are two types of evil we can name: intentional evil and unintentional evil. Intentional evil chooses dereliction, unintentional evil does not comprehend the harm that it is causing, or the consequence of that which is to follow. Unintentional evil lacks the empathy, experience and intellect to discern the right from the wrong in a given circumstance... intentional evil has empathy with its victims and enjoys their suffering, has the intellect to plot and plan the destruction, and chooses to do wrong before right.

Some are of the view that pure evil can be redeemed, whilst some believe that it is the nature of these beings that cannot be changed. Some say that evil is necessary for us to understand the good, whilst others look at it as an immature good - one that will conform over time.

Certainly, unintentional evil is something that we all have done in reckless ways, however very few human beings actually choose knowingly to permit or perform intentional evil; and interestingly enough they can barely last one lifetime doing so.

Once this path has been decided upon the individual forfeits their humanity and their rights (and keys) back into humanity. Their time which would have been in incarnating, brings them into the worldly sphere for that period, but not as incarnate. No mother would accept them, and their once identifying attributes which would guide them into the earthly sphere do not associate anymore with their being. This is why there are so few truly evil folk within the world at any one time - they only have one life as such and thereafter none to follow.

Of course they can for a time try to enact their foibles through the weakened states of others during their earthbound yet astral existence... which is more good reason for individuals to keep what wits they have and not succumb to the whisperings of the disengaged. The wrath of God does not exceed His Pity, but these sorry fellows have chosen their lot and it is given to them. If you wish harm to your brother you verily harm yourself. It cannot be otherwise.