Knapsacks of Flowers- 17th January 2026

The stairs up into Heaven are steep, the ascent is ongoing and relentless. Perseverance is key and the troubles we carry do make it all the harder.

As adults we synthesise our difficulties by absorbing them into our bodies - our respective organs, beginning with their astrality and further into their physicality yet deeper - our bodies are becoming a catalogue of event and trial, having absorbed not only that of ourselves in the general sense, but in the particular also.

Vaguely speaking this is what memory is and where memory resides. Our body’s physically manifest all that goes to our experience and comprises our earthly self. 

In the spiritual context we are acquisitive beings that love to ‘wear’ our experiences, accumulating one difficulty after another by ways of reference.

Pain experienced in this World becomes joy in the afterlife, whilst our wills are developed through self-sacrifice becoming ever stronger, ever resilient, and able to be awake increasingly to the brilliance of the Heavens thereby.

It is not uncommon as we ascend for souls to sleep through so many of the beauteous aspects that are there to be experienced - it is a gradual awakening that requires a consciousness, a will, and experience for this ‘wakefulness' to be attained.

We sleep far more in the afterworlds than we tend to here *LOL*.

And yes, there are periods of rest needed for the ‘mind’ as well, where the spirit drifts free of itself into realms and experiences that are not directly that of its own, gathering knowledge like a tourist for a small but comprehensive time.

And to a lesser extent: plays, performances, and movies etc. within the World bring pictures and experiences to the individual that contrast their own life experiences - ‘life lite’ if you will - yet still offer relief from the tensions of self and a measure of thoughtfulness outside of oneself. And with this we may come to reflect and know ourselves all the better by it.

Knapsacks of flowers: - 

There are creative ways to store our tribulations and self-tributes. In the ‘other-worlds’ every individual’s knapsack is condensed and personal, and because spatial size has no perimeter you can carry anything and everything in your spiritual knapsack that you have experienced and wish to keep - yet not wear directly within your soul/ego.

You cannot of course keep people as such, yet you can carry impressions of beloved ones, and these impressions from former experiences are of themselves keys to further identification and communication elsewhere throughout time linking you to them.

These relationships are the absolute treasures of incarnating and if one but knew just how meaningful they can become as we travel on, they would appreciate every living word and association with the happiness it affords.

And yes, this is true also for the tenderness of those in the animal kingdom as well. Beloved pets, fellow travellers so nurtured, implicit in our worldly experience, with all the emotion of a child - these too remain connected with us going forward.

The cup increaseth and is never, ever, only half full.

Leaps & Bounds- 11th January, 2026

The morality of a community matters. Any aggregate of people together draws complementary Angelic beings who are present to the good workers’ thoughts and general goodness manifesting within the collective.

It is often supposed that the countryside which is empty of people and hosting only creatures of nature, is the most pure and spiritual environment … and, most definitely it offers many ways to revivify the physical and mental condition just by proximity - however, the ‘gold’ standard for finding one’s own ‘Jerusalem’ is within the righteous community. 

Such a community can uphold the mind, body and spirit of an individual, with its interceding emissary of the highest order permeates the life and activities of the whole. There is a strength to be had there that the nomad has not.

Individually there are Angelic presences guiding, protecting, inspiring etc. each human soul, and similarly with every community (small and large) there are such beings of wisdom and protection also that become emblematic of the peoples and the outlying land.

They appear very large, shining and docile, and can assume the character of any given place … and largely it is these Angelic presences that the people identify their homes with mostly; if they travel away from their community they miss the sense of place which lives in the bosom of their particular Angel who has adopted them.

Some areas may have community Angels that have been in place a thousand years or more, whilst there are others who have left when the community by its own collective immorality and nature have repelled them, and then there are some newly placed who are drawn to good works, good conduct and good people in residence and then finds a home also.

There is no shortage of such protective Angelic beings to call upon, for simply put, there are many more Angels universally than us, and they are moderating at every conjuncture of life.

Seemingly one Angel may become many, and there is a mystery and a marvel in this alone.

The Angelic presence within a community can be found illustrated in artworks throughout - the depiction of what may have been thought of as deities or aliens were, often as not, the local Angels who were recognized in earlier ages and thus acknowledged.

There are some Community Angels who stay long after the good souls have departed as they become immeshed in the vicinity - and also may even be at the graveside - for their loving protection continues: for also the spiritual self (the souls of the community) return after death to dwell in that familiar space for a time, and the Angel greets them, having kept that space safely protected in the character to which it was.

Community, good community is sacred.

The dislodgement of peoples is problematic given the considerations above - for these Angelic beings establish and codify ‘place’, and cannot follow the community that is forced to move away even though it was that community perhaps who drew them to them initially.

Our relationship with ancestral place and long standing native Angels tends to the ecology of the spiritual intertwining landscape that promotes further life and even Worlds to come.

It is no idle fancy to seek out a place of home, a land of one’s forefathers, for there are significant and intricate relationships, not only of providence, land and heritage, but of our Angelic spiritual connections to which our very souls find the meaning of ‘home’.