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Seasons
Apr 13th
Do you allow yourself to live through seasons? Always changing, never the same way twice.
In our modern technocracy, we’ve removed ourselves as much as possible from living out among the changing seasons that the Creation holds for us. We wall ourselves away in boxes that are temperature regulated, light controlled, terrain un-changing. We’ve grown to dislike and detest any change in our “comfort” level. It’s very easy for us to be un-aware of the seasons in our own lives.
The world we live on adheres to cycles of birth, growth, death, and decay. Nature has its seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Our lives replicate this same pattern on the large scale (of our bodies) and the small scale (of our day to day lives).
All too often I’ve spent my time, fighting to stay in one season for too long. I’ve forced creation/work, when I should have been resting, or I’ve slept the day away when I should have been creating/working. Learning to live in balance and harmony is a challenging thing in the world we live in.
There is no concrete solution to creating balance in your life. It’s something that is unique to you alone. What creates balance in my life, will not necessarily be the solution in your life. Just as the length of seasons varies in different parts of the world, so your own needs will vary from mine. What is interesting to me is that all of creation is guided in the right moment to undergo the change needed at any given time. Imagine if the winter didn’t know when to end it’s bitter cold, or the summer when to cease it’s fire and burning. There are parts of the world where we can see the effects of this. The ice caps, the deserts, both extremes are examples of what happens in our own lives when we don’t allow the natural flow of seasons to occur. We become stressed. Life is still present, but the existence is harsh and mostly unpleasant.
For everything under the sun, there is a season… What are the seasons of your life?
Lately my life has been undergoing the transition from sleep to awakening, or from rest to plowing… working the soil to be ready for planting. After sowing, a period of rest will occur in which the seeds will begin to grow. The seeds will only grow if the work I have done has created the needed conditions for birth. Those conditions will only be created if I have rested properly to have the energy to create them.
Perhaps you are in Winter (the season where no work takes place, and you begin to dream), some will be in Spring (the season where you sow the seeds of your dream), some will be in Summer (the season where you tend your creation and help it grow), and finally some will be in Autumn (the season where you reap the benefits or consequences of your work).
The benefit you have over nature, is you are the only force in control of your seasons. You can begin again any time you wish. For some their lesson will be to nurse their garden/life/dream back to health/success. Others will need to wipe the slate clean and begin back at the Winter/Resting/Dreaming stage. Some will need to learn that there is a time to cease working and enter into rest, some will need to get off their ass and begin taking action.
How do you know when you are in the correct season in your life? When you feel at peace, when you feel like you’re living your life’s purpose, when things seem to click and just fall into place, all these are good indications that you are in the proper season.
Most people will spend most of their time in the dreaming/working stage until they learn to create the right conditions for their dream to grow into reality, but once a seed/dream starts growing, it grows all on its own.
Whatever season you may be in, love your way into the next one!
Have a great day and tend to your Garden 
In A Perfect World
Mar 21st
It was an eye opening day the first time I realized that the world is perfect. Not perfected, just perfect.
The world is perfect for us to grow. We weren’t sent here to eek by or survive, that’s part of some people’s journey. But we are here to grow and become greater than what we were before, just as a child grows to become like his parents.
Instead of seeing the things in your life that you don’t like, that you think of as imperfect, see them as opportunities to grow. Perfect opportunities. Even the withered arm on a crippled man is still a perfectly withered arm. Even pain and suffering are perfect. They exist for us because we have not been perfected yet, and they present the perfect opportunity to transcend them. How to do that… well we’re all learning aren’t we? I believe that once our hearts are perfected our world will be too. As above, so below. As within, so without.
Some people are so weighed down with trying to make it from day to day, or keeping up with the latest fashions, or making their car payments that they have never had that Matrix awakening moment where you realize that this world is not the only one, and indeed it’s a Contested World. It’s our choice whether or not we want our world to be a paradise or a wasteland. We happen to be at the tipping point one way or the other.
How much thought have you given to the world you are helping to create everyday? What kind of world do you want your children to inherit? Most importantly, what are you doing to create that world? Becoming the most successful person in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you raped the planet to get there. If your children have to grow up in an uglier world, what kind of parent are you?
Begin with imagining your Perfected World, what kind of place is it? Where do people live? What is their quality of life? Is everyone equally happy, or is it an elitest world, where only the privledged have the opportunities to pursue happiness? Think about things like our food source… do we put toxic chemicals on our food in the future? What about our houses? What do they look like? Do they get even larger and more separate from their environment, or do they merge together with it? How about our jobs and school system? Do we still work 50 hours a week at jobs that we hate? Or do we get to enjoy our lives and work in the way that we choose? What about money? Do we still have currency, or do we invent something better? Do we become more commercial, consuming more products, or do we have better things to do than watch TV and play video games and surf the internet? How do we travel? Do we ever solve the fossil fuel problem? Do we go electric and solar, or do we invent some new technology? Maybe we fly everywhere instead of drive?
Really think about it. Talk about it with your friends, ask them what kind of world they would create for their children.
Then the fun part… The part that should put a smile on your face, or tell you that you need a new picture of the future, one in which you are smiling… Now that you have a picture of where you are going, you can begin to break that down into small chunks. Just like eating an apple, you can’t eat the whole thing at once, so you take small chunks of it and before you know it, you’ve accomplished your task. In the beginning, this might look like eating low on the food chain (vegetarian), recycling, organic gardening in your yard (or even on the balcony of your apartment). You might keep your old car a little longer so you can save up and buy a hybrid or wait for one of the new electric or hydrogen cars. If you live in the city, maybe you bike to work, or walk a few times a week. If you’re building a new house, maybe you build it off the grid, with solar and wind energy fueling your electric needs. Maybe you avoid toxic chemicals in your household cleaners. Maybe you petition your city to stop drugging your water supply with unnatural chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Maybe you plant some trees on your birthday to counter how much paper products you use each year.
Each and every thing in this world is perfect for you, and with your growth, this perfect world becomes perfected. Create beauty on the inside and beauty will manifest on the outside.
Think about it…
Where Is Your Bailout Money?
Jan 9th
It begs the question, what’s really going on here?…
They’re giving away millions of tax payers dollars… enough to where they could give every person in the US a million dollars each, and why isn’t that money going to the people?
Well my brother has argued that if everyone were suddenly millionaires, no one would work, and inflation would be insane… and that may be true, but let’s think for a moment about what we would all do if money wasn’t king… if we all didn’t need money.
My counter argument to this is why not pay out the million dollars to each US citizen as monthly payments, in such an amount as to keep everybody working (which is really all this is about, keeping us enslaved to money)…
Or why don’t we pay off everyone’s personal debt with the bailout money? The system would come crashing down that’s why… All the little worker bees (that’s you and me) would suddenly be free… Oh no! what’s going to happen to the honey production? How will our hives get built? What about the Queen? Who’s going to protect, and provide, and feed her?
We are not a Hive species… we can be if we want, but I think we are all happiest when we are who we were created by God to be… and that is the Children of God.. literally, sons and daughters of the Creator and independently Sovereign Beings. Sovereign, do you remember what that word means? Are you beginning to remember what it feels like?
It’s been a long time since we were domesticated into what we are today… Let’s face the sad truth that most of us couldn’t even feed ourselves if we wanted to. We think food comes from a store, or a plastic bag. We think of Nature as being dirty, and a harsh environment… something to be scrubbed off of us as soon as we get back out of it.
Let’s consider where we are right now in Human existence, which is at a cross roads… will we continue down our path which has us heading for worse environmental conditions… to the point where we could end up with an environment like the moon, or Mars, and we would all be living in giant malls (which some marketer would probably call a space station or some such thing)… or will we clean up our environment and work with it to create a Garden of Eden on the earth? We possess the technology (i.e. knowledge + tools) to do both, and we’re at a beautiful place to choose which path we all want to head down.
We have to help wake people up so that they can choose for themselves instead of having the advertisements choose for them. A pattern interrupt, if you will. Talk with people, friends, family… don’t be scared to discuss the path that Humanity is on. And together, we can create for ourselves The Golden Path, without the need for a Tyrant like Leto to do it for us
Think About It Part 2
Dec 4th
Yes, obviously, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking…
Today’s thought comes from the bible and a book written in 1902.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he… (Proverbs 23:7a)
The book is called As A Man Thinketh by James Allen. I believe you can actually find free copies of it floating around the internets (gotta love Bushisms).
It’s true though, you are the sum of your thoughts. Just like Nature, good seeds produce life, bad seeds produce death. So if we are spending our precious little thinking time that we do get these days, on things like the news, which let’s face it, is never good news, or movies, which usually deal with the darker side of humanity, or TV which bombards us with advertising, effectively turning us into consumers, then is it any wonder why so few of us are happy?
In contrast to the popular Secret…
In 1902, James Allen came to the conclusion that “We do not attract what we want, but what we are.” “Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you don’t ‘get’ success, but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.”
What are you thinking about?
Emerson has commented that, “A person is what he thinks about all day long.” What do you spend your time thinking about?
Sadly, I think most of us will find that according to Emerson’s definition, we are just consumers. We spend most of our time thinking about how to buy something we want, or how to get the money to buy what we want, as if Happiness had a price tag or physical embodiment.
Some more great quotes from Allen that I’ll let you do your own thinking on:
“Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.”
and
“Most of us are anxious to improve our circumstances, but are unwilling to improve ourselves–and we therefore remain bound.”
Some other interesting notes… The word thinketh from Proverbs above, comes from the Hebrew root word meaning to split or open, and the word heart comes from the Hebrew root word for the word to breathe, in this case, denoting a breathing creature.
So another way of looking at it would be to say, ‘As a man splits open in his breathing, so is he’.
Think about it…
