Posts from — April 2008

Have you ever thought to yourself or heard someone say,

” I thought I dealt with this!

I thought it was over and done with!

why did it take so long to deal with it..why Now?

I have wasted all the years, why couldn’t I have dealt with this years ago?’

Because change takes time, like true love, it takes the understanding of time

and the acceptance that change only comes when you are ready..

and often we may think we are ready, but deep within we are not

Change takes time, and time can only be a helper if you see time as agent of change

Time goes in cycles , not in a straight line..

Change goes in cycles, not in a straight line..

There are no straight lines within the growing psyche,

in the inner expression of spiritual change there always is to be found a cycle

of change and time, like two different coloured flowers on one slender plant

Time needs change to give meaning to humanity

and Change needs Time to grow and mature

We are all children of time and change

They are two of  twelve great mysteries that give humanity the impulse of evolution.

When the rain comes, first lightly falling,

and as a wave of wet fingers,

when the air becomes grey with moisture  and turns to mist,

when the rain comes and people can breathe more easily,

when the rain comes in the first few days of Spring,

take time to feel the renewal of the natural world within you,

the joy of growth from the time of Winter’s dormant blessings

we all can learn from the seasons,

Winter reminds us to be slow and go inward,

Spring, to celebrate the power of the regeneration of everything,

Summer the vitality of life and Autumn to peel away the old,

then there is the fifth season,

the one of the heart where all the seasons dwell

and offers our life

the gift

of memory and change,

the inner season of the heart is our lense upon the world

and connects to the cycles of time and nature.

You are a cygil of time and nature,

an offering of the seasons

to crucible of  nature’s essence

that lives in the heart of humankind

The more complex a civilisation becomes, the more crucial the role of key people with set skills within that society.

The World suffers from a homogenised culture, but the complexity still remains,

and what if through  a major pandemic or global catastrophe a lot of these key people were wiped out,

from scientists to truck drivers,  the critical infrastructures,

which are people not just technologies will fade away,

food and gas supplies would be threatened,

the dead would not be buried, many things taken for granted would be under threat.

People have forgotten that they, we, you and I are the Civilisation,

not just its products of culture and enterprise, we are also its complexity and collapse,

we are its critical mass.

We are the unnamed unspecified integer in the compexity of our civilisation.

We are brainwashed into thinking that nothing can happen to our civilisations,

our nationhood, that our country is able to look after itself,

but we are all so connected by economics and beliefs about what is success

that we are hooked into each other’s problems.

What if we had a world wide pandemic , it would happen all at once,

and the world would experience economic shifts that would reorder the world.

Global GDP would collapse significantly, a lot of people would not be able to cook the food they have and,

as infrastructure became threatened, the greatest disaster would be

the shortages in food, its production, distribution and consumption.

We are dependent on supply chains, do you know how you get the things you need?

Do you know what supply chains you are dependent on?

Study them in your neighbourhood, town and city

Supply chains come in different ways…

not just food and essentials, or utilities or transport, or supplies of money and credit

but in ideas, beliefs, fears, reactions, opinions, anything that supplies what you need and what you think you need -

all these supply chains will rust and break

we are a fragile chain, we are not invincible,

we will not outlive the planet that gave us birth

if we fear the collapse of our world,

then we need to know that civilisation, complexity and collapse,

these three, are intertwined, and that you,

we, I, me, us, them, the ‘others’ and all such divisive thinking are these

and that in time due to our civilisation and its complexity it will collapse

but we as a young species with no real understanding of where we live and why

need not hurry along with our extermination

some of us have deathwishes,

we need to heal those who do, not with threats or platitudes

but with humanity

and simplicity,

these are not just large polluters or repressive regimes or threats from weapons or any such things

but those who seek to terrorize the complex harmony that exists naturally in any civilisation,

look to the subtle threats first before the obvious to find the origins of our collapse

and we will always find it in ourselves

It is coming, and it can not be stopped,

it is not punishment or karmic payback but,

the natural cycles of earth on stone,

of wind and water, of life and time,

I have seen the long wide crack that will run from Reykjavik to the Adirondacks,

Seas will surge and boil and the land will sigh and spew,

and after 14 days of vapour

the moon will turn to gentle blue

and slowly will the sea subside and the natural pulse resume

to its calm and steady order

and all mankind will wonder how such

a great divide could happen and make the sea slide,

to drop and fall and rise again

the earth will drop and rise in a rush near Alaska’s open mouth

and the ground will shake for a little time and then the sea will break

open and land and man will rush straight out

into the depths and be shut out,

a wide lagoon will form there

and silence will hang forever on the edge of sea and land

Vancouver Island will ride the rush like a surfer flushed with love,

but in the moment

Tokyo will fall sideways

with no where to go,

and when the great dams of China break flushing out the earth, and civil war will come to pass

there in high Himalayan grass will come a boy to bang a battle drum

the world should watch him closely

for he will sell it

for a war

Do you think that you can make the World spin any faster than it will?

Do you think that by your actions, things will improve and get better for everyone?

Do you think that your thoughts can influence events and people, the weather and the machinations of destiny or fate if you believe in them?

Do you think?

Or do you react?

Do you believe what your heart says?

Do you believe what the cold light of reason states?

Do you believe in Logic,

remember that Logic is only useful if the original hypothesis is sound,

may be with the application of Logic to everything,

there becomes an apotheosis of  the senses…

Do you think?

Who do you become when you listen to the media or read the newspapers,

take on gossip, get caught up in the virus of the network that our civilised society is dependent on..

Thinking is an act of becoming,

a making of individuality, when insight and wisdom bond

with exploration and the love of humanity.

We take thinking for granted because we assume we do it every day , all day, but we seldom think from the meld of heart and mind, but respond from impulse and reaction.

Take time to wonder how much of your day is full of reaction and how little time you spend in the rich rejuvenation of original thought.

Stillness is not an absence of movement

but a state of being and conciousness that dwells completely in itself

and allows everything else to move around and through it

yet is not affected, but in doing so, by the quality of the stillness,

changes the person or the event or object

that came in contact with the stillness.

Stillness is a place and time that is without boundaries,

geography or restriction and dwells complete

within everything that is not still.

Silence is not stillness.

Stillness is the freedom and gift of being yourself,

is the quality of a certain kind of courage

that comes with loving yourself enough to know

that stillness reflects

the greater  and better people than we can be

and shows us the true love comes from stillness

If you believe in God or an All Encompassing Divinity consider this:

That God made Mankind as the greatest mystery,

a biological dice subject to a quantum casting

of changing fates and uncertainty

through which divinity would find  meaning for itself

through an act of creation that is constant, moment by moment..

If you believe in Mankind then consider this:

than Mankind made God or an All Encompassing Divinity

as its greatest mystery,

a cosmic  croupier of ethics and spiritual roulette,

empowered with everlasting knowledge

subject to a celestial dice cast in human affairs,

consider this :

that both Mankind and God took a gamble on each other

and  the odds are still unknown

and each are trying to not to give anything away,

every god that mankind knows of is adolescent and separate from the meaning,

they are mere intimations of immortal consciousness

of which gods and mankind have only heard rumours of

Look past the God or gods, past the beliefs of mankind

to the primaeval teaching of consciousness  that is  and alway is

and sits within us and stares us right in the face

does not desire worship or adulation and seeks

no desire of gambling or arcane demands.

Look to the Wind, the voices of Friends

the tides of day and night

the inner light

the force of love

the waiting of the Is of things

Consider this:

You and All

Is

1

Love returns us to our innocence

and to the path of tragedy and transformation,

in the search for love we find that we are

on a journey to identity and the journey is the way of love.

2

All human endeavour is a search for meaning

and a confirmation of time upon the planet has a greater meaning,

consider every ancient culture focused

upon the afterlife as the means

to understand the current life.

From the Babylonians to the current incarnation of Christianity,

it is all about how we must prepare for death

while alive..and that is the tragedy of the modern age.

We are moving from that state into one of discovering

that there is no need to celebrate death now but Life and life is Love.

There is no afterlife other than the one

we have had since birth and

what we have inherited emotionally,

for this life creates the nature of what we experience

as we die and the quality of what we do with it.

After our death

and while we die our psyche is ready

for a greater journey which takes life

in a different form and to see through

this clearly as we die is not to focus

upon our death but upon love in our life.

That journey that we all will take is the way of Love.

Rebirth is the way of love and reincarnation is the way of conscious love.

3

When we fall in love

we fall in to the cycle of the everchanging mystery

of how life is made from love itself,

and we are all in the experience of love

whether we know it consciously or not.

Love is the only identity that each of us carries for we are little drops of love

perfect forms of love,

of a greater love that knows

that the journey is the way of love

and as love searches for itself through the myriad forms of life

so we do to, we are filled at our deepest being to to know that

the journey is the way of love

and we through loving others move a little closer to

the time when the journey will naturally come to an end

All journeys have an ending, natural from how the journey took form

but no journey has a true beginning, for the journey is always there

in the way of love

4

Pause, and listen to your heart beat,

Pause and listen to to footsteps of the crowd

Pause and listen to the bees upon the wind

or the flapping of the moth against the moon

or the breathing of the one you love

or the passing of a day or the wisdom of another

all of these are journeys and are the Way to Love

In the heart of all conflict there is compassion waiting to be heard,

it does not matter what the conflict is or where,

or why it happened or who is to blame and what the outcome ,

there is compassion at its essence.

Conflict comes about because people feel separate,

isolated, unheard and unknown, by others and themselves.

They feel that there is no love in the world or within them.

They feel powerless.

All of these states are distilled by the anxiety of the mind

and made into the force of conflict which like a disease becomes contagious

People are attracted to external conflict because of the conflict within them.

Compassion is both threatening and comforting,

healing and yet exposes us as we really are.

The conflict within will only surrender to compassion

when it realizes that there is no other option but to surrender

Compassion does not take hostages, but friends.

The force of compassion is the power of human evolution .

This force does not need to press itself upon others,

it exists inherently, part of all things, man made and natural,

in the sunlight and the cruise missile, in the divorce court,

in the moment of falling in love, in birth and death,

in beginnings and endings, compassion is always there.

Although we may feel far from it, it dwells within each of us.

To know compassion is to know your Self.

Look around you and see compassion, it may not be in the places you assume,

I have seen it in the streets of New York, in the slums of Calcutta and Sao Paulo

in the killing fields of Asia, in every place where humans dwell,

in the cycles of Nature and the flow of Clouds, in the songs of birds and fish,

of wolves and bears and beasts of prey,

in gentle flowers on the edge of glaciers,

in the first rain drop of Spring and the isolation of the desert

in the small actions of strangers, in everyday miracles, compassion expresses itself.

Let the compassion within you guide your speech, mind and actions.

There is nothing greater than the compassion within you.

You are compassion.

Years, long and countless years,

human beings have searched for meaning,

how to stay warm,

how to be fed, how to survive,

underneath all of the basics was the search for meaning

and how meaning drives the human impulse.

We have the impulse for meaning,

to understand the mysteries of the world and of who we are.

What is this impulse?

It is created partly by dissatisfaction, our memory

and an inbuilt sense of the natural cycle,

for we all desire deep within to be children of Nature.

Underneath the gloss of humanity and all its proclamations,

is the desire to know the natural world,

but like all boasting if we forget

from where we started

we deny the origins of all that makes us.

I have heard ageless wisdom in the wind, I am sure you have too,

I have seen my ancestor’s memories in the crashing sea,

I am sure you have too,

I have seen the rise and fall of humanity in the Sun and the Moon ,

I am sure you have too

I have seen in the dreams of countless people,

the search for meaning I am sure you have too

The search for meaning is the more important

than what is found

for the journey

describes the end result