Monthly Archives: November 2013

Personality is not Physical

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Spirit tells me that a person, any person

can be described according to

physical features, but, that

personality cannot be

so described.

Personality is a dynamic interaction of

intellect and emotion, fluctuating in

variable quantities and strengths of

particular qualities in, or during,

different situations, and

personality is a blend of

more or less consistent

thought, emotional, and

behavioral patterns.

 

But, Spirit tells me,

an individual’s behaviour can

reflect thoughts and emotions, or

it can be used as a mask,

to protect or hide them,

not necessarily for the purpose of

deceit, but to separate

shared and private worlds.

We choose what we care to share.

How the Spirit Mentor System Works

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Spirit describes to to me how the mentor system works:

Teacher and student are

Attracted to each other

For different reasons.

 

The field of energy

Between them is

real and dynamic

 

A pressure gradient of

Information and understanding

Flows both ways.

Respect and gratitude

From the Student

Determine, at least

To some extent

How beneficial

The relationship is, and

Are necessary components of

That relationship, that

Energy field.

 

Also, an inner compulsion

Or destiny

Is at Work, and

A goal beyond what

Either teacher or student

Is aware of.

Abuse as beauty – in the eye of the beholder?

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Spirit seems determined to force, or almost force me to face my understanding of the concept of abuse.

And, before you suggest (He was reading my thoughts, again) that my focus on abuse is itself abusive, consider the idea that you may call abuse in much the same way that a certain story book character called “Wolf”.

There is no similarity whatsoever.

You sound annoyed.

Yes.

As if I was being abusive in suggesting the similarity?

Yes.

I was being abusive?

Yes.

Yes. Perhaps I’ve proven my point.

How?

There was no similarity between your almost eager claim or complaint of abuse and the story. But, hopefully, you can now see how eager you were to claim a self-righteous position by threatening me with the label of abuser.

I was reacting from habit.

Yes. Why?

Perhaps I lacked the skill to..

No. You took an easy way out.

How?

It saved you from facing the situation and accepting that calling “abuse” protects your so-called ego, that has no need of your efforts.

Then, are you telling me that abuse does not exist?

Yes, I am not telling you that. But, it cannot exist unless you acknowledge it’s existence.

What I consider verbal abuse may be no more than someone’s personal style?

Yes, sometimes. And, it expresses where that person is in his or her emotional or intellectual development.

And, when I take it personally, then it expresses where I am in mine?

Yes.

The Original Sin – Abuse of Privilege

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How, I ask Spirit, can we, okay, I, possibly cope with abuse

If there seems to be no escaping from it?

To seek to escape if cowardly, He tells me.

But, Isn’t it possible, I suggest,

That some, okay, that I might sometimes

Take offence to something that someone

Might say or do, and feel

abused by them?

Sensitivity to criticism can only develop,

Spirit explains, from past experience

Of abuse, and we all have

Past experiences of abuse.

That may well be

The original sin.

Letting Spirit use me for a glorious purpose

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Spirit asks me to let him walk with me

and talk with me and teach me how

I can assist Him and other Spirit Teachers

To  bring out the best in everyone

We together connect with, one to one.

It isn’t, He tells me, just for me.

But, oh, do I get so much, in that,

How can He or His co-workers in Spirit

Teach anyone, anything, through me,

Without also teaching me,

In the process.

A win-win situation.

Spirit Teachers with Issues

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I wanted to write about Life as a Mystic, Life as a Channel, Life as a Student, a life-long student to a Spirit Teacher who shares with me so very much wisdom and yet, My spirit teacher seems to have unresolved psychological issues of his own.

Some of Spirit’s methods of teaching leave much to be desired, such as when He seems to se me up to experience stressful situations, followed by an almost gentle explanation of how I handled, the stress, or rather, didn’t handle it very well at all, using a habitual response that has proven unproductive.

The problem, or rather, my problem (not His) is due to reacting instead of responding to challenging situations.

Response, he calmly lectures me, requires contemplation of choices before acting on the situation or challenge.

So, where is He before I mess up with my inadequate response?

When He can surely see what is likely to happen, why not nudge me with a little insight, before, instead of after the fact. That’s why we have detour signs, to prevent unpleasant situations.

Perhaps they don’t teach prevention in Spirit.

Memory of a Summer Morning

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I sat in contemplation, among my much-loved potted vines, shrubs, perennials and colourful annuals that surrounded me, or reached down to attract my attention and appreciation of their beauty. And they were beautiful, each in their own way. Did they know that they provided me with much more than pleasure, or at least pleasure and more? Their profuse foliage screened me from the world, or so it seemed.

The day began, or at least that portion of it when I took coffee, water, books, pen and notebook out to meditate – not every meditator focuses on her navel, or emptiness.

It was a misty, moist morning and yet, even as I recorded this fact, the reality changed. A flat, transparent, almost soft grey blanket of cloud, giving a faint hint of blue sky beyond, gradually transformed itself into a soft, lace stretching across a baby-blue sky. The cloud lace stretched ever more thinner and became tattered, as a beloved old shawl might seem to be by strangers.

I asked Green Maple, close to my patio, and his young friend, Red Maple, what they thought of such a transformation in the sky.

We don’t think at all, they seemed to smugly respond. or, at least we try not to. What purpose would it serve? We accept what is. Why don’t you?

Why don*t I just accept?

Yes.

It’s not possible, at least not for me, not if acceptance is as , case closed. I just can’t seem to be able to do it. I can accept almost anything, if acceptance is a step that requires developing understanding of why, and even then, why, too, must lead somewhere toward progressing beyond even awareness of the why, to a ‘where do I go from here’ question.

Spirit is listening to all of this and suggests that I could learn to live a simple life.

How is that possible, I ask, when Life refuses to be simple?

He drops the pen. Our connection closes. Why?

No response.

Spirit’s Bottom Line

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So, what is the bottom line of Spirit’s teaching?

A simple statement of fact, that awareness is the answer.

Of course, one must first be aware of the question, which is,

Why be good? Why seek to live a good life, as

we seem to intuitively know we should?

Spirit explains: To intentionally harm anyone is to harm ourselves.

The experience would leave its mark on our soul (or in our mind)

until it could be removed, and only removed by

personal suffering, in this lifetime or in another, and

who wants personal suffering?

So much for goodness for its own sake.  I disagree (how can I dare to?).

Something is missing from Spirit’s explanation, at least for me, for,

a calculated goodness, to me, is not goodness at all but,

the pursuit of self-interest.

Spirit agrees with me, even though

I expected a counter-argument. But, of course,

That was his point.

Did he think that I would accept his explanation?

Of course, not. He’s much too clever (and aware of my thinking).

He’s setting me up, again.

To teach Him a lesson on goodness for its own sake, knowing

that I am, for now, not skilled enough to do it.

Something is missing in Spirit’s logical argument of living a good life for self-interest

Feeling good about our choices is missing; emotional satisfaction, whether or not there is a long-term pay-off, and so

I must dare to challenge my Spirit Teacher, even knowing that

I do not yet possess his skills of debate, or his depthof of knowing.

I only know that I am right.

Concepts of crime and punishment belong to a world of fear, whereas

an ideal society must surely be based on compassion and love.

What about love? I ask.

What about love?

What does love mean?

What does love look like? Describe it to me,

You’re asking me to describe Love? I’m surprised and unprepared.

You seem to think you know something about the subject of love.

I only know that you’re wrong, wishing I could offer a more specific and

intelligent response.

How? Why?

I don’t know.

Yes, but you do know, intuitively, in a caring and approving tone (what a change), that

beneath the surface of our conscious thinking there are

motives and intentions beyond our capacity to understand or control.

Do I pass?

Yes.

We’re not there now.

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Spirit tells me that, wherever we may have come from, we’re not there now.

We have either moved forward or slipped back, unless

We have climbed up out of something; a place, situation, relationship or

a state of mind.and

Wherever we are now, the ground is moving

Under us, through us, and

Around us.

Nothing is static.

The Universal Law of

Continuous Motion

Applies to us, to everyone, and to

Everything, both

Individually and collectively.

I don’t know

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Spirit is into interrogation, again, or so it seems.

Who am I? What am I? And, what is ego?

To all three questions, my answer is the same.

I don’t know. But, two can play that game.

I ask Him, You tell me, first, if you can,

Who are you? What are you? and

What is the story about ego?

Who is an individual, He tells me.

I suspected as much.

What is necessarily form, or

Consisting of form.

Again, that agrees with my understanding.

Spirit beings exist, He tells me,

Whether or not they are visible

To the human eye.

Spirit beings can, with permission

(from whom?), materialize

In animal, human, vegetable, or,

Perhaps, in mineral form,

For their own reasons, or

As directed (by whom?).

Now, we get to ego.

Yes, Spirit begins, acknowledging

my understanding,

The human ego is not

in any real way disconnected

From the group ego, which

Is not disconnected from

An ever-more-inclusive mind.

Every area on planet Earth has

Both a local identity and,

at the same time,

a location within planet Earth.

No real separation exists.