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Restoring Sanity

October 31, 2010

I have enjoyed the coverage this weekend of Jon Stewart and the Daily Show’s efforts to restore sanity at their huge rally this weekend on the Washington Mall. We hear in the media about the radical voices, often ridiculously expressed, coming from the left and the right. The media magnetizes to the absurd and sensational, but not so much the reasonable people who are not trying to force their opinions upon others, not holding up banners so that you will “believe”, not polarized to the point of deafness to other views, just reasonable people making rational choices as best they can. Those are the invisible majority that also need a voice. These comedians, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert offered that to them this day. My spirit has been refreshed and delighted in what came from this.

Then tonight I heard a radio broadcast from BBS radio interviewing Chris Moors, a friend, who spoke of the simple values of getting back into nature and listening to dreams, and did so with a humor and equilibrium that livingly expressed the values he espoused.

I feel renewed hope and spirit. God bless the middle path.

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Must Have Done Something Good

October 30, 2010

In the middle of big sorrows and complexities in my life right now, the experience I keep having, and the word for that experience, is Grace. There are showers of grace flowing. The universe is made of such elegant grace. When the channels open up to sense it more fully, the world feels made of magic.

I was reminded of the wonderful song from The Sound of Music tonight that says, “Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could, so somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.” A profound truth is expressed in these lines. The channels of this magic and grace do open when we align ourselves to the best intentions of our hearts.

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Mind in Matter

October 29, 2010

Strength of mind does not come from transcendence from matter, but “inscendence” into matter. There are times when the body takes over and tells what we think of as “mind” what is really going on. The body knows, it tells the truth. “Mind over matter” is in one sense another form of illusion and control. Mind in matter, for incarnated beings, holds the key, I believe.

The sick or aging body is telling us what the universe is really about, and what it wants. To ignore or hope to rise above it is to miss the point.

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Athena

October 27, 2010

Ancient Goddess of wisdom and war, born from the head of Zeus after he swallowed her mother, this goddess is a powerful protector and inspirer for those on particular kinds of quests. She has showed up in my dreams recently in her guises to let me know she is watching, available, and helping. The wars I fight are inner wars with myself, and that is where she excels I believe; that is where the only real advances are made. I want to just speak her name today, honor her, because I feel her grace pouring through.

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Whom Do You Serve?

October 27, 2010

In the Arthurian legend of Parsifal’s quest for the grail, his classic question to the Grail King was, in some versions of the legend “what ails thee?” And in others it was, “whom does the grail serve.” Parsifal’s quest is everyman’s quest. “What ails thee?” is the question that a knight must not ask, but Parsifal does. And thus the castle disappears and his quest for reconnection with it begins. This version of the story has been a major inspiration to me.

The question of “Whom do you serve” is to me a less known, and less contemplated version of this myth that tells our human story. But I have been contemplating it more. Life delivers opportunities for where to focus our energies every moment of every day. It can be very difficult to sort out which way to go at any give n moment. Asking this question, “whom do you serve?” helps me. If the answer is “Love” then I know I want to go that way. If what else calls me serves some other value more than it does love, I know I would rather choose the direction that moves toward loving – loving life, loving those most close in life, loving those the gods have given each of us to love, loving earth, our mother, and everything that will protect and care for her. The question is a simplifier. I like it.

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What the… ?

October 25, 2010

I want to tell this story because for two days every time I think about it I have burst into laughter out loud, having to work to suppress it in public so I don’t disturb the masses with spontaneous belly laughing. Yesterday my neighbor was on his roof working on some chimney repair. His wife was below as he sent a tape measure down the chimney and they were discussing what needed to happen. Hannah, their 3-year old granddaughter, who was inside came up to check out the situation. She heard Papaw’s voice from inside the stove. She said, “Where are you, Papaw?” He said, I’m right here! She said, “What the hell are you doing in there?” Now this is a child that doesn’t usually use such language, but the situation of Papaw in the stove definitely seemed to call for it.

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Hannah, the Moon and the Deer

October 24, 2010

I got to play with my 3-year-old neighbor Hannah today. She’s getting a reputation now – a friend at the recent conference from which I just returned spoke of Hannah with respect and appreciation after reading of her on my blog. I love that she’s touching the wider world from her little home on Max Patch Road in such a way.

Today Hannah told me, and her family members affirmed, that she has a good friend named Danny who lives on the moon. They talk on the telephone. I asked her what they talk about and she says that he goes out and gets her deer meat and brings it back to her so she can eat it.

Hannah is very convinced of her friend Danny, and I believe her. I believe we do have spirit friends, that children are closer to them, and that the telephone is an excellent image for how we talk with them. I have done extensive work and study with some shamans of the Huichol tradition. To the Huichol the deer is the highest symbol of the divine, it is sacred. I have a deer skull and antlers hanging in my home which was gifted to me by one of these shamans, and I cherish it.

If Danny is going off to get deer meat for Hannah to eat, I am enthused beyond belief. I hope to meet him somehow maybe, but in any case I honor and thank him for being so good to my friend.

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Village Life

October 23, 2010

I have read, listened to and loved the words of many indigenous teachers, and it can be difficult when I want to quote one and can’t remember who said it. Now is such a moment. One of them pointed out that in earlier cultures houses were built to last about 5 years; built of such things as mud and grass and dung and thatch. When it was time for the home to be rebuilt the whole village would step in and help. Someone’s house always needed rebuilding, and in getting that done the bonds of the community were strengthened. This teacher pointed out that now we have learned how to build houses that last, but relationships disintegrate.

Some great friends in Asheville have just built a new home, and had the wisdom to call on friends to come help along the way. Today I went to help paint. For hours we worked in a small space, and talked and talked and talked. The luxury of such long conversations is so rare unless there is such work to be done; otherwise our “schedules” are too full.

Conversation is the most creative, binding, powerful force in the world to unite friends and communities. Why it isn’t revered for its own sake is a mystery. In earlier times there were needs such as grinding corn, weaving baskets, sharpening stones for arrowheads that occasioned people sitting and talking hour upon hour, a flow of energy that feeds the spirit. Today we no longer have such common rituals to bind us, and maybe need to recreate and find them. Texting and e-mailing are instinctive attempts to keep the larger conversation going, but are not the same.

Painting with my friends today I recalled these thoughts. Barn raisings, house painting, garden planting – communities of friends have a lot to offer each other by inviting each other into it.

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Trickster, Magician, Shaman, Accountant

October 22, 2010

I had my first meeting with a new accountant today. I dread looking at financial anything, as this is an undeveloped area for me, and triggers feelings of incompetence. I thought we might pour over some numbers, he would know what he was looking at, I wouldn’t, and it would be difficult, with some anxiety involved.

Instead for our first meeting his only agenda was to suggest ways for me to train my mind, to clear it from fears or doubts, to be grateful, optimistic, and excited about the work I’m going to do and the abundance it is sure to bring. I sensed a bright light shining all around us. When we parted I felt as though I had been exorcised of demons.

Now that is the kind of accountant you want, a magical person. H Hanson. I feel so fortunate to have found him.

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Instantaneous Healing

October 21, 2010

I am remembering a dream I had some years ago, the details of which I wish I had time to look back into my dream journals to find right now, but I will tell what I remember. I am on the bottom of the ocean, there is a university, I am getting my Ph.D. in Angelology, (a term that I had never heard of before the dream but have since read is one that is used somewhere), and there is something we are learning about instantaneous healing. The message seemed to be that humans are set up now to believe that it takes time to recover from ailments at all of the levels – emotional, psychological, physical, spiritual. We don’t truly realize yet that instant healing is possible; that it is literally possible to go from a state of sickness to a state of freedom from that sickness in an instant when things are lined up right. That was what we are learning about in this school at the bottom of the sea regarding the science of Angelology.

People struggle now for years to recover from traumas, abuses, illnesses of every kind, and the set up has been that it takes those years to integrate the shocks, the information, work through the healing processes, and become free of the effects. Our best shots now at “instantaneous healing” involve repression, or severance and marginalization of the issue. These are band-aids on the problem, helpful for a time but not healing. There is much information that we have yet to integrate regarding the true possibilities of healing.

Jesus was the Miracle Man who healed in a moment. It is possible. I loved what one of the participants in a conference I recently attended said by way of response to one of the lectures. He called up Jesus’ words, “And greater things than these shall ye do.” The fellow remarked, “This is not a scriptural phrase that I hear preached upon very often.”

So true. And what the passage says is true. We just have to live into it.

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