Month: March 2010

  • Mystical Gender

    Mystical Gender

    I will go into the mystical component of gender identification. In mysticism, all spiritual figures are shown with strongly “hermaphroditic” traits. In males, there is a drive to “possess” the female traits. In females, the drive to possess the male traits, and instinct tells us this would be a “more perfect” person. This can often…

  • Mixed Traits

    Mixed Traits

    The topic is gender identity. It’s not as obvious as people think and it has nothing to do with sexual preference directly, but everything with our living experience and our sense of how we function. Mostly, we have limited to no sense for how to function. Ones sense of self? Yes basically, but where do…

  • Not Unnatural

    Not Unnatural

    We are talking about gender/biological identification and how it relates to health and self discovery, but we find these in the context of the world family. We have survived as long as we have not for our normal humans. They tend to function sort of like deer caught in headlights. They just stand confused or…

  • We Walk This Earth

    We Walk This Earth

    We have a part of ourselves, let’s call it mind or spirit (whatever you like), but it doesn’t confine itself to the rules of biology. Is there any evidence nature has much in the way of rules there? The majority of plants are actually hermaphroditic though some are dual gender, and earth worms are hermaphrodites.…

  • Less Is More

    Less Is More

    Every day we accept a new day, and hence we change our disposition and composition with this acceptance. In every moment, we accept new conditions of that moment and our own condition alters in the face of this acceptance. With every new idea we accept, we alter the context of other ideas we hold and…

  • Mystic Avatars

    Mystic Avatars

    The idea of the divine manifesting in matter is truly universal, but the particulars differ as does the understanding of context. The original meaning of the word avatar is “descent”, but it’s typically translated into English as incarnation. There are many kinds of avatars and different degrees of divine connection from the Voodoo spirit horses,…

  • Agents Of The Divine

    Agents Of The Divine

    In Shintoism, when a Kanushi sought to exorcise a malicious spirit, they would pray not to be made as a Dragon or one of the high celestial Kami. They would pray to be made like the Oni who were low spirits, savage, and their place in the celestial bureaucracy was as punishers of those who…

  • Guided Grace Meditation #9

    Guided Grace Meditation #9

    Imagine the giant crystal under your feet. Mother Earth will send you energy and anything you don’t need will drain out of you to be recycled into something better. See yourself as worthy. Having worth, importance and value just because you exist. Allow yourself to find the joy in your life and expand that. Guided…

  • Embody Connection

    Embody Connection

    One more aspect of the avatar phenomenon, the Archmagus, or whatever other term is used by the tradition in question. An Archmagus is someone who has collected and embodied all their spiritual metaphysical connections. Meaning all that influences them transforms their nature. They come to be living embodiments of the great force by whatever name…

  • Positive Side Of Darkness

    Positive Side Of Darkness

    I want to discuss the positive side of darkness. I am often in what people would call a dark state. I live in a sort of “half dead” spirit. I am not a very vital man, and for me the heights of emotion, intense joy, etc, are often just not available. I don’t understand what…

  • Path Of The Flaming Sword

    Path Of The Flaming Sword

    An apple seen by a person where no apples grow is a strange and perhaps amazing thing. An apple seen by an apple orchardist is meaningful, but by no means overwhelming. A metaphor comes to mind. The trees of the garden of Eden, but imagine them very far from each other and no longer in…

  • Spiritually White, Black Or Grey

    Spiritually White, Black Or Grey

    I have heard of a method of classifying people spiritually into categories of white, black, or grey. In that theory, we are each more attuned to one or the other. White more toward the light. Black toward the dark and grey in the middle. This inspires a track I think would be very helpful. Feel…

  • Why Do We Regret?

    Why Do We Regret?

    I will begin by defining regret in contrast to other states. What does it mean to regret nothing? If I say I regret nothing, I am saying my actions are totally in keeping with my intention, is this not so? True, but what if the outcome is not in keeping with the intention? That is…

  • Attention To Pattern

    Attention To Pattern

    I feel forced to resort to metaphor now. Ever notice a tree as it grows can break even something much “tougher” than it? If close to a foundation it can damage it, so yes. And if not break it then grow around it, thus still negating the negativity of its presence? Humans are more quickly…

  • True To Yourself

    True To Yourself

    Onto what’s right about regret. You can be aware of inequities in your intentions, and actions, and consequences. This deduction is actually very useful and a source for self informed and self directed decision making, but does “future regret” have the negative emotional load? The emotion is how your body mind gives you feedback on…

  • Move Or Be Moved

    Move Or Be Moved

    What is static? Static is not order, and it’s not unchanging. It’s just unplugged, unadaptive. We are not meant to be neutral. Even if you see emotion as something to be managed and subordinated to reason, your thinking is still not functional if a zero sum is your goal. Zero sum thinking leads one to…

  • Not Trying

    Not Trying

    There is the doing aspect, being in the moment, but what of planning the events and adapting to situations where it arises? That’s its own doing, and your quality of thinking will be much better if you allow your mind events to process as they inevitably will. This will reduce a lot of the clouding…

  • Dealing With Regret

    Dealing With Regret

    I fluctuate back and forth between regret and acceptance. Regret is an internal struggle that you don’t have to do. I feel I’ve learned a lot from what I’ve done, but sometimes the regret of all of it comes back. I’ll be fine for a while, but hear or see something that sets me off.…