NOW...

...more than ever, in the history of human society are we living lives of grand illusions. We are distracted by the constant bombardment of computer, radio, and television media trying desperately to $ell us lives of contentment, peace and happiness, all for a price that is. The contentment they offer is a need they pattern us into believing we can't do without, an elusive contentment. How much does this cost us; $50 here, $200 there, or what about that $3500 new television so we can be manipulated now in "High Definition"?

Peace, a peace we can not have unless we pay for it with bullets an bombs used to destroy other people's lives so that our peace is “secure”. How much does this cost? Why is there only one country in the world which puts Gross National Happiness above Gross National Product? How much does this cost? I want to know because this is a value system EVERY country in the world should want to develop.

Are you content with who you are and the effect you are having on the world around you? Where does your Gross Personal Happiness lie? Are your happiness and contentment bringing you peace? More than peace of mind, do they bring you to that place inside where your wells of lovelight pour out into the lives of the people you influence both daily, or once in your lifetime?

Illusions which we watch, play, or live in, benefit us when they contain within them a tool for teaching and learning. Beyond that they are mindless fluff created for the purpose of distraction, what the money making industry calls entertainment. We all have the opportunity in our lives to minimize our distractions, and spend more time building community, supporting the people around us, and in turn change the world.

The peek oil crisis is coming and our shortsighted governments have sold our resources and our economy to the lowest corporate interests. The future will be interesting times, and we must spend the lovelight inside us freely if we want love to become a currency of giving for our future.

Love and do, and we may make it through this crisis with better lives, sharing better values and goals with everyone.

Spirit Inertia (II of illuminated lamentations)

SpiritInertia gathers within everyone throughout our lives. It collects like a primordial meta ooze drop by drop with every experience shared, emotion born, in `yin times" and in "yang times". Most often it gathers very slowly, though there are times when the drips and drops become a trickle. I have not experienced it yet, but I believe that some of us have even experienced a stream form and flow, perhaps even a river to carry them somewhere almost unrecognizable to them before that occasion.

SpiritInertia is like all nature, when that last drop needed to make the next individual and intimate leap is added, we experience something unique and perspective changing. Our beings change, but in no way is the change irreversible. We have suddenly discovered a brightly lit path where there was previously only shadows, fog, and cold darkness. We can in the future experience something that for the long buried insecurities or new traumas throw us savagely backwards. We have something though, in those times of cold winter shadows that we did not have the first time we passed this way.

We have memories of those paths we took, and love can be the light to reveal those SpiritLandmarks for us. With outstretched hand we ask for help, courage in our breast and tear on our cheek love will find us and as our companion in faith smooth out the path for us to return to inspired places we experienced before.

Drips and drops, may your SpiritInertia gather within you as brightly as the countless stars they reflect. Shine bright, shine long and affect/infect the communities around you.



"You will always have a lucky star
That shines because of what you are
Even in the deepest dark
Because your aim is true
And if i could only have one wish
Darling, then it would be this
Love and happiness for you"

Love and Happiness Lyrics
Artist(Band): Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
Album: All The Roadrunning

http://www.markknopfler.com/
http://www.emmylouharris.com/

Throbbings...

... in my head, throbbing from the open wound self-inflicted. an enthalpy sensed by the temperatic nerves beneath my atmospheric wrapper. My heart pumps ever onward though I sit here, still. This reaction of reflexively taking into me the air which fuels my corpus vivante by infusing its essential nutrients in the rivers of hemoglobin. Throbbing rivers transport vermilion life, and return deep violet death to be expelled. We are such delicate creatures, living on the balance of diversity in our gene pool. biological miracles of equilibrium.

Each of us born untouched by disease or chemical abuse are pure blood, pure miracle. all around our blue-green sphere we mingle, love share intimate communion, and continue the cycle of miracles. Miracles discounted, devalued, unceremoniously purchased and traded, even extinguished -- they have depreciated so.

The strings of my past lay tattered in places when my true vision failed to recognize the miracle before me. Open wounds, throbbing for attention, subliminally stroking the string, initiating the vibration of recognition and the slow process of healing. A note of love reaching inward prepares and mends the tattered wound until the vibration is recalibrated.

No small feat the recognition of our wounds, let alone the acceptance and motivation to love ourselves through the process of healing. From birth we are programmed to do and believe many things which cloud our true vision. Layers of illusion which accordion before us before we know it, our eyes focus only forward; transfixed by the "pretty pictures". too many pictures on each layer. too many layers which blind us into forgetting about our true vision. It becomes much easier to be given all of these false visions of the world to believe, than to do the work or invest the effort so as to build the skill of our true vision.

True vision has thus far been co-opted, snuffed out or simply allowed to fade away. True vision must be fostered from the beginning of life's breath. At home and in our schools we must teach these miracles to flourish, encourage them to spread their love of self to love those in their community, and give them opportunities to share their vision of the future as co-operative and productive members of society.