Relaxing Tip of The Day
[Iceberg bySam Morris, Iceland. (http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/3058380/).
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It would be nice, if this year,
we would clean up all our oceans:
& make our skies blue again:
but but also make the belt of space around our earth a safer zone!
It sounds like (once you’re in a rocket) you are more likely to die in a space crash, hit by on-coming debris - an artificial moon, a battery, a ladder - than by anything on the surface of planet Earth! It’s a MESS up there! Disgrace to we creatures of stuff.
I vote: Let’s learn to explore minimalistically and sail our inner seas on nothing but a few puffs of breath!
Time to turn a little more inwards. Become a bit more sober on every front. Dry up where we’ve let emotion bleed into clear thinking. Sprinkle spirit where arid ratio has brought drought. Lubricate the cogs of the heart that drive the will to want what we need.
There is a lot of healing to do!
The two words for today are :-
# sacrifice and #service
You don’t have to become blue-stocking about it! But think in terms of concentration, dedication and consolidation.
These words should not drive you into the arms of a guru, but it won’t hurt you to practice giving up your old ideas to make some room for different ideas. It’s only life, people! Life comes in many variations. There is only good life and bad life, pure colours and muddled ones.
Muddy puddles are great for mudskippers, but in your head they suffocate your creativity.
Thinking imaginatively
Jonah and the Whale by Pieter Lastman, 1621, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Now that we know whales don’t look anything like the above, the story of Jonah has become hard to visualise. But whose fault is that? Whose loss is that? Where, anyway, is the word whale used, though? (See, we are still curious…) At best, we find Jesus describing a great sea creature with the word “ketos” (Greek). When would Jesus on his sea of Gallilee ever have seen a baleened mammal?? Fortunately, in esoteric science we have no problem identifying fishy references in etheric dimensions, and in this case specifically the turgid state of mind or a temporary blindness of one lost in the chaos of thinking, feeling, willing, or a soul tumbled from the heights of pride into the gaping gorge of unknowing.
With the thinking that we have already (yesterday, holy-day 9) separated from the three-fold soul (of thinking, feeling, willing) - in order to train it up before reassembling it into a fully functioning soul, we can start to imagine in mental pictures our reality. We would see then how a state of befuddlement is like being trapped in the dark, gungy, slimy, putrid, all-devouring, caged/ribbed belly of a whale. Terrifyingly claustrophobic, probably very turbulent and disorientating, tossed and churned about without an up or down; yet, it is also an “enormous room” with that weight of darkness and loneliness that exists in a dungeon when one is faced with doom.
The period in dark isolation (or dark night of the soul), often occurs out of the blue (and only when one is able to face it, even if it doesn’t feel like it) and it forces oneself to reassess or wake up to the reality that “real life” and the accepted paths of success may be an illusion (maya). It is no less real in the whale than outside it, yet where did “I” go!? The I who was in contol of their destiny?
Learning to feel
The story of Jonah is a tale of initiation into the dimensions of death, a place you roam around in, anyway, as a zombie through life with dead-routine-thinking. In real death, though, consciousness is not extinguished, but trapped within itself when robbed of its sense organs. In the belly of this whale, the need for another type of sensing becomes overtly apparent: you can’t take your eyes and ears and skin with you in the dissolution of your temporal, physical self! How to really feel?
The second functionality we must develop after the first one of imagination, is the one of inspiration. This is the faculty of right discrimination, or close listening. We tend to hear what we know or only up to how much we trust ourselves. Beyond this comfort zone of soothing tones lies fear and effort. It irks us to hear something we don’t like;; it may even threaten us and spook us or hold us in a permanently terrifying grip.
In practice
In medicine, ideally we should have doctors who are no more than perfect observers. With imagination they would use astonishment, compassion and conscience to diagnose (see also: “Out of Which Forces Does the Healing of Man Arise?”by Joop van Dam, http://www.anthromed.org/Article.aspx?artpk=711 , Journal of Anthroposophical Medicine, Volume 7, Nr. 2, Winter 1990). They would see the whole energetic pattern of their patient with its weak spots and root cause for dis-integration or mal-alignment of the four bodies/sheaths that is man (physical, etheric, astral, I) out of which the disorder arises or into which the foreign body nestles.
Next, with inspiration these healers would be guided to find the right remedy. To “be inspired” is literally, to hear the gods speak (in/spirare=to breathe into). This means to tune into the cosmic harmonies, the creative energies, the spiritual entities which inform us of the formative patterning, the geometry or alignment, the composition of the tone or colour of the sum of our parts. It takes the suspension of disbelief to see how this might work. But it can.
Many people believe in life after death and angels in our midsts, God’s helping hand (or stern command!). But can they see this spiritual world in which these operations apparently miraculously come to pass? Can they imagine it and feel it?
Inspiration is not our gut-feeling, but these gut-feelings are indeed the first rumblings of a budding inspirational-organ that wants to break free, precisely from this metabolic hearth. It is in the darkness and the subconscious depths of the lower pole where willing is lodged, like a diamond in the rough. First. we must separate our feeling from this unpolished will force. This is to curb the urge to achieve or compete - which if you are honest tends to come from a root of self-affirmation that goes off track from self-discovery and enters into the slavery of materialistic and conservative powers.
A great use for inspiration lies in medicine
Gut feelings often stem from what we think we need or what we would like to do. Sympathies and antipathies are not good guides in remedying ourselves. Inspiration is not influenced by little I and my libraries of information. The studies undertaken by humble healers only mean to prepare the I for the inspriation.
The studies of remedies (botanical, mineral, animal, chemical) work to fine-tune our inspiration (which comes out of the blue, usually after a good night’s sleep). What happens is, that our soul will have become attuned to the lacuna or disharmony of the life-force of the patient (as observed with imagination) and by studying relations in nature (plants, metals etc) you sensitise yourself to intervals. At night, when the soul (astral-I) separates from our living self, she gravitates towards the music of this interval. Here lie the remedies to restore the harmony in the patient. The doctor does not determine the song the patient must play, but offers a means for returning to the balance between polarities, where health lies.
How does homeopathy work again?
It requires the soul to look at the totality. The whole human being in the context of the harmonious cosmos. It relates parts which go into composing a total symphony. From complementary or opposing pairs it derives intervals of balance, these seem like pauses or fixed states of health, but are actually balancing acts for life. The music goes on and on and on and life takes place in between the notes (that which has sounded, which is past, old, dead, or the after-image of our self and soul).
If we give the patient a plant remedy in a homeopathic trituration (potentised dilution) we appeal to the soul of that patient to read the spiritual blueprint of their healthy state (which is not an absolute condition! But always particular). They discover that they don’t need all that belladonna or foxglove signature in their energetic system. With this soul-intelligence and aha! moment, the body can surrender to a new energetic aligment, where it acts less like the henbane or the digitalis purpurea, and so the body’s fever will come down, or its heart will beat more regularly.
The alternative to soulful is artificial
Chemical medications (artificial interventions) alter the messaging system for the soul, directing instantly the physical operations. It’s like inviting the CIA into your home. They introduce the way it is going to be from now on and condition the body to respond in a specific way. A foreign voice is spelling out the instructions and the soul is no longer in charge. Ultimately this is to give your balance into the hands of pharmaceutical and medical institutions. They know best. And then they change their minds and know something better.
It is all saying that you can’t possibly! teach yourself to be in control of your own chemical balance…. True, sometimes, you need to be told on the spot what to do, so pharmaceuticals have their place in emergency medicine or serious mal-alignments (but mind: “life-threatening” is often a hysterical alert!). Do you really want to fall under the charge of a drill-sargeant 24/7 for large portions of your life? Think of sleeping-pills and mild anti-depressants or tranquilisers, and medications for ADHD and Autism. Is it really always a cause for panic if you are terminally ill?
Learn to listen to the soul as inspired by the music of the spheres!
Liane Collot d'Herbois, from a series of 12 rose paintings, 1984. For therapeutic use: conveying the balanced properties of rose.