HEAT WAVE

We are experiencing a July 4th heat wave. I feel like I am living in a bubble because we have the air conditioning on, which is a rarity. We have a geothermal heat pump which converts to cooling in the Summer. We rarely use the cooling function because our house generally cools off at night, even when it gets to ninety during the day. During this particular time, it is not cooling off at night. One hot, sleepless night and the air conditioning goes on. It is 95F right now and muggy.

Jamie remarked that my last blog seemed painful. I don't remember it that way. When you waltz with the ego, you are going to get thrown in the muck, but I know how to lift myself up; downturns are only momentary or at least they need not be longer.

 Keep in mind that a teacher only teaches what he or she is trying to learn. And the world has it backward; the teacher always learns more than his students {listeners, readers}. The teacher learns from everything that comes out of his mouth {typewriter etc.} plus the reflection from those the teaching is aimed at. The fact that the teacher is determined to learn gives the message its passion and urgency. This is, also, true with classroom teaching; although in that case the teacher's learning could be in a whole myriad of areas in human interaction, not just the official class subject.

I just read a reinterpretation of the Eden story. In this version, man was not kicked out of paradise. He just quit seeing it because he embraced ego. The serpent in the story is ego; the conveyor of judgement, of better or worse, of separateness etc. It is all perception. We see what we believe. We can't live in paradise as long as we choose ego as our co-creator.

According to this interpretation of the myth, we have never left paradise. We just need to perceive it correctly. We begin to do this when we turn from our ego and face the unconditional love that is our make-up. We then see what the world really is, we find that we have not left paradise.

The best way to realize the love in yourself is to practice seeing it in everyone else. The more you see love in your neighbor the more it flows from you. As your perception of love increases the greater the glimpse of paradise.

The raising of the consciousness, through this process, will bring about great changes in the world. Already, the old world is crumbling. There are already amazing changes taking place behind the scenes. When the media becomes more free we will be astounded at what has already taken place.

Have a wonderful Fourth of July celebration.

Love and Peace,  Gregg