BALANCE

 It continues hot on Laughing Water Farm. The mosquitoes have yet to abate; but, there is a cooling predicted for next week and this latest mosquito hatch has got to end sometime. From our screen porch, the world is magnificent. There is a hen pheasant that comes into the yard in early evening. She has ten little ones with her, about the size of robins. I was surprised to see daddy standing about thirty feet away observing. I didn't know pheasant roosters stayed close to hens and chicks. The hen and chicks scratch around, under the bushes, in last years fallen leaves; pecking continuously, while daddy watches, almost motionless.

As we reach for love and greater spiritual awareness, we sometimes come in conflict with our bodies. It is a strange conflict. It is an ancient conflict that can be traced back as far as our literature goes. Many saints and savants seemed to be saying, that we needed to give up all bodily focus in order to grow spiritually. Many other saints and savants, pointed out, that this is nonsense. We are in bodies, we identify with our bodies. What we need is balance.

We still have conflict. Why? Perhaps, it is because we were taught to be ashamed of our bodies. Weren't we taught that our bodies were vaguely or not so vaguely sinful? Weren't we taught that sex was a dangerous thing? The institutions, of control, constantly dangled pleasure  before us, and then condemned us when we reached for it. Religion has used sex as one of their most significant control mechanisms. Very clever, the ultimate divisiveness, splitting our spirit from our bodies, and creating a war, where none need exist.

We have made a great deal of progress in recent years. Yet conflict still exists. It is true we are not bodies. We are immortal energy manifesting bodies. Our bodies are ephemeral, our spirit immortal. How does that make our bodies bad? One could argue the opposite, we better appreciate them while we can.

One obvious problem, is that our culture, has denied the existence of Spirit. Despite religion, being quite universal, they don't teach much about Spirit, at all. Science has denied Spirit, because they can't accept anything they can't prove. It doesn't seem to occur to them, that they can't prove most of our day to day observations and experiences about life. However, the direction quantum physics and plasma physics is going, science will accept the existence of Spirit, before the laymen in the street. It will be referred to as some kind of energy.

How do we achieve balance? STOP JUDGING! Is it that simple? All those conscious and unconscious prejudices about Body are based on judgement. We can make some simple statements: when we focus exclusively on Body, we blind ourselves to Spirit; when we are pursuing pleasure, spirit awareness takes a back seat. So.............. is that where the problem is? It appears that, the myriad of little judgements, we make are what causes the problem. This dichotomy has been used as a control mechanism for thousands of years. It won't take long to get out of it, however.

We are discovering that judgement, at all levels, blocks Love. All those little judgements we make, prevents light from shining on the issue. As we give up our judgements we will See. All is One, both horizontally and vertically. We are One in Spirit and, as long as we create this physical illusion, it is ours. We are one with it.

We can't pretend that we understand this very well. But, we can be confident, we will. Love will show us the way. In the light. we can See.

Love and Peace,  Gregg