WHERE DO WE RESIDE?

It is cool but the mosquitoes have abated. Sunday night we were able to sit outside, until nightfall, and have our dinner without being eaten ourselves.

We weaned our chicks from artificial heat [lamp] and we let them out into a penned enclosure. They are about five weeks old now and ready for new adventures. The enclosure is not very large and they, soon demolished the little greenery, that grew there. We let them out into the yard yesterday. They roamed through the fringes of the yard, in the tall grass and brush, scratching and finding wonderful things to eat.

I went out about 8PM to shoo them into their house, when I noted a small hawk fly up and drop a chick. It was one of the Colombian Wyandottes. It was partially eaten. A few minutes before, Jamie noted that the chicks all disappeared. Their house, is not far from our house, and one can easily observe their activities from our screen porch. I didn't think anything of it as it was time for them to go in.

Interestingly, I had forewarning of this event. About an hour earlier, the rooster, in our mature flock issued a warning call. I knew from his insistent chatter that he spied some danger. Then, Naomi, said "what was that" and stood up and looked out the screen. She was responding to the noise of a dead branch falling. But in my mind, I thought, "a hawk is after my chicks". Strange, why did that come into my mind, at least, an hour before the very event? 

We have all had premonitions and glimpses into the future and, depending on our disposition, we ignore them, let them bother us, or follow them. However, few of us are able to take them seriously, because they mostly seem to be silliness, our minds make up. We can only assess their validity retrospectively.

Maybe, we have everything upside down. We are always trying to reach a higher consciousness, believing we are trapped in our bodies and existing in dense world. Yet, we are taught, that we are one with everything. We are taught, that we create this world with our thoughts and we are the authors of our experience. If that is true, how can we be these separate entities, that don't seem to know anything?

Let us look at our existence another way. Let us see ourselves, as the consciousness, we are trying to achieve. Let us accept, that we are already expanded beings, that we know our oneness with everything. We already know everything! Perhaps, we need to recognize, that we are limited by a perception, that was foisted on us a long time ago. We know our perception is a changeable and malleable thing. We have learned that it is our 'reality' but is it 'real' reality? While we feel stuck in these bodies we think we are stuck in this consensus reality.

Beginning today, let us accept that we are expanded beings, who are in touch with our oneness with All. Let us realize that our limited awareness is a temporary aberration. We can begin to look beyond our current awareness. Love is our connection. Love is our destination.

Love and Peace,  Gregg