CONNECTEDNESS

We are going to need to hustle to get our Fall chores done. We have 25 chickens crowing, flapping and scratching around that should be in the freezer. We have potatoes to dig, tomatoes to pick and process and a couple bushels of apples languishing on the trees. Normally it would be long past tomato season, but we have avoided frost. It looks like a hard freeze may occur later this week. I spied a flock of Slate Colored Juncos yesterday, our harbinger of coming snow, and sure enough snow is in the forecast.

I am going to begin a conversation on connectedness. We talk about love. We say love is everything. We say we are all one. But how does it work? Just how are we connected? Connection through the mind is talked about; still not understood, but discussed. How about our heart connectedness? How does that work?

We are all aware of our feelings. We experience them around our breastbone and up into our throat. They well up and cause a lump in our throat or bring tears to our eyes. Imagine our hearts are energy centers sending out electromagnetic energy to all other hearts. Our physical heart electrically charges the blood which flows throughout the body. It offers a profound connectedness to the bodies organs and all its tissues. The energy of our heart center appears to transcend the body and connect with all other heart centers.

Our poetry doesn't seem confused about this issue. The heart is the home place for love. It is the generator of love. But hasn't it taken second place to the mind in our modern culture? The mind thinks with thoughts; it can be very clear but can be obscured by logic which is never trustworthy. The heart knows with feelings; that knowing can be obscured by hurt.

The introduction of fear into our consciousness many eons ago severed our connectedness. The fear in the mind that you may be killed or eaten by a sabre toothed tiger is nothing compared to the fear of being unlovable and losing your connection to those who are valuable to you.

Those interested in power over others, soon learned that fear of bodily harm had limits but fear of rejection was almost unlimited. Over the centuries there have been very few who could stand up to the scorn and rejection of the rest of us. For the last several thousand years parents, teachers and society in general have used emotional rejection as a way of controlling children. They have used that pain we all feel in our chest to manipulate the child. Many times it has been unwitting other times by design.

Society has suppressed the knowing in our hearts. We have elevated the dominance of the mind and characterized our hearts as unreliably squishy. We will see that this is a huge untruth that aided those who would control us continue their agendas of separation and conflict.

Our hearts have been hurt. they have been laden with the pain of childhood and the fear of rejection. Rejection is judgement. It is a big job. but we must determine to put the hurt behind us. We need to understand that the hurt we have felt is not really real; it was engineered and part of the illusion that is fading away.

The importance of our heart connectedness can not be overstated. Our hearts are fountains of love. Our hearts send out beams of love to all other hearts. We need to free our hearts from the walls of protectiveness we have surrounded them. We can't really be hurt. Tear down the walls and fill up the moats. Reach out to other hearts and let them reach out to you.

All aggression, violence and interpersonal negativity becomes impossible when your heart is open. We see the hurt in others and are compassionate. We give them healing energy. We see everybody as us. Some are hiding behind walls, some are emerging but they are all us. Let our hearts rule or minds. We have had it backwards for along time.

I haven't forgotten that I was going to talk about the grinding economic crash. There is still too much hidden. I want, what I have to say, to be understandable and easily verifiable; the time is not yet but soon.

Love and Peace,  Gregg