DISEASE

I am getting a late start this Morning because I spent a good portion of the night coughing. I have got some medicated cough syrup, but I was able to get along without it Saturday night, last night I should have given in and used it.

Jamie and I are at the tail end of a cold that began two weeks ago. It was worse for Jamie than me, because she is still recovering from surgery. Every time she coughed it pulled on her stitches. But for the most part she slept well at night, I get the all night tickle; just enough to keep one from falling asleep.

I recently read that all disease is psychosomatic, which is something I believe anyway. As an early psychoanalytic devotee, I believed everything of the body must originate in the mind. At the time that was an agnostic point of view. Now that I see things from a more spiritual point of view, I see myself as Spirit manifesting a body. Oneness means that when spirit is activating the body there is no demarcation between the two. The portion we call mind is responsible for our experience. We create our total experience. We call to us the experiences we feel will help us grow. So somehow I am having this experience of sickness, because I want to.

I don't object to this interpretation at all. It doesn't cause me any conflict. When it is all over, and some weeks from now, I will be able to look back and put it all in perspective. That is, if I have the slightest interest in looking back. I will be into new experiences and this nightmare of a cold will be an ancient memory.

It is easy for me to accept that disease is my creation. However, when having the experience, it is not beneficial to wonder the reasons why. It is time for simple acceptance. We shouldn't wallow in our disease. We shouldn't hoist it on a flag pole for all to see. We shouldn't be competitive with each other and vie for whom is the sickest. But we do need to accept it.

Accepting disease is like boarding a train, we bought the ticket, we might as well settle back for the ride. Enjoy the scenery. Yes, enjoy. We can have compassion for ourselves, treat ourselves with love. We can settle back down inside ourselves and beam healing light on our bodies. We can even be happy. Yes, between the snuffling, sneezing, coughing etc. we can feel a cozy warmth, a love for ourselves. It is a healing love.

Disease always creates some degree of self-centeredness. That is okay, it can be love.

There is a huge event happening in our world. The economic collapse is accelerating and getting very little coverage. The government shutdown is interesting theater, at best. The media will blame the collapse on the government shutdown or a default, if it happens. This collapse is based on trillions owed that can't be repaid. The world is bankrupt and has been for several years. The Federal Reserve and Central Banks around the world have kept things going by printing money. Money that can't be repaid. It is crunch time.

By Wednesday some trends should emerge and perhaps I will be looking beyond the perimeters of this disease.

Love and Peace,  Gregg