WHY I BLOG

My life is perfect, but my mind is blank. Since I can't think of anything to write today, I will discuss why I blog in the first place.

When I first started this blog, I envisioned writing about self-sufficiency. I could see that the end of our present civilization was approaching and I felt folks needed guidance on how to live off the land. I wanted to create a blog where there would be much discussion and participation by the reader.

We lived for many years, with our garden and small farm, as the main source of food. We didn't have electricity for seven years and didn't have modern plumbing for ten years. We lived elegantly and comfortably. We heated and cooked with wood. We raised chickens, sheep and goats. Made our own cheese. We had a cow and horse once, and we raised pigs. We learned how to make and smoke our own bacon and ham and Jamie became quite an expert on canning and drying foods for storage.

I thought that when everything crashes, this knowledge and experience would be valuable. I wanted to share it so others could achieve self-sufficiency in relative comfort.

That never happened. I am, also, fascinated with, who we are as human beings, our evolution, where we have been and where we are going.

I haven't given up on the idea of self-sufficiency as of significant value, but as I talked about what appeared to be happening, it seemed that our spiritual evolution was the most important thing.

Jamie and I have been on a spiritual quest since we met. I was on a path of agnostic, intellectual humanism and one of our first serious arguments was about reincarnation. She thought it was plausible and I thought it was the most anti-intellectual claptrap I ever heard of. But, if I am anything, I am curious. I was in the private practice of psycho-therapy at the time and I had taken courses in hypnotherapy. Most of my clients were more than willing to see if they had a past life. At first, I assumed, that the past life experiences, that emerged, were created by ego [some wish fulfillment]. It became impossible to explain them that way or any other way but to speculate, perhaps, reincarnation is a reality.

Once I opened up my mind to the idea, that there was more to the human experience, than intellectual humanism explained, I was on a path of discovery. Jamie introduced me to the Edgar Cayce material and several other related works. So here I am today, with the help of Carlos Castaneda, Ram Dass, The Course in Miracles [went through three times] and many, many more works that are just as good as the ones mentioned.

When I started out my blog, with the idea of  focusing on self-sufficiency, I was hoping, for many questions and comments, I could relate to. I couldn't keep a blog, of that nature, going without knowing what people wanted to learn about. Did folks want to know about canning, chicken raising, compost, mulching, cheese making, keeping things cold without electricity or ice, food storage, latrine building, heating water and bathing without running water, lighting, making candles, how to tell when a hen stops laying, there is really no end to the topics that could be discussed. I couldn't guess what people wanted to know.

Ah, but spiritual and psychological evolution! I am in the middle of that. I want to know who I am and where I am going. What are we! Who are we? How do our minds work? What happened to all the civilizations that have gone before? How did our minds get corrupted with fear? Who corrupted our minds with fear? Why would anybody want to control us? What is power anyway? Why would someone want power over others?

I puzzle about the last question. Why would one want power over another? Power means one cannot experience love. A person who is afraid of another's power can't love that person. How could one love someone who is in control of them? If they are good, we could appreciate them. We may honor them. I suppose one could love as a child loves a parent. But adult love includes the possibility of intimacy, it implies equality. It invites a sense of oneness.

Then it occurs to me that those into power don't seem to care about love. They are not nice, unless they are being manipulative. They don't seem to understand kindness, for kindness sake. Is it possible that they are so convinced that they are unlovable that control, through power, is the only closeness they can experience? Do you suppose the cabal is made up of folks who are incapable of love? Or, at least, think they are?

This blog has really turned out to be a ramble. So, in the absence of questions comments etc., I write about what I am trying to learn. And I am learning, I teach myself something every time I write.

I feel, with all my heart and mind, that we are on the cusp of a new age. I believe that our insistence on love is creating a new world. The fear generators are dying. We need only to resist fear, in all its forms, to increase the light. Love is everything. Let us keep focusing on paradise. We will bring it about.

Love and Peace,  Gregg