SleepingOrchid

Hummingbird – The Soul – You Nourish Your Own

DREAMS – Do you dream of hummingbirds? The impossible flight of the bumblebee? According to C.S. Lewis, we are not a Body with a Soul, we are a Soul with a Body. Our body may be very mutable, but our soul is immortal. Do you dream of past lives? See yourself in historical contexts? Do you have dreams of utter bodilessness where you are totally free, seeming to travel invisibly through the power of your mind?

Accept Your Immortality – Can we destroy our own immortality through abuse and disbelief? Some of us act like we want to! Even if heaven and hell are choices some continuation of our will and our energy will doubtless continue. If we fight against this, it’s as tragic as battling against one of our talents (“I’m never going near that guitar.”) Who are you harming? The direction we need to travel is in making being our own best company a reliable, eternal pleasure.

Challenge – What if our mind changes the way our body does? Think about the differences between you, all grown up, and you at say, three years old. Imagine the joyous understanding with which you finally “get” the previously incomprehensible. If you just accept that possibility, you can enjoy that now.

Dangers – Christians locate the misery of non-progress in sin, Buddhists call it “clinging”. We grab on to any passing thing to stay our flight but of course it doesn’t work! The G forces build up as space revolves around us, meanwhile we are clinging to some crappy object, or some person on a different trajectory. Let those things go. Don’t be frightened by your feelings, just study them, turn them into huge iridescent bubbles, and “blow” them out. Enjoy the flight.

Opportunity – Think about one of the parables, in which everyone is invited to a glorious feast. People are so threatened by this, they not only don’t go, they murder the messenger. Watch the glorious film, Groundhog Day. Poor weather forecaster Bill Murray is sentenced to living the same thing over and over and over again, trying everything to get out of it, including suicide. Finally he decides to learn how to simply just enjoy the life he has been granted, and to be as nice as possible to the other frightened, enraged, confused souls around him. Only then is he able to move on to the next level which turns out to be the rewarding love of his dreams.

Mantra – EXULT