Hummingbird – The Soul

What Are Warriors Fighting For? C.S. Lewis says we are not Bodies with Souls, we are Souls with Bodies. These bodies may be very mutable, but the soul within is immortal. Nevertheless, they are under threat. The Sin Against the Holy Spirit is the sin that cannot be forgiven, and it attempts to slaughter the soul. Warriors therefore fight the greatest battle there is, for themselves and others.

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 deny 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 ourselves a reliable, eternal pleasure.

Warrior Challenge – Obviously our minds change the same way our bodies do. We grow up! Think about the differences between you now, and you at say, three years old. Imagine the joyous understanding with which you will eventually “get” what seems now incomprehensible. If you just accept that possibility, you can enjoy the Now.

Warrior Danger – What Christians call “sin”, Buddhists call “clinging”. We grab on to any passing thing to stay our upward 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 who is 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. Learn to enjoy the flight, no matter how wild it gets.

Warrior Opportunity – Think about the Biblical parable 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 escape, including suicide. Finally he decides to learn how to 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. That is the Progress of the Soul which we defend.

Models – “the living soul, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled”

– Horace Mann

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” – Carolyine Myss

“Without applied awareness of the soul, happiness can’t arise”

– Dada Bhagwan

“The desire to know your own soul ends all other desires” – Rumi

#Haiku: Last Minute

Bone grows
Mind crashed
Soul merge
Skin graft
Intervention –
Light shaft
Angel…?
Laughed.