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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Meditation journal: Wednesday

I missed it yesterday, and all day I was a little regretful about that. That, in itself, is progress! There was a time I knew I should practice what I know is good for me, but I just didn't wanna! It has taken years to understand this resistance, and now finally, to get past it. It comes with realizing that the formulas for meditation that I was taught were, for me, obsolete. It was like still having to write using that special lined paper used in first grade to help kiddies learn to write. It... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Hello, Me!

This morning when I sat to meditate, again on the front deck, though it's quite a bit cooler today, I sat comfortably with my feet on the floor, my hands apart and resting in my lap. I closed my eyes. I said hello to my feet, their numb parts and the sensitive ones, giving them both some love and gladness for all they do and have done for me. I continued, greeting and appreciating my legs, and hips and all the way up... I greeted my muscles and bones and ligaments and all... my blood and other... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Meditation

Yesterday, the day after that marathon tea-party, I thought to ground myself, and found that it wasn't quite happening. That's when I considered that perhaps after the long hanging-out with a fairly intense and also energy-sensitive but untrained person, I should have done some clean-out meditation. So, I went out on the deck with my coffee, sat there near the dovelings, and meditated for the first time in a very long time. (Why does anyone, equipped with skills and tools for self-care, simply... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

A summing up

Imagine if religions of the world had never taught that bodies should conform to spiritual truths and realities. Imagine if religions had left the physical aspects of life to physicians and scientists, and stayed focused on spiritual health and well-being. It isn't true of all religions, of course, but the ones most in our awareness as the descendents of Europeans, with religions based in interpretations and translations of the Bible's Old and New Testaments, and the Koran. I have not studied... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 10, 2021

I Am Not White: a first draft.

I am not white... Not white, but tones of pink of gentle shades of tawny with constellations on my skin of greater and lesser magnitudes of browns. My eyes are blue or sometimes more like grey. It's a mood thing or a product of surroundings and ecologies. My blood is red as bright as anyone's. My hair has lived through sun-touched gold and lightish, dullish brown, and through fads of colors unnatural And come to white and grey and a touch of aqua for the fun of it! The heart of my heart pulses... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 9, 2021

From the beginning of life on Earth...

...every one of us, every child of every mother, is the latest of a successful line of evolution. And every girl is descended through a straight line, mothers all the way. That is a very, very long line! Every one of us, an iteration of the Divine expressed in flesh. And for some of us, this is where Science meets the Divine, and they go down the road together, holding hands. Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 14, 2021

"What would you do for a Klondike Bar?"

Watching EVIL on Netflix. Interesting... It's the metaphor of the perpetual battle of Good vs Evil through the filters of the Catholic Church vs the Demonic Heirarchy. That isn't the point of it though, that's just the vehicle for the stories and the lessons it is offering. The point is that we make choices, that our choices begin with how we choose the influences that help us make our decisions; that there are things essentially wholesome, and things essentially inimical to life and happiness,... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 8, 2021

The Feminine Myth, Feminine Reality

In honor of the mythic Woman who stands behind every real Woman... MEDUSA O maid, you once were lovely, full of grace, and named for Wisdom in eternal female form-- Metis, Maat, Medha the names you bore... But the passing generations, reshaping and restructuring your form, made you over as a thing to fear, no longer Maid, but monstrous with a deadly, stony gaze; Men made you cruel and cold and perilous to life in latter days, forgetting that the peril in your eyes is Truth too true for them to... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Because communication is all about connection of mind to mind:

This is about a philosophy of language, about communication, about the annoying changes in usages when spoken language becomes written--such as, on social media. Yes, the English language lives, it grows and it changes. New words come into use steadily. But the language also decays and degrades over time. Ignorance and laziness are the entropic forces, just as insects and bacteria and elephants decay and degrade a forest. Management of those forces is the difference between a jungle and a... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Can there be morality in the rejection of religion?

This question is being warmly if not hotly debated over on Facebook today. The question arose and the first comment declares with great certainty, No! There is a big difference between morality and righteousness. Both are personal and subjective, and based in one's own notions of how energies flow through the universe, and what one believes about personal responsibility. In my opinion, based on over six decades of very interested observation, the Righteous tend to be smug and judgemental, and,... Sign in to see full entry.

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