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Some Thoughts -Random

Here’s the hard part. To me, part of loving others in this free-will universe means allowing them the room to make decisions and hold opinions and attitudes that we not only may disagree with but may think are destructive or dangerous. Everybody has their own soul path
We can encourage and teach. We can love and pray, even try to talk to their higher selves but we can’t change them. Still they are in our lives and we in theirs for a reason. Trust their soul’s journey and trust source and love them.

when it comes down to it, It’s not the death of the human being Osama bin Laden dying that people seem to be celebrating as much as the fact that a “Boogy Man” has been banished, no longer do we have to check our figurative closets or look under our metaphorical beds, there is now a greater degree of perceived safety..
You see, to me, Bin Laden as a living human ceased to matter soon after 9/11/01, It is the MYTH that Bin Laden has become that people react to and have been for a very long time…

I have heard more sadness that so many of us, as a people are celebrating and cheering an adversary’s death and what it means as far as our own evolutionary progress
I have talked about his physical death being meaningless because the myth and how it has been sold has far outstripped the man.
I have heard questions about whether we are being told the truth. I believe a certain amount of skepticism is healthy especially given the track records of the people we vote for.

A Few Odds and Ends That May Amuse

Lately the universe has been sending me messages about personal integrity. Now I usually think of myself as a fairly honest person. If anything, I will stay silent to either avoid conflict or avoid dishonesty. But still everywhere I turn, on line for sure but even in offline conversations, people on the sky train talking about honesty.
Another thing I’ve been hearing a lot. Each moment is a choice…If we want to have greater integrity, we need to keep consciously make that choice and be more conscious in our choice making. All I can say is I’m working on it.

It needs to come from the heart
we need to come from the heart

when you’re honest with your self then you learn to trust yourself
that seems so obvious

the more you (meaning me or anyone) lie to yourself and others, the more on some level you teach yourself that you aren’t trustworthy

when did hope become a bad thing?

Visionary toilets
a visionary’s bath

Wiccan Women (Part of a poem)

Wiccan women calling down the moon
seeking to travel
seeking to learn
Does it speak to the heart?
Does it speak to within
Does it speak to virtue
Does it speak to your sin
and what have you done
for what do you grieve?
You have lived, nothing more
no matter what they believe

Sleepy Randomness

You remind me of things on the tip of my memory.

Glimpses of colours that have never been given a name.

I don’t believe (today anyway) that my spirit grows with me. Rather I believe that my spirit manifest itself through the whole timeless growth that I have undergone. This whole beingnesss has been a manifestation of my spirit.

If I look at time as a convenient fiction, a conceptual framework by which I make sense of my existence then I perceive magick. For if I am a complete being manifest from beginning to end, then I can definitely un-tense..

I choose happiness I choose joy

If time doesn’t exist, then loss doesn’t either…Every relationship we’ve ever had…every cherished memory continues…and may be revisited..

Thank you universe. I’ve been having a lovely time.

I love..

Semantics–Reaching An Understanding

Semantics is the study of meanings of words. From what I’ve noticed, quite often even tho we believe we’re speaking the same language, we seem to be making the same sounds but for each of us, the meanings can differ hugely.
easy words this applies to:
Light, Dark, Conservative, Democrat, Liberal, God, the Devil, justice, work, job, mission,
I could go on and on…
it seems to me that so much of the conflicts between either individuals or groups of people tends to be the mistaken belief that the other person’s meanings are the same as ours…
Can we forge agreements? Beforehand, say for me this word means this, what does it mean for you?i believe that short of full telepathic conversation,This may be the only way for communication to have a hope of working =)
or perhaps asking as we go along, when you use this word, what do you mean?
because expecting agreement to last or remembering that this is what we agreed on can be difficult… sometimes we almost need to have person to person dictionaries in our head.. then once body language and expression is thrown in……

Most often, I delight in the fact that communication happens at all

What it keeps boiling down to for me is that working to understand another’s heart takes me further than working to understand their words

Forging / Creating / Being a Path

So something a little different tonight, I intend to take a comment i left on someone’s youtube video and expand on it since I kinda like where I seemed to be heading with it and want to expand a bit.
Anyway, one of my IF (internet friends) Lucas was talking in his video about being a shaman or developing as a shaman and how he feels that is his path (I paraphrase here so any distortion of his words I apologize and take responsibility for) and how he will have to get some kind of “mundane” (my word not his) job one of these days to keep him going but that would be one step on his path to helping people.
In the video he mentions some of the people who frequently comment on his (often thought or feeling provoking) videos. Anyway…to make a long story short (“Too Late”) here is the expanded version of my comment:

wow a shout out–now i almost feel like i have to say something profound—hmmm tho maybe pro-lost would be better because its when we lose ourselves or something we value whether it be our beliefs, our selves, our egos that we start seeking so yeah i feel pro-lost 🙂  On my best days that is.
i may be wrong (my standard refrain) but it seems to me that a shaman finds learning experiences and transformation in any endeavor no matter how mundane
(Wax on, whacks off????) 😀 little Karate Kid reference there but kind of shows my drift..that any job or place will further you on the path. 🙂 You could work at McDonalds and add a blessing to each cow-burger you put into a customer’s hand (extend this to any sales job). Physical labour can be spiritually enriching if you can turn it into a meditative practice. And of course there is also the practice of infusing everything you do with love. Of course, I think of these examples as things to strive for, meditation tends to be difficult when hung-over Sam makes sexist jokes at the top of his lungs standing two feet away and adding positive energy to someone’s laundry soap can feel pretty foolish when the customer, doused with perfume insults your intelligence. 🙂 Still dealing with the public does tend to give strong lessons in tolerance.

The Sorcerer / shaman Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda’s books said that any path could be a path with heart and these days I tend to believe this. Any activity, job, recreation or relationship  can be an avenue for growth if we set our intention that way. Of course that can be difficult to remember at the best of times. I also have found that we tend to stay with the job, relationship etc until we either learn what we need to learn (receive its gift) or pass the point where that remains possible.

A Thought or Two

More dog-walking inspiration 🙂

I was thinking tonight about how much power exists in our words. If being a shaman means we have the power to alter reality then our words make us all shamen or priests or prophets. For our words can inspire others so that their lives are turned around or wound them. I guess in some ways I reiterate the ideas in the song Children will Listen from the play “Into the Woods”

Lyrics

Careful the things you say
Children will listen
Careful the things you do
Children will see and learn
Children may not obey, but children will listen
Children will look to you for which way to turn
Co learn what to be
Careful before you say “Listen to me”
Children will listen

Careful the wish you make
Wishes are children
Careful the path they take
Wishes come true, not free
Careful the spell you cast
Not just on children
Sometimes the spell may last
Past what you can see
And turn against you
Careful the tale you tell
That is the spell
Children will listen

How can you say to a child who’s in flight
“Don’t slip away and i won’t hold so tight”
What can you say that no matter how slight Won’t be misunderstood
What do you leave to your child when you’re dead?
Only whatever you put in it’s head
Things that you’re mother and father had said
Which were left to them too
Careful what you say
Children will listen
Careful you do it too
Children will see
And learn, oh guide them that step away
Children will glisten
Tample with what is true
And children will turn
If just to be free
Careful before you say
“Listen to me”

Children will listen (repeat 3x)

Definitely a lesson that I keep learning with Zev. I make mistakes from time to time and speak from anger or from frustration and it gets hit home very quickly my power to wound or to heal

But then we all have that child within us, that vulnerable character who can hear things that inspire us (sometimes just to keep on keeping on, sometimes to reach heights we never dreamed of) or crush us. People we love and sometimes strangers work their verbal magic on us as we work it on others.

As speakers, let’s use our magic to build rather than destroy. By this, I don’t mean to say that everything we say has to be positive, honesty plays a part in this too, at least I believe it does. It strikes me that as communicators we could do far worse than trying to honour the expression “First do no harm” .

As listeners too, we have power and responsibility also. We all have the ability to take what another person has said to us or within our hearing and twist it to our own ends, using these words to either wound ourselves or justify any maner of outrageous behaviour.