I have a supporting phalanx of (stuffed) animals, bears mostly, a couple of frogs, a bat, an elephant, and, naturally, RABBITS. Mr. Rabbit, who does night patrol, has been getting the daylights squeezed out of his paws of late given the unbridled wild and wooly nature of unfolding events. As it turns out, he gives wise counsel and we’ve made it safely to shore through some Scylla and Charibdis-like moments/hours/eternities. I give Mr. Rabbit much of the credit for this: In those darkest hours before dawn where he probably wondered why his paws were in something like a death grip, every darn night, calm still prevailed ultimately. More or less.
Which led us to some astonishing revelations and learning of new things. In that irritating way of blogs, where people say, I really can’t write about this…I really can’t write about this, largely because the particulars involve others. But I can write about this: The nature of time and our existence became so much clearer over the aforementioned period I feel like I popped into a new Universe.
When I started doing the work I do, I was over the moon skeptical about many things I heard from people about the nature of time, the nature of reincarnation, the nature of how our pasts and presents intertwine, along with the nature of how intuition works. Along with a few other things. Plowing through Alice Bailey a paragraph a month has been helpful, because one thing she says (or the Tibetan says, in the crystal clear inscrutable way that is the hallmark of her tomes) is that people who do healing work, be they alternative or mainstream, really have to be tuned up themselves and aligned or else harm can actually be caused. This is, I think, because it isn’t the egoic, personal you who does the work- it’s the You that is part of the All that does it. It’s a direct flow of energy that gets tapped into and guides what gets done. When you are teaching what you need to know, nobody is really being helped, because you aren’t dipping into the vast ocean of knowledge and awareness but rather approaching the whole thing in a very western way of control, domination, personal power; this doesn’t stop alot of people from doing it, of course. Healing work and service is, if it is what you are and thus what you do, not easy. Then again it isn’t hard, either. You see all kinds of things, all kinds of pain and suffering, all kinds of obstinacy and brilliance, love and bravery, while running alongside doing what, essentially, the Universe, tells you to do.
It has been a long period of learning, in short. The learning involves not just learning as we think of it, as in what plant does what and where do you put your hand when someone’s body is in a particular condition. It involves letting go of what you “think” and your “opinions” and the instilled concepts of Right/Wrong as they are understood culturally. Since that right and wrong are usually about the balance of power and maintenance of control and domination. It involves letting go and taking instruction all the time.
The recent paw squeezing events revealed, among other things, that there is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, a sequence of re-creation, reincarnation, and weaving time. We do indeed live many times and in many ways. There are lives in our pasts that reach into our lives in the present. That stardust that becomes US, that holds the work of our souls or whatever word you might like to use, continues spiraling through time, shifting shape. There is, really, no doubt in my mind about all this now. Which to me is pretty amazing.
This has also given me an additional slant on diagnosis. Older cultures had the concept of “soul sickness”; we have lost that to some extent. Soul sickness is not the same as mental illness, either, and there is some frequency in that confusion. Soul sickness involves pieces of time that have become improperly lodged in the wrong place, parts of our stardust (if you will) that got left where they shouldn’t when that particular iteration ended. It is a real phenomenon, Gentle Reader. And even though I myself used to think, oh, yeah, SURE! I now know that this is real, and something that has to be considered in any healing work. It’s a complex constellation of things to look at when considering what might be going on with a person. What time frame is this really from? What caused the propensity for this situation? What is the meaning of it developmentally and emotionally? In addition to the more generalized, necessary, investigation of diet, habits, personal history, and all of that. A person can be mentally ill with a causation in the soul sickness area, but also not. Mental illness can be very specific to this particular body, because of chemistry, life history, things like that. The two things, mental and soul illness, (as physical and soul illness as well) can not be mixed up with each other and treated successfully because the approaches to each are quite different. So essentially, you can never, ever, assume. And you can also never, ever, deny that the always moving river of time is having an impact from way back on where we are in this moment. It’s a question of degree. These impacts are very real, and while attention must be paid on the physical level, the treatment also must take place on a deeper and wider scale. You really, really have to pay attention and listen. If you do listen, the answers will reveal themselves right about the time you can understand them.
So, there’s more but that’s the rough outline for now. And? There is a brand spanking new absolutely heavenly little silver gray donkey in the neighborhood now. Also we saw thousands of geese going north over the weekend and it was breathtaking. As though a giant hand were pointing and saying, see? This is what it is all about. Chill out and do the right thing!
Boozilla: learning to fly one room at a time 