Round table question: How is it with your soul?

It's glowing quite a bit. Been doing energy work in anticipation of going home after a long stint overseas. It's getting a bit crazy here with a few more days to go and then the craziness at home, I'm looking forward to it all and see it as a positive challenge.

I'm trying to boost my power awareness so I will be up to the task to mellow out the the apparent troubles with the homecoming. I know it takes a while to blend back in.

So, who's next? How's your Soul?

Another good idea Kathy,

Aedan, I hope all goes well with your trip home and re-adjustment to being home.

When I seem to get really with my soul, to the place where I can experience it, it feels like I'm a new born baby, drinking in mother's milk - seems like I can't get enough of it. The soul is wonderful, the rest of me when I'm not drinking it in? So, so.

I'm lately struggling with the concept that we are truely all one. I've been stuck behind a pickup truck twice this week that has been converted to deisel. The truck leaves a black cloud behind it everytime it accellerates. It has a piss on PETA bumper sticker and a confederate flag bumper sticker. Am I really at one with this driver??? Hopanopo and prayer - I must find the black cloud within me and clear it up. If you're reading this please envision this driver and me as kind, thoughtful people, completely healed of all emotional hurts and wounds and ready to be thoughtful of and kind to all other people and animals. There, that feels better already.

Peace and love,

Wendy

Thank you Kathy for the inspiring post.  I like the idea and I hope you don't mind if I use your post to ruminate for a bit.  Wendy, I've been thinking a lot about this one lately too.  Growing up there were two things that always made me go "hmmm" and begin wondering if we may all be somehow connected.  The first was the act of yawning and how it always effected others nearby and the second was how one person could actually "feel" another person looking at them.  I'd always go "hmmm" and muse it over for a while then eventually dismiss it and go about my business.

Now while I strongly feel this (we are all one) to be the truth in theory I still find it difficult to resonate with and achieve in practice.  No matter how far I think I'm getting on my spiritual journey towards union, love, peace, tolerance and harmony I always seem to encounter a situation which knocks me off balance again - a rude comment or dirty look from a stranger, a part of nature or an animal being treated unfairly, a stressful situation at work, so many tiny or major things to knock me out of whack, and for me it seems to be the tiny ones that pack the most punch. 

But lately I've been having recurring thoughts about "as above, so below," ("as without, so within") the similarity between atoms and solar systems or universes, or what Joseph Campbell termed, "The inner reaches of outer space."  The thought keeps entering my mind that what we put in our bodies and what comes out of them as well in thoughts, words, deeds, and emotions has a direct effect upon our manifested reality.  What comes out sends out ripples and effects everything it touches (which may go much farther than we can comprehend) and what we put in has some kind of similar effect in another, maybe reverse, order that I don't quite understand yet.  I apologize, I'm not trying to be deep here, just trying to articulate these recurring thoughts.  I do find that my life's been dramatically improving since I've changed to an organic and vegetarian diet and "almost" completely cut out alcohol from my list of hard-to-quit vices.

Ok, now I'm really going to stretch the point and go off the deep end, but please bare with me here.  I don't know for sure if there's a connection but I can't help but think of all the times that I've seen Chemtrails lately, or more accurately, since the trails don't seem to stick like they used to, the unmarked planes that leave them.  I've gone over and over it and can't help but think that every single time I've seen Chemtrails lately I've had a drink of alcohol.  And the times I've seen them the worst I've had a bit too much.  I don't have a problem with alcohol and rarely drink anymore but have made it a goal to cut it out altogether for purely spiritual and health reasons.  Now I'm sure some of you out there can appreciate how difficult this can be when you live in a bustling city and all of your friends equate fun with drinking.  But I've been sticking to it and it's a personal choice. 

But it happened again just last Sunday at a street fair where I had one beer and then instantly saw a plane blazing a trail in the distance.  Then two days ago at work when I had one single taste of beer outside and looked up and low and behold.  It's happened exactly like that two or three other times over the last couple months, and what's odd is I don't see Chemtrails anymore other than at those times.  I know, I'm reaching I can hear you all say, but isn't it possible?  Chemtrails as a reminder?  Or any other strange phenomena for that matter?  Might we not look at the outside world as the mirror of our inner progress along the spiritual path?  Since I've been placing such empasis on alcohol is it possible that when I slip I get reminders from the outside world to stay on the path?  Could there be a correlation between the effect my drinking alcohol has on my physical makeup as Chemtrails do on the physical environment?  I'd say the only thing I don't like about it is that it's a negative reminder (a reminder that alcohol has a negative effect?  but is this a self-imposed reality?) and would ask where's the positive?  Then again maybe I just need to open my eyes, my ears, my heart to see them . . .

One last thought about superman:  Did he go into the phone booth to communicate and connect with his inner and higher self and tap into his inner abilities? 

That's how it is with my soul lately - playing naked twister and trying to connect the dots.  Would love to hear your input blessed family-o-mine! 

Francis

Hi Francis,

My husband and I have made quite a few friends who are non-drinking alcoholics so we've had alcohol free New Years Eve parties, etc. - you'ld be amazed how much fun you can have without drinking and how unneccessary it is once you get used to socializing without it. Since seeing the film The Secret I've always made a point of looking within whenever anything goes wrong - I just assume that in some way my negative thoughts have become reflected in my outer environment. Conversely, I take pride in the fact that I live in a place where I want to be - a rural town with a good church community, a very pretty town with lots of nice countryside and woods and no environmental problems as far as I can tell (no chemtrails lately either but we did get quite a few years back). We have a wonderful garden - I wish I could get my act together as far as my job goes though - I work in a tiny cubicle, an exact replica of how I feel about working a 9-5 job - a little prison cell.

I wonder if you actually want to be punished at some level, every time you drink or if it's the knowledge that you are polluting your body makes you look for evidence in the outside world of pollution. Interesting that I've noticed this truck pollution while commuting to and from work. Perhaps when we really want to stop doing something we find these little reminders - like we almost want to make ourselves more miserable when we are doing things that our heart knows are not right.

I like the superman thought - just like Neo at the end of The Matrix - connecting to us all on the phone before flying off as superman.

for your thoughtful response.  I like the your analogy of the possible reminder of the polluting truck on the way to your job which you perceive as "a litte prison cell."  The work thing for me too seems to be a mighty mental block to transform from the dreaded beast of burden to a joyful expression of being at peace with myself and in sync with All That Is.  Your truck appears to be my plane, grossly penetrating our little worlds to get their messages across.  Messages come in mysterious ways indeed . . .

Yes, I've pondered on the punishment aspect and do wonder how much that comes into play.  I do believe I have placed a bit too much attention on the drinking thing and feel it's high time to take that power back.  The more important point I was driving at was the profound implications of cause and effect, or the law of the circle as I've heard it called, of what you put out comes back to you for redemption, which would go a long way to putting out only the purest and best intentions at all times.  I've been having profound thoughts and feelings in this area lately which have left me thinking about such things as why the ascetics or monks or any seriously seeking spiritual intiates of times past have maintained such strict diets and refrained from too much talk or opinionating.  It seems to me they understood a bit more how we manifest our reality with each and every thought, word, deed, emotion that emanates from our being and must therefore be careful what goes forth because it will indeed come back.  This may very well relate to diet as well and have a direct impact on the environment around us. If nothing else this law of cause and effect may reach much further than we can comprehend at the moment. 

Well, thank you again for your response.  I'm happy to hear that you live in such a great little community and some day hope to do the same.  Although, in San Francisco's defense, it is the big city with a small town feel and I often run into friends on the street or out and about.  I just wish I could get the garden thing going and be more self sustaining and less reliant on store bought goods.  We do have a great little co-op organic store in town though and try to support them as much as possible, great local produce and lowest prices - it's a healthy start. 

Have a great weekend everyone!

Francis

Thanks Francis and Wendy for your hearts exposure.

So my Soul, how is it. Well Hmmmmm I go, have I ever really asked my Soul how it feels today, I have asked so much else of it, I have given it quietness and reflection when I can, I do listen to it when I can. I am prone a lot of times to hear it's words of wisdom, yet not follow it's direction.

So how are you my SOUL .................................

I am fine my dear friend I am you and you are me and we are all together. I am all that you see and hear, all that you feel and breath, all that you touch and smell. In everything you have done and will do I am there.

You are free will, I am Gods will, let's join hands here and now and Dance through life with Joy, for as you let go your will and respond and live more to Gods will, then you shall truly come to know me and not just touch the Devine, you will be Devine.

Thanks Ian, that last paragraph is beautiful.

Wendy

Hi Everyone,

My conversation with Francis about our inward state being reflected in our outward reality made me think of this John Denver song. Hope you enjoy..

Blessings-

Wendy