TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neurosis, but instead with an approach to the numinous [Transcendent God experience]. The approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to numinous experience, you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character! -- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) from Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditations," October 7, 2015 

That. Is. It.

That is the key to my gratitude for the bad side effects of meds. I am apparently one of the "two percent of the population" who will experience everything from halitosis to lockjaw if I take any of the new "miracle" drugs. This is my experience, not my "with my luck, I'll bet that's true." I have undergone two major surgeries due entirely to the side effects of prescribed meds. I still get nose ulcers every winter from a nose spray I was prescribed ten years ago and used for less than a week. There's more, but if I get too enchanted with my uniqueness, I'll miss my point.

My point being...if not for my bad side effects, I would have turned to any number of the new meds any number of times. Over the years, I have felt anxiety beyond imagining. I got to sit and wait on the Lord...who came in his own perfect time. I don't fear anxiety any more. I still get visited by anxiety on occasion, but only rarely and each time is less scarifying. I do not love it, I just do not fight it. I've learned to rely on my "Thank You" prayer, and I feel One'd.

I've been depressed...I've felt unwanted, unneeded, unloved and unappreciated with my own set of facts backing my feelings up! I got to sit and wait on the Lord...who came in his own perfect time. I don't fear depression any more. I still get depressed on occasion, but only rarely and each time is less scarifying. I do not love it, I just do not fight it. I've learned to rely on my "Thank You" prayer, and I feel One'd.

That is what is known as a transformation of consciousness through numinous. And numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to numinous experience, you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character!

Let me admit here and now, never before in my lifetime have I heard of numinous, but when you hear Truth, you know it. God loves us sooo much.

Thank you.

IT IS THE PATH WE TAKE THAT MATTERS

There is no enough to our ego-based reasoning mind...we want ours, not to mention what we can get of yours.

There is no enough to our spiritually based mind...we go to God for God and that is all, which is never ending.

This is the same lesson we learned long ago: There is a reasoning mind answer and a spiritual answer to everything. It may well be the same answer; it is the path we take to get there that is different, that matters.

Understanding this lesson gives us the freedom to choose which way we will go, which way we will grow. More important, we come to realize and accept that either way we choose, sometimes we will fail and fail consistently if we are doing it right! That is what ensures intellectual and spiritual growth. Nobody every grew...lived!...who only experienced smashing success, winning, getting over on others...in other words, had their ego-dreams come 100 percent true, 100 percent of the time.

Most important, I am convinced that the only way to ever live at peace within our self is through forgiveness. Which is just another way of saying, "We have ceased fighting everything and every body." (This is just a gentle push toward choosing still more spiritual growth because, assuredly, the reasoning mind will never get us to forgiveness.)

Thank you.

GET IT RIGHT, NOW

Here's my theory of life everlasting: Life is simply a test. We all come from the same gene pool of God consciousness, which is also known as "heaven," and that is where we return. The time we each have with our test varies, and none of us knows our time limit.

All are born with free will; the test being how quickly and completely we exchange that free will for God's will. The sooner we begin to make our exchange, the freer we are...to help others make their exchange. That is our only job.

The exchange can only be made through forgiveness...which is love at its toughest, i.e.,  best.

We keep coming back until we get it right.

Thank you.

THE GOLD RULE...DOING IT

[The following is a reprint of my blog of September 25, 2009.]

If “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” doesn’t speak to you, what about noblesse oblige, the almost forgotten act of those who have, seeing to the welfare of those who have not. It’s associated with the nobility, but at one time so was money. Today, those who have the most money seem to be the least noble.

“I heard the news today…oh boy.” It only gets grimmer, it seems.

The incredible, the obscene amounts of money a teeny percentage of the people of the world have and control.  Many of  those same people living in fear they won’t get more or will lose what they have...some are lying, cheating, stealing to hold onto what they have AND get still more.

Clearly, the hard part for me is to sit not in judgment of those rich folk, to waste not my hard-earned peace on righteous indignation...which only leads to a feeling of moral superiority, the camouflage of the dishonest wannabe. And it doesn’t matter what it is I wannabe...rich, so I can show “them” how they should act; Mother Teresa-like, so people will see how poor, done right, is enviable...makes no never mind, it is dishonest. Which is, of course, what I’m looking down my nose at in the first place...dishonest other people.

Peace, be still.

Thank you.

TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE, CANINE

DOG PHILOSOPHY

Author Unknown

This is for all dogs.

It is for the Redbone Hound riding

shotgun in a pick-up truck -- ears blowing in

the breeze like Fruehauf mudflaps.

It is for the Chihuahua with the soul of a

Mexican Retriever.

It is for the mature dog, well-behaved out

of respectfulness, not out of submission.

It is for the younger dog, still on a path to

finding The Way.

It is for the dogs who know the answer to

the age-old riddle of why we chase our tails.

This is for all dogs who embrace the

moment and greet each day with the

confident awareness,

"We. Are. Dogs."

Carpe Canem

With love, from Ruckus and me for Linda, Mac and all their own....

Thank you.

PRAISE THE HERE AND NOW...BE FREE

It is only the ego that requires "certitude and security." Centered persons, secure in their nothingness, live with no future, no past. A centered person has no worries...for worries only apply to the future or the past.

Pull back, pull in, let go, detach, praise the here and now...be free.

Thank you.

SIT AND WAIT ON THE LORD

Failure comes from depending too much on your own strength.

Why is that so hard to...what? Flow with? Make mine? I read it, I believe it to be true, I relax into it, I feel safe. Suddenly I hear that train comin' round the bend in my mind...chugging "what to do what to do what to do what to do what to do what to do?"  I see that I'm trying to avoid using the peace of mind that God has offered about a penny-ante problem.

God's solution: I've got it, leave it to me.

My solution: just call Petunia and explain, just walk right up to Herkimer and ask, just insert self...and risk yet more rues, regrets and remorses rather than sit and wait on the Lord.

If only God weren't such a drag-foot! His way could take years...or minutes. It's that unknown factor. Always, God's got the unknown factor. There it is. God is a sure thing...only we do not get to know ahead of time exactly what is his sure thing? When will it happen? To whom? For whose benefit...right now...ultimately?

It is always easier to just do it (never mind the utter uncertainty of exactly what to do) than it is to bide our time or to simply think pleasant thoughts about roses and rainbows.

I'll just bet that that is God's perfect plan...give us no clear answer on how to get over on someone (which is inevitably our ego's bottom line) so that we are forced to use our inner supply of faith, trust, patience, love...that which we don't use because they take too much time but continue to pray for.

Why, I wonder, do we continue to pray for that which we already have but do not use? Do we think praying will keep us on the good side of God? We need to keep on the good side of our own self...then we won't want to follow our ego's siren call to get over on Petunia or Herkimer.

I know it...but show it? It just takes time. Sigh.

Thank you.