The Unenlightened Path

“The Ego knows where the car keys are but the Spirit knows how to drive it”~ Michael Meade

I seem to have those repeat encounters with people who want to show me the way. When they themselves do not understand what the way even is. Now you have to keep in mind that we each only operate from our own belief systems. Some people’s belief never changes or wavers in their entire life. They literally take what has been engrained in their unformed mind in their youth as the absolute truth and do not question any of it. Others go through lifelong quests of finding the “truth”.

At this point in my life, I have come to believe that there is no one truth, only opinions. More than 7 billion of them currently available to tune into. Such a selection to choose from, so choose wisely. Here is one of my opinions that I have held for so long that I honestly have come to belief that it’s innate, build into me without me having been aware of it, until I woke up to it. We are here to experience ourselves in the form that we chose this time around. Providing ourselves and each other with valuable lessons to learn to carry with us once we cross over to the next level of existence. For we do not take anything with us but the consequences of our actions. So in order for us to experience anything, we have to be palpable. How else would we know that something actually took place?

Again, I have no issue with people experiencing anything they feel necessary to experience in this life. But I have no desire to achieve any sort of out of body experience, levitation, or being in such a mental state that I am disconnected with the solidity of life. And those are the sort of people I keep coming across. Trying to tell me the way is to shut out my physical experience and ascend into some sort of trance via meditation or prayer or whatever their method of presumably achieving that sort of level is. In my opinion, any one of us can achieve going out of our minds via drugs also, so I really do not perceive much difference in people seeking to disconnect from their physical experience via spiritual practices vs drug-induced or drug-enhanced methods. As far as I am concerned I can float out there in space for all eternity once I turn over my " ticket to ride" pass here.

But I do not have all eternity to experience this wonderful planet and the physicality of my being. So I will stick with keeping my feet on the ground and getting all I can get out of it while I can. Once I lose form, this physical body I am in, I will not be able to utilize my five senses for the extraordinary experience of taste and sound and touch and anything else that can only be felt in physical form. You know the difference of the “real thing” vs imagining it. That’s how I see it. The reason for being here. Getting to do the real thing while we can.

https://youtu.be/mMRrCYPxD0I

poetry by Heike K

https://www.facebook.com/Heimweh-Fernweh-Sehnsucht-686710171425507/

'More than other scientists, astronomers and astrophysicists have been compelled to develop an intimate relationship with invisible realms. In fact, they've come to a conclusion that's eerily similar to the assessment of shamans and mystics from virtually every culture throughout history: Most of reality is hidden from our five senses. . "Ninety-six percent of the universe is stuff we've never seen," cosmologist Michael Turner told Geoff Brumfiel in the journal "Nature." To be exact, the cosmos is 23 percent dark matter and 73 percent dark energy, both of which are missing. All the stars and planets and moons and asteroids and comets and nebulas and gas clouds together comprise the visible four percent. . So where is the other 96 percent? No one knows. It's not only concealed from humans, it's imperceptible to the instruments humans have devised, and its whereabouts can't be predicted by any existing theories." via Rob Brezsny https://www.facebook.com/rob.brezsny?fref=ts Heike's note on that: In my opinion this only reiterates my blog. People seem to look at it from the 96% that we can not experience, imperceptible by humans, that appears to be their focal point. I like to view it from the other end. ONLY as humans can we experience and perceive the other 4%.. how lovely is that? I want to enjoy those 4% as much as I can while I can :)