January 21, 2025

What do you need to know?
What would be most helpful to you
over the time left for living?
How to tune into--
and turn yourself over to--
your internal guidance system
that comes packed into our DNA
would be among the most helpful
things you could do for yourself.

Part one of the process requires us
to be aware of how we get in the way of,
interfere with,
the work of communing with our intrinsic intuition.
Get this: The Profit Motive is the Original Sin.
It is the only sin.
It shuts us down,
scrambling the messages coming to us from our intuition.

When we live from wanting/desiring/having to have anything,
we can no longer attend our inner drift toward
what is called for in each situation as it arises.

Like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,
we have a better idea,
and eyes only for the bright lights
and exciting possibilities of the modern equivalent
of "Gay Paree."

We have to shift over to Jesus' mind set in Gethsemane:
"Thy (with the "Thy" being our intuition) will, 
not mine be done!"

We have to flip that switch
and transfer our loyalty and devotion
from our wanting/desiring/craving addictions
to our intrinsic intuition which always has
our best interest at heart.

We live to serve our intuition.
Our relationship with our intuition
is that of The Moved in response to The Mover
(Joseph Campbell).

And no one can manage that transition but us.
And Campbell is quick to warn us:

"That which we seek
is found far back in the darkest corner
of the cave we most do not want to enter."

And thus, the metaphor of Jesus declaring
his loyalty in Gethsemane in a manner
that leads to Golgotha is exactly equivalent
to what is asked of each one of us
in flipping from our wanting/desiring self
to our intrinsic intuition and swearing 
allegiance to her no matter what.

That is the first thing.

The second thing is nurturing our relationship
with our intuition by taking up the ongoing practice
of dropping into the emptiness, stillness, silence
(One thing, not three)
to sit and wait for clarity and focus 
in terms of what is called for in each situation
as it arises--with no concern for our profit or loss,
our gain or deficit.

Here, too, is the importance of our nighttime dreams
and our spending time with them,
looking for what they are saying to us
about the life we are living
and the life we need to be living instead.

We aren transitioning from the way we have been living
to the way we need to be living
in the time left for living. 

Not for any gain or merit or reward!
But for the simple joy in doing it
and the satisfaction of having done it.

We are shifting into living our life
as our life needs us to live it.
And the reward for that is doing it!
And the punishment for that is not having done it--
and bearing that burden in what awaits us
on the other side of death.

The realization of having wasted our life
is the reason for the weeping and gnashing of teeth
in Jesus' parable of what happens after we die--
not because of hell or any other kind of punishment,
but because we failed to live the life that was ours to live.

We have from now until we die 
to turn things around.

Why not?