August 21, 2025

I’m thinking Psyche is something all life shares/has in common.  All living things are one in this way. Consciousness is more or less aware of that connection. Emptiness/stillness/silence (one thing not three), or meditation/reflection, enhances/deepens/
expands that connection, and we work together in the service of what is called for here, now, for the mutual good of all concerned. 

I think Native Americans and all indigenous people could teach us much along these lines, sensing, feeling, knowing when/what is Yes and when/what is No. With Wanting way down on the list of important things. 

We want to have our way when we need to want to do what is called for no matter what it means for us personally. The personal and the corporate have to be re-thought. Whose good is served by the good we call good? Psyche has an idea of the good that is contrary to the good most of the world thinks of as good, and so the need to re-think “the Good,” and to re-orient ourselves in the service of “the Good,” which Psyche represents and would have us serve for the good of the whole. 

What is good? What is not good? What makes us think so? How do we know? The culture has to take the lead in helping us consider and live in light of these questions. 

The church could lead the way here. It would transform the church and the culture, which is the essence of the Counter Culture idea that never seemed to gather any momentum, but which is the core problem in the modern world. 

Aligning ourselves with the Tao has always been the problem. The Buddha’s “Peaceful abiding here, now” has always been the key. Our work is realization, recognition, realignment with the Tao in all times and places. And we only want what we want, which is our way NOW.

It is up to us individually to be what we need to be in the time and place of our living and let nature take its course, as the Tao Te Ching advises and has advised through the ages.