Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Lake Haigler Fall 2017 — Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, SC
We are all that stands between us and the Void.
That being the case, we might think we would be doing a better job laying a foundation with ourselves that will allow us to deal with what's coming up, instead of looking the other way and hoping for the best. If the best were in play, we wouldn't be here now.
So, here is my suggestion. Trust yourself to have what it takes to do what is necessary in rising to any occasion and taking care of business the way business needs to be taken care of in each situation as it arises throughout the time left for living.
Understanding clearly that in order for ourselves to have the cooperation we need from us, we have to practice deepening, expanding, enabling the development of our relationship with ourselves. More specifically, I am talking about our Psyche here.
Our Psyche has been with us from the start, and I mean from the start of life. And, yes, I am talking evolution here. We have evolved as psychic beings. Everything has. The Psyche is the invisible life force at work in all sentient beings throughout the Cosmos. And, with more cooperation, things would be much better for all of life, but that is another topic.
Today we are talking about improving our awareness of and our relationship with the Psychic side of ourselves--that would be all of the aspects of ourselves that we are unconscious of.
It would be right to think of our Psyche as our Unconscious, and also as our Soul. She has us covered from the standpoint of all invisible, easily ignored, aspects of life beyond our physical state of being.
Our Psyche is in charge of our dreamworld, and all of our dreams are her way of saying to us, "This is the way your life is right now. What are you going to do about it?" Every dream makes this statement and asks this question, and we blow right by them saying, "I dreamed the strangest dream last night," and it is gone by the time we get dressed for the day.
We have to improve the depth and degree of our attention that we give the Psychic world which exists just on the other side of our conscious awareness, and begin cooperating with that which knows best about what is called for here, now, in the service of the Tao and doing the right thing at the right time, in the right place and the right way, which is Psyche's speciality, forever and always.
We take up the practice of Dropping into the silence/stillness/emptiness, Tuning into Psyche's presence, and Turning on to doing what needs to be done here, now in each situation as it arises with "peaceful abiding" everlasting.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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