Monday, September 28, 2015

Got Connections?

Super “Mooningful”

When willful, we think
that truth moves from
our head to our heart
to our hands.

But bent by life,
it becomes clear that
love moves the other way:
from our hands to our
heart to our head...”

Mark Nepo (“One More Time” in Reduced to Joy)

We westernized humans are so reliant on our heads, it's pitiful! If we can't see it, touch it, taste it, smell it, hear it, or prove it by scientific method, it isn't so. Matters of the heart, conjunctions of the cosmos, invisible connections in the web of life, expressions of authentic love are simply viewed as arbitrary and individual, or worse, simple minded.

I asked a group of highly educated folks last night, while the moon was eclipsing and turning as orange as a pumpkin, if they imagined that there was any significance to so many momentous events happening at the same time. Were there connections between Pope Francis galvanizing the entire nation with the power of love for a solid week, the United Nations coming together to discuss climate change and immigration, our Speaker of the House singing “Zippity-Do-Da” in the halls of Congress because he's just relinquished the reins of power, and the once-every-30-years lunar eclipse-super-harvest-moon event. The instantaneous response was, “Of course not!”

God forbid that we should move out of our heads and into our hearts, much less out to our hands, down through our entrails and into our feet that touch the good Earth. God forbid that we should see ourselves as one cog in the great wheel of life! After all, we're the ones with the big brain! Right? As we say around here, “Bless our hearts.”

I prefer to believe that life and the universe are filled with mystery. That all the truly important connections are invisible. That the Source does, in fact, work in ways we cannot prove. That truth resides every bit as much in our hands and feet and guts as it does in our brains. Maybe more so. That's how I roll! Bring on the mystery! How about you?

                                                               In the Spirit,

                                                                     Jane

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