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I think Satan is great. He is the Wild man. Pan the goat footed god of nature. Only problem is I want a female version too. A woman who runs with the wolves. Virgin - owned by no-one, a free spirit. Satan is often portrayed as more powerful than God/dess. Nonsense!!! He/she is part of the Divine. The other side of the coin in the silly dualistic game church and society and government want us all to believe and play. Satan listens to his/her attractions and follows them, but the church wants us to believe that if we do that we will have no control and never stop and anarchy will result. That isnt how nature operates at all and we wouldnt either. There would probably be a pendulum swing to excess at first - like kids being let out of school. After I have satisfied an attraction I am always attracted to stopping and doing something else. I have never seen a small child take all the toys for itself and stay there with them for ever. I have never seen anyone eat tub after tub of ice cream and never stop either.

I commit to regular time connecting with nature because that attracts me, it makes sense and it is a natural step to where I want us all to be.
I love Star Trek - Next Generation but I wonder why nearly all Sci-Fi films have people spending so little time in nature and seemingly thriving? I dont care how great the holodeck experience is it cant give the same pleasure as the real thing.

For many years I have recognised the post-hypnotic trance I was living in and fighting my way back to consciousness of that has been a long, time consuming and expensive haul. RWN certainly helps speed up the process for me.

3 things I learnt -
That many of the scientific and technological advances people get so excited about are crazy if we take off our nature disconnected spectacles.
That its a good idea not to use 'natural' terms as swear words if I want to reconnect myself to nature.
That I am attracted to changing the 'bad' things about society and standing up for what is right scares me too.

I get good feelings in nature when I.commit to regular time connecting with nature because that attracts me, it makes sense and it is a natural step to where I want us all to be. hug a tree. smell leaves and the earth after rain. I would feel bereft if my ability to experience any of these things was taken away. I also am learning to trust that there is always more NIAL to discover. Look at Robert the Bruce and the Spider!

Wrangler reeducated - The one who says: 'Who do you think you are! Keep your opinions to yourself and your head down. Leave thinking to those who do it best!'
Yep - my self worth and trust in NIAL just grows and grows.

 

 

I did this activity in a garden made by a friend of mine. That was
unusual also as I generally prefer wild areas to developed ones. This place is special because it was a very ugly and abused piece of land until she made it beautiful. There is a rock wall around the area of natural stone and with the exception of two stone paths, the entire area is flowers and small trees. I was drawn to sit in the corner of the garden where there is an old wicker seat. I closed my eyes and relaxed and was immediately aware of all the layers upon layers of smells. The stone wall smelled tangy. There was wet earth and jasmine,honeysuckle, orange, carnation and lavender, etc. If I focused on a particular smell I experienced a different emotional/feeling array. Honeysuckle was heavy and lazy, Jasmine is sensual, carnations are energetic and clean, etc. I am amazed at how friendly the place feels and how many things are reaching out to me.

I began to tune in to hearing. There was a very fait woosh of a breeeze
that came in the opening in the wall, spiraled around the whole garden and left. I though about whether the smells borne on this breeze whould connect and attract others outisde this environment, thereby connecting it. There were little scrtiching sounds from a number of areas of the garden as whatever lives under the plants went about thier business. I realized that other than hearing, they seemed not to be closely connected to me but just accept my presence. There were a number of birds singing as it was late afternoon. There is a time in the very late afternoon just before sunset that all the birds in town sing for about 10 minutes so I knew about where the sun was standing even though my eyes were closed and the wall deepened the dark. I felt extremely peaceful and as if the environment were doing its best to nurture me.

I becaame aware more of the stones and that they were far from inert. The ones under my feet were very friendly and warm, the wall felt like a bed of life and when I examined them further I found bugs, moss, little
plants...something..in every crack. They felt very supportive to me as well.

After a while, I felt the entire atmosphere change to slightly hostile, as
if I were no longer wanted where I sat. The longer I sat, the more I felt
uncomfortable. I got up and sat on the stone path where it once again felt welcoming. I noticed a few minutes later that a very poisonous scorpion was slowly making his way where my bare feet had been a few minutes earlier.I truely realized that the entities in nature had warned me that I was not in
the best place possible for me at the time. I resolved to be more open to
hearing what was being communicated to me from my environment.

I got up and walked into the house. As I walked in, I was sensitive to the
connection I was leaving which only slowly shifted away. I was in an inner
room of the house before I sensed that the garden's attention had turned
elsewhere.

2. I learned that the webstrings are only within my awareness when I am ina state of openness but that they are there always and affect my feelings
in a variety of ways. I learned as well that they are for my benefit, even
if what I am experiencing appears to be negative to me initially. I learned
that the earth loves me.

 


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