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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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