Experiential Dead Ends, and a perceptual lesson
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007We are continually bombarded with messages about achieving the perfect body, losing weight, buy this and that, etc…. While keeping our bodies in good shape contributes to better health and for that reason is beneficial, obsessing over this places extreme focus on physical body identification. Our physical bodies are temporary by design, yet so many appear to view the body and physicality as a permanent condition. The time and method of our exit from 3rd density is arranged before we ‘come here’. Drugs that affect our perceptions and emotions, both ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ profit the same people, and are an impediment toward spiritual growth. The value of learning this is an experience in itself, and all experience is valuable. Addiction comes in many forms, as in gambling, achieving the ‘perfect’ body–the list of traps goes on and on, even focusing attention on small pictures attempting to ‘fix’ something which is part of our observational and experiential paths can be destructive. Here’s an analogy–it can be applied to drug/alcohol addiction as well as anything else. Envision yourself behind a horse that keeps kicking you in the head (every drink, pill, toke, etc. that we allow to control us is another kick). The wise action is to move our head and walk on by–after so many kicks this becomes glaringly obvious, or should–and this is the alternative path that actually leads us somewhere, toward spiritual advancement. When we choose to make the next dollar from creating suffering for others, we are violating Universal law, but it is a mutual experience, victim/victimizer. Who is responsible for the kicking? According to Laws of Intent, Allowance and Attraction we are. As a child, I took immense joy in some of the simplest things, most of which were free. The best things in life are rooted in simplicity, and it is a simple matter of perception. There are an enormous number of people seeking chemical bliss and easy solutions for problems that don’t exist. An entire industry has grown around ‘diseases’ and ’syndromes’ that do not exist, but are rooted in greed. Which is more valuable, a new car or a truly loving relationship? I vote for the latter, but sadly in practice I seem to be in the minority. There is dark polarity creating suffering of enormous proportion and severity, but there is the opposite of this as well. The illusory veil is falling, the man behind the curtain panicking as there are fewer places left to hide. Balance always prevails, and it will here as well. How we weather the coming storm determines the brilliance of the inevitable rainbow for each of us.