Musings of a Spiritual Warrior
5 July 1998
It seem this is becoming a frequent occurrance again. I am moved to write nearly daily. It pleases me that such is so, for expressing what consciousness would express through me in this manner is in a very real way my vocation. It is through this activity that my natural abilities are most engaged. This is the work that I choose to do freely because I recognize that it needs to be done, and that it is mine to do. This is the activity that permits me to give back all that spirit has given me throughout my life. I give it freely to all who are drawn to read it.
Lately, I have been a bit bored with my life. I am ready to move it to a new level of expression but don't know how. So I'm struggling, trying things and observing what feedback comes back. It is like I am a blind man, feeling my way into an unfamiliar area, realizing where things are by bumping into things and making a map of the new territory. This is not easy work to do. It takes courage to venture forth. It takes stubborn headedness to keep going forward despite all the bumps to the head. Also, it can be very lonely work at times. Seldom do I encounter others on the path.
Where this is all leading is a question as well? Though, explorers are not given the luxury to ask that question. Those who would be explorers have only one question in mind, how do we make what is unknown known. Discovery is what it is all about. Along with this goes mapping the territory that we find that others might visit it as well. This is what I have been doing all my life, and especially for the past five years. But, where does one go to get funded for such activities? Why is it that my most important work is not funded by the present economic system? Clearly something is missing. Further, I am not an isolated case. It seems that for many of us our most important work is that work which we do voluntarily whether it be raising kids, taking care of our families, helping others, or volunteering for various groups and organizations.
Even time we spend alone getting to know ourself, and time we spend sharpening our skills have great value. Consciousness learns from our collective experience. Mobility of consciousness, and control over the focus of attention are extremely valuable for reality creation. Wimbledon and the World Cup are cases in point. Here we have games where the rules are common and known internationally -- especially for soccer. The game requires little investment in equipment and is played by incredible numbers of people on the planet. Perhaps we'll see a time soon when common economic rules can be just as simple and as widely known throughout the world.
We are seeing increasing numbers of people at all ages demonstrating great ability to focus resulting in achievements that are without precedent. Earlier today, in the US Open Women's Golf Tournament - two ladies that were only 20 years old tied and will have a playoff tomorrow. One of these is an amateur and had the best ever score for an amateur in any Woman's Tournament. She sunk her final putt that one commentator called a 100 to 1 shot. The other lady did not even start playing golf until she was 14, just six years ago.
What permits us to do things despite incredible odds? It is our connection to spirit. It is that intuitive side that we allow to take over and shape our efforts to accomplish a desired objective. When there are too many factors to consider consciously, we must trust and go within to find the way to proceed. It is there that we can FEEL the force and allow it to do what it will through us. Such is when we are at our best. Such is when we are in the groove or in the zone. Such is when the best that can be done through us becomes the reality that we experience.
When we are fighting to keep control, we are lost. We are always subject to unknowns and to factors that are outside of our conscious ability to control. But these same factors come to our aid when we permit spirit to flow, and what was unknown to us is not unknown to spirit, so these factors too begin to serve us rather than operate against us. When we "let go" we permit a new part of ourself to take hold, one that is more fluid, one that feels more than thinks, one that is relaxed and allows what would be to be expressed through it. In so doing, we lose some of our chains and start to feel some of the freedom that is our birthright. Freedom requires that we are even watchful for chains which may bind us and that we endeavor to remove such chains wherever we may find them.
However, chains and yokes are very different things. The first binds us to restrict us. The second binds us to a particular labor. The later is only a "chain" if we do not freely choose to carry the burden. It is time that we start to more thoroughly examine the yokes that we are wearing to ensure that the burdens they correspond to are really ours to carry and that we freely choose to carry them. As we do this, we really need to explore what burdens are really necessary versus what burdens are habitual or historical. We really should be able to lighten our loads.
Be Happy and Create Well!
LOVE,
Wayne