Connecting

Number two.

Thinking about the flow of natural energy as information… That is anything, really everything we sense or understand as other than ourselves.

What makes a flower or book different really? Why do we pick that book or flower instead of another? We discover and discern the world sensation by sensation.

Whatever is near. A child looks, then grabs, then puts most everything in their mouths to taste. We learn to ‘touch with our eyes’ later. But we are more interested in the unseen here. Should the method be different to build an information base of vibration with which to know the world. To know an object or a person or situation by its essence. To know a book, not only its shiny or shabby cover.

Prana is an additional name for the energy around us and within us all. Around, indeed, present all the time. The flow we are part of and connected to.

Other names, electromagnetism, dark matter, gravity. It’s the glue of the all. Calling it the glue somehow says to me it’s some kind of afterthought or option. Which came first the feather or the glue? Can glue be an option? I can’t imagine it and it’s only a metaphor since we are in the “land” described in art and poetry, spiritual pursuit, love songs, makes one giddy and it everyone’s head and heart open with the thoughts of union with something that only speaks to our spiritual heart. Just because this notion isn’t ruled or detected by the usual fives senses, we must and do agree, is no reason to say it doesn’t exist.

Try not to test a metaphor too strictly, it will disintegrate like Tinkerbell would if one dismisses her presence. Metaphor lives because it serves as the spirit’s bridge. We find the way to talk amongst ourselves in chatter that renews so we carry on. Story is embraced for the truths they ignite within. Like a Friday movie night we feel fabulous.

Can there be any real weight to a castle I create with words? Can the dragon eat you or just that bit you didn’t want any more? They all live in the heart. Mind, if you prefer. You cannot think or pine for a thing without creating it. It happens as you pine and conjure.

The unseen is filled with human creation woven in and blurred over time to seem natural. The unseen, is that real at all? A room isn’t untrue for the blind but something to experience and know in some way this sighted person doesn’t imagine well. My aim is to encourage openness rather than destroy your mind or sanity. Like Goldilocks, be open just the right amount. Stay grounded while exploring inner space of story and fragments. There is indeed glue.

Of course, we are individuals and feel solid and apart, distinct from others and our surroundings. Yet also we are breathing and responding to the world every second on a biological and intellectual level. A constant exchange. We give, we send, we release unconsciously. Something to thinks about managing. And the reverse flow is also present because it’s simply the nature of things. Nature accepts an exchange of energy from us and changes because of us, too. We are one. But so different we also forget about it.

Easier to talk about pebbles at the bottom of a pond. They will modify the flow of water as it passes by just by being present. A pebble tossed into that pond will create a ripple of concentric circles as the pebble dives down, the water parts in predictable patterns. Can the pebbles be separated from the pattern they make or is the action separate somehow. We separate the motion from the pebbles from the pattern and vibration but they are one and cannot be without each part for the event to take place. The results are waves and waves with smaller vibrations within. Galaxies of vibrations within and without expressed as visible in the galaxies of space.

This is a piece of a NASA photo of Andromeda Galaxy.

And another.

The “dots” move in unison. They don’t fly apart but yes, it’s said, the universe is expanding.

Toss a few pebbles in a pond, the result isn’t chaos but predictable patterns that react to one another, the vibrations bouncing off one another make for complex harmonies, and dissidences that clash. Complicated and predictable but since we don’t know everything about the everything, we actually experience our world as unpredictable.

How legitimately confusing our busy modern world is as more mechanical constructs are inserted. The need for quiet reflection when deciding or doing nearly everything increases. PTSD, the condition of having experienced too much says much about what we create. Quiet reflection is now “unplugging” and tells me maybe I don’t want to plug “in.”

Is it hot, or cold. Hard or soft. Does it draw you near or repel? In what way? We find our labels as choices of opposites. Indeed we observe the world in as dualistic in nature. In electricity, we label two poles and consider many opposites aligned with the male and female in nature or kind.

Called Yin and Yang, a concept that originates from Taoism, a Chinese philosophical and religious tradition relating to the principles of yielding and assertiveness. Earth and sky, dark and light. Female and male. The more we try to understand the unseen the more adroit we become in knowing the qualities it has to offer.

Languages often use articles as female or male because they assign gender to the noun. Is a table female? Maybe a tree, but that one? Can that metal and glass table be female? Does she not let you sit at her and dine? It’s not the easiest concept to teach to American’s that we aren’t the only thing alive on the planet nor the only thing with consciousness.

A fish will stink when it gets old. You know that smell of fish going “off”. If you study the attributes of Yin and Yang, you know the entire rotting affair is Yin not Yang and is life giving fertilizer and not some stench come to poison you. Fertilizer will harbor the growth of the seed. Sniff it out for that use but clean it from a wound. What’s its aura feel like?

So, I did an exercise I’d like you to do. I did it to talk about with you. I used a natural quartz crystal, a pinecone and some silver in the form of coins. I have old ones that are silver. Use anything as long as it’s something natural. Choose a few different things to compare as see, (or feel or know) so the subtle vibrations are different in different objects.

In the last letter, finding your own aura was covered. Let’s add a little bit of preparation to connecting to your own energy since we bring our experience outside us. Take a moment to “ground and protect”. Easy to do - steady your mind (exhale and be mindful of the breath, then inhale deeply, exhale once again naturally and….) imagine you are rooted into the earth through your body for a grounding effect. Imagine your self connected also to the heavens, upwards, connecting to light. Name it if you like, or allow it to be more abstract for you. Option to place oneself in an orb, a field of white or colored light, just imagine it. Express an intention to one’s purpose in the moment if you have something in mind. I usually set my intention to listen and learn.

Much is made about the need and developing the skills to silence your inner dialogue and there are volumes dedicated to the meditation and exercise to sharpen them. Lifetimes of mendicants have striven to sweep aside ones inner dialogue can take lifetimes and I have found the perfect way to start. A quick hack. Listen. Listen with true caring or a need to know and you have no crazy monkey-mind or whatever gets in peoples way. If the mind gets active, simply listen. Off track? Bring the mind back to the task.

So your goodies are lined up and separated a bit. Close the eyes gently and you will have to peek to go from object to object. Closed eyes help you tune in. If you don’t need to too that, it’s not required for this is not a guessing game. We are just tuning into different vibrations to notice different attributes. We are learning to “listen” to unseen vibrations and assign meanings. Recall, in number one, everyone receives the vibrations a little differently… some may see without seeing, hear with not my ears,.. etc. You will find your way of “hearing” the more you do it.

Rub the hands lightly, find your own aura by separating the palms. Increase the energy with the breath, feeling the ebb and flow of energy attached to the ebb and flow of your breath. We are just getting your senses tuned with the vibrations you established that you know.

Open the palms over the object and sense. Feel free to lower your hands over the object or cradle them in one or both hands. Go back and forth if it seems helpful or concentrate on one at at time. Satisfy your curiosity. If all you can feel is relative weight, then zero in on that and giving it a moment will more be revealed? Patience is required. If you look at the objects,… maybe someone reading this will see auras more easily than feeling them.

Write a few things down so you don’t forget as you go from thing to thing or could I say from he to her? Some observations may surprise at the adjectives that pop into your head, or maybe gut. Third eye pulsing? That’s a strong energy center of our body’s auric system located near our brain. Pulsing in the heart center? A feeling of opening or closing? Observing and connecting is the mission. Say it or write it if you think/feel it. Figure it out later.

So, I’ll just tell what I felt about my objects for the exercise. It doesn’t have to be very elaborate.

The crystal had lots of a field of energy around it. I felt it resist against my own aura. I felt “light” in my heart while my hands were around it or when I held it. It was cold to my touch.

I placed my hands over the pinecone and felt my hands drop to it and touch it, like the pinecone was sucking me towards it. I felt like it was pulling or eliminating my aura. I felt peaceful. My neck relaxed.

Putting my hands over the silver I didn’t really feel much so I picked it up and it felt cool but not cold, cool like a bit impersonal a feeling of distance. I felt my hands pulsing a bit and a heat rise from my tummy area. I felt strong.

Here is a list of polar opposites I found that is a good start. Make some notes for yourself as you get the idea to add to it. It’s endless. It may take a while to be able to reconcile some of these descriptions as a group. That may be because we rarely find anything purely positive or negative in our sphere with perhaps the exception of electricity.

The gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon are so instructive to read about. The goddess Kali who dances in fire, drips blood and eats her children. She’s not a demon, but goddess. Not for the mainstream worship, it’s one called the left path and celebrate, but that’s not the right word really, the principles of decay in the world are the womb of birth. Death is woman. Life is man.

Getting to know things you want to know through experience is the goal of connecting by direct experience. Inner sight then joins the others.

Study of material available also informs one of the systems within you that are mirrored without and are so helpful. Like studying the map of the human aura, or acupuncture or meridians. There are etheric lines that are exterior to our physical body similar other than the meridians so similar to physical nerves that run prana.

Eastern systems have mapped and have used these maps for ages. Used for healing arts, developed on purpose, they are well known and just recently acknowledged as effective or interesting in own culture.

Figuring out the maps was born of self knowledge over time. We build on the knowledge by accessing and pursuing knowledge. The pursuit of such knowledge appears as a mystery school or how we often think of as religion.

Not all of religion is about ones personal behavior and proving an allegiance of oneself to a universal being. I understand guilt by religion is meant to control and is so common in the world. Guilt as a spiritual path is failing us in every way I can imagine.

A spiritual path. A path to spirit. To rise up but how do we claim a higher vibration?

Ritual, chants, intoning vibration. Postures of the body touching sensitive points. Restricting flow, releasing the same as required, building strength. Quietude. Thoughtful pursuit of knowledge from without to further spur discovery through inner sight. Inner sight happens naturally, a result of looking. All tried and true. It’s a spiritual path. Material goods are left not because they are bad or dirty. They do not travel by vibration into the heart thought to be where we reside really but who knows. I feel it. Quora has lots of answers too. People have some cool ideas.

Simply connecting to the unseen nature of the outer world in any moment to gain a few impressions about the vibrational world opens a new place of understanding and a new way that adds dimension to life of subtle interactions in the long run makes you smarter. Ones catalog of experience is greater.

One finds what one is looking for if one pursues listening or looking. It’s not a passive endeavor.

Knowledge is the serpent that eats the apple.

Desire is the motion that births all worlds.

Boy plus girl is a dance.

Positive plus negative, gets us “in a whirl,…she’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl…”

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Thanks. Peace to all who see this.