Everyman's Journal 2011

Everyman's Journal 2011, #43

March 16

Today I chose to wear shorts after 11 am because as the temps climbed up to a pinch over 90, my long pants started to feel uncomfortable for the first time this year. This is spring in the desert... this surge of summer like heat coming to remind all the snowbirds that northern migration time is approaching, even though the weather forecast predicts a 20 degree pullback to highs in the 70's by the weekend. Actually, the Yuma RV parks are noticeably emptying already, a bit early I hear, because with the price of fuel skyrocketing, folks are opting to get on the road and home before it gets even higher, even at the risk of revisiting the tail end of winter up north.

Life is like the facets on a cut stone, I think sometime. Or like a layered painting, where some of the layers are background and barely visible, while others (the last ones applied usually) get the dominate starring roles. In our world today that dominate role might be the recent Japanese tsunami and nuclear reactor co-disasters, for they certainly give the mind more drama to contemplate than the price of fuel or the weather. My email has been full of things to do to protect our bodies (I almost typed 'ourselves') from the dangers of the nuclear radiation that in all probability is being carried by the prevailing winds across the Pacific and into our North American world. I've been asking guidance for direction as to actions to take, and just for good measure did drive down to the herb store to see if they had some potassium iodine in stock. They didn't, but my conversations with my favorite clerk there had me return home, dig out the bag of seaweed (bull kelp and Mendacino Sea Palm) that I had wild-harvested from the Oregon/Northern California beaches a couple of years ago. I then spent a good amount of caloric energy using my ancient hand-crank grain grinder turning the dried seaweed into a fine powder, the intention being to 'salt' my foods with it over the next few days and thereby naturally supplement my iodine reserves.

I know that that approach is limited, but it is 'doing something'. I have heard stories of a Zen monastery in Japan near 'ground zero' that supposedly survived the Hiroshima nuclear blast at the end of WWII intact while everything around it was flattened... that, if true, would definitely represent another, more 'miraculous' approach, but I am not going to lean on it completely right now, even though ultimately we all do, as that is the curriculum we all must master, in the end.

All in all, since there are no accidents, my seeing is that we will each experience exactly what we individually need to from this world unifying Japanese drama.... for that this world is a school for growing superconscious souls trumps all other agenda, and that all those facets of existence reflect our own reality back to us, saying: "Choose your reality, and thus it will be for you!"

Me, I am choosing to learn what exactly my personal capacity for Love is, in the time I am given to be a person. Of course to do that, I see I must be willing to feel and recognize my limiting fears, and then face them. Sometimes that's more than a bit challenging.... n'est pas?

So (back to current events), is the wind bringing nuclear radiation danger to me, to us?..... Perhaps, but perhaps grace will yet be given, especially if we all do our deep inner work, and send (as Carolyn Myss has said) our blessing to all other beings on the level of true thought. As A Course in Miracles has made clear: "The untrained mind can accomplish nothing". The implied opposite is obvious: "The train mind can accomplish anything". Herein, I believe, lies our truest 'protection' in this world. Paraphrasing the Course once again: "What is truly completely vulnerable is then invulnerable."

Namaste,

David

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Rev. David Seacord

Fine Art Painter / Sufi Cherag

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