My Ethereal Self
Ethereal: delicate and airy; heavenly, celestial
A friend and I were talking the other day about what happens next? You know, as in where to from here? "Here" being Here, as in Now; here in this now. Particularly in terms of the physical. What happens, really! (ha) in the non-physical?
I look at Me, which pretty much means my body. I know there is much more to Me than my body. I can get how I can take all of that with me when I walk through the door from here to there. But I just can't wrap my mind around not having a body. How do you do that?
Then my friend used the word "ethereal" and I sighed with relief. Ahhhhh, I get it. I get to be "ethereal". I particularly like the delicate and airy part. I can imagine that. I think I would even like it. Ethereal is soft and lovely and easy. Not hard. Not painful. I think I remember being that before. It is a relief and you can rest and breathe easily.
I am reading a mystery called Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger. He tells us that the Ojebwe tell about the Path of Souls. Waiting at the end of the Path of Souls to welcome us Home is someone who loves us and took the Path before we did. Who would you like to be waiting at the end of the Path of Souls to greet and embrace you?
I am not my ethereal self yet, so that means I am still in the psychical and that means I have the mind and thinking process I have cultivated for 7 decades. I've often gotten a chuckle out of sayings like, "one brick short of a load," or "not the brightest bulb in the chandelier," "not the sharpest knife...." What best describes me is, " one sandwich short of a picnic." I love it! The picnic blanket (me) is lovingly laid out under the trees, in the grass, near the wild flowers. The blanket is lush with abundance and nourishment, colour and surprises. Oh, no! The missing sandwich! ( my critical thinking self ).
None the less, I do have opinions and feelings about the upcoming U.S. election, never mind whether or not I have all my sandwiches. I have run the gambit: from fear, to amazement, to humour, to frustration, to.... you just won't believe this...excitement. Check my web for what Deepak Chopra has to say. It is brilliant. The bigger picture. He gets how what is happening has to be happening and that it is a good thing. All that stuff I just said about sandwiches and me is about my critical take on what Chopra is saying. I don't pretend to be academic or have a critically scholastic or political mind, but what I think he was saying is that the Sarah Palin and Barack Obama shoot down had to come. Some day. It has been in the making for sometime now. And blessed be. I get to be here even as it is happening.
What I hear him saying is that the polarities had to face each other. The country has to decide: is it going ahead, or is it going back? It is their choice. If going ahead, it is truly exciting to be a part of that and to watch what will unfold around us. If going back, those of us who prefer forward movement have to stay steady and hold our own. We have to be patient and wait for them to catch up. My challenge is to remember that there is not a right and wrong here. It is not that I am right and they are wrong.
That isn't easy to hang on to. It isn't even really fair to say I need to wait for them to catch up with me. That somehow suggests I think they need to believe and act like I do. There is room for all of us on this planet. The Obama-Palin face off so makes me think of couples I work with. Sorry. It just is true. I have been letting my fingers do the talking as I write this, and that is exactly where my mind has gone. To couples.
Palin and Obama are a couple. There is not a right person and a wrong person. Just two people who believe differently, thus behave and respond differently. How do we learn to live with our difference? Through dialogue, I teach my couples. Surely that would work in the bigger world, even the world of politics, as well.
Well, I surprised myself about where "ethereal" took me today. If I surprised you as well, let me know. Love hearing from you. Blessings, Nancy
A friend and I were talking the other day about what happens next? You know, as in where to from here? "Here" being Here, as in Now; here in this now. Particularly in terms of the physical. What happens, really! (ha) in the non-physical?
I look at Me, which pretty much means my body. I know there is much more to Me than my body. I can get how I can take all of that with me when I walk through the door from here to there. But I just can't wrap my mind around not having a body. How do you do that?
Then my friend used the word "ethereal" and I sighed with relief. Ahhhhh, I get it. I get to be "ethereal". I particularly like the delicate and airy part. I can imagine that. I think I would even like it. Ethereal is soft and lovely and easy. Not hard. Not painful. I think I remember being that before. It is a relief and you can rest and breathe easily.
I am reading a mystery called Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger. He tells us that the Ojebwe tell about the Path of Souls. Waiting at the end of the Path of Souls to welcome us Home is someone who loves us and took the Path before we did. Who would you like to be waiting at the end of the Path of Souls to greet and embrace you?
I am not my ethereal self yet, so that means I am still in the psychical and that means I have the mind and thinking process I have cultivated for 7 decades. I've often gotten a chuckle out of sayings like, "one brick short of a load," or "not the brightest bulb in the chandelier," "not the sharpest knife...." What best describes me is, " one sandwich short of a picnic." I love it! The picnic blanket (me) is lovingly laid out under the trees, in the grass, near the wild flowers. The blanket is lush with abundance and nourishment, colour and surprises. Oh, no! The missing sandwich! ( my critical thinking self ).
None the less, I do have opinions and feelings about the upcoming U.S. election, never mind whether or not I have all my sandwiches. I have run the gambit: from fear, to amazement, to humour, to frustration, to.... you just won't believe this...excitement. Check my web for what Deepak Chopra has to say. It is brilliant. The bigger picture. He gets how what is happening has to be happening and that it is a good thing. All that stuff I just said about sandwiches and me is about my critical take on what Chopra is saying. I don't pretend to be academic or have a critically scholastic or political mind, but what I think he was saying is that the Sarah Palin and Barack Obama shoot down had to come. Some day. It has been in the making for sometime now. And blessed be. I get to be here even as it is happening.
What I hear him saying is that the polarities had to face each other. The country has to decide: is it going ahead, or is it going back? It is their choice. If going ahead, it is truly exciting to be a part of that and to watch what will unfold around us. If going back, those of us who prefer forward movement have to stay steady and hold our own. We have to be patient and wait for them to catch up. My challenge is to remember that there is not a right and wrong here. It is not that I am right and they are wrong.
That isn't easy to hang on to. It isn't even really fair to say I need to wait for them to catch up with me. That somehow suggests I think they need to believe and act like I do. There is room for all of us on this planet. The Obama-Palin face off so makes me think of couples I work with. Sorry. It just is true. I have been letting my fingers do the talking as I write this, and that is exactly where my mind has gone. To couples.
Palin and Obama are a couple. There is not a right person and a wrong person. Just two people who believe differently, thus behave and respond differently. How do we learn to live with our difference? Through dialogue, I teach my couples. Surely that would work in the bigger world, even the world of politics, as well.
Well, I surprised myself about where "ethereal" took me today. If I surprised you as well, let me know. Love hearing from you. Blessings, Nancy
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