Bridging Realms

Bridging Realms

I read something from Michael Brown about a

“state of mind and heart that is consciously anchored in the physical and humbly extending itself into the spiritual.”

What a striking description of the continuity of consciousness from one realm to another, the flow of awareness, attention and intention!

Sometimes it seems the effort one makes is the reverse of that, namely

to be consciously anchored in the spiritual while humbly extending into the physical.

The body then seems like a mysterious appendage that is simultaneously both “me” and “not me” (reminiscent of my Vietnamese walking sticks named Bob and Not Bob).

We are in our body and identify with it, while not REALLY being in it, in the sense of being consciously anchored there, feeling what is going on at the cellular level where peptides and enzymes are communicating complex emotional messages back and forth which we become conscious of only after a groundswell of energetic activity occurs.

And simultaneous to this incoherency there is the assumption that we can barge into the spiritual realm under an entitlement point of view, as though being whoever we think we are gives us rights there.

What a great adventure it is to be human! What a catastrophic experience!

Where being in control and out of control merge into unity.

And being both “me” and “not me” is totally possible.