Now that we as the human species have played out our cultural experiments for the past thousands of years—separating ourselves from other natural world species members, from our fellow humans, and from a direct relationship with the Oneness of divinity—with the experiential Understandings we have currently, I think each of us can individually and also collaboratively explore The Tree of Life.
To me, the Garden of Eden story in the Bible‘s Old Testament—Eve and Adam choosing to eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—is a symbolic representation of the human species deciding to use oppositional dualism, etc.—and go forth with its separation experiments. And now, with the help of modern technology, we are all able to See the results that have played out in global physical terms over the centuries. I also think that “the experiment” was important and valuable.
What I Understand as an integrated, wholistic Being, is that “In the beginning is divine Love. Divine Love is the starting point. From it, forms are manifested in this reality system, and it connects all Life.” That is what I heard repeatedly one night from a very deep dimension of my Being, during dreams and associated awake moments. Then that same night, from a closer dimension to physicalness, I Realized that as individualized portions of divine Love—of Oneness—each of us uses its attributes to energize patterns and designs that become our personal contributions to the overall play, bringing about our share of connections and events.
I think that one of a myriad number of misinterpretations about Oneness in our culture today is to say that I am you and you are me. I think this doesn‘t account for the various levels and dimensions of each of us as wholistic Beings, nor does it give each of us the wholistic potency and responsibility for our individual choices, no matter what dimension we are in. Capabilities I have played with as the essence of myself are such that “I” can temporarily merge with another Being‘s focuses, either purposely or semi-automatically—but I am still fundamentally Me doing so—and then the connections naturally recede when one lives Life as a process and moves on.
As I experientially Understand it now, there are two major consciousness forms that are part of our human personhoods:
* One is our overall basic body consciousness, made up of the whole divinely and intelligently crafted body organism‘s natural processes amidst the basic natural world—all within a vast network of connections and probabilities.
* The second consciousness is that which each of us primarily identifies with and experiences. It includes our cultural gender trainings and some cultural designs of “how it all works.” And of course the contents of this consciousness can be changed and transformed with different perspectives and patterns.
In current-day terms, I think the two consciousness forms and their interactions are being expressed as the mind-body connection.
In later December 2011, the very day I word-processed a larger-picture story of events in my Life for the file folder, “New Songs, New Stories,” Jim composed the melody for his first musical composition. He had been hearing variations of it oftentimes inwardly, and he was finally ready to play it and put it down on paper in note form. When I heard it, as a wholistic Being I thought it was exquisite! So there we were on the same day, with a new story and a new song, from amidst a new framework!
Inwardly, I have been Seeing the symbolic picture I painted early in 2011, representing a potted and growing plant of safety and peace, as part of The Tree of Life, too. As I wrote earlier, I am now a Being who is comfortably energizing divine safety along with peace for myself and others—part of my contributions to the overall current-day spirit-human events. I‘ve Realized that I can truly create a personal core that is fluid and integrous, without needing protections. Yes, I am continuing to play my part as best I can, while also horizontally valuing others for their worldviews.
I think a good perspective to use about Life is to see our human choices during “the experiment” as if we have been using just one radio station among many options, or tuning to just one television channel, among many other options. Both Jim and I have been and are wholistically exploring other stations and channels that are also connected to this basic reality system.
From my point of view The Tree of Life is a mythic symbol, an internal psychic energy form used by many groups of people throughout our shared human history … of course filled with different ingredients depending upon the time and place. I think a psychic and biological emphasis such as The Tree of Life can be a potent energy-filled centrality in today‘s world, that invisibly and inwardly flows, naturally connecting with like-minded energies.
And now, with our individual and collaborative emphases, Jim and I and our body organisms will be discovering how The Tree of Life manifests for each of us—and how we each inter-relate with it in 2012, when there will be more fresh New Songs and New Stories.
With Unfettered Divine Love, J.
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