All human myths, stories and legends native to human cultures since the dawn of time, reflect the saga of the Journey of Soul, or the Hero’s Journey. This journey began in the Ocean of Love and Mercy, when Soul enjoyed the fruits of Heaven and lived a life of ease, until God the Father saw that It needed a different attitude in order to be of any use to IT, the Spiritual Hierarchy, and Its fellow Souls. Soul was sent to the dual universes, administered by Its chief appointee, the Lord of the Negative Worlds, under whose jurisdiction Soul would remain until It became aware of the spiritual laws of life and began to work consciously within the same.

The chief spiritual law is the Law of Love, (simply put, Soul must be willing to give of Itself without expectation of reward), out of which the rest of the laws falling into the categories of the Laws of Wisdom – the laws that speak of divine power and how it manifests in the universe,  the Laws of Freedom – practical laws that afford a smoother passage through everyday life, and the Laws of Charity – the laws that bring Soul a greater capacity to love – enable Soul to cease creating needless karma for Itself, and thus find Its way off the endless wheel of death and rebirth.

Key to Soul’s emancipation is “the Friend”, to use Rumi’s term, that Being which as is near to Soul “as Its own heartbeat”, and which Soul must engage in order to receive instructions insofar as the steps it needs to take in order to free Itself, avoid needless karma etc. No Soul is ever forgotten or alone in God’s Universes, and so “the Friend” appears in some form or another to every Soul, in all of God’s universes, and in whatever conditions and circumstances Soul may find Itself in. However, the Friend can only point the way, it remains for Soul to walk the spiritual path to God of Its own volition. And each Soul’s path will be unique. A further note on the Friend; the Friend is a manifestation of Divine Spirit, and may take a form or any number of forms that will be familiar to the individual, thus the Friend will appear in a different form to an Inuit of Alaska, a pygmy of Africa and/or a tribesman from the Amazon, and so on.

As mentioned, of prime importance to walking the spiritual path back home to God is Soul’s understanding and compliance with the spiritual laws of life such as the Law of Karma, the Law of Silence and the Law of Economy. Pertaining to the Law of Economy, Soul learns to align Its wishes, hopes and dreams with that of Divine Spirit. Thus it is said that the Universes are sustained by acts of personal sacrifice. This is how Soul’s growth is gauged, It begins to think not for Its own welfare but for the welfare of others first, and in doing so, finds that Its personal needs are taken care of. “Not my will but thine” in action.

One more point of interest, there is an irony here, for so often It happens that when Soul gains freedom from the wheel of death and rebirth and establishes Itself to one of the higher planes, It so often chooses to return to this world (or others like it), in order to help other Souls find their way back into the Heavenly Kingdom.

The Dreams of the Night

Early in the morning, before the day breaks,
The ocean it bids the shore goodbye;
The dreams of the night, washed up on the beach,
Are stranded like fish, waiting to die.

The fisherman hauls in his nets to see,
Wondering what the night’s catch will yield?
Gulls are a squawking while the fish they are threshing,
As the sun fills the sky with its crimson shield.

My love she weeps but doesn’t say why;
She said her heart I never can know.
All through the day and all through the night,
That is the place that no one may go!

Early in the morning, before the day breaks,
The ocean it bids the shore goodbye;
The dreams of the night, washed up on the beach
Stranded like fish, are waiting to die…

Neurosurgeon, Eben Alexander’s takeaway from his Near Death Experience, (one of them) “…You are deeply loved, cherished forever, you have nothing to fear, you are cared for…”

“Harvard Neurosurgeon Dies, shown why we reincarnate and EVIDENCE of Heaven”;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWRsALo7Hak

Autumn is the Springtime of the Soul

mired deep within,
your maliciousness and envy;
disarm that beast!

abandon your past;
sow the seeds of an upright
future here and now

autumn is the springtime
of the soul, and winter
is its native home

God bestows insight
in the hearts of those
who prove sincere

to see the Friend,
sew your eyes together and so
unsee the world

A “Buffalo Soldier”; one distinguished in battle as having “fought like a cornered buffalo”.

treed; an archaic term for ‘under attack’

mistletoe; a symbol of fertility, life

nighthawk; the nightjar,or in this case, its ‘song of redemption’…

Buffalo Soldier

I live in a cabin up by the woods,
There’s an old grey rock where we buried the goods.
He used to be my own true beau;
He lived like a cornered buffalo!

Winter had past, it was early spring,
I knew he was heading back to the ring.
Said he had ‘someplace he had to go’;
He felt like a wounded buffalo.

I received a letter, now not long past,
How his luck had changed, this time it would last.
How my babe and I would finally be freed;
My love he loved like a buffalo treed!

Well, there we were by the hot water spring,
When an ill wind brought the chill that it brings;
They’d found his trail of blood in the snow,
He’d fought like a maddened buffalo!

I still remember, I’ll never forget,
Back to the time when we first met;
How we kissed underneath the mistletoe –
My love took the field like a buffalo!

’Tis a sad but a holy thing to love;
Wisdom for fools and morning doves.
My love he stood at six feet tall,
And yet he fell like the buffalo falls.

We live in a cabin up off the range,
There’s an old grey rock where we buried the change.
When I tell myself I’ll let him go,
My heart it bouts like a buffalo!

At times far-off a church bell rings.
At certain hours the nighthawk sings.
Few there were that went toe to toe…
My love he fought like a buffalo.

hide yourself
for a moment, in order to
see Him fully!

after drinking
from the ditch for so long,
a sip of pure rainwater

I circle around
this body, diseased and dying,
wasted in pursuit of
a rotten pile of causes

the simple man,
in simple self-effacement,
finds the one who knows the way!

Could Life Be No More Than This?

If there were no beginning,
If there were no end,
No fear of birth,
And death, a friend.
No need for dismay
Or atonement due;
There’d be nothing to flee
And nothing to pursue.

If there were no future,
If there were no past,
No good, nor hope
Of making it last.
If there were no evil
to disavow;
Life would be no more
That what it is now.

If there were no heaven,
If there were no hell,
If there were no power,
No magical spell.
Nothing to deter you
From keeping your vow;
Life would be no more
That what it is now.

If there were nowhere to go,
And nothing to be,
If there were nothing to know
And nothing to see.
If there were nothing to prove,
No why or how…
Life would be no more
Than what it is right now!

The above sequence is inspired by a Japanese film from the 50’s or 60’s, the name of which I forget, admittedly from a simpler time than what we are experiencing today. As mankind’s karma as a whole speeds up, so too apparently, does his capacity for evil-doing which in turn provides greater opportunity for spiritual growth, and/or vice versa. This has to do with the Cycles of Life and  apparently is God’s will and plan, otherwise today’s events would not be happening, (on the other hand when have they not been happening?)

And so further to the final tanka, man’s goodness is attended by his wickedness. These qualities come in pairs and are relative to human feelings, and specifically, the individual point of view. As Soul unfolds spiritually over the course of many lifetimes, it moves further away from the extreme emotions and closer toward the “middle path” or “narrow way”, ie; a more Godlike state of consciousness. We need to remember God is concerned primarily with Soul and not the human state of consciousness, as the human state is transient and essentially comprises the theatre that provides Soul experience. An example of what awaits a Soul that takes an extreme viewpoint such as today in Israel versus Palestine, may mean that the Lords of karma direct a particular Soul after translating to incarnate immediately as a member of the opposing faction, ie; a fanatic Israeli  may chalk up a lifetime or lifetimes as a Palestinian, in order to temper the destructive mindset which It has been infected with in Its last life, and so on.

Just a train of thought to add further context to the discourse as we witness the horror of events unfolding today.