New for 2023 - Sharing Morning Contemplations and More
Sharing Morning Contemplations
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Dear Friends,
This is the beginning of a habit - a habit of sending out regular email to you with a variety of content. We were going to wait until New Years 2023 - but thought we'd get started now - so we get a running start at our new habit.
I (Duncan) - from time to time write down my morning Contemplations. I do this after morning meditation. I've done this for years and keep them on file. I've decided to share these contemplations with you and hope that you find them helpful. Some are short - a paragraph or two - some are one or two pages, unedited - so there may be errors :)
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Here's one of my Contemplation for this week It's a couple of pages - (it's quite a bit longer than most)
Contemplations – Dec 14 2022 --- What is Your Reality Story?
We all have a reality story. It’s the story about what we believe to be real. This story is always in the background and continuously shaping our thoughts, feelings, actions, behaviour and life experiences.
So yes it is profoundly important
when assessing root causes of everything that’s happening in life.
The interesting thing is that a lot of our story content is generated outside our awareness. On a spiritual level of course the story starts well before our conception but let’s pick up the story at the time of our conception. When we are conceived the sperm and egg both carry the stories of our parents and as we grew in the womb we are impacted by our mothers daily experiences and beliefs as well as everyone else in the immediate vicinity. And then when we are born we become part of a family with its own story and we enter into a culture and environment that also has many stories -- all of which contribute to the content of our story of who we are why we are here and what’s real and what’s not real.
If we look at human cultural values over the millennia we see major shifts in the reality stories of most of the population. Today scientific materialism [scientism] is a dominant
philosophical system where the brain produces consciousness , humans are biochemical machines without free will - a very outside- in mechanistic view of reality. But paradoxically when you talk to individuals most have had experiences and have awareness that speaks to a reality beyond the material level. Gut feelings, hunches, intuition - feelings of love, kindness, anger or hostility – none of these things can be accounted for through a materialistic only worldview and story of reality. Many in academia subscribe to a materialistic world view – even though in their personal lives they experience many of the paradoxes noted above.
So it’s highly probable if you are raised in the Western society that a big part of your reality story is a materialistic one whether you are aware of it or not as most of it has been implanted and conditioned outside of awareness.
If in fact we are spiritual beings having a human experience you can see where a collision is
pending. Where the reality of who we really are doesn’t match up with the reality that we think we are and the reality of all there is. And when those realities don’t match up life is a continuous series of collisions, confusion, stress and anxiety.
Here I quote from a presentation given by David Lorimer “Carl Jung observed that the God-image is immediately related to, or identical with the self, and everything that happens to the God-image has an effect on the latter. Any uncertainty about the God- image causes a profound uneasiness in the self… And destroys the continuity of historical tradition which is the hallmark of civilization. The destruction of the God-image is followed by the annulment of the human personality.”
If what Jung says is true then - it’s no surprise that we are seeing such pervasive mental/emotional pandemics. And it’s no surprise that a recent survey showed that over half of the males surveyed between ages 20 and
60 met the criteria for being clinically depressed. Widespread stress and anxiety, sleep problems and increasing drug use and overdose deaths. And when we attempt to solve these issues within a scientific materialism worldview we continue to be surprised at our failure. And the failure is obvious of course to those whose reality story includes spiritual realities and higher worlds. Continuing to attempt to remedy drug overdose problems by using more drugs is indeed a circular solution that is temporary at best. And the people needing help are given false hope and faulty solutions.
If our essence is God stuff then deep within we know this even though it may be over laden with many layers of beliefs and stories that deny it. But no matter how much overburden there is this knowing always surfaces from time to time. Ofttimes it’s when there is a major disruption in our current story. It can be the death of someone close to us – can be our own health issues
– anything that is a major disruption can clear the way at least temporarily for this deeper knowing to come through. But when it comes through within an environment that has no place for it to be acknowledged or expressed then it’s often covered over again until the next occurrence. This process is an underlying cause of general anxiety that persists for many. A causal factor that isn’t accurately identified or diagnosed. And like any mis-diagnosis – remedies are off the mark – harmless at best.
Jesus was once asked what his mission was and he replied that he came that humanity might enjoy abundant life. And we know from his life and teaching that abundant life for him meant life centred in love and kindness, in helping others and supporting others as we would like to be helped and supported. It was a life of balance a life that acknowledged our soul and spirit as primary in our existence. A life where our Source and Creator is always in our
awareness and thoughts and shaping our behaviour and service. Foundational to everything that is. And it is the Source for the wisdom and intelligence that is essential for balanced abundant living and a healthy planet.
Humans have been given agency – free will. And we see the results of that agency and free will and in all the many positive attributes of our culture and heritage as well as in the many inventions and discoveries which have made life better. But we also see tremendous damage and injury to humanity and the planet when this free will – this agency is given free reign without the benefit of higher intelligence and higher wisdom. And there’s many wise observers saying that unless we change our practices – that is the damaging practices quickly that we as a species may be short-lived on this planet. There is no question of the great power that humans have. Power to do good and power to injure and destroy. The will to do good comes from the
Source and this source must become a primary part of our reality story if we are to enjoy abundance for humanity and this beautiful planet Earth.
So – given the dominant philosophies and reality stories in our society today how do we do this. How do we shift from where we are to where we need to be individually and as humanity as a whole. It has to start organically from the ground up. And there currently is quite a lot happening on the planet right now in that regard. There’s many people in agreement with the narrative that I’ve just related. But for each of us the answer of course starts with ourselves. No matter what level we are at – I know that many who are reading this are in agreement with this narrative and have evolved considerably on what will call the spiritual reality path – but no matter where we are on the path we need to have Confidence that this path that we are on is the path that is absolutely essential for us to travel. And that we must have the Courage to travel it. This is not a simple undertaking because we often face a lot of headwinds on many levels and so it takes a lot of courage to persist in the face of these headwinds.
And that brings us to the third C which is Commitment. Committing ourselves for the rest of our lives to doing everything that we can to evolve as spiritual beings living a human life. What does that mean? It means accessing love, intelligence and wisdom directly from Source - God on a continuous basis and then applying that in all our relationships, in
all our work, in our society at every level, in our institutions, everywhere that’s within our reach and influence. And sometimes it’s on a very micro scale extending small kindness and acts of generosity, sometimes it might be on a macro scale where we are helping to shape the institutions and policies that shape us and give us the encouragement, the tools the education and the stories essential for abundance for all on our planet.
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That's it -- congratulations if you read to the end :) - let me know if this resonates with you.
Many Blessings To You and Your Loved Ones in this festive holiday season
Duncan
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