Summer 2009 (Issue 37)    

 Circulatory Health     |     Transforming Fear       |     Systems Thinking      |     Multiple Intelligences

Painting by Gordon Davidson
 

THE SCIENCE OF CIRCULATORY HEALTH: A KEY TO THE NEW CIVILIZATION

 © 2009 by Gordon Davidson 

The Origins of Circulation

   Full circulation to all parts of any organism is the key to health, whether humans, nature, or our planet as a whole.  Just as stagnant water is unhealthy, and flowing water is oxygenated and generally healthier (if it not polluted from other sources), so flowing energy in all dimensions tends to be healthier for living systems.  Our blood must circulate freely to bring oxygen and nutrients to all our organs, and our nervous system needs to circulate information to keep us safe and well-functioning.  Resources, goods, and services need to circulate widely around the world to ensure the well-being of all life.

    While any form exists, it is sustained by the circulation of light energy, which is stepped down into light substance.  Energies flow from the more subtle, spiritual realms and are stepped down into the denser, material realms. Forms in each dimension require specific types of energies. Humans, for example, need circulating energies of air, water, food, and sunlight to live and thrive, as do animals and plants.   But humans also require an exchange with other human beings.  Every form of life is fed by a web of circulating energies flowing to and through it from multiple dimensions, many hidden from human view.

   As it’s said in the Ageless Wisdom, all parts of the solar system are interdependent; all the forces and energies are in constant flux and mutation; all of them sweep in great pulsations, through a form of rhythmic breathing, around the entire solar system.

   Human beings and all life in the universe receive prana (life energy) and active radiatory heat from the sun, which varies in vibration and quality according to the life which receives it. Each life form then changes and colors this energy and passes it on to other life forms.  The circulation of energies of all types, throughout all systems and all life, is a key causal factor in all activity, experience and growth towards ever greater perfection.

    Karma also circulates. As it’s said, “what goes around, comes around”—we reap what we sow.  Causes we set in motion return to us, providing opportunities for learning and growth. Many of the problems and issues we face in the world today are karmic patterns of thought and emotion, some set in motion centuries ago, which are still circulating today. The only way to be freed from karmic cycles is to cease initiating new cycles of negative causes and cultivate forgiveness for all past actions.

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Spiritual Practice MEDITATION ON TRANSFORMING FEAR By Corinne McLaughlin With the economic and other crises impacting us today, it’s helpful to directly address issues of fear that might arise: Begin your meditation by taking a few deep breaths to relax and center yourself. Invite the presence of your soul or higher self and align with the great Masters and Teachers of humanity. Visualize white light pouring in through the top of your head to cleanse and balance your mind. Become mentally detached from the emotional aspect of fear--just observe, rather than suppress or inhibit--the fear. Explore the deeper origins of your fear in the past, so that it will not rule your life in the present; notice how circumstances are different today. Visualize a flow of love into your solar plexus to calm your emotions—love and fear cannot co-exist in the same psychic space as they are different vibrations. Work on controlling your imagination, seeing it become calmer and more balanced, so that paranoia doesn’t take hold and start expanding. Trust that you are being inwardly guided by your soul and nothing can happen to you except what is ultimately for the best. Realize the true issues at stake and develop a willingness to learn from whatever happens. Meditate on how every experience can lead to increased knowledge and development, and greater usefulness in service. Invoke the spiritual fire of courage to strengthen you. Visualize acting “as if” you are unafraid and soon this will become the reality. Close with an affirmation to strengthen you, such as:  “I trust God to guide me in all times and situations so I can relax and be a channel for God’s love and wisdom.” Print Meditation

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"Behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
   --The Christian Bible, Luke 17:20-21

"I am in your own souls! Why see ye not?
In every breath of yours am I."
   --The Islamic Koran 

"Every being has the Buddha Nature. This is the Self."
   -- The Buddhist Mahaparinirvana Sutra

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MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES, STATES OF GRACE AND WHOLE PERSON SPIRITUALITY

© 2009 by Barbara Ludwig, LPC (ret.)

There is a legend that during the Buddha’s lifetime one of his cousins tried to kill him. The Buddha referred to this cousin as one of his most important teachers in his development of compassion and patience.  Buddhism teaches that when we walk the spiritual path, our responsibility is to comprehend that all life is precious and all sentient beings suffer, and so we should act in ways that compassionately embrace and serve to end all suffering. 

I learned something of this when I worked professionally as a transdisciplinary assessment specialist with a young man who was abandoned by his parents as a child after he was diagnosed as deaf and mentally retarded. At some point his house had burned down, possibly by his own hand.

As he grew tall and strong, Davey was “warehoused” in ever more restrictive institutional settings where the caretakers viewed him as a feral and unapproachable tiger of a boy.  He was described to me as having little intelligence (only dangerous and destructive instincts), no communication, and no feelings for other people.

Within the context of Davey’s existence, the questions of spiritual connectedness and how he might experience a state of grace seemed utterly irrelevant, but those questions were precisely what intrigued me the most  What I knew I wanted to do was to simply sit quietly in Davey’s physical presence.  Somehow sitting with a deaf young man, wanting nothing and doing nothing, we both seemed to be shifting.  What part of my intelligence knew that, during this time, Davey would be my spiritual master? 

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