Written by Spiritwind


The middle path if taken is the highest path any man or woman can take in this life, for it is the path of Love. To move onto either side of this path reveals where the suffering is found where the separation is always felt about missing the other side of life/ourselves. That can be just wishing that one understands and knows the other gender better; yet no matter how hard one tries, there always seems to be an element missing. We might mistakenly think that it is because nothing is perfect, yet everything is perfectly what it is, and it is us who are constantly troubled by our lack of understanding of this fact. We can go round and round looking for the answers, just like any man has done throughout the ages, including Buddha. Most people though, are not so concerned about the sorrow of life and the paths we all have chosen to play. The journey and the dance is all that one wishes to do, and the middle path can wait! Or so we think………

Carlos Casteneda once said from Don Juan (in his famous series), that if the tonal resists the nagual for too long; then the nagual will finally claim the person even if it means the death of the tonal and the material body. We are at a stage in history, where that might just happen as if it were one voice, (tribal voice) asking for it to end, no differently (perhaps) as the ending of the movie Knowing. It does not have to be that way however, for we all have choices to make in the days and years to come leading up to 2012.

Of course there are different models and cosmologies, yet one has to bear in mind, that the only race that has survived all of the changes on the planet, and who maintain on the deepest levels that they indeed were the original caretakers of the garden of Eden (the aborigines—goori’s in the Bunjalung; in Australia) then who are we to argue? They are still here in an unbroken way, where the rest (of us) struggle to know how to genuinely put things together. Even amongst the aborigines, they can go into depth and detail into the natural flow and lore that is created from such flow of energy down to the minuscule levels in life. They have worked out that kind of knowing over thousands of years, quite literally………

When speaking to various parties around the place, I find many who wish to stick to their religions and beliefs depending on their environment, country, culture, or personal beliefs. Few wish to get off the path that they have been on for so long, unless actually forced off their path. Like the bankers who have brought things to a crisis today, where corruption walks the halls of governments and companies, they will not change their tune till the walls come crashing down. And so, I feel, it is with us as well. reflecting the same resistance to change. Until we hit the wall, our current dreams are within the greater dream of the model society has put the infrastructure for us to live in comfort and luxury. Mother nature has been forgotten and has become the dispensable one for far too long. Now the tide has changed. Anyone with vision is no longer planning on the old model, for the people who are trapped in such, will be swept away by the groundswell of people who will eventually rise up against it to go back to the old ways. The old ways if traced back, go back to Love, to sharing and caring, and living tribally instead of individually seeking paths to the exclusion of all else. The boomerang returning, for the natural flow where things become sustainable where only the spiritual essence is shared, and the spirit of things transferred through the love shown.

We have every possibility laid out in front of us, and I often think that the choices we make these days, have a consequence that might spell life or death for us in the days to come. If we are to survive the changes, then we need to focus on the only thing that will survive into forever; and that is love. All else will perish, no if’s or but’s. If we cannot identify with that part of ourselves, then we might as well be choosing the path that leads to a certain and particular death in our own time line. To learn to identify with love, so that we begin to loosen the binds that have bound the spirit for eons, then we may begin to notice that we are able to walk our paths lightly, both in our emotional bodies, and in our spirits. This sets up the possibility that the body can survive, if it all begins to walk that path with the greater mind down to the minuscule in body. That is a tough lesson to learn if the body is to survive; to be like children in our innocence again, or we simply have no choice but to say goodbye to the kids, while we face our own end for what we have allowed, and knowingly walked into through willful ignorance.

There are all kinds of meetings happening all over the planet right now, as people struggle to find a new model for themselves, and to begin to come back together again as communities. While the moves have a nice romantic hope to them, it is those who have been visionary who are today on the cutting edge on what is happening. Those on the forefront are not waiting for those in government to come up with a new model that will work. They (present powers that be) represent the old that is failing and will no longer last, along with the shell of existence that might just be wiped clean in the years to come. The crucial choices and the crux for these I believe, lie on our doorstep in the next year or two. Beyond that, we will have cast our vote and chosen the path to whether we believe we can take the body with us to the next level, or whether we consciously or unconsciously choose to leave the body with this dimension when it consciously comes to an end. Our individual choice will have been made, and perhaps be locked in for us to observe the consequences of our choices and actions. It is after all, truth time for everyone, to get the balance needed if we are to further our own development.<

How it looks to me today, is that people are still doing what they have always done, with little to no change in their lifestyles. We still drive to see the same friends, with little to no decrease in the cars use to save on fuel. We still go about our every day as if nothing has changed in the greater sense or picture. We still live in hope that our current way of life will not be too disrupted by the changes underfoot, for we trust the system and any new model to accommodate our faithfulness in doing our homework and thus supporting our own dreams and visions. It is true that there are meetings going on pretty much constantly now, to be creative in the approach to keep things pretty much as they are.

Still to be done, is visioning and fresh dreaming, learning to put things together, in a community where new dreaming can begin towards a tribal dream. Learning the ropes of manifesting dreams will come, as we learn that our dreams can come true. The caveat though, is that this new dreaming has to be done in context of Mother Nature wherever one is in their dreaming and visioning. That way, we get back to the reality of the Self, and keeps fantasy and illusion at bay. What can then be clearly seen, is that we can manifest from the good side, or bad side of ourselves, and is dependent on what side we feed in our lives. This is as much true for the greater community as it is for the individual.

Responsibility and respect are the two words most needed to be remembered at this time, and once we have that basis in ourselves, to then be able to control our thoughts so that we are not flying here there and everywhere when we learn to go into our spirit side of ourselves. At least this way, we can assure ourselves, we can come back to the point of departure, without wondering where we even left from. I have seen old men in these changing times, get so full of grog and pass out, to never be able to come back to this time line again in their heads. That is an unfortunate thing to see happen, but just goes to show that it is an important lesson to learn in these days, as we learn how fluid life actually is, once we begin tapping into our potentials. The challenge is to be the best of who we are, in service not just to ourselves, but the community we intentionally become a part of in the days to come. Once this has been given life, and we have cut our teeth in community living, we find that it becomes our extended family getting a life of its own happening.

This is a progression of how things unfold from group thinking into practical living. The more we return to a natural way of life, the better chance we have not only of survival on a world that increasingly is becoming unsustainable for the masses of people crying out for food. It also provides the base from which, when our basics are covered, and no hold is placed on materialism, that our spirits are allowed to be free again, without the constraints of thought about materials needing to be paid for. Magic can come back, and matter becomes answerable to spirit as in days of yore. Being responsible with developing power, without ego becoming entrapped with the levels of manifestation that begin occurring, allows true gifts of one’s spirit to develop. Getting out of our own way, is the lesson we all most need to learn so that useful deconstruction along with new thinking, begins to emerge.

Saying that one sees thousands of groups talking along these lines, is encouraging, though the next step of creating intentional community and living in one such model, is the hard work that each member of such a group will have to cut their teeth on. Once done, the birth of such an extended family, begins to take a life of its own, with all of the challenges both good and bad present, in order to learn about ourselves, and how best to sort it all within and without.

The sooner we learn that it is not society in the greater whole now, that will lead us into a new model, but we ourselves. Without money, governments and business (in the days to come) are dead in the water; and that is the realism we all face in today’s world. It will not benefit us to sit back, and give the power to the greedy who created this failed model to begin with. Secret societies, and controlling the money flow to benefit the casino to which they own, is the addiction we all have fallen for, without learning that we ourselves have the power to create our own reality in the present moment, and into our own future. Learning to bring back vision and dreams while allowing freedom for love to self organize, and without judging the other person beside us, allows each person to be perfect. Perfectly who they are, and enjoying the dance when the spirit of men is allowed to dance.

We can experience the middle path on earth today, if we but begin to identify with its many nuances in life itself dancing around us in a myriad of voices. I wish the reader well as they begin to discover these missing elements in their own lives, and learn to dance with their own spirit, through focusing on their own rhythm of a heartbeat teaching the flow of life and spirit. Here’s to life through spirit eyes, and that we learn to dance this sooner rather than later.

In love light, and laughter,


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