"Each of you is his own universe, and your inner and outer realities regularly form your very own Hall of Mirrors." ~The Reconnections
Artwork ©2005 Juliana Morris
Hag-Oorim Same'ach!
November-December, 2005
DJ=Daniel comments R =Reconnections Transmission
Comets Through Time: Myth and Mystery
A little shuteye after a night of work!
Winter Solstice: Stand Still Sun
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And the Kids Shall Lead the Way...........(click here)
DJ: This new movie, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall, is somewhat painful to watch. It's a rather interesting mixture of male homosexuality issues set within what is traditionally thought of as the most "manly" environment of all--Cowboy Land. The viewer becomes willing to go there because these particular actors are willing to go there. Somehow, they have enough credibility with the world that we trust them with the more tender parts of our sensibilties. It's similar to Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick's performances in "The Woodsman." Both topics are similarly uncomfortable for some (though I am, by no means, comparing homosexuality with child molestation).........yet both areas of extreme societal unrest are in need of introspection, compassion and attention.
My first teacher of Metaphysics once told me: "The sign that the New Paradigm is on the move is not found when women find their masculinity. Rather, it will be most evident when men find their feminine side, and begin exploring it."
To see two mainline young stars, ready to put it on the line, in order to make some social momentum---that's a good thing. The storyline isn't all that clear, but the emotion runs high--and the depiction of male emotional autism, in expressing love and affection in a man-to-man way, is vivid. You can't dislike these guys on principle, and you can't just write this one off as posturing either.
What's clearly here is a gutsy, basic exposure for the mass mind to the growing number of both genders who feel drawn to experiment with same sex physical connections. At one point, Ledger's character says to his new friend: "This is a one-time deal. I ain't no queer!" When the initial encounters are over, both go their ways, opting to marry and have kids. Then, at a point in time, they find they must return to the situation and explore it some more. What follows is a variation on the movie "Same Time Next Year," which ultimately ends with a sad depiction of brutality and prejudice that is, sadly, still very present in the U.S. today.
As far as this topic goes......it's a nice start. I was inclined to believe that Ledger's statement was true. Neither one of these guys comes off as classically gay, and neither is into "the scene." They're PEOPLE, who are having experiences. They both mention an emotional VOID inside, through a lack of healthy connection and grounding with a Dad presence. I don't particularly see that as pathology either. It's just part of the texture of these men's lives. I was also interested to note that Jake didn't see his character as gay, either. I suppose it is this depth of understanding that made him to good in the role.
The generation immediately preceding the Baby Boomers was a tortured one indeed, in regards to this issue. Look at the movie "American Beauty," for example. The early 1950s was a turmoil of sexual molestation involving children--and homophobia ran very high as well. Everything went into the closet. Any Shadow Work that wasn't done by parents was simply taken on by their kids.
In the Families of the Heart Material, the Guides tell us plainly what has to happen in order to get the demons out of our societal closet. We have to be open, honest, and stop categorizing. There also must be freedom to explore........without judgment (inner or outer), or a need to classify things. As the Recons put it.........there is more to sex than form or function. Feelings play a huge part.
The pain in this movie, in the wives and in those dealing with these feelings first hand, is palpable. A lot of it is framed by the breakdown in the area of nuclear families as a whole. A healthy Spirituality and Sex Interface is crucial, if we're to get past the sublimated and encrypted emotion that is popping up all over the world--in the form of random brutality, war mongering (using missles as penises), and random societal disdain.
Many men (though not all) who habitually get into fistfights may be doing do because they don't know any other way to touch another man. They both love him and hate him, all at the same time. One area this movie nicely depicts is this sex-violence interface within a repressed male psyche. And, by the way, one huge reason for domestic violence in males comes when their females catch sight of these tender vulnerabilities, and make covert efforts to exploit them.
Worth seeing. But hang onto your heart. This one could either blow you out entirely, or make you quite tenderized, indeed. Perhaps it would better be named "Brokeheart Mountain," eh?
DJ.
OBESITY
Someone asked me this morning if the Reconnections had any particular view on the topic of OBESITY. It is a timely subject, yes? The Holiday Season is the time of year when most folks talk about how fat they're getting, and when doctors flip out about it. And then we all pour ourselves more egg nog and nibble on holiday cookies for the rest of the night.
In essence.....the Multiversal View of Obesity is that it is a CONDITION, not a disease. It is a hard thing to be larger in this world, even as it is also hard to be sensitive. In modern society, fear or ridicule of large folks is the last acceptable prejudice, which is why it is on the rise. The more we ridicule a person for being what he is, the more his "condition" will spread! After all......ridicule of another invokes the object of that ridicule back on us......so that we can learn compassion, and recognize the PERFECTION of every part of the human path.
In truth, folks who carry the extra poundage are considered officially PREGNANT, by Multiversal criteria. It matters not what gender we are. To the Guides, fat is considered "non-descript, potentiated energy"---which is the least defined type of energy that a person can manifest, being connected to the human frame.
Whereas Cancer (neo-plasms ="new growth").....is more imperialistic in its nature (it climbs aboard your 3D vehicle and says: "So. I'm here now. Where are we going?").......Fat is less overt. It simply STOWS AWAY.....and goes along for the ride. It is more like a tourist, than a settler. It sits and watches, as it induces the host body to become more sedentary as well. One primary benefit of having more fat on the body is: a person can encounter more intensity in life and remain relatively in tact. We're talking day in and day out intensity. Alcoholics are often the whirlwinds of the Multiverse, while Larger Folks are the buffers and cushions that absorb that intensity. This isn't 100% applicable, but close. Many large folks are stationed near alcoholics. BOTH sets of folks are entry and exit portals for darker tones in human emotion and consciousness. They are the BLACK GATE, if you will........(to use Lord of the Rings Terminology) for the Multiverse.
The energies/bits of consciousness represented by fat on the physical body are like tourists in the 3D universe. They don't have a tangible place here, but they wish to go along anyway. If a slim person is like a sports car, a larger person is like a TOUR BUS. And the body-mind of a large person has contracted to do this, for many reasons.........primarily having to do with grounding and modulation of expansion, during a physical lifetime.
It is not until these potentiated energies find something (or someone) that interests them that they leap off the bus and get involved in 3D. Until then, they wait. In fact, that term has special application for the Guides: Weight = WAIT. Some might call it EXCESS WAIT......yes? In any event, they wouldn't (or couldn't) be there unless we let them climb aboard. They are like fetuses......riding along and developing.......until such time as they become ready to be BORN, or expressed in more ornate ways. That's what we mean by PREGNANCY, you see? That's what the Guides say.
What Daniel says is: Despite the fact that society always seems to have a "whipping boy" that we feel needs to be "fixed" (thereby giving birth to a trillion dollar weight-loss industry)........the basic "condition" persists. What we resist persists. However, there is more to this "condition" than meets the eye. And it will be revealed, in time. There is definitely more to be learned here, when the time is right. And humanity will NEVER get a handle on the issue until we learn to embrace it, just like any other aspect of human life.
And quit talking to large folks about "health," ok? It's so condescending! What we go through in being the size we are is part of our process. Most of us (being human and sensitive to the opinions of those around us) have tried everything under the sun to be different than what we are. If we could be different we would be. In fact, statistics show that most enduring weight is anchored on the body through dieting, gaining and losing, over and over......and our hyper-attention to societal definitions of what the "perfect" size for a person needs to be. That's just sociological conformity crap. If we were supposed to be different, we would be....or will be, if that is the case. When people are ready to change, they usually do. Until then, its all about projection and its a blame game.
We don't fully understand this area of human knowledge yet, as a species.....but when the time comes for the weight (wait) to depart, it usually does......individually and collectively. Until then, watch what you say to or about large folks. Words carelessly spoken have a way of boomeranging back on the one speaking, and some of them may even start sticking to your own ass as well!
"Lord.......let my words be soft and gentle today........for tomorrow, I may have to eat them!"
POLYAMORY ANYONE?
Hef, and his "Girls Next Door"
I found myself glued to the set last night, while Larry King interviewed Playboy's Hugh Hefner, along with his 3 live-in "girlfriends." I even called Nina, so she could go turn it on, as I knew it would provoke a lively discussion. Man, did it ever!
There were many interesting parts to the story, not he least of which is that each of these girls exists (comfortably, according to their report) in an obvious "caste" system......with the oldest one (Holly) being Hef's "Main Squeeze" and the rest of them being willing to be "icing on the cake."
Nina's objection to the whole thing was that it was that it was blatantly chauvinistic.....featuring all the old "tones" of days gone by. First off, it was a harem, and he is the "old fart" who is surrounded by young beautiful girls......and there is no reciprocity for them. He has scads of money, which puts the locus of the focus on the usual criteria for man's glory.......what he can offer, financially. None of the girls were peers....and he openly admitted that he was sort of "stuck in an era" when it came to his tastes.........which meant, to me, that he is still exploring that time in his life when he was 30ish, and full of vigor. The ladies range in age from 20 (the youngest) to probably 30 (the oldest). The all seem delighted to be living in the Playboy Mansion, and sharing their life with this icon of power and sexuality.
Nina hit on a lot of powerful comments. She said: "This is not we WE do.......even with everything the Recons have shared about Polyamory, Spirituality, and Sex." It IS a different emphasis, and I had to give her that.
I guess my personal fascination grows when someone, ANYONE, becomes willing to strike a tone that runs upon "the road less traveled." And that is what Hugh Hefner has been doing for his whole life. In the beginning, he was the Devil. A whole host of people saw him in that way. He wears the mantle of "The Great Satan," as the Islamics would put it. And I respect the right of every person (regardless of race or religion) to call things as he or she sees it.
I purposely managed to step past all these "hot spots" that have grown around Hefner over the years. Instead of dealing with them (either pro or con).......I honed in on one phrase he used: "I am making a statement to the world that there is more than one way to live a loving, ethical life." I GOT that message, and I'm chomping on it. It seems a perfect embodiment on ONE WAY we could view the wise law: "Harm no one. Do as thou wilt." And I know there could be some case for saying: "Well......isn't he being a bad example for children?" To which I would say: "Let the children decide." This new breed of kids has a whole new perspective on all this.
Would I want his kind of life? Probably NOT as a general rule. I may like to step into it for a night (as most men fantasize). It's kind of ARCHETYPAL in that way, isn't it? I do like the freedom and autonomy he has achieved. But that is only the way things appear. I usually prefer my own, when it comes down to it.
I have loved many people in my 56 years. Like Hef, I did the "monogamous marriage" thing for 10 years, with honor. And then, that time of my life ended. Will it return? Only time will tell. There have been times when I was loving more than one person.....in my life flow. But when I love a person, I can only focus on ONE AT A TIME.....only turn my eyes on one thing. Even if I've promised those eyes to another, for the rest of our lives.......who I am to say what will appear, down the road, and demand that I look?
For me, today........the issue isn't ONE LOVER vs. MULTIPLE LOVERS. For me, it has to do with ENERGY...........what's moving around and through me, in my Now Moment. If there is something or someone that would be considered "competition" for those who love me, and want to get close to me.....I would have to say that it is the ENERGY that would be their competition. Where will THE ENERGY take us next? And will we choose to follow it........or will we deny that path in favor of some promised "security" in a committed relationship.
As I think of Hef, I recall that I have had a PLAYMATE of my own........in this great poem I once wrote. It seems to say it all. And yes, perhaps I can get a little SELF-ABSORBED, at times, in this process of mine. I'm looking at that, too.
I doubled over laughing today, in a conversation with a friend back east. We were discussing the "work" factor that goes into relationships--especially during these highly transitional days. Even though we all want our connections to be smoothe, flowing, and free from effort--there still seems to be times when those reflections coming back at us are so strident we just want to run and hide. But we can't. We have to face the reflection in the mirror, and let it have its way with us (whatever that means). As we agreed on this point, and all the diverse dynamics that show up in relationships, she quoted what she said was a line from Pink Floyd song, which perfectly summarized the situation for me:
"If you won't eat your meat, you don't get your puddin'."
hahahahahaha......exactly.
In Memory Of......
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita. Transitioned 11/25/05
So long, Mr. Miyagi.....
Buddha Re-Incarnated? Many People think so.
SHARING: There are two reflections that seem to be circling my universe right now. One is the declaration, especially by females, that there are "no words to describe what I am feeling at this moment." The NO WORDS concept is very intriguing.
I wrote this to a friend the other day:
As a wordsmith.........and lover of languages.......I tend to believe that words can always be found, as we expand into these realms........but they would probably come from a totally new source energy, and could most likely be applied only in an environment that allows rich usage of metaphors, coupled with liberal sensory expression and far more diversity of intimate experience than the majority of humanity has attained.
Society (as as rule) tends to allow descriptions and word imagery right up to the point where we feel comfortable and safe, and then we go no further. But I believe there are words.......and images.......and source codes that exist, which could blow our circuitry wide open..........and I am not talking about boorish profanity, either. It would be like a Glass Menagerie of the Mind.............very delicate and subtle............pervasive, somewhat intoxicating for sure...........and yet pristine in execution. Linguistic Fractals, if you will..........
Is the refusal to allow WORDS to enter the picture a refusal to enter into the realm of MIND? If someone is totally Chaosian in their orientation, would they have an aversion to integrating the Theosian element of WORDS, thereby requiring that they go fire up the MIND in order to formulate and interpret? I only know that when someone says this to me, I grieve...........
Hmmmm........here's an insight. Sweet Baby James is back in my headlights again. In listening to his "Live" album the other day, these words literally leapt out at me:
"Leave the word unspoken.........and the spell will not be broken..........."
Hmmm........A true Goddess Technique, extraodordinare.....
Lyrics: "I WILL FOLLOW" (CLICK HERE)
Another reflection is that many of my female friends want more FACE TIME with me, rather than e-mails or telephone contact. If they don't get it, some feel frustrated or abandoned, somehow. This seems more of a indicator that we are doing a male-female dance.......duality......rather than simply being ONESELF Reflections. And I know it is also indicative of my own concerns about losing contact with self.......losing my own "face," so to speak.
I am pondering this, as it now seems that FACE TIME, in physical space, is equal to DENSITY......where e-mails and phone contact constitutes an abbreviance to that former definition of "relationship." At this vibration, we only need to go inside to get "face time." Are we not yet ready to believe that? Apparently not. Recently, I've been asking for FACE TIME with the Reconnections, for the first time in 14 years.......really asking for more details about their individuated personalities, which some of them DO have, but often will not reveal unless asking (believing that to be irrelevant to our contact). But is it irrelevant?
In the movie "Taken," Allie asks her Grandfather, John, about his E.T. Brethren......and his relationship to them. He is wounded, and needs to go "home." She asks: "Will they come for you?" He responds: "I'm not important." And then he turns attention back to her. But he IS important. And this is the reflection that my female energies are bringing. And physicality IS important.
I live my life around the idea of TOUCH. Obviously, that requires FACE TIME. And I do love to touch.........but sometimes it does pull me away from more expanded pursuits in consciousness. Balance is always the key.
Cicero's Natural Law
DJ: Someone sent this on to me.......
"Below is Cicero’s definition of natural law from his book, On the Republic, published in 51 BC. While reading, substitute the secular word “Nature” for the mystical word “God”:
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature, universal, consistent, everlasting, whose nature is to advocate duty by prescription and to deter wrongdoing by prohibition. Good men obey its prescriptions and prohibitions, but evil men disobey them. It is forbidden by God to alter this law, nor is it permissible to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish the whole of it. Neither the Senate nor the People can absolve us from obeying this law and we do not need to look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of this law. There will not be one law at Rome and another law at Athens. There is now and will be forever one law, valid for all peoples and all times. And there will be one master and ruler for all of us in common, God, who is the author of this law, its promulgator, and enforcing judge. Whoever does not obey this law is trying to escape himself and to deny his nature as a human being. By this very fact, he will suffer the greatest penalties, even if he should somehow escape conventional punishments."
DJ: I like the feel of it, but would think that substituting the idea of ONENESS for the idea of "God"......will always take us to the HEART of the matter. Oneness is the end of karma, and the place where the buck stops. Even Gods and Goddesses lose sight of this, from time to time...........
PRAYERS FOR FRANCE (CLICK HERE)
My Friends........
The rioting is almost over, leaving a tarnished image of France all around the world. What most countries do not understand is.........this is a preview of things to come, if we cannot find our way into that universe where "haves" and "have nots" come together in Oneness.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051112/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting_fr1
Do Something BRAVE today! (And then run like hell!)
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