Touching Infinity - Connecting with the Deep Conscious Universe

Forgive my absence for the last several days.   Its the heart of summer where I live, and the heat is near unbearable, so I've been in the forest and near the river.   My solace in nature has been productive, though, and has helped me refresh my sense of self and place.   It's interesting, if you think about it: that we can belong to a place, but we can indeed, and do.  I believe a significant portion of our problems in the modern era stem from our lack of a deep connection to place - we're globalized now, after all - in the name of the gods of progress - place is secondary to revenue here. 

But I'm getting off track. 

The heat of the summer, combined with the cool caress of the willow trees that line the bank of the river that runs across my land, has created a landscape where I can (and do) retreat. It is my place; I am home in the arms of the cool, crisp water; I am content embraced by the scraping ropes of willow leaves.   There is nowhere else I'd rather be.  And it was one cool evening in this very setting where I realized that home isn't anything at all to do with housing, and that understanding the infinite - if we have any understanding at all of it - begins right now.   

In our sterile, disenchanted world, we have lost the connection with our deep conscious universe, and the networks of living things escape us where we live. Because we have lost connection with the deeply conscious environments in which we live, about 29% of Americans now suffer from major depression. And this is an increase from previous measurement periods.   Recognizing that the pandemic played a major role, in 2021 alone about 8.3% of adults experienced at least one major depressive episode, which equals about 21 million adult Americans.  We are decaying from the inside, it seems, and - not understanding where to go because the knowledge of our connection has been lost to us - we turn to the only resources we now understand as being available: pharmaceuticals.   But pharmaceuticals address only the symptoms of our disease, they do not address the underlying cause, which is our separation from the living networks of our universe. 

It won't eliminate your fears, and it won't solve your problems, but Nature has a medicine all her own. 

Our cosmos does not view the matters of life and death as we do.    The All is not consumed with fears or worries like we are - the All knows no death, no timeline, no boundary.   Our fears emerge only from our separateness, because when we are separate, we are removed from Source, the place from which all life emanates.   And that life - based on renewal and rebirth - necessarily includes what we have come to know as death.   But Source knows that the Way is not final, that death is not the end, and that it is only another gateway - one through which All must pass.  

My friend, if you are among those right now whose fears and worries are mounting, take time in the arms of nature.  I don't know what that means for you, but make it this:  unplug yourself from this screen.  Find a green place. Sit quietly. And keep sitting until your heart begins to let go of its fears.   

It will not remove your worries.  But you will begin to feel less separate, less alone.  

See where it takes you.