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February 2009 
What do you think you'll be saying about this in ten years?
Posted on Feb 16th, 2008
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Karen
Karen
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 16, 2008:
It's interesting that "this" is left undefined. We musers, writers and grokkers can pick whatever we want "this" to be. A lovely metaphor for life, don't you think? Was that an intentional opening or unclear communication? I like to think it's an intentional opening. It allows us to contemplete our particular "this" of the moment. What fun!
Given that "this" changes frequently and my understandings about "that" and "the other thing" shift, expand and sometimes contract, I'm not sure what I'll be thinking and saying about anything in ten minutes, much less in ten years!
I'd like to think that my "this" of the moment in ten years will be more interesting and enlightening than my "this" of this moment. Maybe, maybe not. I could simply be concerned about the dust bunnies under the bed when that time comes. I'm not really aspiring to have lofty and pithy thoughts present themselves at some future date. Given that I'm not prone to much pithiness now (a propensity toward wordiness isn't necessarily wisdom), I don't think my thought and speech characteristics will change appreciably ten years hence.
We'uns tend to be pretty basic in our thoughts, even when they're dressed in their Sunday best. "Who am I?" and, "What's my purpose?" are often followed by "What's for dinner?", "Where did I put my keys?" and, "I wonder if we'll share sex tonight?"
When I stop to think about it, I realize that even higher vibrational thoughts and conversation cover the basics of life: health, happiness, love, acceptance and security. Those of us who self identify as healers, teachers, light workers and the like place our thoughts on how to assist others in attaining these basic necessities in a higher and deeper way. But it's still about dinner, getting things done and sex. We do what we do becasue we want life on this planet to be better and less hurtful -- what WE think better and less hurtful are, anyway. Of course, we think that because we're guided by spirit, allowing it to move through us in ways that the average bear hasn't yet learned how to do.
So, if we're really guided by that spirit, cosmic intelligence, light, love, etc., will we be thinking or speaking at all in ten years? If the Great Change does occur in the next 4-5 years, will it matter? If it doesn't happen, we will still have to deal with the day-to-day. Issues, technology, social circumstances will be completely different. Perhaps my thoughts and words will be entirely different at that time. All I can predict is that I will be there, then. Just as today all I can do is to be here, now.
All rights reserved. Copyright 2008 by Karen E. Kelsay.
Given that "this" changes frequently and my understandings about "that" and "the other thing" shift, expand and sometimes contract, I'm not sure what I'll be thinking and saying about anything in ten minutes, much less in ten years!
I'd like to think that my "this" of the moment in ten years will be more interesting and enlightening than my "this" of this moment. Maybe, maybe not. I could simply be concerned about the dust bunnies under the bed when that time comes. I'm not really aspiring to have lofty and pithy thoughts present themselves at some future date. Given that I'm not prone to much pithiness now (a propensity toward wordiness isn't necessarily wisdom), I don't think my thought and speech characteristics will change appreciably ten years hence.
We'uns tend to be pretty basic in our thoughts, even when they're dressed in their Sunday best. "Who am I?" and, "What's my purpose?" are often followed by "What's for dinner?", "Where did I put my keys?" and, "I wonder if we'll share sex tonight?"
When I stop to think about it, I realize that even higher vibrational thoughts and conversation cover the basics of life: health, happiness, love, acceptance and security. Those of us who self identify as healers, teachers, light workers and the like place our thoughts on how to assist others in attaining these basic necessities in a higher and deeper way. But it's still about dinner, getting things done and sex. We do what we do becasue we want life on this planet to be better and less hurtful -- what WE think better and less hurtful are, anyway. Of course, we think that because we're guided by spirit, allowing it to move through us in ways that the average bear hasn't yet learned how to do.
So, if we're really guided by that spirit, cosmic intelligence, light, love, etc., will we be thinking or speaking at all in ten years? If the Great Change does occur in the next 4-5 years, will it matter? If it doesn't happen, we will still have to deal with the day-to-day. Issues, technology, social circumstances will be completely different. Perhaps my thoughts and words will be entirely different at that time. All I can predict is that I will be there, then. Just as today all I can do is to be here, now.
All rights reserved. Copyright 2008 by Karen E. Kelsay.
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Karen, what a beautiful voyage of your heart in those words.
I think we can pretty much guarantee, that no matter what the condition of our world, your spirit will fly higher, and you will see love in our world, never to be pulled down by the harshness around us.
Nice, Karen..the quotidian remains the quotidian as the frame of reference that you are remains the frame of reference….it may well be very different in 5 yrs time….collapse of global travel and world markets may mean you are too tired to have sex at the end of the day cos you've been cycling up some electricity to power the DVD on cesspit management you need to gen up on…so I reckon we ought to extend ourelves whilst gymnasia and de Bono books are still in existence….
This posting of yours is subtly dendritic and i like the kalaidascope of issues it raises and will reread another time…J xx
Dave – thank you. I suspect that will be true.
Jon – subtly dendritic, huh? I assume this is a good thing? By the by – I'm already too tired at the end of the day to share sex with my sweetie. I'm a morning kinda gal.
“sharing sex?” I like that term. Kinda like sharing a beer or a cookie or a knowingly look. Too tired at the end of the day. Yup. I hear ya. What other endeavor do we leave until just before bed, and hope to do it with gusto and creativity (brushing our teeth, perhaps? :-) I find when we can “share” sex in the afternoon, when the kids are out of the house, or otherwise occupied, then we get to remember what all the “fuss” is about. (I should have put a “reader discretion” on this for any young, childless people).
As for the predicted “Great Change,” I've been seeing a lot theories about this floating around here and there lately. I almost think it's because people are so disillusioned with the present chaos that they hunger for it to be a “sign” of a Great Change a 'comin. Somehow, it would make all “this” more tolerable. Somehow, it would make all “this” make more sense.
Hey, Girlfriend! Thanks for reading.
There was a time in my life when I “had” sex. Not very fulfilling. I think it comes (no pun intended – well, maybe a little pun) from a lack of intimacy and an unwillingness to be open and vulnerable. It comes from hiding from our selves and from the other. I am so very fortunate in my current relationship. We have learned together about real intimacy and heart connection. I'll always be grateful for the Human Awareness Institute for that! Once the walls come down and acceptance becomes our nature, intimacy – physical, mental, emotional, energetic and psychic – becomes a shared experience. That's what all the “fuss” is about. Took me a long time to get that.
Having had kids in the house in the past (mine are both adults now), I know there's no time to develop intimacy during the child rearing years or to brush one's teeth, for that matter! I'm trying to re-teach my kids some of the things I wish I had known when I raised them, but so far they just think I'm hippie mom. But a year or so ago my daughter blushingly thanked me for giving her a copy of the Kama Sutra for Western Lovers. So maybe she won't be 50 before she starts to experience the joy of a deeply intimate relationship.
As for the predicted “Great Change,” I tend to agree with you. How many times in the last several millenia has “The End” been predicted? So many apparent scholars thought they had it nailed. There was a big one predicted some time in the 1800s, followed by what was called “The Great Disappointment” when it didn't happen. I think the same was true for the turn of this century. So many Christians absolutely believed it to be a fait acompli that some folks I know were truly pissed off that they were still here at 12:01 a.m. I observed that they were more annoyed at not being right than they were about not being raptured
I think some sort of End Times cataclysm is part of human mythology – the idea of all pain and suffering being wiped out and replaced with a heaven on earth for those who believe. For Christians, it's the Second Coming. For “spiritual” people, it's 2012. There's always been chaos, disappointment, suffering, hunger, poverty, rape, pillage, etc. It just adapts to the current mode of accomplishing it. Life is full of crap, along with the times of grace. Once we understand that, the rest is easy.
We only have our own perspective, but ask someone who was tortured by the Inquisition or slaughtered by the Romans, or any other truly horrific human event – and they'd probably think we're just a bunch of whimpy crybabies.
I think we'd like to think that our “enemies” will be smitten because of their transgressions against us. Life's not fair. That's all there is to it. I don't know that anyone actually “pays” for what they do. There are many who suggest Karma is just that. I don't really know, so I'm leaving that up for further exploration when and if there's an afterlife.
It's not that I don't have faith – I do. But I have more faith in the Presence I experience here and now, rather than in some idea of something that might or might not happen later. Now is all I've got. My Great Change happens moment by moment. And that's good enough for me.
…you can always make time for a morner…that's like a nooner only sooner…
…love you thoughts…4 or 10 …I'll be here…
The nooner comes a couple of hours after the morner….gotta have that dozing cuddle and cuppa Joe in between! ;-)