Nourishing

The doormat in the photo reads: “Rental Sweet Rental.” Your home, no matter how humble, is your castle and you should treat it as such. Look about your home as if you were a stranger and ask yourself, “What kind of person lives here?” The answer should reflect who you really are. Just as there are times when we need to travel, there are other times when we need the sanctuary of an appropriate home. I’ve lived in many non-ideal homes, including a decade or so in an 18′ RV with less interior space than most bathrooms. It was still possible to make that small space into a fairly comfortable home with some creativity and adaptability. Small or large, however, I cannot enjoy any home once it gets messy and chaotic. Many people find that they have more and more possessions and less and less time to deal with them all. Keeping your space orderly and aesthetically pleasing can be a very empowering practice. If you feel anxious or depressed you are still capable of cleaning up your space, a task that usually doesn’t take a lot of mental focus. When you work on cleaning up your space, there are [...]

Woe to the shepherd who abandons his flock. Tend to what is in your care — your body and psyche, those to whom you are connected by inner ties, your life mission. Consider this a propitious time to protect and nurture what is under your care.

This is a propitious time to detoxify yourself and break free from societal/social conditioning and enslavement to the Babylon Matrix. What are the foreign toxins you have allowed yourself to be injected with? Every time you eat junk food, or allow a known toxin into your body or mind you are submitting to Matrix Injection. An obvious form of matrix injection is the modern tendency to eat food-like substances composed of highly manipulated dubious ingredients. Another form of matrix injection is promiscuity, an exchange of vital energy with strangers. Just as the exchange of bodily fluids can be dangerous on the microbiological plane, the careless exchange of essential energy can be just as dangerous on other levels. As the alchemical motto reminds us, “As above, so below.” Matrix injection happens also in the form of impressions through cultural memes. For example, advertising is a form of matrix injection that has been cleverly designed to manipulate your feelings and behavior. An advertisement is designed to inject you with thought forms that influence you to think that certain objects or services are necessary for your happiness or survival. Matrix injection can happen from low quality impressions coming to you in any art [...]

We are easily enslaved by addictions that are ruled by the reptilian part of our brain. Almost everyone has to do battle with this aspect of human nature. No matter how many setbacks and reversals you experience, keep struggling to free yourself from that which would enslave you and drain your life energy. Be wary of absorbing toxins of any kind. The positive aspect is that this is a propitious time to work on detoxification. “I can resist anything except temptation.” — Oscar Wilde Temptations are very, very tempting and that is probably why they are called temptations. It is foolish to underestimate their power. Before you reach for a temptation, ask yourself if you will remember this indulgence well on your deathbed. If you will, then you’d be a fool to pass it up. If you won’t, and you keep on reaching for it again and again and again, then you are on the path of a Ring Wraith, withering into a hungry ghost. There are many forces within us: appetites, compulsions, complexes, and sub-personalities, and all of them are reaching for the steering wheel. We each need to develop a strong central witness personality, one capable of observing [...]

The Babylon Matrix is set up to undervalue one of the greatest treasures you could possibly give or receive — compassionate, healing empathy. Empathy is a treasure that often enriches the giver even more than the one who receives it. The opposite of empathy is an exclusive focus on “internal considering”: — what you are feeling, what other people have done to you, how everything feels weighed by the scales of your agenda. Empathy is “external considering,” it considers what is going on in others; how others feel; how our actions (such as spoken words) may affect them. One way out of inner neurotic torment (which is always based on internal considering) is to focus on external considering. On the other hand, the ability to feel empathy for others is built on your ability to have empathy for yourself. So if that is what is being neglected, this may be a propitious time for some internal considering and to empathically focus on your inner child, shadow or other aspects of yourself that need more compassionate attention. This card has a few layers of meaning and it is for you to discern which layers are most relevant to your present life [...]

M. Scott Peck has an interesting definition of love: “I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” Someone once said that, “Love is cool, it is not hot.” It is crucial to distinguish love from passion, infatuation, codependence and sentimentality. It is also said that love is a verb, not a noun. What you love is what you spend time on. Sometime in the Nineties an eighty-year-old woman, who was a Jungian analyst, gave a talk I attended in Boulder. At the end of her talk there were questions from the audience and the first one came from a young woman. “Now that you are an elder,” asked the young woman, “what can you tell me as a young woman about love?” The elder woman replied, “When I was your age I was desperately trying to be loved. But now I know that it is better to simply be love.” A few love quotes: “In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” — Margaret Anderson “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing [...]

Don’t nourish yourself with that which is unnourishing. We live in a matrix that constantly tempts us toward toxic choices of all kinds (not just junk food.) We need to be eternally vigilant to keep ourselves from being successfully conditioned by forces that wish to manipulate us. Be wary of absorbing toxins of any kind. The positive aspect is that this is a propitious time to work on detoxification. “I can resist anything except temptation.” — Oscar Wilde Temptations are very, very tempting and that is probably why they are called temptations. It is foolish to underestimate their power. Before you reach for a temptation, ask yourself if you will remember this indulgence well on your deathbed. If you will, then you’d be a fool to pass it up. If you won’t, and you keep on reaching for it again and again and again, then you are on the path of a Ring Wraith, withering into a hungry ghost. There are many forces within us: appetites, compulsions, complexes, and sub-personalities, and all of them are reaching for the steering wheel. We each need to develop a strong central witness personality, one capable of observing and overseeing the process without becoming [...]

The Babylon Matrix is set up to undervalue one of the greatest treasures you could possibly give or receive — compassionate, healing empathy. Empathy is a treasure that often enriches the giver even more than the one who receives it. The opposite of empathy is an exclusive focus on “internal considering”: — what you are feeling, what other people have done to you, how everything feels weighed by the scales of your agenda. Empathy is “external considering,” it considers what is going on in others; how others feel; how our actions (such as spoken words) may affect them. One way out of inner neurotic torment (which is always based on internal considering) is to focus on external considering. On the other hand, the ability to feel empathy for others is built on your ability to have empathy for yourself. So if that is what is being neglected, this may be a propitious time for some internal considering and to empathically focus on your inner child, shadow or other aspects of yourself that need more compassionate attention. This card has a few layers of meaning and it is for you to discern which layers are most relevant to your present life [...]

Nourishment is a core theme for anyone incarnating as a mammal. Part of the definition of being a mammal is that we begin life being nourished by the body of another mammal. We are part of a vast food chain, many parts of it invisible to our ordinary perception, and nourishment, in many senses, is crucial to our incarnation. The first and most obvious aspect of nourishment is the food we eat. Food is a part of the external universe that we take into our bodies, and out of which we fuel and form our bodies. Depending on your version of physics, matter is congealed energy, information and consciousness. All food is a stepping down or transduction of solar energy. Plants use solar energy and convert it, step it down into carbohydrates, protein and fat. Food that is closer to the original sunlight, such as an orange we just pulled from a tree, has a bioenergetic vitality not to be found in some factory-fresh snack wrapped in cellophane at the gas station. Rudolph Steiner said that most people couldn’t become conscious past a certain point because they ate a diet too inferior to support a higher state of consciousness. The [...]

M. Scott Peck has an interesting definition of love: “I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” Someone once said that, “Love is cool, it is not hot.” It is crucial to distinguish love from passion, infatuation, codependence and sentimentality. It is also said that love is a verb, not a noun. What you love is what you spend time on. Sometime in the Nineties an eighty-year-old woman, who was a Jungian analyst, gave a talk I attended in Boulder. At the end of her talk there were questions from the audience and the first one came from a young woman. “Now that you are an elder,” asked the young woman, “what can you tell me as a young woman about love?” The elder woman replied, “When I was your age I was desperately trying to be loved. But now I know that it is better to simply be love.” A few love quotes: “In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” — Margaret Anderson “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing [...]