Activities Recommended:
- Diary-Tree Keeping
- Balloon Blowing
- Acts of Love
- Orienteering (and Treasure
Hunts)
- Homoeopathic Gold
Diary-Tree Keeping:
Similar to that of a
family tree mapped out, we can record key events in our day-to-day,
month-to-month happenings, displaying the progression of events.
Being both a ledger and testimony to those preceding circumstances
which contributed along the way and into the present, we can make
tracks along the differing branches of these outstanding and
connective events and so begin to find the sense of them.
The more detail we can
retain may help us later to understand that supporting frame from the
past into now; and also we are formularising a coherent perspective on
what and how and where pivotal changes occurred in relation to the
previous circumstances.
Many
opportunities are already made way for, awaiting man in the future,
and the soul can recognize these opportunities as they present,
perceiving with a readiness the ‘design’ as was laid out even
well before birth.
Concurrently there are decisions and consequences
arising right out of the current consciousness for which new designs
or improvisations may be achieved.
The physics of one’s own karmic circumstance, of
the cycles in our lives, of the little and larger miracles also –
all of this in the combining is marvelous to explore in this
retrospective reckoning.
Keeping a record of various sequential event lines,
as branches to your own tree of life, will help in this
understanding.
Balloon
blowing: All of life is contained within
spheres.The sphere is the most profoundly fundamental solid inherent
in the nature of
physics. Manifestation is fed in impetus and design from ‘higher’
worlds, and one realm permeates another via the central-most point of
its spherical containment.
The sphere
being the mystical doorway to higher life (even though the
circumference has no opening to be found) is remarkable for the
actual portal of entrance is determined by that circumferential skin,
by its containing aspects and form, therefore calling into form also
that central point within.
With the
inflation of a rubber balloon and the consideration of those spaces
within (or of a ball or a bubble for that matter) we are given a
conceptual model which says most loudly to our inner knowings
‘PHYSICS!’.
It is for this reason that babies love their balls
and balloons, heralding them into their incarnating splendour
(auspicious for birthdays as well); and why clairvoyants ‘see’
within their crystal spheres, gazing through to the adjoining higher
realms.
Acts
of Love: Whilst we can incontrovertibly
say that acts of love should underpin every
undertaking qualifying every subject
so mentioned here, and not mentioned here, it can be understood here
that the purpose
to all of the universal principles is Love in
Principle and Love in Action.
Hereby we
can consciously embrace this most perplexing of subjects within the
esoteric impulse that gives it reality and life further on throughout
its expressions of being. We can incorporate this in our thinking and
so find that the very actions and consequences arising out from ‘acts
of love’ that we knowingly perform, bring together dynamic
events (distinct from the mundane or soon-to-die happenings).
This is
something we can experience the results from firsthand, observing
that the process is affected by the quality and tone of any given
intention and subsequent act. We can go on also to find that the
glamour of any activity is given to a much higher rank in status when
it is the love for something or someone which has inspired it.
Can love be
contrived? No, most certainly not.
The spiritual worlds and life itself reflect only genuineness – of
course. However, when we set about to consciously find goodness and
do goodness we ordinarily invoke a love. When we look for ways to be
loving we are answered quite instantly. It has the fastest action,
the keenest refraction and the strongest persuasion – when
sought for.
This
is not to say that we should ever go against ourselves and try to
love or be loving to something which upsets us in the process. It is
damaging to both the true self and that which we may ‘force’ a
pretence with, should we try to go on with something our heart simply
hasn’t at this time, the strength for. Love
does not defer discrimination, it enhances it
and sometimes may challenge us to higher reasonings, and differing
determinations, from that which we have previously lived and sought
for or felt obliged to.
So,
specific only to your inner governings – in freedom, in decision,
and with consciousness – for the sake of the goodness within and
without us, in deed and about us – may we
love well.
Orienteering
involves the skill of trying to find oneself
in relation to the terrain about you, and in relation to the plan of
the terrain (which may or may not match up to the practice when
entered into!)
Once again
we are tracking our progress, only this time we are achieving this in
the physical world – making very real at every step the plain
understanding of this practical undertaking.
Provided that one does not get lost in the wild and
hypothermic with anxiety, the benefits of orienteering on one’s own
are in the performance of relying on yourself: to find these bearings
and maintain them, to follow the predesignated courses and establish
how they go and how the map itself may ‘come alive’ with this
experienced detail you find yourself running free in.
Also, one
can take just a simple walking track and carefully study the map of
this before beginning out, looking carefully for the hills or views
indicated which lie around the route – try to imagine the distance
beforehand, etc. Then, with careful planning decide what may be
advantageous to take on this walking track (hats, water, stick etc.)
There is a particular joy experienced within, when a plan is executed
by the self. It streams from that soulic attitude that loves the
repetitive story, that craves to habit (in the higher notations), and
is satisfied to see a vision attempted and fulfilled.

The
happiness of the treasure hunt is also a soulic experience. The
emphasis is on the mutuality of the event shared and the excitement
of possible finding. This too reflects our life’s course. With
the example of orienteering we have a reality of predestination.
The paths we are led to have been predesignated, but until we
actually do the trek we have no real way of understanding the
experience from the map alone.
With
the example of the treasure hunt we have the reality shown to us of
possibilities and futures unknown. Yes, it is
true that the treasures (the possibilities) are limited to what has
been hidden before us, yet this is true of life also, and even within
the range of free will are we limited to only certain possibilities.
However, the accent is on both wonder and mutuality. Mutuality
changes an ego’s planning, and their karma and draws the one great
‘wildcard’ in any destiny.
Great souls
of the past have often combined themselves amongst the mutuality of
others given to a certain race for example, and in consequence have
changed completely the route that they might have taken, if they had
only preferred a personal path of development in and out of the
world.
It
is through a love of fellow men (individually or collectively) that
our fixed karma becomes less fixed. We are involved in their karma
also, and according to the wildcard of love, we are open to
possibilities that hitherto had not existed for us.