Earth Day 2020

Tran­script of Radio Show- What is the “what”? (April 19, 2020)

I just post­ed about this last night because it just hap­pened this morn­ing, that the Sun has moved into the sign of Tau­rus. And I titled that post­ing that I made for today, The “Spi­ral jour­ney of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness”. And, when going through these steps of devel­op­ment in our jour­ney I wrote about “What is the what?”

So, I thought I would con­tin­ue with that theme in dif­fer­ent way, approach­ing it with some­thing sim­i­lar but a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. So, let us take a look:

The way of Aries, look­ing at the sign of Aries, is about “I am”. It is the first step of life; it is there that you expe­ri­ence the won­der of being self-aware. In Aries you answer the ques­tion, “Who are you?”

But we come to Tau­rus, the way of Tau­rus says, “I am that”. It is the sec­ond step of life; it is here you expe­ri­ence that you are some-thing. In Tau­rus, you answer the ques­tion, “What are you?”

So you could see in some way that these two signs are form­ing in their com­bi­na­tion or uni­ty one of the fun­da­men­tal truths of your jour­ney in con­scious­ness this dual­is­tic expe­ri­ence of real­i­ty there is sub­jec­tiv­i­ty of being aware of your­self or what we call self-aware­ness but there is objec­tiv­i­ty too, as you expe­ri­ence your­self and every­thing and every­one else as being formed into bod­ies or vehi­cles of manifestation.

We see the world split into spir­it and mat­ter, but real­ly what you will come to know (and what I like to call the greater real­i­ty) is that you will come to under­stand your one­ness of being which is Life or the One.

Life is spir­it and mat­ter togeth­er; they are insep­a­ra­ble, yet they are the two fun­da­men­tal aspects of life. Mat­ter forms the less­er realms of Spir­it, as Spir­it forms the high­est realms of Mat­ter. The Truth is that there is but One Life. There is the One Spir­it which man­i­fest through innu­mer­able forms from the low­est of the most sub­lime. Spir­it is the one eter­nal life; and Mat­ter is the count­less ves­sels into which all life flows.

The great mys­tery is that in all these count­less forms or ves­sels, in each atom, min­er­al, plant or ani­mal, human or deva, plan­et and star, through all of them is con­tained or held is the One True Spir­it. There are count­less forms, but there is only one life. There is only one spir­it flow­ing through the hier­ar­chies of the Uni­verse, whether those realms be divine, human, ani­mal, or mineral.

In Tau­rus, you move out of the sub­jec­tive realm of Aries into objec­tive real­i­ty. In Tau­rus you come into the realm of earth and say, “I am that!”. Tau­rus is your most phys­i­cal, sen­su­ous expe­ri­ence of life. You open your eyes and see the beau­ty all around; you open your lungs and breathe in what we all share. You take anoth­er breath and you smell the flow­ers; you reach down and touch the earth and smile, and you give thanks to the moth­er of us all for this, for your life and for your body. You look up and see the stars and you watch the moon, plan­ets and all the heav­en­ly bod­ies whirling over­head and you exclaim, “Ooh, I am so hap­py, to be sur­round­ed by this beau­ty, to be a part of this amaz­ing, beau­ti­ful, won­drous jour­ney; I’m so grate­ful to be part of Life.”

In Tau­rus, you expe­ri­ence life’s abun­dance and beau­ty; you expe­ri­ence the mys­tery and majesty of life. You are here in this won­der­ful place we call our Earth, and you feel and taste and touch and smell the won­ders of this gar­den of delights, and you get to share this abun­dance of “Spir­it that is Life” with all with whom you journey.

But what is it that makes you, you? What do you have that is yours, what gives you the val­ue of you? Well this is the ques­tion of Tau­rus to you. Through the arc of your life, from infan­cy through youth, into adult­hood and onward, your expe­ri­ence of you and your val­ue or worth will rise and fall in so many ways. The enthu­si­asms and the phys­i­cal strengths of youth will give way to what you will earn, the grav­i­tas and wis­dom, and the aches and pains of your lat­er years. It can seem, depend­ing upon your jour­ney, that your best days are still ahead or far behind you, depend­ing upon how you val­ue you.

What you expe­ri­ence in Tau­rus is the Val­ue of You. The mys­tery you seek to unveil in Tau­rus is how to under­stand what you have, to expe­ri­ence what you can do, and dis­cov­er what you are worth. The val­ue of you at any one time is made up of a range of fac­tors: your phys­i­cal pow­ers, your emo­tion­al depths, your intel­lec­tu­al agili­ty, and your spir­i­tu­al integri­ty. Through­out any day, week, year of your life, these val­u­a­tions of you will wax and wane. The gifts of youth may shine forth in phys­i­cal strength and emo­tion­al enthu­si­asms; but matu­ri­ty will bring both a mod­u­la­tion an even­tu­al wan­ing of these as you age. Like­wise, the tem­per­ing of your emo­tion­al nature, sea­soned by the grow­ing depths of your judg­ment and wis­dom, will lift your spir­its as oth­er fac­ul­ties fade.

But the phys­i­cal life and its entice­ments and plea­sures can also bring dif­fi­cul­ties and pain. If you become too attached to one or anoth­er gift or strength that you pos­sess, you will find your expe­ri­ence of val­ue to swing wild­ly up and down. When you are too attached to some­thing with­in you, or some­thing you have acquired, then you can suffer.

Wise ones know that this is because this way of relat­ing to val­ue and things is not “the way” to be or become what you real­ly are you are. You are Spir­it liv­ing by and through these won­der­ful forms or bod­ies that you have cre­at­ed for your­self. Your life (and lives) are made in these vehi­cles that are phys­i­cal, ether­ic, emo­tion­al, men­tal, and spir­i­tu­al. But they are held togeth­er and bound to one anoth­er by the spark of the Divine which is your high­est Spir­it-Form, your High­er Self. You are in your essence this One Spir­it; you are here to grow and move beyond any one world, form, or life.

This is so, and you need to remem­ber, that at the very heart of you, you remain as you always will be, price­less beyond all mea­sure because you are not a human being at all. Being human is mere­ly the form of your self-real­iza­tion at this point in your jour­ney. Tru­ly, at your core, you are a spark of the Divine who is on a nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of the “Self-That-Is-Becom­ing”. You are a mon­ad, an unfold­ing Spir­i­tu­al Fire of Life-Spir­it-Con­scious­ness and your true worth or val­ue will be for­ev­er beyond any finite measure.

So, no mat­ter what you think you are worth today, or yes­ter­day, or a thou­sand years from now, remem­ber this, you have no way of com­pre­hend­ing the beau­ty and glo­ry and worth of you. You are the “Jew­el in the Lotus”, you are the kiss of the dew in the morn­ing, and you are the glo­ri­ous sun­set too.

Then you will hear anoth­er reminder. The voic­es of the Ancient Ones will whis­per in your heart, “What you know as the resplen­dent and immor­tal you, that heav­en that is always with­in you, (for you nev­er left it tru­ly), this essen­tial spark of you is your spir­i­tu­al heart. And in your heart, you will feel and know that this same light of the Divine is in every­thing and every­one else too”.

Yes, in every speck and mote of Cre­ation, in every atom and mol­e­cule, gas and rock, plant and crea­ture, in the plan­ets and the stars, all of this is Spir­it-Life in evo­lu­tion too. This is what we must under­stand in Taurus.

In your heart of hearts, in your high­est vehi­cle of Spir­it, you are a spark of the One Divine Light. Quite sim­ply, won­der­ful­ly, and for­ev­er and ever your true mea­sure is beyond mea­sure. In your High­er Self, and through­out all your forms too, there is the one true light of Spir­it shin­ing through, so that fill­ing and inform­ing all of you is quite sim­ply Divine Love.

Know this: the val­ue of you is beyond ques­tion, you are quite sim­ply Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

So what you will know and feel and cel­e­brate in Tau­rus is that all of this Cre­ation is Beau­ti­ful, all of this is Pre­cious, because all of this is the One Life, and all of this is the Cre­ation of the One, and all of this is the Love of the One for all.

Let us give thanks to the sun­rise and the sun­set, to the flow­ers and the trees, to the moun­tains and the oceans; yes, bow down and give thanks to it all.

Bow down to the divine with­in you and with all that sur­rounds you too.

Turn to one anoth­er, and you will see that super­nal light shin­ing there in one another.

Yes, smile and bow to one anoth­er and be filled with the won­der of this.

I am that!

Namaste.

These are the things that we need to be remind­ed of and hold close to our hearts and guide our steps each and every day. That is why I always say, in trou­bling times such as we are cer­tain­ly mov­ing through, there are truths that have been always there from the begin­ning to guide our steps.

If we hold to these truths and guide our steps accord­ing­ly, we will find a bet­ter way and we will become bet­ter for it. That is what a hard time is for. A cri­sis should not return as to where we were; it is going to be a vehi­cle for trans­for­ma­tion, for a rev­e­la­tion and new epipha­nies, and a New World that is coming.

We are mak­ing it; we are mak­ing it every sin­gle day. And we will not go back, there is no going back, but there is a brighter, bet­ter future out there that we are mak­ing day after day.