5/19/2007

Interconnection

Filed under: — Dave @ 11:37 am on

I wrote this back in March

On this predawn Sunday morning I was in my early spring church, the sugar shack.  I had decided to boil the sap I had collected from my maple trees the day before. This is one of my spring time rituals that get me out the house and back into nature, where I feel at peace.  It helps me to recover my center.  When I awoke this morning I immediately saw it was one of those special mornings.  We live in the
Finger Lake area of
Central NY. (The snow belt to some upstate folks.)  On these early spring mornings the snow cover melts as the warmer air come in from the south. This produces the most magical mornings with thick ground fog. We are also in the path of the eastern flyway. We have thousands of migrating birds move through our area. Just yesterday my wife and I saw thousands of snow geese in the stubble of last year’s corn fields across the street on our neighbor’s 280 acre farm.  So, when I woke and sleepily wandered down stairs, I chanced a peak out the window into the dim morning.  I couldn’t see past the trees just outside our house because of the fog.  “Great”, I thought I love these mystical mornings.  So, with new energy I got the fires started and the sap boiling.  As I headed out to the shack I could hear the honks of some Canadians in flight.  “That adds to a perfect morning” I thought.  I got busy getting the wood split needed to start a hot fire and preceded to produce a good rolling boil in the sap pan.  Every so often a flock of geese would fly directly over head.  I especially love the snow geese because they do not honk as they fly; you just hear a vizz vizz vizz sound as they fly by.  I stand in the doorway and watch as they appear out of the mist like magical beings.

rig is home made, out of an old wood stove and a 12 x 20 pan that fits pretty well on top.  I’ve rigged a pan above to preheat the sap and slowly feed the warm sap into the boiling pan.  It’s not a fancy modern evaporator but it serves my needs of supplying the family and bribing the neighbors.  But it requires a certain level of focus to keep the fire hot enough and the level in the pan just right to keep the sap boiling.  This part I love as well because it helps me to develop a greater level of mindfulness and thus my center.  When I reach that mindfulness apex I can see auras of the trees and nature.  I had every thing going well and just settled into my chair by the door, when I distinctly heard Spirit say to me; "Expand your awareness into the oneness and witness the wonders of our interconnection to all.”

That phrase then kept echoing in my being, my true self.  So I stepped outside into the misty dawn.  I started to touch that doorway within myself that connects me to the light I’ve known so well since my near-death experience.  I could then feel my awareness reach out beyond what I could see through the fog that surrounded me. I could feel the drops of water clinging to the branches that were out of sight. I could sense the energy of the mist moving all around me and the waves of life force connecting it to me. My connection to spirit grew as well and I was experiencing the overwhelming love and delight that connection brings.  I could hear some geese flying in the distance.  I expended my awareness in that direction.  I could feel the small group of geese and they turned and headed my way.  Spirit then said “Now Watch the Interconnectedness of All.”  I could understand the direction Spirit was giving to the geese to fly directly over head.  Seconds later the geese appeared curving and not in their normal V formation but in a single row toward me directly overhead only as high as the tree tops.  I felt as if I could fly with them.  They disappeared from my physical sight back into the mist.  With my expended awareness I was carried along with them.  They began another turn in the opposite direction and headed back in my direction.  Once again they appeared at treetop above my head and then made another turn back on their original direction.  They had completed a perfect figure eight or infinity symbol over my head.  Spirit showed me that our interconnection was infinite.  Just to drive the point home further, more flocks came and completed the same maneuver over my sugar shack.

ppened in what seemed like fifteen to twenty minutes and I thought I better get back to my boiling and surely the fire is low.  As I stepped back inside I could hear the roar of the boiling sap and feel the heat of the fire.  It was as if no time had passed.  I just took in the aroma of syrup in the air and found a peace. I returned to my boiling keeping my awareness open and a connection to the all.  Spirit kept sharing knowledge with me.  “Keep connecting and expanding your awareness; Stay in the oneness as often as possible”, was a main theme in the sharing.  A message I have heard before but it took on more emphasis with this experience, refreshing the importance and strengthening the meaning.  “Encourage the others that know how as well”, was more of the message.

shared in the past that when I receive guidance like this I should give thanks and gratitude.  So I gave my gratitude prayers and was answered with the friendly honks of a pair as they touched down in the field behind the sugar shack. 

ay cleared and brightened I would practice my expansion, I found I could sense a flock of red wing blackbirds and lovingly ask them to come and sing about this wonderful day.  The trees then filled with singing birds and I could feel the connection they had to each other as a group mind, again the interconnectedness.  Then the geese would join in, followed by cardinals, chickadees, yellow finches, robins and a red bellied woodpecker I felt like a music director conducting a symphony.  I knew the rise and pitch of the song, until something would break my concentration and they would all fly away, leaving me laughing, again grateful and loving this life’s experience.

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Fear of death

Filed under: — Dave @ 11:34 am on
Fear of death is like the way we fear our first day in a new class. We have some anxiety, apprehension and fear of the unknown. But those of us that have died and returned have had our introduction to the class and the other students. We found that we really liked the subject and the other souls we found there. We know there is going to be some intense study ahead. But we are looking forward to it. So in the meantime we are doing our pre-course requirement here in this life. We are now gaining as many experiences as we can, so we can bring them back to the class for examination when the time is right.

fear of death gives an incredible freedom. Freedom to live life unbridled and to its fullest, filled with joy and gratitude with each encounter or experience. It also gives a sense of calm and ability to relax, no longer needing to get caught up in the rat race. Not that I do not participate in life on the contrary, I want more than ever to live a full life.   Carrying on through hardships and good times overcoming and taking it all in.

itive as I humanly can through all times. When I can accomplish this, there comes a sense of completion, which is usually when something synchronistic will occur and signal the end or the direction of a new path to move toward. If I have learned anything from my experiences it is to follow those synchronistic events in life. There is always more to it and even though I can’t see the bigger picture when it is happening I know it will reveal itself at the right time and place.

oo good to be true. That we can connect to the greater universal consciousness but when it does happen I can physically feel my heart opening and filling my being with that warm love and acceptance. I sometimes feel like it is lager than me and projecting beyond my physical self. It is when I am in that place that I can see my light and sometimes the light of others. Also at time like this is when spirit speaks softer loving encouragement to keep moving forward and giving me the strength to take on what is next in this wondrous journey.

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life review when I was a child I also felt the disappointments, injury and loss. And the feelings that went with it, my reactions to the disappointments were negative. I also saw how actions of mine perpetuated the negative energy. I’ve learned to not feed the negative energies that envade our lives.

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