“We are stardust

We are golden

We are billion year old carbon

And we got to get ourselves

Back to the garden.”

        — Joni Mitchell

Joni had such a way with words.  And obviously she gets it.  She sees our magnificence, under all that skin and bone.

Remember how it felt when someone ‘saw’ you?  Saw the miracle that was you? Believed in you? Sang your song back to you when you forgot the words?  That is what good parents, good grandparents and good teachers can do for us.  Maybe we are lucky enough to find a best friend or partner to fill that role.  To mirror  our true potential.

Each of us arrives on Earth ‘trailing clouds of glory’ but we have fallen asleep to who we really are.  We really are one with God/ Life/ Love — choose your name.   And we are one with each other, like the waves on an ocean.  All of humanity — like one beautiful, big ocean rolling along.  

This is not easy to grasp when we’ve been taught from early childhood that you are over there, and I am over here and possibly that I should be very wary of you, because you look different, dress differently, speak differently.  We cannot be too careful.

You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late

Before you are six or seven or eight

To hate all the people your relatives hate.

You’ve got to be carefully taught.

                            — Rodgers and Hammerstein — South Pacific

It’s all a great big boogy-man story.  And it’s time we put an end to it.   When South Pacific was written and produced in 1949, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were pressured to remove this song, especially when it toured the American South, but they clung tenaciously to their vision.  I salute their courage and leadership. Back in the 50s this was enough to kibosh the show.  But it didn’t.  Instead it moved ‘the  brotherhood of man’ a few notches forward and the doomsday clock a few minutes back.  

The show was an immediate hit playing almost 2000 performances, and going on to make two films, 1958 and 2001.

Like Joni, these guys got it too.  What would we do without our songwriters, poets, playwrights and painters  to show us the way?

Imagine if a wave knew not that it was a part of the wild ocean.  Poor thing would be terrified.  It’s a perfect metaphor to help understand the human condition.  So carrying this metaphor forward, you and I are part of the universal mind, bouncing around in the same ocean.  Therefore what I say or merely think about you, slips into my subconscious (universal mind) and registers either negative vibration or love vibration.  How many times does a loveless thought reverberate through my mind/ body/ soul in a day?  In a week?  In a lifetime?

Or let’s imagine the opposite: what if our thoughts were loving and kind? That is one heck of a lot of good karma. 

A Course in Miracles says, “When you think a loveless thought about someone, imagine a sword falling on their head.  But it’s falling on your head as well.” 

There will always be ways to divide us.  Religion has been a favourite. Politics may be edging it out of it’s elevated position. And now we have the pandemic to create even more divisiveness — a two-tiered population.  Dangerous and damaging.  A good government will not do this.  It will look at history and remember the words of Abraham Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand.   But it has given me a new sense of compassion for those who, for whatever reason, are unable to be vaccinated.  

We are star beings, sent to Earth for one reason:  to love and forgive.  Everything else is distraction.  You can ‘sense’ what I feel for you, even if I say the opposite, because our minds are joined.  We can call it a ‘vibe’ or a ‘sense of’ or try to describe the discomfort we felt.  However, in truth it is our connectivity that we brought with us to this planet, then when it was not honoured, we forgot.

Life is lived inside out.  It’s what is happening on the inside that counts.   Our thoughts direct our actions.   If we meditate in the morning it can change our entire day.  

Do not be distracted.  Eyes on the prize.  Heart driven. Choosing to see unity.  It will transform your experience of the world.  We will swim in perfect synchronicity in an ocean of love.

Stop acting so small

You are the Universe

In ecstatic motion

Set your life on fire

Seek those who fan your flames.

                      —- Rumi