God and Body.

We arrive at the world via our biological bodies into this human existence. In this physical realm we aim to fulfill two facets of life: creativity and connection. These two things are what give us purpose and meaning in our existence. Just like other creatures, we thrive in hurds or tribes because this is the most efficient and effective way to survive. In the beginning we moved as hunter-gatherer: as a unit to search and collect for food and resources, protect one-another from predators, to pro-create, and even sustain the earth we walked on. Just like other species, we operate within our own eco-system that involves family, bondedness, connection, and the perpetuation of the cycle of life. What sets us apart from other animals or creatures is simply our ability to be creative and our ability to express ourselves. These are the divine parts of our being that make up the universe. The way the stars shine, the way the planets orbit, the way the sun is ignited, the abyss of the black hole, and everything that’s in the cosmos: all of it is expressed through our human experience. We dance, we speak poetry, we create art, we present ourselves in colors with the makeup on our bodies and the weaves of our clothing – even in the channeling of our emotions, we resonate with all that is. We are the expression of infinite possibility. We understand personality and demonstrate reason. Creativity and connection keep us alive and transcended. They are the only open pathways to our collective consciousness. The one, almighty ruler of the world, that which is the grand and expansive integration of mind and heart: Mind being awareness and understanding, Heart being love and kindness. How does one achieve divinity? One must tap back into their godly, divine spirit. We can’t be creative beings without an open mind and exploration, and we can’t be loving without vulnerability. If and when these gifts are suppressed, we stop spiritually evolving. In developing from a young child into an adult, these two things, creativity and connection, are also the things that are squandered. People lose their sense of self and community. Look around you and you will see everything, tragically, our world has become - separation and distraction. Families are torn apart (the workplace/schools/nursing homes) and our existence is isolated in digital and technological constraints (gadgets/social media). We lodge our bodies with prescriptions, drugs, and chemicals which create blockages that keep us from connecting our souls to body and body to earth. We lack awareness and stillness in the way we relate to the world and so we allow ourselves to be inflicted, to be induced by stress and traumas, all of which are stored within the body, further breaking down the molecular intelligence that fortifies and regulates us. We might think we know where we are going, but do we fathom to remember where we came from. Once we were pure, pure energy and pure love. Now we experience confusion and suffering. I look into my lover’s eyes, the eyes of my child, and my mother’s eyes and I see a reflection of myself. They carry me inside their soul but this is of no surprise to me because I’ve always known that we come from the same place and experience the same depth. I wonder do they see themselves when they look into mine eyes. Can they, also, find themselves? Can they feel at home? Can they feel pure love? When a driver loses patience with someone else on the road and reacts with hostility, they forget who they are at their core, they forget that they’re a being simply living the simulation, the human experience where peace, love, and stillness reside inside of them. Instead, we have become reactive people, living simply off of stimuli and thus operating in a mammalian state, which allows only fight, flight, or freeze. We are more than that, we have a higher capacity to perform as living beings. I imagine a young girl standing at the crosswalk watching everything that goes by. The people hustling by in the street, the large metal containments that speed by, the tall establishments filled with delineated compartments and covered in frivolous messages. I feel a surge of desperation to run towards the young girl, I race to her, accelerating faster and faster with every step and grab her, secure her tightly. I continue off with her into oblivion. As a fractal, I embark on the continuum. Self-Love is a form of expansion. God is only felt and experienced in the expression (expansion) of gene and the constellation we create down here. With our bodies we can channel God, expand via our creativity and creating and fostering connection. We are gifted with the ability to speak love, to demonstrate love, to move energetically, to share. Through love-making we create more life, an expansion of self (God). As above, so below. As you are, so am I. It is the same as looking into the eyes of another and seeing oneness as if looking in the mirror. It is the same way the trees mimic themselves underground with their roots and even how the ancient pyramids are octahedrons (We see only the pyramid above the surface, but there is another pyramid below, underground, that makes up the totality of the structure). We can alleviate the dysfunctional patterns of our existence if we can realize that we are all divine beings and that we are all units of one collective consciousness: God and Body.