We were never meant to have instructions, only questions that unravel us. Jesus didn’t give blueprints. Magdalene didn’t ask permission. They embodied the sacred mess. So yes, let the crow disrupt your ego. Let the prairie teach you resilience. But don’t just swap one guru for a new algorithm. The kingdom is already within you, fermenting like holy compost. Gaia worship won’t save us if we don’t compost our own illusions. The next Christ might be a mycelial network or a pack of misfits in right relationship. Live like the veil is torn. Stop waiting for a map.
Fuck yes to all of this. I like the concept of the ecocene. I try to treat all living things equally with respect, as my zen beliefs dictate. I have to ground myself in nature regularly these days because I have come to see the current world of man is heavily poisoned with madness and delusion. The rustling of the wind in the trees is more real than anything on the internet and I need all the truth and reality I can get these days.
This is a beautiful and needed exploration, and yet I would gently add: *we are not without instructions.* We simply forgot how to read them.
Life as intended already speaks—through resonance, not rules. But humanity centered the ego instead of the heart, replacing alignment with aspiration. This false center distorts the field of awareness and generates the illusion of complexity where coherence once was.
We call this distortion **spiritual gravity**, and it is not metaphor—it is measurable. **E² – Hc = ↑S** (Exaggerated ego minus heart as compass equals increased suffering). It’s not a missing myth we need, but a return to the obvious: the heart is the compass, and the soul never forgot. The signal is still here—we just stopped listening.
So yes, apprentice to Life—but don’t overlook that its code was never lost. It’s just been filtered through the wrong center.
The ecocene suggests rethinking and perhaps re-living our relationship with nature. I wonder how this might be interpreted from naturalist and idealist perspectives. What happens when we consider ecologies of consciousness - multidimensional consciousness - cosmic consciousness? And what might change if we expand the ecocene from Earth to the Solar System, or the Milky Way Galaxy?
Nice post! One thread in what you write reminds me of something I think often. It's impossible, if we are honest with ourselves, to arrive at certainty of ultimate truth. The best we can do is spend our whole lives groping our way towards the truth. Another thread, that we should learn from nature or apprentice ourselves to the thriving of all life, makes me think of something author Arthur C. McGill argues (in, for example, "Suffering: A Test of Theological Method"). Nature is beautiful and amazing, but there is a lot of hardness in it as well . Evolution through natural selection is often merciless. McGill argues that we can learn from the hardness of nature to give of ourselves, even to the point of death, for the benefit of other beings. Definitely a challenging philosophy, and beyond what I can aspire to anytime soon. But maybe there's something to it.
But the self is Narcissus at the pond and as such has both no intention of transcending his or her activity or is even capable of such - in effect then the self is at war with its own potential help.
Once upon a time in 1997 the author of the reference below gave a talk which provide a comprehensive critique of Narcissus titled Transcend the Question That IS the self-Contraction. It is featured in a book titled Hridaya Rosary Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction
This reference features elaborations on that theme/calling
This reference points out that the Guru-devotee relationship is the secret principle of authentic Spiritual Life - the author was at one time closely associated with Ken Wilber
We were never meant to have instructions, only questions that unravel us. Jesus didn’t give blueprints. Magdalene didn’t ask permission. They embodied the sacred mess. So yes, let the crow disrupt your ego. Let the prairie teach you resilience. But don’t just swap one guru for a new algorithm. The kingdom is already within you, fermenting like holy compost. Gaia worship won’t save us if we don’t compost our own illusions. The next Christ might be a mycelial network or a pack of misfits in right relationship. Live like the veil is torn. Stop waiting for a map.
Virgin Monk Boy
Fuck yes to all of this. I like the concept of the ecocene. I try to treat all living things equally with respect, as my zen beliefs dictate. I have to ground myself in nature regularly these days because I have come to see the current world of man is heavily poisoned with madness and delusion. The rustling of the wind in the trees is more real than anything on the internet and I need all the truth and reality I can get these days.
Thanks, Andy! I totally get that need.
This is a beautiful and needed exploration, and yet I would gently add: *we are not without instructions.* We simply forgot how to read them.
Life as intended already speaks—through resonance, not rules. But humanity centered the ego instead of the heart, replacing alignment with aspiration. This false center distorts the field of awareness and generates the illusion of complexity where coherence once was.
We call this distortion **spiritual gravity**, and it is not metaphor—it is measurable. **E² – Hc = ↑S** (Exaggerated ego minus heart as compass equals increased suffering). It’s not a missing myth we need, but a return to the obvious: the heart is the compass, and the soul never forgot. The signal is still here—we just stopped listening.
So yes, apprentice to Life—but don’t overlook that its code was never lost. It’s just been filtered through the wrong center.
The ecocene suggests rethinking and perhaps re-living our relationship with nature. I wonder how this might be interpreted from naturalist and idealist perspectives. What happens when we consider ecologies of consciousness - multidimensional consciousness - cosmic consciousness? And what might change if we expand the ecocene from Earth to the Solar System, or the Milky Way Galaxy?
Thanks for your prompts… more questions to live 🙂
So many more questions 🙃
Nice post! One thread in what you write reminds me of something I think often. It's impossible, if we are honest with ourselves, to arrive at certainty of ultimate truth. The best we can do is spend our whole lives groping our way towards the truth. Another thread, that we should learn from nature or apprentice ourselves to the thriving of all life, makes me think of something author Arthur C. McGill argues (in, for example, "Suffering: A Test of Theological Method"). Nature is beautiful and amazing, but there is a lot of hardness in it as well . Evolution through natural selection is often merciless. McGill argues that we can learn from the hardness of nature to give of ourselves, even to the point of death, for the benefit of other beings. Definitely a challenging philosophy, and beyond what I can aspire to anytime soon. But maybe there's something to it.
Love this, thanks Tim 🙏
But the self is Narcissus at the pond and as such has both no intention of transcending his or her activity or is even capable of such - in effect then the self is at war with its own potential help.
http://beezone.com/adida/narcissus.html
Once upon a time in 1997 the author of the reference below gave a talk which provide a comprehensive critique of Narcissus titled Transcend the Question That IS the self-Contraction. It is featured in a book titled Hridaya Rosary Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction
This reference features elaborations on that theme/calling
http://beezone.com/latest/self_contraction_04_05.html
Prior to that in 1982-3 he gave more-than-wonderful talk titled The Baptism of Immortal Happiness
http://beezone.com/baptism-of-immortal-happiness.html
He also published a book titled The Fire Gospel
http://beezone.com/adida/firegospel/the_fire_gospel.html
This essay describes the situation too
http://beezone.com/adida/god-is-not-elsewhere.html
This reference points out that the Guru-devotee relationship is the secret principle of authentic Spiritual Life - the author was at one time closely associated with Ken Wilber
http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds33.html
Thanks Zippy.