Seeds.
Seeds are amazing.
They are intelligent little nuggets that provide nutrition
in perfect balance of protein and carbohydrate, fiber, iron, omega 3 and omega
6 fatty acids… Not only that, but think
of it. A seed has the intelligence in
its tiny little life form to reproduce life that grows and produces even more
seeds. A seed continues to give
life. When I eat seeds, I feel like I’m
having a truly spiritual experience.
It’s like this intelligent little organized cluster of cells is coming
in to my body to talk to other intelligent little clusters of cells. They cross communicate and teach other about
light. Phototaxis,
using light to move, is being looked at
with algae and considering how neurons communicate with each other. This discovery has created the discipline of
Optogenetics in which conditions such as Parkinson’s, anxiety, PTSD, etc. can
be treated by “turning on and off” circuits in our brains using light. Seeds rely on light just as do we. I believe eating seeds is Holy
Communion. I’m glad our local library
system actually is expanding the “stacks” and now has a seed library.
Making a logical connection between seeds, brain circuitry,
and spirituality is easy for me. The way
I understand this physical domain is that it is a coarser manifestation of
primal source of vibration in light and sound.
We experience this reality of wave forms through the limited senses we
have evolved.
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We use the word “seeds” in metaphorical expressions for the
“non-physical.” I was recently talking
with a friend about human relationships and how in some relationships and
contexts the “seeds” that came out in conversation have caused damage. I don’t have the relationship with my
siblings that could be more beneficial for all parties. Seeds have been planted from long ago that
caused developmental issues, and seeds have been planted in recent times to
sever relationship. My friend used the
term “responsible healing” and I really like that. It is not my goal to cause any pain, but how
can one heal without bringing some things in to the light? If one comes to understand how early trauma
changed the forming brain and needs to heal, and in that healing, one goes
through stages of anger and grief, how does one do that without occasional
clumsiness?
Anyway, I’m happy to be in the stage where I have love,
forgiveness, and compassion towards those who harmed me and their awakening
process to have to reckon with past actions.
When I’ve hurt others it had come from a place of pain and I suspect the
same is true of others. A touching
documentary I recommend is Dhamma
Brothers – in which prisoners are doing Vipassana
meditation and they are having to come to terms with their lives and actions.
The healing process - and we are all healing I believe, can
be treated with good seeds.
Decades ago, when I began the first PTSD pre-psychotic
episode, I was put on heavy drugs including Thorazine which even at that time
was rarely used. I wasn’t ready to deal
with the full ordeal yet. However, at
the time a book that helped me heal significantly was Shad Helmstetters “What do you say when you
talk to yourself?” The thought-seeds
for the subconscious can be re-written. Daniel Amen says that you
don’t have to live the brain you were born with.
During the healing process, it has been challenging for me
to get stuck in old hurts and pathologies and identify too much with the
sickness when the truth is that
although I’ve had the early beginnings I did, my life for the most part has
been pretty damn amazing. True, my
perspective wouldn’t have been so skewed and I would have experienced things
differently, but it doesn’t serve me well to be stuck in what could have been. It puts me in a place of pain and I leave the
present moment where there is so much joy and perfection with all the things I have to be grateful for. Staying out of the negative and moving to the
positive requires tender selection and loving placement of thought-seeds.
The subconscious is so vast and powerful and will run with
what we feed it. The relationship we
have with our subconscious is important and as Carl Jung said, “Until
you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call
it fate.” It is important to
understand what gets thrown forth from the unconscious and to deal with it by
transforming it in creative and productive ways. The conscious and subconscious have a
reciprocating relationship.
It takes a lot of discipline to keep watch over the thoughts
we let come in to our minds. I will
write more on this in a future blog about the challenges a damaged brain has to
heal itself. Sometimes serious
intervention is required because the organ required to cause healing is the
organ itself that is so sick. However,
past the threshold of complete breakdown and in to healing, Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy and deep trance work does wonders.
I love how Joyce
Meyer says, “you don’t have to think every thought that comes in to your
brain.” It’s a good idea to take long
walks with intentional thoughts of how you are going to spend your thinking day
so that your subconscious can follow suit.
Here’s a seed:
Imagine, put a little “magic” in, and put a mental picture
to… your life as complete and peaceful and abundant. All
of our lives as complete, peaceful, and abundant. How would we live if we weren’t afraid of
being victimized? Would we be a little
more kind to each other by behavior just as simple as fair treatment by
offering decent wages and health care?
What does that world look like?
What other seeds do you have? Seeds for yourself? Seeds for others? Seeds for the world?
