“There must needs be opposition in all things…” was a
scripture from the Book
of Mormon quoted to me as a child. As
I got older a spiritual leader of mine Judith Lamb-Lion
a master of Surat Shabd
Yoga, described it as the earthly plane of existence having polarity that
the spiritual planes did not. She drew a
pyramid illustrating that as “word became flesh” or as spirit becomes flesh, we
have this opposition. We need darkness
as we need light. We need darkness in
order to find light.
This weekend is the solstice in which the sun is at its
lowest point in the south before it starts to move northward and we begin to
have longer days. It is the darkest day
for many of us. Pagans and others celebrate the winter solstice
as it signified a turn in the seasons to
hope, a new cycle of life, and light.
Every night we need to return to the dark to cleanse
our brain of dangerous toxins that can even lead to Alzheimer’s. It
is important to make our bedrooms as dark as possible for healthy pineal
glands and melatonin production for our energy and sleep cycles so this healthy
brain cleansing and other important brain activity can happen.
Carl
Jung says, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.” I’ve
found that on my personal spiritual path it was important for me to get in to
the dark recesses of my psyche to bring things to the light. The path hasn’t always been an easy one and I’m
still on it and find dark times.
However, the understanding and self-awareness that past traumas have
done to a conditioned earthly “self” have taught me so much about who I’m not
and who I am beyond the conditioned
self. The “I” that is taking me on this
journey is what others might refer to as the “higher self.” I don’t refer to it as “God,” because to me “God”
is that which is transcends us and includes our combined higher selves in an
infinite bubbling life of pure energy consciousness and light.
So on this particular solstice, it is my silent prayer that
we quiet ourselves and our minds. We
stop and as said in church today by our
wonderful Reverend Diane Dowgiert, the sun pauses as it heads back north,
and we too might consider taking a pause to feel our “callings” for what is
next in our lives. It is in silence and
rest that we can bring ourselves in to presence of experience. It is in the presence of experience that we
can calm our brains and find transcendence in who we really are and begin the
much needed healing of humanity.
At Christmastime we sing songs of Joy to the World and Peace
On Earth. Since I’ve been watching a
bunch of Star Trek lately, I’d like to add, “Make it so.”
Blessed be and Amen.
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