I have noticed many times in my life that when people meet a martial artist for the first time, the usual thought that pops into their mind is whether or not that martial artist has ever beat up someone.  I ascribe this pattern of thought found in most people to a combination of watching too many violent films, and a general fearful stupidity found among the masses.

Yet I see a manifestation of universal patterns here.  The key word in martial art is ‘art’.  That is truly what the fighting science is—an art.  And art, like any other skill or technological knowledge, is best used to serve others.  We all seem to get that warm fuzzy feeling when we learn of a trained fighter who only uses his abilities to help others in a noble and justified battle, all for the benefit of his fellows.  And likewise we all cringe when we learn of a fighter who uses his knowledge and skills to hurt others, to acquire things for himself.

The same is true of spiritual masters.  Adepts who help others are revered.  Those who harm others or use their magical abilities exclusively to gain things for themselves are abhorred, even labeled as evil sorcerers and such.

The fact is that any form of art can be applied in 2 main ways—to serve others, or to serve the self.  Any and every art is subject to this.

When an army (or any fighting force) is used to fight a justified war, such as fending off an invasion from a foreign aggressor, or to help free a people from some form of oppression such as an evil dictator, etc., then it can be said that the resulting combat is justified and conforms to the knowledgeable and wise application of universal laws.  Anything less than this kind of application of the martial arts is a manifestation of selfishness on the part of the person commanding the fighting force.

No artist whether he be a fighter, inventor, scientist, musician, etc., is justified in his/her application of their art if they are consciously using their hard-won skills and abilities to hurt others, steal from them, or otherwise harm their fellow beings in any way.    The best way to handle such a person is to ignore them, so as to not give them anything at all, no energy, no resources, nothing whatsoever.  The object is to starve them whilst they are in the hellhole they have created for themselves, all in an effort at allowing them an opportunity to surrender their selfish ways, so they may begin using their skills for helping their fellows instead of harming them.

If that person changes his/her ways through application of this isolationist technique, then it is a boon for all.  And if they refuse to change, then they are simply allowed to pass away from this existence to get another opportunity to learn in another lifetime.  In other words, let them starve to death.

Such is the way to deal with such negative beings.

There is an ancient spiritual teaching which states (in variety of ways) that a man should be the ‘leader’ in the relationship, concurrent with a admonition to never give in to his lady’s demands upon his will or his freedom of choice.  In modern vernacular, a man who fails at this is called a wimp or pussy-whipped.

After examining a piece of classical music one night, I realized that the above ancient teaching manifests itself even in the everyday music we hear.

Take nearly any piece of music, a popular song, a jazz tune, or some old classical piece by a dead European composer and what do you find?  Bass tones always provide the foundation upon which the treble melody floats and dances about.  This is always the way with every style of music that has ever existed.  Most musicians are able to determine this right from the start of their training.

Great music flows effortlessly.  Bass and treble together.  Neither makes any demands upon the other.  They dance together, the melody orbiting around the ‘bass-ic’ tune.  Even planets orbiting the sun mimic this musical dance.  The sun’s path through the universe is never determined by the planets.  The planets follow the sun and dance around it as the sun moves slowly through space.

It does not work the other way around.  Planets do not order the sun around, telling it what to do.  Likewise in music, the melody never demands that the bass notes follow it around.  The bass notes determine in what fashion the melody will move.

If orderliness, harmony and beauty is to be manifested in life, then men must be resolute in their connection to the Spiritual Source, move as their Intuition dictates, and be absolutely firm about it.  And the women in their lives must follow along or else find another man around which to orbit, one with whom she is more in tune.  Demanding that a man become something the woman wants is just an attempt to bring Hell on Earth.  If a man is confronted with such a woman who will not conform to universal orderliness, then the man must just let her go about her life free of any ties, either to be alone or to find some other man.

For a man to submit to a woman’s demands is to create a relationship that is nothing but a cacophony to the ears of anyone within earshot of such a couple which has cursed themselves with anything and everything except the genuine love and beauty that is possible within any relationship.

Planets orbit the Sun for a reason.  Electrons orbit protons for a reason.

The reason?  That is just the way it works.  End of debate.

Anyone who will not conform to this all-too clearly manifested Universal Order gets exactly the Hell they have absentmindedly chosen.

This then, is the explanation of that ancient spiritual teaching which has been so misunderstood for so long.

In all cases and in every circumstance, the above explanation is dependant upon one overriding factor without which the whole ancient teaching falls apart—the man involved must be connected to God, the Source, etc.  Unless he be enlightened (or nearly so), then the relationship is likely to be doomed.  All depends upon his being permanently connected to God, for only in this way can the man even hope to know where the music should go next.  Without this Divine Intuition, all hope is lost for a peaceful, harmonious and loving relationship.  Otherwise, he may as well just give in to all of his lady’s absurd demands.

Everyone is gay…and I can prove it.

Gay people are just like everyone else, except they have physical sex with each other.  Fair enough.  But the operative word there is ‘physical’.

Well what about sex at the mental level?  Nearly everyone is gay in at least one of these ways.  Think about it.  We all love to hang with our same-sex friends, right?  Because they think like us, right?  Which makes it easy to communicate with them, right?  And we feel better when it is over, right?  Since sex is little more than an interaction between two individuals, then conversation with a same-sex friend is interaction at the mental level, and that makes us all mentally gay.  Birds of a feather think together, after all.

And how about at the emotional level?  Nearly everyone at some point in their lives finds themselves in need of some emotional support.  Call a same-sex friend.  Maybe cry on their shoulder once or twice, possibly returning the favor, and then all is well again.  This is interaction and communication at an emotional level.  Again, since sex is interaction, then doesn’t the emotional release of a good cry with a same-sex friend constitute emotional interaction, which would make one emotionally gay?

And on the physical level…well we all know about that, even if we don’t engage in it.

Like I said, we are all gay.  If you have ever hung out or otherwise spent time with your same-sex friends, you are exhibiting a form of mentally gay behavior.  If you have ever shared some emotional outburst with a same-sex friend, you are exhibiting emotionally gay behavior.

So what if two people of the same sex engage each other not mentally or emotionally, but physically?  Or all three simultaneously?  Seriously…so what?  All they are doing is the same thing the rest of us have done, just on a different level.  Big deal!

So go ahead.  Call your same-sex friend and have a meaningful GAY conversation.

Go ahead.  Have your best friend come over to help you destroy a box of tissues, and have a good emotional GAY cry.

How queer, indeed!

Humanity resembles a virus upon the earth.  We infect the earth just like a virus, recombining the earth’s elements into our own and then spreading these recombinations through our offspring, one at a time.

Examine the actions of a virus and one discovers that their usual behavior is to infect a host cell, simultaneously killing the cell while recombining its building blocks into numerous exact copies of the original virus which then explode out of the host cell’s outer membrane (the cell wall) releasing all the copies into the rest of the host’s body, threatening to totally infect the body, possibly even to the point of killing it.  This is how viral infections begin.  If unchecked, a plague may ensue.

Humans infect the earth in no way different from the virus except in the number of copies produced—typically the human female only generates one offspring at a time.  The closest humans can come to infecting the earth just like a virus in terms of sheer numbers is for the man to be mated to as many women as is physically possible.  But despite the best efforts of any sexual super-man, this number of female infections would top off in the thousands at best.  In terms of quantity, the virus has us beat.  But in all other characteristics, humans are just like viruses upon the earth.

If a human body is infected with a virus, a fever ensues.  Raising the body’s temperature is the human being’s natural way of eliminating a virus infection.  In essence the body ‘boils’ the blood up to a temperature high enough to kill the viral infection, but not high enough to kill the patient.  The patient is certainly in pain for a short time, but if one simply lets nature take its course, then a timely resumption of health is all but guaranteed.

Likewise if we humans overpopulate the earth (and we already have) then when (not if) the earth has had enough of our presence she will also use fire to destroy us.  Exactly how that fire will manifest is up to fate.  Perhaps every volcano on earth will erupt.  Perhaps the Sun will spit out a gigantic Mass Coronal Ejection in our general direction, literally setting the earth on fire.  And while much has been made of global warming these days, I have not seen any conclusive evidence to really back it up.  Intuition tells me that the hoopla concerning the alleged warming of the earth is in the least just utter nonsense, and at worst just another government sponsored money-making racket.  Nevertheless, fire is the weapon that will be used against us.

Another possibility (for which I see evidence) is that a more subtle spiritual form of fire will be the culprit, a fire that will roast the soul of every human being not aligned with the Will of God.  Simply stated, those who are not ‘right with God’ will lose the ability to freely choose to align with God, i.e., they will die.  Their manner of death will be as varied as the individuals themselves.

If a virus would but freely choose live in harmony with the host body it infected, then it could live in harmony with the body instead of being destroyed due to its idiotic notions of multiplying itself without restraints.

If humans would but freely choose to live in harmony with the host planet they infected, then we could live in harmony with the planet instead of being destroyed due to our idiotic notions of uncontrolled sexual reproduction.

Reproduction is NOT a need…it is merely an impulse.  And an impulse by its very nature can and should be controlled.  What is a need?  Air, water and food—each of these are a genuine need, and each must be met if one is to survive.  If breathing was an impulse, then we would not need to do it, but we do.  The same goes for water and food.  But reproduction is not a need unless the population is decimated and there are (as an extreme example) only a dozen people left alive on earth, people who freely choose to continue with the existence of the human race instead of choosing to die off one by one—then and only then does reproduction become a ‘need’.

As a side note, I will mention that there are some yogis, saints, masters, etc., who manifest God’s Omnipotent power by living without food, water and even air for any length of time they choose.  Generally they live like this as an example to others that human beings are like God, one with God, that our bodies are not the sum total of what we really are.  And so they prove such with a big ‘impossible’ demonstration of God’s power.

If humanity is to survive upon the earth for any length of time, then we must arrest our population explosion immediately.  If we do not, rest assured that the earth will implement its own ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Human Question’ to borrow two phrases from the pre-WWII Nazi government.  Some might even say that this solution has already begun.  And they may be right.

Life is a gift, not to be abused by those who still possess it.

Live in harmony with nature.  Be not a cancer upon the earth.

If God is anything at all, it may be considered simply as a flow.  The ancient Chinese philosophers called this the Tao, meaning ‘the Way’.  When you go along with this natural flow, then you are one with It, and One with God, the Universal Spirit.

The Tao is like a river, flowing down from the mountains to the ocean.  If you fight the flow, it will cause suffering.  If you resist the flow, it will irritate you, haunt you forever and wear you down.  The more you flow with it, the easier life is.

Most people are like rocks in the middle of the river.  They are hard headed, obstinate.  They attempt to obstruct the Will of God, which is the Flow, the Tao.  By doing so, they only hurt themselves.  But they do serve a purpose for those who themselves want to flow.  The blockheaded fools blocking the river’s flow offer the aspirant an opportunity to use them as stepping stones, to transcend their blockages and step over the selfish bullshit that resists the flow.  And this is precisely what the wise have always done (and still do).  They let nothing get in their way.  If something obstructs them, they do not fight it, they imitate the river by going around the obstruction, always flowing with the river.  Of interest is the fact that those stones and boulders in the river always get worn down in time due to erosion.  The lesson?  Be a giant boulder if you wish, but know that eventually you will be worn down to a pebble helplessly tossed by the current, eventually turning into tiny grains and then into a powdery silt, forever at the mercy of the flow anyway.  The flow cannot be resisted for long.  God is not mocked,…at least, not for long.

Only masters know how to change the flow by miraculously changing the landscape that shapes the meandering path of the river itself, altering the path of the flow—but that is another story.

Remember, life is like a game.  Whatever we do, we do what we do for fun.  Anyone who takes life seriously is missing the point.  Anyone who lives life for personal gain, like some of the more self-important, grossly overpaid, professional competitive sports players, is missing the point of life.  Anyone who takes life seriously, like the egotistical pro athlete, is missing the point of the game entirely.  Take nothing seriously, as it is all “small stuff” (as one recent spiritual book states).  It is impossible to be offended when you have the Truth.  No one and no thing can truly hurt you, ever.  Therefore there is no reason to fear, ever.

There is no reason to fear ‘losing’ a game that isn’t winnable in the first place.  Games are meant for fun.  We can learn from it, improve our skills by playing it, until we become masters of the game.  Then we can become teachers to other players, coaches of the soul.  After all, what is the point of continuing to play if you have mastered a game with nothing to win?  The only reason left to hang around on the field is to teach the remaining players what you have learned.

If you choose to live life, live it for fun and enjoyment, regardless of whether you appear to have ‘won’ or ‘lost’. Remember that since you are just playing a fun game with no regard as to the score.  So where does winning or losing come in?  They don’t!  Therefore winning and losing are illusions that are irrelevant.   Such appearances are misleading.  And they only appear that way because of comparison to the allegedly larger than life attainments of others.  Comparisons are pointless; especially since one person’s egotistical attainment would be a waste of life from another person’s perspective.  All is One, and your brothers/sisters are essentially no different than you.  You are all One manifesting as One, but appearing as Many.

Compare yourself to yourself, would you?  Senseless!

There are direct analogies between the certain practices in the world of brewing and some new models for male-female relationships.

Among the world of brewers (be it beer or wine brewing), it is known that it is impossible to even create such wonderful liquids without the process of Fermentation.  Described in brief, Fermentation occurs when any sweet liquid is exposed to yeast cells, causing the process of fermentation to begin in which the yeast cells go about transforming the sweet mash into alcoholic beer or wine.

Scientists would tell you that fermentation is just a chemical reaction—nothing more.  But alchemists would say that the yeast transforms the sweet mash, raising its inherent vibrations until it cannot be transformed anymore, achieving the highest manifestation of its divine qualities—a fermented, aged, slightly alcoholic liquid, bringing joy and a reduction of suffering to those who drink it.

From another perspective it can be stated that sweet liquids ‘attract’ the attention of yeast cells, which ‘infect’ the sweet liquid, and thereby change it into something more refined, more divine, a fermented beverage that brings joy to those fortunate enough to consume it.

In the world of human sexual interactions, it can likewise be stated that attractive women or “sweet women” attract the attention of men, who (ideally) act like yeast cells, transforming the women into something more refined, more divine, bringing joy not only to the man but to the whole world, for the woman is symbolic of the earth itself.

Conversely, it can see how a woman is attracted to a man who is a mover and shaker, a man who can change things around himself, change his world at will, for this means that he can certainly transform the woman if she is willing to be changed by him.

If a woman binds herself romantically with an unenlightened man, meaning one who is incapable of changing things around himself, then he is also incapable of transforming the woman, and thus the relationship will turn sour since the woman is essentially left on her own, as though she were still unattached to any man, becoming an untransformed dead spinster.

Analogously, in the world of brewing it is known that when a sweet liquid is unable to find a yeast cell to begin transforming itself, the mash will succumb to the effects of opportunistic bacteria and soon turn sour, becoming distasteful and unhealthy, totally unattractive to anything, except maybe flies and scavengers, which only makes sense, since being untransformed, death is the end result.

With brewing, once the sweet mash is transformed into something of higher vibration, i.e., an aged alcoholic beverage, then that is the end.  The yeast cells slowly die and decompose within their own waste (alcohol), are filtered out by the brewer (in some cases), and the clean liquid is bottled.  Unless the brewer adds more sugar to the liquid, then nothing more can be done with the beverage, other than aging it and/or drinking it, for this is now its purpose in life—to be enjoyed.  The joyful, natural process of fermentation, the joyful work of the helpful yeast cells is over…unless they are physically transferred by the brewer to yet another sweet mash.  Then the whole fermentation process is repeated, creating more alchemically transformed and joy-bringing alcoholic drinks out of ordinary sweet mash.  But the work with the original mash is over.

There is something profound to be learned here.  A sweet mash does not have the power to physically reproduce more of itself in order to continue the alchemical process of fermentation.

However, this is not the case with a woman in a relationship.  And thereby is the secret of why a woman who is in a transformative relationship with a man can remain attractive to him (like sugar to the yeast).  Being that she is one with Nature, which itself is ever-changing, she also is prone to changing herself every day.  Such a ‘reversion’ back to a state of ever-new sweetness is the reason she needs more alchemical transformation from her enlightened man in the form of Love.  And such is the reason why the man will once again perform the transformative, joy-bringing, alchemical dance that is called Love.

Imagine a large fermentation vessel that is constantly being replenished, always offering more joyous and purposeful work for the yeast, begging to be transformed again, to be raised again.  The process continues, the joyous work goes on.  The end result may be ever-changing, with different brewing recipes producing various flavors to be enjoyed, but the alchemical process of fermentation process itself remains the same.

Casting our eyes in another direction, we find proof that human beings are multiple-monogamous at heart.  All we need do is once again make comparisons to the art and science of brewing.

By their very nature, brewer’s yeast strains are naturally able to ferment many different blends of sweet mash (for beer) or sweet juice (for wine)—they are not restricted to just one type of sweet liquid.  Brewers are free to combine what they will for fermentation by any various numbers of yeast strains.  Further, when a great yeast strain is bred, discovered or otherwise produced (and no doubt discovered through a series of countless fun taste-testing sessions) it is not restricted to just one type of sweet liquid.  Rather it is subjected to experimentation with different brews.  And truthfully, it is a matter of taste that determines what yeast works best with what brew (all yeast produce their own unique flavor) .  And tastes differ among people as widely as their personalities dictate.  It is my opinion that only in hell would someone restrict one yeast strain to just one brew.  It is only natural to share a yeast strain with other brews to produce exciting new tasty brews.

Likewise, I think it is hell for human beings to restrict our love to just one person.  It seems just as natural to deeply love more than one person simultaneously as it is natural to enjoy more than one favorite food, or comedian, or musical group.  I feel it is only natural to share your love with others as freely as you will.  Ideal women are like different styles of pre-fermented beverages.  Any unfermented beverage (read—woman) who would not voluntarily share its yeast strain (read—her man) with other unfermented beverages (read—other potential female lovers) is truly the most restricted, unhappy and selfish kind of…‘beverage’.

Since when does a fully fermented beverage have the right to restrict numbers of unfermented beverages from the same yeast strain that made it so happy and fulfilled?  If other unfermented beverages desire that particular yeast strain, and the yeast is able to ferment it, then nothing should keep them apart from following their free will to naturally be together and produce more joy-bringing alcohol.  For the fermented to restrict the unfermented from also being fulfilled is to deny them their equal rights, and would only result in the unfermented becoming eventually unfulfilled, sour, and useless—a death sentence.  Restricting love results in death.  And consciously restricting others from sharing in the love you have found only creates hell.

There is no reason that a man (an enlightened man to be precise) should be forced or otherwise compelled by any outside source to remain romantically linked to just one woman his whole life.  However, if he truly wants to stick to one woman as his freewill choice, that is his absolute right to do so.  But if any man feels otherwise, feels that he is meant to be with more than one, then he is free accept the romantic overtures of any women he deems suitable.  Every man is free to live the life he desires, to direct any aspect of his life in his own way, so why not romantically?

Flowers do not have the right to restrict the movements of pollen flying through the air which will crossbreed with other flowers.  And neither do the flowers have the right to restrict the movements of cross pollination as directed by the chance landing of honey bees.  Bees go where they will, irrespective of what any flower thinks or feels about it.

“Love divided is love multiplied.”—from Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein.

Women do not have the right to restrict the love interests of other women who show a legitimate spiritual interest in her man.  A true woman of Love will not try to restrict her man’s love, but is secure in the fact that he loves her, and knows that his love and his light shines freely outward like the Sun, freely interacting with any who would receive his light.  So if a second woman wishes to partake of the same joy as the first, she only need express her interest clearly to the man.  Love will take care of the rest.

Such is what happens in our solar system constantly.  The Sun in the sky shines its light freely on ALL of the plants that need its light to survive and be fruitful and fulfilled of purpose (dare I say the plants are happy?).  Also the Sun shines out to all the planets without restriction so that they also might also receive and be happy.  Do you think it is any coincidence that the word ‘planet’ and ‘plant’ are etymologically related?  The life that is generated on the surface of the earth in the form of plants is mirrored in the life of the planets in the solar system.  No one has the right to block out the light and love of the Sun from anyone else.  No one has the right to restrict what is freely given.

So what happens after a fermentation is finished?  The brew ages.  It can become a bit more complex and refined (assuming there were some complex flavors in the brew in the first place).  But otherwise the fermentation is complete.  The yeast is essentially dead within the complete beer or wine.  It is of no more great use to the brew.  It dies off, falls to the bottom of the container and decomposes.  It only makes sense that for any valuable yeast to continue to be productive, it not only should be shared with many different potential beverages, it must be shared as such.  Only in such sharing can the yeast bring maximum joy to the world with the fermentation of so many beverages.

Can you imagine the darkness that would pervade our world if Christ of Buddha had their hands tied by one selfish student who wouldn’t allow their master to share his teachings with anyone else?  How horrible!  Spiritual Teachers never allow such nonsense to occur.  They teach anyone who is genuine of intent and directly asks the teacher for instruction.  The opinions of other selfish students matter about as much as a mosquito does to a whale.

And so it should be with human relationships.  This kind of sharing can only bring about happiness and joy, as well as strengthening the entire race as a whole, as new genetic strengths can replace long dead genetic weaknesses in future generations over ages of time.  It seems that Nature is constantly trying to do this, all the while we stupid selfish humans are trying to find ways to restrict ourselves from freely and naturally interacting with each other, and on more than just sexual levels, but on emotional and mental levels too—any level really.

As long as we try to believe and behave as separate beings, the unhappier we will be.  In sharing ourselves, we slowly realize that we are One and thereby become One, by perfect communication, perfect interaction, and perfect intimate contact on every level of being.

Electrical devices generally generate heat when a current courses through their circuits.  The production of this heat is a result of the circuit’s resistance to the current trying to pass through it.  The more resistance, the more heat.  The less resistance, the less heat generated.  But when dealing with the phenomenon of superconductivity, no heat is generated since superconductive circuits offer no resistance to the current passing thru them.  From a scientific perspective, such circuits are an ideal.  In a roundabout way of speaking, superconductive circuits don’t “use” electricity because whatever you put into it comes out the other end with no diminishment.

Circuits like these are, by spiritual analogy, “enlightened”.

When we apply this analogy to humans, we arrive at a wild (yet true) conclusion.  It would seem that death itself is a state of enlightenment.  Or if you are a meditate, then the ability to remain in a state of meditative trance which resembles death is a mark of an enlightened being.  Think about it.

When we are alive, our bodies generate heat just like ordinary electrical circuits.  When we are calm, our bodies generate less heat, meaning we are in a state of less resistance.  When we become angry, our bodies become warmer, even hot, as we are in a state of resistance to one thing or another (hot and bothered).

But when we are dead, there is no more heat generated, and the body becomes cold and lifeless.  Yet when we are in a heightened state of deepest meditation, the same thing seems to occur—we appear lifeless and cold, dead to the outside world.  However, the main difference here is that when we desire to come out of the state of meditation, we do so.  We switch on our body’s systems, warm up, and generally come back “online”.

It can be stated with no degree of error that when people die, they have stopped resisting their Soul’s desire to return to its Origin.  But the problem is that for most people, the process is being performed on them unawares.  They don’t realize that this whole process can be performed consciously, with full awareness.

However, those who do realize such can make efforts at controlling their body’s processes and with enough effort, can not only consciously enter the state of death, but do so again and again at will day after day until they truly desire not to return anymore—to stop resisting their Soul’s wish to return to God.

Those who have the biggest Egos have the potential to be the best servants of God while they are still alive, for their desire for life and/or ability to resist a natural death is great.  They can also burn with great heat as a result of their resistance, using their fiery quality to change the world around them (as fire changes and altars what it touches).  If they use this ability to change the world to benefit others, then they become great yogis, masters, adepts, etc.  And when they are not busy doing such noble things, they can “power down” in a deep meditation that resembles death (but is not death) and exist in a super-conscious state called Samadhi, during which they offer no resistance to the Divine energy coursing through them, until such time as they consciously choose to “power up” and come back down to earth by switching on their body’s systems, generating heat thru another temporary resistance against death, so they can do more transformative work for mankind.  They embody the Divine Fire that changes the world.  They become a beacon of Light (a quality of fire) that burns away all the dross around them, changing the world, raising it up out of its state of unconscious suffering.

The ideal for any human being is to realize through one’s own efforts their Divine nature, that they are a Being of Light, a Pillar of Fire that brings much needed Illumination to an otherwise dark world.

Therefore, endeavor to become a Conscious Superconductive Human Being.

To arrive at a point, to be in a constant state of being in which there is no choice to make, then there is not even a decision between choosing and not choosing to do or not do a thing.  You become something beyond mere choice itself.

When you get to the point where there is no decision to make, then you have become one with the very flow of life itself.  You are no longer the separate thing choosing to do the action, you become action-incarnated and are no longer a thing engaging in an action because of a recently made choice—the action has become you and you have become the action.  Even if that action resembles that of doing no apparent outer work, for inner action is also action and no one outside of you has the right to tell you what action to take, much less force you to do some outer action not within the flow, just to please their foolish and limited perceptions.

When we are faced with a decision to make, I think that we have already screwed up just a bit.  It seems that when we arrive at a cusp, stop ourselves while we are doing something and mull over a decision for a great length of time, then we have already stepped out of the flow.

Indecision has two faces.  The first case of indecision occurs as just described.  The second face of indecision is nothing to fear, for it is that state of being just explained in which you are flowing in life so easily that there is no need to stop and make decisions because you are too busy flowing with and doing whatever actions you feel you must at any given point in time in any situation.  To live such as this is a blessing and the way of those who possess peace of mind.  Such people have an intuitive sense that guides them into a right decision at any moment.  When one does not have to stop and debate decisions (as most people do) then the mind is at peace.  Divinity is what guides such souls.  All should strive to arrive at this state of being.

The elemental makeup of a thunderstorm is just like the elemental makeup of a human being.  The elements are in the same positions and behave the same way.

Earth is at the bottom, water situated above it, air being found next, with fire at the very top.  Fire is represented by lightning strikes that come from high above.  These large discharges of fiery energy shoot thru the atmosphere all the way down to the earth.  But for this to happen, there must be a medium for the fiery blast to pass thru, as well as a sufficient charge in the atmosphere to allow the strike to happen in the first place.  That medium is the element of air.  Once the strikes happen, a significant rain shower usually ensues as these two events are generally linked within a normal thunderstorm.

I find it interesting in that the cause of a lightning strike begins at ground level.  When the atmospheric conditions are right, a charge is sent up from the ground into the atmosphere, essentially providing a channel.  Then comes a lightning strike from high in the atmosphere coursing down to the ground from where the charge was originally sent up.

This process is mirrored exactly in an esoteric form of yoga known as Kriya Yoga, in which a charge is sent up from the earthy chakra at the bottom of the spine to the top of the head (symbolically towards God) where it attracts the attention of Divine energy which can then course down back to the earthy energy center.  Call it a meditative form of lightning within the human body if you will, but the process in no way dissimilar from what happens in a normal thunderstorm.

And when a thunderstorm has passed, all of nature is refreshed.  The parched Earth has received life giving water to quench nature’s thirst.  Life then abounds once more.  The lightning strikes provide a life affirming and healthy form of ozone that is easily smelled right after the strike.  Moreover, the water that falls from the sky is not ordinary water.  It is an extremely healthy form of water that contains an energetic charge of Divine energy within it because it was formed from natural processes as ordained in the laws of nature.  It is among the healthiest forms of water that is formed in nature, perhaps second only to morning dew, which is itself loaded with a healthy charge that modern science cannot detect as of yet (much less isolate) with their most advanced instruments.  Philosophers and alchemists have always known what makes this form of water so special.  To attempt to explain further would require of the reader a deep knowledge of esoteric subjects.

Likewise, when a yogi performs certain Yoga meditations that emulate the processes of a thunderstorm, he receives the same benefits as all of nature when the storm has passed.  In fact, every single benefit that nature receives from the actions of the storm, both obvious and hidden, is self generated by the yogi through his mediation.

In the places on earth where it rains at least a little every day, nature is blessed and life thrives!

Likewise, when a yogi performs his meditations each day even for a little while, his whole life is blessed as well.

Be like nature.  Imitate nature.  Thrive like nature.  Then you will also manifest health and life in abundance.