Do I Believe in a HigherPower?

I pick up sticks and gather stones

I wear the crystals and toss the bones.

I mix up lotions and call them potions.

I speak of the old ways and old one’s notions.

Yet though I think of myself as wizardly,

I still ask,”who you jivin’ with that Cosmik Debris?”

I believe in Electricity.

I believe in Magnetism.

I believe in Gravity and Balance. Yin and Yang.

I believe we need to have Faith and that whatever we put out into the Universe reflects what we get back.

I don’t confess a religion.

I don’t worship anything.

I don’t believe in any form of deity.

I believe that all deities were imagined by peoples past to explain the happenings in the World and the thoughts within their minds.

People being so alike is why those deities share commonality.

I don’t worship the Moon but I do accept it’s influence on the tides and hence the Earth and the people on it.

I don’t worship the Sun but do accept it’s place as a necessity for Life on this planet.

I don’t worship Nature in general yet see it as an intertwined system of Life and Growth and Nutrition.

Sticks and Stones and Crystals and Bones are part of Nature and contain the powers of electricity and magnetism and the universal life forces that flow through that entwined system as much as the food we sustain ourselves with contain that force and gives us the power to live.

I believe there is power in words and power in symbols including numbers.

I believe there is power in Two as in Balance.

I believe there is Power in Three and that is why it has been used to show youth, mid-age and old age as well as holy trinities.There could be an essay on that alone.

I believe there is power in Four,as in the four corners,seasons, elements.

I know. There is a fifth element .

That of Spirit.

Human Spirit. 

The Higher Power. 

I believe there is something to be gained from Runes as they are a form of language and symbols combined.

All of these things contain Life essence and we can rely on the ways and teachings of generations past but must also put our own personal twist, our feelings, our observations into and onto them to become one with those forces and not control them nor be controlled by them but to manage them and manage to exist with and as part of the Natural World.

I believe in Science but with the knowledge that it is conceived by human minds and most of it is Theory and even what are known as Laws can be broken or proven wrong.

I believe in Knowledge and the power to change our thoughts when new evidence is presented.

I believe in Change and Cataclysm. Neither need be for the better or the worse. They are merely how Life continues onward.

I believe in the use of natural elements and essences in the aid of humankind.

The study of plants and their interactions with our bodies is the basis of what we call Medicine and has brought about near miraculous transformations of both Body and Mind.

I believe in Magic in the sense that we can influence the course of events with our knowledge.

The fact that I can send my voice across the Universe and it is heard the same way I spoke or I can walk into a room and move my hands or say some words and things I want to happen do,in my mind is Magic.

I believe the power of thought and intent can control outcomes.

Magic!

So,yes,I believe in Higher Powers.

Not beings with a power over us.

Not a creator.

Not a puppet master.

Not a being who is all powerful to whom we must show obeisance.

In short, not a being.

I believe in the Powers we call Nature and that we can harness and use them to make our own Energies.

To create and sway them to have Life happen as we wish or as we deserve.

The power of the mind coupled with experience is called wisdom.

Sagacity.

The root of the word sage.

If we are skilled in the activity of working with natural forces we are indeed wizards.

Or should strive to be so.

Religions are about the harnessing of the mind.

In the best sense each one’s individual mind.

In the worst sense the controlling of minds by words and rituals. Sacraments and ceremonies.

I perform only the basic rituals.

Breathing in the essence of what is around me.

Breathing out what is harmful .

Joining my essences with the natural ones around me.

Acknowledging Nature in all it’s Beauty and Force.

Attempting to be one with Nature.

You will hear me say,”Do No harm”.

You will hear me say,”Do Unto Others As You Would Have Done To You”.

You will hear me say," Merry Meet or Merry  Part".

You will hear me say, "Blessed Be" and "Let It Be" and "Let It Be So".

You will hear me say, "Love One and Other " and "Love your Sisters and Brothers " and "Give Peace a Chance" and "People Have the Power ".

You will hear me say,”Whatever’s Right” and “Take Care”.

I greet the Woodland creatures and birds and bugs and try my best to not hurt them as I don’t like when they hurt me.

So,yes,I believe in a Higher Power. 

The Power of Nature and the Powers that it bestows on us and the Way we use them.

I believe in the Way as expressed in Buddhism and the like.

I believe in the teachings Jesus put forth about how to treat others. 

I believe in Philosophy and the Workings of the Human Mind.

I believe we can be whatever we strive to be.

What kind of guru am I,anyway?

I don't wrap newspaper round my head or use the dust of the Grand Wazoo.

I may never reach Nirvana or cure your asthma.

I don't have a crystal ball or repeat mumbo-jumbo or waste my time on useless rhetoric. 

If I have a religion it would be one of striving to be a better unit in this entanglement of Powers as I have addressed herein. 

People

I see people laughing about being in and getting out of Facebook jail and I wonder what is it they do to get in that predicament and why are they so cavalier about it.

I go to find what it takes to be jailed and find that it could be some very horrible actions or statements or posts that demean, falsify or threaten  but basically  there is the being a simple ass and uncaring person that could and probably does land most of the people I am acquainted with in there.

Perhaps the worst aspect of our Society is the one where nothing is sacred and everything is funny and not realizing that what one sees as not being able to take a joke is another seeing that there is no joke. It's funny to see someone fall out of bed. If I hurt myself when I fall out of bed, well,that just ain't funny and I don't appreciate your thinking my pain is.

Taking it a step further,I say,"please don't laugh at my pain" and they say the equivalent of "cantja take a joke!"

They do not care to see how their behavior, their attitude, their cry of "My Freedom"are actually the absence of the common human responsibility to be kind to others.

To be continued...

Preferences

Don't you hate when " one second remaining" takes minutes?

When preferences are set and then you find out they changed?

When you tell your assistant to do something it does for you a thousand times from a routine you've set and it says,"sorry. I don't know that"!

And speaking of "Pet Peeves"...

I really get tired, aggravated,downright pissed at companies or other entities that attempt to get you to renew or even take advantage of their services when you are, in fact, already a paid-in-full member using and enjoying what they have to offer!

How many places am I enrolled and up-to-date only to get annoying alerts and wasted paper mailings trying to win me over?

I have been annoyed to the point in the past, if I don't really feel the need to keep the service to go ahead and drop it because of their practices.

And don't get me started on organizations that send me money, coins usually, in the attempt to entice me to be a caring giver. I keep the dough. 

I once sent a reply explaining how my father taught me to never send money through the mail and gave them his piece-of-mind as to how I felt about those who did so in the attempt to raise money for a cause.

"How can I trust you to know how to handle money when you send it through the mail?" !!!!!

Then there is the person who responds to something you say with " ha ha. You have too much time on your hands".

Seriously?!

Are you implying that what I just told you or the thing I did was a complete and udder waste of time?

Sure, they mean it in a ha ha joking way but do they really stop to think that they are in fact telling you that that thing has no value. 

Perhaps it seems trivial to them and maybe it is trivial to you as well but you did it.you said it. so it does have some worth in the scheme of things!