I thought it might be interesting to post a weekly blog of my journey ..
I have just finished reading “Mutant Message Down Under” By Marlo Morgan. I found the book fascinating and inspiring and couldn’t put it down. She describes how she was invited by a group of aborigines “Real people” and taken on a “walkabout” through the desert. Her journey is four months long and it is life changing-essentially the book is about how “mutants” have lost their way and the hope that leaders will emerge who will help mankind to realise that we are closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. “We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge, self-worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so”
And part of the experience we all have is the feeling that it’s time to lead the change. It my case I wish at times someone else would do it-maybe there’s enough all ready happening for the change to a happen anyway. Why me?
I do feel fear at times and daunted by the task and then I question my own ability and then I realise that there are heaps of people ready and willing to help.
Tina Turner has collaborated on an excellent CD which merges Buddhist and Christian teaching called “Beyond.” She says “We need to go beyond fear to take you to the place where love grows, when you refuse to follow the impulses of fear anger and revenge. We all need a repeated discipline, a genuine training to let go our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing”
I find this to be a daily challenge as I believe I have been conditioned to use my left brain but my natural inclination is to use my right brain-creative side. I have clear days when I a feel totally at peace and other days when I am in a state of nervous tension. I find mediation helps a lot and often the ideas of what to do next emerge after meditating.
I believe we all need to find our own ways of dealing with the fear and use it so we can go beyond to the place where love grows.
Paul Blackman
