This posting is from me, Eric.
I had a dream the other night – one that woke me quite suddenly due to a thunderstorm at 3:00 am that was sending rain into my room through my open windows.
As I ran around the house closing windows, the dream that I had been involved in was fresh in my head and was still quite clear.
In this dream, I was with work people – people that I work with at my client location for my day job. And in this dream we were all interacting about work stuff, and we were passionate about what we were doing. Nothing new there. But what was very startling and significant about this dream (to me anyway), was that we all really cared about each other. We were all being good to each other and caring about the other person first-and-foremost. Work activities and objectives were very secondary. This feeling and way of being (in the dream) was pervasive – everyone was operating like this.
What was startling to me was how different that experience I had in the dream state was compared to the actual experience of work and daily incarnate living.
I bring up this dream, because it relates to a posting that I had started a week or so back, based upon a message that came through. I didn’t complete and post what I had started – I just left it because I felt that I was rambling. (Ok,…rambling more than usual!)
The message that had come through was a spirit saying the words “Just be good to each other.” That was it – just those words. But the spirit was smiling (sort of wincing) and shaking his head. The words combined with the body language/imagery carried the larger communication/directive of “It would all be so much easier if you could all just learn to be good to each other… And then all would just fall in line…”
After this message came through, I began thinking about the huge disconnect/difference between what I experience with the higher spirits compared to what I experience with the incarnate world. “Just be good to one another” is so better displayed by them and is so consistent with them.
Whereas here in the incarnate, the way we live and act in our social and societal constructs, it is experienced too little… as if being incarnate for some reason makes it incredibly difficult – either by design or by mere fact of how people and cultures have developed over the centuries.
But if you want to get a feel for what I experience with the higher spirits, it is that it is a natural part of who they are and how they function. I still see strength, but it is not strength flexed to dominate others. It does not seek to take away from others. It does not feel competitive. It feels respectful in allowing each soul to make free will choices and learn at their unique pace.
It is supportive, not controlling. It is giving to others, but not pushing anything onto others by force. It is wise and patient. Typically calm and even-keeled. Often with great humor and a willingness to enjoy one another in context of who each other “is” in the moment, on their path. Never snarky or a humor at the other’s expense.
The more that I experience these spirits in my life, the more challenged I become, on some days, to tolerate behaviors and norms of the incarnate dimension. Not because I am not guilty of the same. Not because I am any better. But because the more that I experience these higher spirits, the greater disparity that I feel between the worlds in which I interact. I straddle worlds/dimensions. And in order to interact with the higher spirits, you experience some of their norms and the ways of going about things. You experience how they act and communicate. You cannot help but notice and begin acting more like them when interacting with them – because if you didn’t you would just feel really foolish when in their presence!
And the more that I do this, the more that this incarnate world becomes less friendly, less hospitable, and a little (a lot) disappointing. Often when the communications and/or experiences with these spirits come to a close, and my consciousness returns to my incarnate dimension-of-residence, I find myself thinking “ugh… I’m back…” Mostly it is a joke to myself because I know that it is a natural part of straddling worlds. But some days, these interactions draw you in deeply, and the topics, emotions, or the lessons are more engrossing. And it is a shock to pop your head out and back to this incarnate way of living and surviving.
It is striking how difficult it can be or how much effort it takes to survive and thrive in the incarnate world while just trying to be good to each other. It is kind of sad actually! Sad that it is not 100% natural to always be good to each other, with ease – that it is not second nature to do this day-in/day-out. Sad that our world and cultures do not function in a way that we can each survive and thrive by just being good to each other.
I really enjoy my experiences with higher spirits – even if the topics are difficult. I enjoy them. I want to be around them. The way that they function/behave can be so starkly different than how we experience each other here… and that is so refreshing to experience that it can be so hard to leave!