Today marks an important day in my life. First things first, this is the first blog entry in this series. I've always done a lot of writing in my journal and I feel its time I share this with others. Personal things aside for the most part. This is about the philosophy. The experience. The journey each and every one of us as human beings take on the long quest of discovering who we really are. Its an odyssey. A quest, a path. Its purpose.
Today something unfolded that has been in the making for months now. The wisdom of the chakra system is that it provides direct feedback to the body through the way energy flows through it. When you are having root chakra issues, you feel it. The sense of security in the soul's path is of upmost importance in that it shines and casts itself upwards throughout the other chakras. Paul Chek once told me "the chakras act like a flashlight pointing towards the other chakras, and anything blocking the light of the first will cast a shadow upwards and fog the others". I've found this piece of wisdom to be incredibly true in my experience. What's creativity and sexuality when you have no place to live, or there is tension brewing in the home? What is a family without a source of stability, and income? In a financial sense, the money to support you?
Take a look at the issue of homelessness throughout America. In a society where all land is essentially "owned", bought and paid for, what ground is there for a man to stand on without it being bought from his pocket? On birth in this country you are placed into a system that has long been set up before your arrival. If all of the land is "owned", you're already starting in the pockets of others. Who "owns" land? When we look at homelessness, you see millions of people, many who are in extreme states of suffering, offered little in terms of opportunity to get out of the seemingly insurmountable hole that situation puts one in. One can say, "well, they can get a job". Things aren't always so simple. If someone has no place to sleep at night, no food (or cheap, poor quality food that actually makes one's health worse), likely no family to reach out to for support (which I suspect is a root cause in a lot of homelessness), and plenty of mental emotional issues stemming from these before mentioned problems, the task of walking into a McDonalds and getting a position there seems and likely is daunting. And, on a side note, there is an issue of working at McDonald's being as much a soul sucking issue as those other factors I mentioned (although if you're homeless, nearly any source of income can be a positive).
What's baffling is the state of our country compared to the state of hundred of millions, and even billions of others around the globe. Living in conditions many in the modernized world would call primitive, you find where there is less, often there is more. The sense of unity, living amongst the land and all of its wisdom, "primitives" are in many cases healthier and happier humans (when they aren't as affected by modernized diets or power systems). In places where you do find the touch of the modernized world, the West, often the conditions are far worse than if these systems had never taken ahold of the area in the first place. Where there was once a position of health, tribe, and unity, there is now the touch of the corporation. Of "ownership" of things that if shared, would benefit the entirety of humanity. That being said, these systems are crumbling.