This is the daily exploration for Friday, September 16,
2016.
WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE OF HEAVENLINESS
+ This is a post on the style of The Way of Nature as we
continue to explore Heavenliness through the lens of the 12 styles of the Mandala
process. There are 5 more styles to
explore and then we will move on to the 9 Attributes of Heaven.
+ The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise
somewhere; the dew is never dried up at once; a shower is always falling; vapor
ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea
and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
-- John Muir
+ All wilderness
seems to be of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
+ Here is an excerpt from the S&P
review of John Muir: America’s Naturalist by Mary Ann & Frederic
Brussat:
Muir was born in
Scotland and raised in Wisconsin, but his soul came fully alive when he arrived
in Yosemite, California. There the beauty of the meadows and the groves of
ancient trees took his breath away, and he was never the same. Locker best
conveys Muir's attitude of wonder in a painting of him standing on the limbs
high up in a Douglas fir. What is he doing there? Trying to experience the full
shock and glory of a storm.
Mary Ann & Frederic Brussat point out that Muir loved
the wild in wilderness. I think we all
do whether we admit or not. Nature’s
ability to shock is associated with its glory.
We are better off when we surrender to the force of nature because the
ways of nature are often (always?) better than the ways we humans think we can
control it. The more we try to control
it, the greater the shock and even the destruction of much of our
environment because we really do not
know better.
+ I took the photo of Yosemite Falls in June, 1976.
+ I took the photo of Yosemite Falls in June, 1976.
+ The 12 styles of Mandala: Creating An Authentic Spiritual
Path: An InterSpiritual Process by Edward Bastian are listed in SE206.
+ To get inspired and illuminated by Ed Bastian, I invite you to set aside some time for these videos: Seven Steps of InterSpiritual Meditation (11 minutes) | 15 minute introduction to InterSpiritual Meditation and the Mandala Process | 2 hour lecture & conversation
+ I would love it if you offered a guest post on this practice or any practice. And, I have work to do on my Heavenliness page. Maybe you can help. Send an email with the subject “Heavenliness” or “Love” or “Guest Post” to John@abundancetrek.com.
+ You can always find a link to any of the Spiritual Explorations posts by going to http://abundancetrek.com/sepostsaccess.html
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