Immortal Guides
Use The Heartwood Path’s Three Graces: Spirit, Nature, And Sex
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Key Assertions That Help To Summarize This Article:
The Heartwood Path’s Three Graces (Theos/Spirit, Ecos/Nature and Eros/Sex) will transport you on a rite of passage that will make you more susceptible to positive influences and beneficial changes.
Use a slower pace to be wise and the rat race to be otherwise.
Science amasses knowledge faster than society collects wisdom.
Since knowledge speaks and wisdom listens, take time to hear the messages of the wise and thereby prevent yourself from speaking your knowledge while revealing your lack of wisdom.
Never, never, never repeat yourself.
This powerful combination will take you to that special liminal “place” where feeling and imagination are, at once, ordinary and extraordinary. The Heartwood Path’s Three Graces (Theos/Spirit, Ecos/Nature and Eros/Sex) will transport you on a rite of passage that will make you more susceptible to positive influences and beneficial changes.
The “tickets” for this journey to the liminal world that is not quite earthly and not quite heavenly are sensation, passion, and imagination. The use of these “tickets” in loving ways leads to an erotic morality that affects deeply all that is—from the heart within to the wood without. Lovingly using sensation, passion, and imagination encourages a slower pace—the use of time that allows for the development of wisdom. Use a slower pace to be wise and the rat race to be otherwise. A slower pace is helpful because it gives you time to listen.
Science amasses knowledge faster than society collects wisdom. The trouble with this inequity arises when science, using its rapid acquisition of knowledge, runs amok faster than society can find the wisdom to control it. So give the development of wisdom some time. Since knowledge speaks and wisdom listens, take time to hear the messages of the wise and thereby prevent yourself from speaking your knowledge while revealing your lack of wisdom. Speak, not only with your words (talk is cheap, until lawyers get involved); speak also with your actions.
As we all know, if you do speak, do not use double negatives. They are a complete no-no. And never, never, never repeat yourself.
Of the three tickets to the liminal world, now is the best time to discuss sensation. One of the best ways to develop your ability to sense the real world is to bring mindfulness into your daily activities. The following activity, inspired by a book written by Jan Chozen Bays, MD, (2011) will help you sing with the Three Graces of Spirit, Nature, and Sex.
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HumaNatureConnect Activity
Singing With The Three Graces: Spirit, Nature, And Sex
For this activity, begin living life more fully. This activity will help you become joyfully mindful. Ask the questions that follow to your chosen natural object but do not expect it or you to be able to answer the questions immediately. Just ask for permission to ponder these questions on site in nature; immerse yourself in the qualities of the natural being and its natural surroundings; use one or more of your natural senses; think of your chosen being as an emissary carrying the wisdom of nature to you after granting you its consent to have this connection experience by remaining attractive; resonate with the underlying tone or rhythm you feel in your heart as you sit, stand, or lie next to your chosen natural being; allow the questions to be processed (answered) in the natural realm of your unconscious mind overnight; after a night’s sleep, return to this activity and write out your answers. Doing so allows the intelligence of nature to silently or perhaps in your dreams work its magic on you so that you can then write out answers that are not overly mental, piously heady, or tainted by fluctuating social pressures or willy-nilly moods. Take your time and, in your journal, write out your answers to each of the following questions (or as many as you like):
