Funnily enough and possibly connected Keith was just saying on the phone earlier that these days people are enslaved by the need for money. I quite agree. Shouldn't be that way,.
many who feel they need money and therefore accept their role as a (wage)slave are not aware that they really only need a little money to survive in this world. but... they don't want to just survive, they want more money. which, I think, is sad, and immature. just to be content with what comes one's way is or can already be satisfying, there really is no need to want to have more. the more people would realise this, the more bonds with banks and other nasties could be broken and we would be less enslaved. well, a girl can dream, can't she...?
beautiful story! it made me think of the image that in our version of humans our feet keep us anchored to the surface of the earth, but with our head and imagination we can reach out to infinity. in between resides the heart, a pivot point, ideally keeping everything in balance.
it was one of the sentences in your writing ("I live too much in the material world and the truth is I hate it...", which rings so true! however it also conjured up this wonderful image of our body's vertical axis: much to our chagrin thoroughly grounded in the material world, but with the escape pod of our imagination.
I also am very tired. When I was a child I had a reoccurring dream that aliens abducted my family members and pretended to be them and that everything was normal. They were obviously not my family and it was so heart wrenching and powerless. I also had dreams about my family members dying over and over again and I felt like it actually happened each time. Sometimes I think this is because
1. I had to leave my real family in order to be here and
2. I knew subconsciously yjsy the important people in my life would die early in this lifetime. And they did.
Sometimes I think that wound never went away and it makes it really hard for me to fully embrace being alive, even when things are going okay. This is, of course, insanity to the rest of the human population so I think we are isolated even further and it makes everything much worse than it needs to be in terms of our emotional/mental wellbeing and overall growth.
Anyway, that's my two cents on that. Thanks for sharing.
Not sure it’s any consolation but I do think I understand what you mean. Aside from the person I live with (who is like a soulmate) most of the important people I’ve met have been there only fleetingly. Almost like we were simply touching base and reminding each other that we are there, somewhere, and that we are not really alone.
But certainly my earthly family were nothing to do with my real family (which is one reason why I remain comprehensively estranged from them). I often think they were only my family in this life because I needed to be born at that specific place and specific time and this was the only baby available. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that were true. I mean, this body doesn’t suit me in the slightest and it certainly doesn’t look anything like the real me.
Soul families do indeed sort of separate when they incarnate, and many of those incarnations are for specific or individual purposes, I think, and so sometimes the separation and loneliness is part of that. But then we reintegrate afterwards. At least that’s how I try and comfort myself - assuming that everything happens for a reason.
That may comfort the intellect, of course, but not always the heart or the soul. But it is why I do take such comfort whenever I meet a kindred spirit who understands the same, or similar things, to me, and at least in part shares a similar attitude. Reminds me that I am not really alone. I hope these words can provide a little comfort for you.
It's more about not even having the 'little' money to survive though. I should have added context - we were talking more about the very many people who struggle on a day to day basis because income does not cover *necessary* outgoings (rent, basic food, energy). So all people are doing in such cases is 'just about surviving'. This is because companies are allowed to get away with paying below survival level wages. And governments provide below survival level pensions. And they're all out to make it worse.
There's no choice in the matter for millions. Which is one reason why we now see (in socalled developed and civilised countries) people who are in work & living on the streets.
Sweet.
Funnily enough and possibly connected Keith was just saying on the phone earlier that these days people are enslaved by the need for money. I quite agree. Shouldn't be that way,.
many who feel they need money and therefore accept their role as a (wage)slave are not aware that they really only need a little money to survive in this world. but... they don't want to just survive, they want more money. which, I think, is sad, and immature. just to be content with what comes one's way is or can already be satisfying, there really is no need to want to have more. the more people would realise this, the more bonds with banks and other nasties could be broken and we would be less enslaved. well, a girl can dream, can't she...?
A dreamer, huh? Well, you’re not the only one!
good!
beautiful story! it made me think of the image that in our version of humans our feet keep us anchored to the surface of the earth, but with our head and imagination we can reach out to infinity. in between resides the heart, a pivot point, ideally keeping everything in balance.
That’s a lovely way of describing it!
it was one of the sentences in your writing ("I live too much in the material world and the truth is I hate it...", which rings so true! however it also conjured up this wonderful image of our body's vertical axis: much to our chagrin thoroughly grounded in the material world, but with the escape pod of our imagination.
I also am very tired. When I was a child I had a reoccurring dream that aliens abducted my family members and pretended to be them and that everything was normal. They were obviously not my family and it was so heart wrenching and powerless. I also had dreams about my family members dying over and over again and I felt like it actually happened each time. Sometimes I think this is because
1. I had to leave my real family in order to be here and
2. I knew subconsciously yjsy the important people in my life would die early in this lifetime. And they did.
Sometimes I think that wound never went away and it makes it really hard for me to fully embrace being alive, even when things are going okay. This is, of course, insanity to the rest of the human population so I think we are isolated even further and it makes everything much worse than it needs to be in terms of our emotional/mental wellbeing and overall growth.
Anyway, that's my two cents on that. Thanks for sharing.
Not sure it’s any consolation but I do think I understand what you mean. Aside from the person I live with (who is like a soulmate) most of the important people I’ve met have been there only fleetingly. Almost like we were simply touching base and reminding each other that we are there, somewhere, and that we are not really alone.
But certainly my earthly family were nothing to do with my real family (which is one reason why I remain comprehensively estranged from them). I often think they were only my family in this life because I needed to be born at that specific place and specific time and this was the only baby available. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that were true. I mean, this body doesn’t suit me in the slightest and it certainly doesn’t look anything like the real me.
Soul families do indeed sort of separate when they incarnate, and many of those incarnations are for specific or individual purposes, I think, and so sometimes the separation and loneliness is part of that. But then we reintegrate afterwards. At least that’s how I try and comfort myself - assuming that everything happens for a reason.
That may comfort the intellect, of course, but not always the heart or the soul. But it is why I do take such comfort whenever I meet a kindred spirit who understands the same, or similar things, to me, and at least in part shares a similar attitude. Reminds me that I am not really alone. I hope these words can provide a little comfort for you.
It's more about not even having the 'little' money to survive though. I should have added context - we were talking more about the very many people who struggle on a day to day basis because income does not cover *necessary* outgoings (rent, basic food, energy). So all people are doing in such cases is 'just about surviving'. This is because companies are allowed to get away with paying below survival level wages. And governments provide below survival level pensions. And they're all out to make it worse.
There's no choice in the matter for millions. Which is one reason why we now see (in socalled developed and civilised countries) people who are in work & living on the streets.