The Art or HeArt of “Listening” Part II
This is Part II of a six part series. See my previous blog entry on September 11 for Part I.
There is the event in the Judeo-Christian tradition called “The Fall.” From my point of view that event describes the time when we as a race chose to stop “listening” with our hearts and, instead, began to judge with our minds. We ate of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, that is, we entered the world of judgment, analysis and separation.
We no longer experienced life from within, but, instead, we experienced it as “other” than us or outside us. We started judging and analyzing instead of feeling and that created the sense of separation that we feel from each other, nature, Spirit, our Higher Selves and from God/Goddess. This is what cast us out of the Garden of Eden.
Vine Deloria, PhD, a Native American scholar so aptly wrote in this regard:
“For primitive people the presence of energy and power is the starting point of their analysis and understanding of the natural world...primitive people felt power, but did not measure it. Today we are able to measure power, but do not feel it.”
Rene Dubos, celebrated microbiologist and author wrote:
“Sometimes the more measurable, drives out the most important.”
In another vein, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote:
“Earth is crammed with Heaven, if we but listen.”
Heaven is everywhere and in everyone. Each one of us and everything that we could possibly interact with is simply an entryway, a portal to our Higher Selves and to the God/Goddess within if we could “listen” to it, if we could “see” it. Everyone is an opening to your Higher Self, even your enemies, even your tormentors. If we could learn again to “listen,” we all could reenter that Garden.
To be continued on 9 18 06