I am reading a book at the moment by author Ken Carey, entitled –NOTES TO MY CHILDREN – A Simplified Metaphysics. This man has written several books for his children, trying to explain in kid language about life, reincarnation, evolution, creation?
Is there a difference? To a child I am sure there is not. Here is his analogy.
After God created the earth and the water and the trees, he dipped his paint brush in the soil of the earth, then the water of the oceans and the sap of the trees and putting all these wonderful things together, he created a human being.
Instantly the picture came to my mind (child that I am) of everything melding and blending together. How we are all made up of the same things and how we resonate and blend with nature and all life around us. The affinity we feel for a beautiful sunrise or sunset and the thrill of the first snow.
The next picture in my mind was that I hadn’t ever connected this feeling with the experience I have of a deep meditation. In fact even before it gets very deep, this is one of the first things I experience. I see and feel my body becoming soft and melding and blending together. My hands lying in my lap start to melt together, my feet on the ground become part of the earth. And at the same time I am swirling in the clouds and the stars. This is a wonderful soft, pleasant place to be.
It has always been so difficult to describe this sensation that I have never tried to do it before now. But after reading even just the first few pages of this book, I realized this was one of those ‘Oh yeah!’ moments.
It is actually this sensation that alerts me to the fact that I am in that ‘place’ that I am searching for. This is when I experience a deep silence, like being under water. My mind has a sense of keen alertness, yet I know I will not be distracted by outside noises or interferences. It is with great relief that I now easily clear my mind of ‘junk mail’ and ‘chattering monkeys.’
This is my time. I am open and ready for all the wonderful thoughts and insights my higher power wants to send to me. But there is also the feeling of patience. If all of these great droplets of wisdom don’t come to me, that’s okay too.
Sometimes after a meditation like this I will quickly take notes from things remembered. And at other times I will go on with my day and an hour or two later, I get a flash of insight or an answer to a question asked and run for a pencil and paper.
Hmmm…… all of this just from a few pages in a child’s book.
