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I would like to share with you the thoughts that arose as I considered the implications of Easter in the Christian tradition. I got an Easter greeting from an old friend of mine and his lovely wife. He and I have shared some very rich experiences – some painful and some comforting. Here are two of the opening thoughts they shared with me:
In this real life horror movie in which we are living, we know there’s a vicious creature we cannot see. But – because it is not causing any symptoms – it can secretly be living in anyone who is near us. Equally frightening, we know this virus can suddenly – without any of us even being aware – fly into our lungs & kill us.This is the horrible Good Friday merry go round ride on which we are all stuck. Nobody knows when it is going to stop, but Everybody knows that the triumphant positive energy of Easter comes next.
I offer you an image for your thoughts… the name for that vicious creature you (we) cannot see… “Wetiko”, a thought form that is pure evil. The word comes from the Cree people and has a couple of analogues in other eastern tribes. Paul Levy translates that into “Malicious Egophrenia”. If you’re like me, “ego” is just what you think it is, and “phrenia” means “mind”. The Eastern Natives saw that the coming of the pale ones from the East was the arrival of a devil in disguise with a nice song but murder in its mind. “Wetiko” stands for humans and their institutions that mindlessly destroy Mother Earth and her children…. Look at our leadership….
I have been rereading a lot of Paul Levy’s thoughts, and I realize that I learned much from him and my cousin Pat – a respected Jungian counselor – quite a few years ago. I have carried this ego-mind concept in my mind in “guiding” 5,000-odd H.O.P.E. Group meetings where many people have surrendered to powerful egos, either their own or somebody else’s. So, I take the twelve-step concept of ego and use their acronym, “Ease God Out” from the word that means “I”.
I was shown years ago that the ego needs the love and compassion of the spirit that shows us that my “I” is part of a spiritual collective known as “We”. Dreams have shown me that my ego – my secular, DNA-related part of me – does not know why it was created, but my soul – my “higher” spiritual self – does know why it is here, having occupied other “human animal” bodies through their lifetimes before this one I’m living today.
I am of a clear mind that Jesus of Nazareth knew that he was taking on the Wetiko of society and he knew that he would have to give up his human body in order to start the healing metamorphosis. And the struggle goes on in the Amazon forests and in the minds of Monsanto and in a lot of what we call “politics” and even “medicine” today.
This is, indeed, a remarkable time in the life of humanity, and we might even sense a gratitude to COVID-19 for clearing our polluted air and our fearful minds.
Thank you for your thoughts, and the opportunity to re-examine those thoughts that I have just shared with you. If a dialogue grows out of this, so be it. I welcome it.
With much love, Ken
Ken thank you for being one of the few who understands that we are indeed spiritual beings who have incarnated. We don’t remember that we didn’t always have currency or vehicles, cell phones etc. There’s nothing wrong with any of these creations but there are just that… creations. We are enslaved by our want for these things not remembering that we created them, not remembering that none of them really has any basis in nature.