--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Jonathan Chadwick > <jochadw1@> wrote: > > > > I think right now the Self is sucking us back in. I've missed my > program many, many times over the past 30-something years but lately > I can't seem to wait to get back in there because the energy is so > incredible. > > I went for years where the only good meditations I had were in > groups, needing the fullness of the group to feel that saturated > silence. By myself it just felt thin, and chock full of thoughts. I > don't know when that changed- it was gradual- but now there is that > sense of depth and fullness when its just me, even when meditating > in odd places like the front seat of my car. So much so that my > desire to meditate in a group has long since vanished. > > The other thing I've noticed, as the year changed over to 2007, is a > sense that the atmosphere seems clearer and cleaner. The picture I > keep having is that like a tree with many of the smaller branches > cleared out, or a river delta with fewer tributaries. The mental > environment is just cleaner somehow. And I haven't been looking or > expecting anything- I will pretty much deal with whatever comes > along and am not one to place my happiness into the future, or sense > things taht aren't there. > > Just curious if anyone else has innocently become aware of such an > atmospheric change, coming into the New Year?
Yes, I have noticed a lifting of spirit; even during the New Years celebration, New York City, was playing Lennons's Imagine- which I thought was a beautiful touch. I feel too that the deaths of James Brown, and President Ford, brought upliftment and healing and remembering, of two 'peace-makers. And the death of Saddam also, in contrast, felt like a darkness lifting, I must say: I guess because he inspired so much fear in people of that region. So, proceeding this new year, there was a lot of transition going on. And a feeling of upliftment and expectation... >
