I took Simon and Garfunkel’s
song, I am a Rock, as my theme when I
was in high school oh so many years ago.
If you are not familiar with the song, the lyrics are:
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.
And of course you can hear the song on YouTube.
While I
am still a rock, and an island, and a bird and so many other things I realize
that I am
not alone. In fact, I am part
of everything (rock, island, bird . . .) and everything is part of me.
Oneness, aloneness and separation are all
illusions. Those feelings are caused by
the social
conditioning of our experiences, collective social values, and a
lack of awareness on our part.
When
we chose, either consciously or unconsciously to dissociate ourselves from
nature,
from each other, and from our helping spirits be feel alone. Science is no substitute for cmmunity.
Communal societies have not made that
mistake. They still share energy and
know that
whatever happens to one person happens to all, to the group.
As
a practitioner of core shamanism I believe that the world (and us as a part of
it) is the way
that it (we) is (are) because we have dreamed it into
being. If we continue to dream the same
dreams the world will continue to be as it is.
To change the dream get go outside and connect
with nature. If separation from nature is one of the
causes or spiritual and physical dis-ease
then connection with nature is part
of the cure. I find that wandering in
nature (as I did this
morning) feeds my spirit and frees my mind from its
connections with the mundane material
world . . . only when I do this are my
mind and soul able to unite tougher to seek.
You
are not alone . . . you are never alone . . .you and I always have been and always
will be connected.
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