Just to Balance out the posts... I present The True Meaning Of Spirituality

I have to say.. that I am a well balanced person. I was deep in conversation about this today.. we both met his friend who is a very spiritual, warm, caring and loving man who believes that true spirituality comes from meditation. Alhough he loves to laugh.. adores NATURE.. babbling brooks, great mountains, calm contemplative lakes, birds, wholesome foods, fresh air.. ..he judges clubs as negative places to attend, he goes to bed at 10PM and he swears. The day I met him he made many off color "blue" type jokes, that were rude because a lady was present.. (yes, that would be me.. hahaha). I didn't know how to respond. His "idea" of what it means to be "spiritual" comes from the philosophy that there is no judgement or "sin" in words.. and that you cannot offend another, you can only allow yourself to be offended. He didnt tell me this, I just knew this. I agree with this for the most part..however..it needs to be amended.

He said he once heard Howard Stern on the radio. For ten minutes. He called him "a radical". Yet Stern and this man both tell penis jokes.

The problem with that mentality, is that you should at least have the thoughtfulness to know who you are dealing with before you let go with the sexual jokes that are, of course, in context with whatever he was talking about, but I honestly had no interest in hearing about his sex life.. or his ideas about it, his masterbating when he was younger, his "third leg" reference, because I just met him, and understood him to be a simple, traditionally spiritual man.

I also realized very quickly upon meeting him, that he doesn't like to do anything spiritual other than "his own way".. so all other very real and practical uses of psychic phenomenon are disregarded by him because he does not believe that tecniques are necessary. He heals, BUT HIS WAY.. so he invalidates such healing modalities as "Reiki", for instance. There are a series of steps in Reiki that you must follow in order to tap into the river of Reiki energy. Reiki just IS.. its something that exists, but because he would follow a series of steps, this means someone or something is "telling him what to do". He invalidates it by losing interest and not researching the phenomena.

I didnt like this stance.. as I am a hardcore researcher, with a very inquisitive and investigative mind. I use WHAT WORKS. I actually listen, I have an open mind.. not that he didn't, but this insistence that all knowledge is obtained simply by meditating on ones navel is not ALL there is..and believe me, there is so much more... This idea diminuitizes knowledge. Experiencing him.. he seems to think that personal "centeredness" ONLY comes from being in nature, only comes from staying away from tv or being computer illiterate, ONLY COMES from not going to clubs and bars lest you become hyp~NO~tised by the mirrorball.. & instead comes from comtemplating his 3rd leg in meditation at the Realization Fellowship, or in his home, or on the freeway in traffic.
I suppose his idea of proving he's in sync with the "hip-and-with it spiritually well rounded" club means swearing and telling dirty jokes in front of what he called " a beautiful woman who has a sense of humor TOO!". (ha)

Anyway.. I suppose he would also not care for my hypnosis, which is very great and transformative..but he would not appreciate it..because "it would be telling him what to do". ~ lol ~

The other thing that I thought was odd..and off putting .. was that he called me a term of endearment as soon as he met me.. at first I was a little flattered at such homey and endearing pleasantness and instant liking, feeling that he sensed something in me that he didn't find in others .. at least.. so much..... (he is also very touchy, which is off putting brought on so soon.. it doesnt completely feel REAL with someone you don't know).. slightly surprised at such a closeness, I was more surprised at the restaurant to find him calling the waitress the very SAME term of endearment! Even later when I mentioned this to my friend, laughingly, but marveling at this, my friend echoed my thoughts.. "we both thought we were special, till we realized he goes around calling everyone this special term of endearment". (lol)

Don't get me wrong.. this man.. he is loving, he has a warm embrace, BUT.... the DAY I have to stop watching tv, the day when I no longer listen to radio and miss great shows like HOWARD STERN and Art Bell, the day when I have to say LIGHTS OUT at 10pm as though I were in Alcatraz, the day when I can't go to sleep at 3am if I feel like it, the day when I stop going out to clubs and bars because I judgementally think there is nothing good to be had there, the day I finally believe that God is located in a Turtles ASS...(albeit in nature).... is the day I slit my wrists and call myself an atheist.

haha.. well.. I hope you "get" the idea~ ...

I KNOW that spirituality exists EVERYWHERE.. in the day and in the night and in the shadowy halls at 3am.. it exists in the mirrorball at the club, in the throbbing pulsating beat and the silences between a techno tune. It exists in the smile of woman looking at a man.. or at a woman.. it exists in the iridescent sparkles that you put into your hair for a good time on a Saturday night.. the same ones that prelude a prism of unfaltering colors formed into a vision of a rainbow cross.. declaring itself alive and radiant in the air above the grim gray asphalt... a resplendent sight for noone but me..beauty inappropriately juxtaposed between carports, beauty unveiled on my whim..

People..there are more unknowns to be known and more things to be learned in the oddest places than you have ever imagined.. then you can ever imagine.. and to think that spirituality only exists in nature.. in Sedona, in traveling to vortices to catch a ray of illumination, or even in a church, IS THE SINGLE MOST AND GREATEST MISUNDERSTANDING of what it means to be a spirit having a natural human spiritual experience.

To be human means to appreciate whatever time in life you are born into.. life is what you make it and technology is only one more interesting layer to add onto the soul/human experience.. anyone hating their body, longing for death, contemplating their navel and living a life that is not balanced by believing that one must "do this or do that because everyone else is doing it".. or the belief that sex is bad, or that "differences" are negative or unnatural.. all these beliefs stemming from drastic ideas of spirituality or otherwise, is missing the point of life. Life is to be enjoyed for ALL THE GOOD that is available.. and to deny us NOT A THING... NOTHING.

At this point, if you divide up the penis telling jokes between these two men, Howard Stern has GOT to be having more fun.