The Care and Feeding of a Trinity

Who hasn't heard of the concept of a trinity? Christians in particular should be familiar with the concept of "the holy trinity"--God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. But the teaching of the trinity is not restricted to Christianity, one finds it too in the ancient Pagan teachings where they worshipped the Great Goddess in her triune form--Maiden, Mother, Crone.

But the idea of a trinity is not one to be relegated to beliefs in gods and religions, it is a fact that each and every one of us compromises an individual trinity.You've heard the expression "Body, mind and soul?"

Think about it....each person on this planet is made up of three seperate and distinct parts.

Their Body, or physical shell. (Go on, pinch your arm, you know you want to )

Their Mind, or intellectual capacity.

Their Soul, or that part of them that is connected directly to everything else - indeed to the source itself.

And each of these parts is directly related to a plane or level of existence. (Now for those 'spiritual' scholars among you, I am by no means saying that these three are the only realms...only that the represent the three BASIC levels of reality, sub-realities, layers, levels, I'm not going to get into an argument over it...just as each child grows differently, so too does each person experience these realms based on their own experiences and interpretations of such)

The Body, of course, being the most obvious, is directly connected to physical reality.

The Mind to the astral.

The Soul to the spiritual.

So what does this mean? What does it matter that we have three component parts? Why should it make a difference that each of these parts is finely attuned with a different level of reality?

What it means is that in order to be whole....in order to be complete in and of yourself, it is necessary for you to make your peace with each of these parts. Each of them needs to be fed and understood, otherwise we are going to not only feel incomplete, but will be hungry enough that we will try anything that offers to fill us.

Just as we are encouraged to eat three substantial meals a day, why not try three "meals" a day for your trinity?

Once a day give your physical body something that it craves; physical exercise, tasty food, a warm bath, hot sex.

Once a day give your mind something it craves; read a good book, have a good conversation with a friend, or (and I can't believe I'm going to say this) play an involved game of some sort, (computer or regular) that gives your logic circuts a good workout.

And finally, for your third meal a day, don't forget to feed your soul; take the time to meditate, pray, concentrate (however you like to define it); something that connects you to the source and that helps you to remember why it is that you are here, in this physical body.

Over time the care and feeding of your trinity will become second nature to you, but in the end it will be well-worth your effort.

2012: THE END OR THE BEGINNING?

I told a friend of mine that we were on the verge of a spiritual evolution, and they responded immediately with a comment about 2012. “Well yes, of course, in 2012 we’ll see an alignment of….”

And off they went, waxing eloquent and I watched them curiously as they tied it into Christ Consciousness and the astrological precession of the equnoxes and I had to wonder….Who hasn’t heard of 2012? Who hasn’t heard of the ancient Mayan calendar (known as The Long Count calendar) that marks the duration of the current b'ak'tun (a length of time measured by the interlocking cyclical calendars that the Mayans used to measure everything from growing seasons to childbirth to spiritual cycles) and which supposedly ends on 21 December 2012?

New Age writers claim that this date will mark the end of the world as we know it; predicting everything from catastrophic earth changes to shifts in cosmic energy and/or the arrival of helpful extraterrestrials who will guide Earth into the next stage of its evolution.

Some scholars point to the Popol Vuh, in which are recorded the details of the the K’iche’ Maya creation accounts. According to the Popol Vuh we are living in the fourth world, and that this particular creation will end on 20 December 2012, followed by the start of the fourteenth b’ak’tun (13.0.0.0.0) on 21December 2012.

They may be right. The world may end in fire – or ice (which would suffice ).

Or maybe not.

Those that say the date will usher in a new awareness; a new consciousness may also be right.

Or not.

Perhaps the calendar is just that - a calendar – a calendar that will roll over (as calendar’s do) and start over again on 21 December 2012, and everyone will wake up and the world will continue on exactly as it has for the last innumerable number of years.

Or maybe not.

I think that the problem with assigning dates is that we put far too much faith in fallible human systems and fail to see the spiritual truths that are staring us right in the face.

WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A MAJOR SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.

Everything points to it. Anyone who is remotely sensitive can feel it. The thing is, I don’t think that this spiritual evolution is dependent upon a date – upon the stars being in the right location or….well, you get the idea. I think that the alignments and what not may contribute to the spiritual evolution, in fact there may be natural cataclysms as the earth responds to the changes in the earth’s vibrational energy, but will it happen ON 21 December 2012? Does it have to?

It WILL happen, and chances are it will happen in a way that will come as a surprise to even the most devout or scholarly. So hold onto your hats my friends, and keep your hearts open, for the next few years are going to bring changes such as the world has never seen…changes that are going to happen in ways that can only be imagined, changes that are going to affect

Fire.

Burning.

Consuming.

Transforming.

It is fire that transforms crass material matter into boundless energy.

Energy that creates heat through the friction of it’s consumption of matter.

Heat that serves as the catalyst to change physical objects from one shape to another through transmutation.

In the ancient days mankind made offerings to god (however they worshipped him) through the medium of fire. And the keepers of their knowledge knew that it was the concept of fire as a purifier of hearts that was the important thing, not the burning of the matter itself. Through releasing the physical object into the flames one could bring noble aspirations into the world by burning away the clutter under which they were buried. Over time the concept of burnt offerings became a moot point as it was discovered that the same fire exists within our hearts as our own soul and sacred spirit.

We, you and I, are the light of the world. We contain the light of consciousness within our souls. If we subject every emotion, every thought to the burning power of the fire within it will either be burned up into nothingness – proving it to be lacking substance – or will burn off any residual tarnish or clutter, revealing the worth of the object underneath.

The fire within burns.

A cleansing fire; consuming that which is worthless.

Transforming everything it touches.

An eternal flame at the heart of creation.