...There are many ways that energy can enter and leave the body. Some are more pleasant than others.

 Last Monday night I had the opportunity to start what I call the Wusthof Energy Meditation.

 It commenced, like many journeys of awareness, rather mindlessly, but has, over the past week, borne much fruit in mindfulness and contemplation.

 "In a conspiracy of silence, truth rings out like a pistol shot."

In a similar way, there can be external events, which are physical manifestations of spiritual truths that make themselves known at the most inopportune times. This spiritual truth manifested itself in the form of a 10" Wusthof Chef's knife, completely piercing to the other side the veil of illusion of my left pinky.

From just a second of Satori, true awareness of reality a will manifest a resonance that lasts. The awareness of a wound, and every bit of pain felt - was an opportunity to transmute into awareness of the existence of suffering in the world, and thankfulness for all my many blessings (and that I didn't hit any nerves or tendons)

 As I sat waiting in various places in the emergency room for six hours, I was overcome with thankfulness. - my friend who brought me connected with someone who he hadn't seen in 8 years - (A very special needs student that he drove to school as a bus driver, who has since graduated college!)
We had a chance to meet, and pray with someone who really needed it.

...And its funny, I actually dreamed this being there, about 4 years back. I remember this, because of asking God, in the dream "Jeez, is this going to be bad?" - he replied - "No - it'll be ok."

How many times, after gaining a revelation, and walking in it, do we revert back to our previous ways, despite our efforts?

 On the Sunday night, about a week after my revelation, I found myself doing the same thing - in the kitchen - that got me in trouble in the first place. - In this case, trying to pull a metal stopper off an old wine bottle (like Martha Stewart would have for an olive oil bottle) pulling straight up  - and it comes undone, and my Left pinky slams against the bottom of our kitchen cabinet....

 ouch.

It swelled up again like a stuck piglet.

I RICEd it and went to bed..

The Cure worse than the Disease?:

 They prescribed me antibiotics. I started taking them two days after, and by Thursday night has a roaring stomach ache. My wife generally has a concern that I will flaunt doctors orders and do something crazy like try and heal myself. I assured her that I would take the pills as prescribed, because either

1) I had some bad tofu or something, and there's no side effects or, 
2) There are side effects, and I'm going to make damn sure that there's no question about it.

With grim resignation, I popped a dose on Friday morning, and limped my way to work, holding my stomach (a half an hour walk away).

They took me off the antibiotics.

I've effing had it up to here with the doctrine of Original Sin. When you look at the "fruit" of it, it's been incredibly damaging to the Church, and to many I know, even (especially) now.

Devised by St. Augustine (bless his heart) in the 5th century, it paints the picture of an entire world fallen, man and nature, whereby the only "salvation" is through Christ (via the church at that time). I'm all about wallowing in my own sin, but this fucking ridiculous. The Church (bless its heart) then runs with the ball, and uses guilt and shame as its building blocks for coercion of its congregants.

 What about the creation that after God made, said "this is good"? What about God saying "I knew you even at the foundations of the Earth"?

What about Jesus saying, "However you treat the poor, you treat me"? What about the interconnectedness, which in every breath and action, Jesus speaks to, and acts out of, in his ministry? That "It is my desire that you should know the Father as I know the Father", and "Someday you will be able to do all I can do and more"?

This does not suggest a dualistic universe where man is separate from God, desperately trying to "get" to him/her.

Jesus is speaking out of connectedness. He is speaking out of oneness with the Father.

It is not heresy, nor blasphemy, to say, "I and the Father are one".

That is the inheritance we share, as Sons, and Daughters of God.

Now go live it.

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These illusions -  shed as tears. Upon loosing them, we are freed.