Fly!

Do you ever feel down about yourself and that there's nowhere or no one to turn to?

Natural/physical/biological intelligence is there for you, so long as you have a body and are living on this (or another) planet.

The love and respect that natural/physical/biological intelligence has for you can be accessed by you at any time, through an act of choice.

When you access natural/physical/biological love and respect, you will access it tangibly and physically, through your body, in the way that Nature intelligence views as best for your needs.

Natural/physical/biological intelligence will never deny you.

If you are willing to look beyond your immediate human social circumstances, you need never feel abandoned again.

Instead, you become empowered to fly, no matter how that might look in your life...

Injustice Is Expressed and Felt through Physical Experience

I realized a few days ago that my comments about physicality and the importance of embodiment don't take injustice into account.

Some of us on Earth have hardly any food to eat. Those of us who do have food, often have little more than aisle after aisle of genetically modified junk waiting for us at the grocery store.

Some of us have no medicine for what ails us. Others of us have far too much, too invasive medicine.

Some of us have no shelter from the cold and rain. Others live in mansions.

Some of us have no reasonably clean water to drink, and at this point, none of us have unpolluted air, unless we're rich enough to buy oxygen or filter our air 24/7.

Some of us don't have access to the internet, some of us are addicted to it.

Some of us, due to lack of condoms, risk disease, death by childbirth, and raising a child in poverty if we choose closeness with another human. Others of us relieve boredom via casual sex.

The vast majority of us have access to just tiny fractions of the money and physical resources accumulated by a tiny minority of people who are emphatically not interested in sharing.

No wonder some of us don't like physical existence and want to escape it.

Being sick, being poor, being homeless, don't feel good.

Unfortunately, escapism does little to solve the real source of physical agonies. The fact that we are in bodies is not the reason for our suffering. Being in bodies could feel good if our souls took humanity's physical pain seriously and starting making new choices, if our souls had the willingness to learn what it takes and do what it takes to make love and respect for everyone on this planet a physical, embodied reality.

Some Orange Paint

The title of this post alludes to my post of 7/27/2011.

Seeing people do stuff like what's shown in this video really fires up my imagination about the potentials of physicality. I wonder whether it's possible to perform such feats without having embodied, physical, active love and respect for one's body and physical surroundings.

Note that I do not mean the word "love" here in a romantic or "mushy" sense. Some people define the word "love" as having to do with interest, curiosity, and sustained attention. The one we love, the activity we love, receives our interest, our curiosity, and ongoing energy from us in the form of attention. You need to have attended to and investigated your body and surroundings pretty thoroughly to be able to safely jump off high buildings and so on. You'd also need healthy respect for your physical needs, your physical perceptions, and your current physical boundaries.

Speaking of love and respect, for some reason the last frames of this video display the word "Hated." I don't know why.

Why Do You Get Out of Your Body?

As far as I can tell, even though humans have physical bodies and live on a physical planet, our consciousness is largely at war with that fact.

Several of our religions promote the after-life as the really superior experience. 

Millions of us are addicted to alcohol, drugs, food, "love," work, shopping... anything we can find that gives us a sense of escape from our situation.

A number of spiritually oriented people I’ve met get excited about being out of their body, going beyond the body, etc. They want to experience freedom from bodily and physical limitations. 

From my perspective, believing in or doing any of the above weakens the vitality and resilience of humans. 

Religion that emphasizes the after-life doesn't give you the information and skills you need to create a superior experience right here and now.

Addictions deliver a series of temporary highs that give us glimpses of our potential. However, the price we pay for this method of self-study and growth is much higher than those highs.

And my question for those who seek freedom from bodily and physical limitations is,"How limited is the body, really?"

The truth is, we don't know.

Let's say your society tells you you can only put ORANGE paint on a canvas.  You, however, love BLUE paint. It's understandable that you might come to the conclusion that you need to go "off canvas" if you want to make a BLUE  painting. Of course, we all know that it's possible to put either or both colors on a canvas. And at this point in our history, when it comes to the possibilities inherent in our bodies and in physical experience in general, we are at the "you can only put ORANGE paint on the canvas stage."

I invite you to throw off a few cultural shackles today. What would it be like to accept and explore your body and physical world without demeaning it, without asking it to be anything other than how you experience it at the moment, without trying to move beyond it? That's a first step towards what I would consider true freedom.

A second step is to consider what could happen to change your life for the better if you infused your physical body and possessions with love and respect?