From a Higher Perspective?...

I have spoken often of learning to look at our lives and our world from a higher perspective.   But it is not a simple matter or easy to do all the time.    And in situations like the murders that took place this day after midnight at the showing of the latest batman movie in Aurora, Colorado, it may be almost impossible. 
The evil that humans do is human caused but we may never know why these things happen.
 There were some very interesting ‘coincidences’ with this situation.   The movie theater is thirteen miles from Columbine High School, the location of another mass murder in 1999. 
Another co-incident is the case of the female sports blogger that survived a shooting in Toronto, Canada, when two people were killed and others wounded at the Eaton Centre Mall shooting on June 2, 2012, only to be gunned down in Colorado.    
When our minds are reeling with our attempts to make sense of these ‘senseless’ incidents about all we can do sometimes is try our best to release judgement and  be compassionate in our feelings.   We can be supportive when possible and hope that sometime we might be able to gain an understanding of these things that happen in our world.  

a View from Below...

I want to offer a couple of simple observations tonight.   You might remember from my other posts that the eagle and the hawk teach us to look at life, at everything, from a higher perspective.  It appears that was a lesson for me when I lived out on the ranch, the eagle flying high, the sparrowhawk hovering above the ground.  It appears, however, that my move is teaching me the opposite.  Here it is the chickadee and the towhee and even the frog and they are teaching me look at things from a view on the ground.  Look at things on a more intricate level and ground me to the point that I can see how things are from the ground up.   The chickadee has been a regular visitor to my balcony and this morning the towhee showed up.  Then while taking my dogpanion for a walk this morning I came across this little frog.   Thank you little ones for your beauty and your lessons.  

From the Aerie...

My apartment has a rather unique configuration.   It is in a building that faces onto a protected area of forest and wetlands in the city.    It is an area that humans are not allowed to be in.  The apartment is up a couple of floors so it has the feeling of being totally wild one side and modern society on the other.    It feels like an eagle’s or condor nest high on a mountain cliff.  It feels like an aerie.    Sparrowhawk in an eagle’s nest.   I like that idea.  Yesterday I wrote of the characteristics of Spiritual Masters.     I think I want to add something to those characteristics.  Spiritual Masters see everything all the time from a higher perspective.  They live in that vibration, that space that is their eagle’s nest, their aerie.   Being able to see things from a higher perspective means that you can see both sides to a story.  You get a larger perspective because you can see all around, and someone that is awake as a master  can see the levels of vibration and emotion and energy as well as the physical action.  Your higher perspective means you understand the reasons behind something.  You understand the contacts and contracts we have with others.   You know there is so much more than what we see.   We all have this place within us, our eagles nest, where we can see from this perspective.  It takes some work to find that place and learn to live from it but it is another characteristic of a Spiritual Master that is worth striving for.  

It is happening, even now.

One does not have to choose mastery.  One only needs to make the intent to live their lives from a higher perspective and to do it for themselves.   Learning to heal your life, recognize and move on from drama and seeking the place inside yourself where there is harmony will change your world and make it the world we really do desire for future generations.   We don't have to say 'I can't do it because it has never been done' or 'we have always had war and conflict that will never change'.  Changing the planet, making it safe, making it sustainable, healing our own lives is something we want to do for ourselves.   and it can happen.   I say it is happening, even now.    

When the fog is....

Sometimes it is difficult to live in this third dimensional reality.  But moving into your higher self, letting go of the fear and the worry...   It is all worth it.  When the fog is all around you and you can’t see where you are going, let that higher part of you lead. 
Like the eagle flying high able to look down, look at it all from a higher perspective.
Expect the best... You will create the best...

Independence Day.... Independence from a higher perspective

For whatever reason I am not one to celebrate holidays.   I find them a bit of a nuisance, except I liked having the day off from work when I worked full time.  Perhaps, it is the crowds, the noise, I really don’t know why I don’t like holidays.   So on this July 4th, I am going to write about independence from a higher perspective.   
I don’t have a date, and perhaps there isn’t a specific date I could point to but I consider my independence day to be the day that I decided that most of what our organizations give us is illusion, possibly downright lies and I wanted to find out the truth, what ever that might be.  A great many countries have holidays called “Independence day” and most of them refer to a date when some great battle or some declaration was made that freed them from the tyranny of a person or country.   I think the internet now has a great deal to do with more tyrants falling, more people around the world claiming their independence.   Take a look at your own life, what tyrants have control of your emotions, your life, your happiness?
Ask the questions, ask for help, decide you can overthrow those tyrants, habits, addictions, materialism, what ever they might be, and declare your own day of independence.   It’s a good feeling and will move you a long distance along your path of spiritual understanding.  You can choose to become the powerful loving being you were meant to be.   

"I'd rather see you up"

In my previous post I spoke of myself as an “angel flying too close to the ground”.  This phrase is from a song by Willie Nelson about an angel that breaks her wings flying too close to the ground.   That is my literal interpretation but I like the image of it.   Many of us are like that, we can’t see the bigger picture because we are too close to it.  I would urge you to be like the eagle and get a higher perspective. 
There is a lot going on in the world and in our lives.   And when we only look at it from the perspective of the ego, the little i, we don’t always see the big picture.   We have a tendency to take things too personally.   We are all ONE whether we believe this or understand it.   Hover a little higher like the falcon, like the eagle, and look at the world and your own little world from a higher perspective.   See that higher perspective, feel it. 
I’ll leave you for today with these words also from the same song  (Thank you Willie):  “Fly on, fly on past the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up
Than see you down”

Sparrowhawk speaks

The American Kestrel, the sparrowhawk, is the smallest of the falcons.  Often its way of hunting is to hover above the surface of the planet and watch for its prey.    It gets a good look at its world from there.
That is what these writings are all about.   Observations and perspectives from my view of the world, "an angel flying too close to the ground."  The sparrowhawk, the hawk, and the eagle can help us raise our sight that we might view things from a higher perspective.