{"id":1383,"date":"2012-09-17T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T18:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2012-09-17T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T18:22:41","slug":"the-naked-mystic-what-if-just-a-rambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2012\/09\/the-naked-mystic-what-if-just-a-rambling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naked Mystic: &#8220;What If&#8221; just a rambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>We spend lots of time thinking about the path. \u00a0Or a path, or spiritual vs human, and yet we negate that the word \u201chuman\u201d simply means GOD-MAN. \u00a0So it is not so much about whether we are human or spiritual, whether we are religious or not, whether there is a God or no God, whether we believe or don\u2019t, all of that is a thinking man\u2019s way of living. Living a life in thought, labels, bias, judgements, creating a right and wrong, eye for eye platform. The experience most people are searching for more then ever is FREEDOM, complete freedom from the \u201cstoryteller.\u201d \u00a0The storyteller which is constantly creating a story of out there. What could possibly be happening out there? Unless it is happening in here. So I have written a series of \u201cWhat if\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d all your beliefs are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d you are here to realize that you are a God\/Goddess and that is your purpose. A God\/Goddess connected to the whole, where all is included and none are left out. Life is honored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d every complaint, blame, gossip, judgement, story, manipulation, about another was really about you, was really helping you to understand who you are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d there really is no victims in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d there really are no enemies, no such thing as eye for eye, no separation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d \u00a0you are here to understand each other and yourself, more than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d rather than apologizing for being a man or woman, or masculine or feminine, \u00a0we are simply here to understand the masculine and feminine as equal. \u00a0And stop apologizing for both of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d being right and making someone wrong, or making someone wrong for you to be right was \u00a0ridiculous. Because it is suggesting that your story is better than theirs or vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d you both had the right to be happy, and being right was not an option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d in here and out there were the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d the observer and the observed were the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d oneness meant that you are the expression of the one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d your body and brain were the transportation for the that expression only.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d the MInd and brain were different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d thinking wasn\u2019t worshipped so much, but rather used as way of being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d Mother nature was your church, and your heart was the religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d the masculine and feminine were seen as one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d there could be powerful masculine woman and feminine men and both were recognized as strong, equal, and celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d we encouraged our children to be the beautiful artist that they are, rather than trying to make them be us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d to serve Mother earth, humanity, and others in good way was celebrated, and those who lived to exclude and be greedy were looked down upon and not celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d walking the walk in loving ourselves and others was acceptable behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d we celebrated a couple of minutes of silence so we could hear correctly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d you had to take 3 months of training in school if you were going to have a baby on this planet. \u00a0Self-love, compassion, understanding, and anything else that would help a parent blossom a child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d you slapped a child, abused them with language, physical, mental, that you would be sentenced to one year of school where you would be taught in \u00a0forgiveness, self love, compassion, being with your own darkness, dealing with your hurts, rejections, shame, and guilt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d in second grade all boys had to watch babies being born to learn about life itself, the importance of the feminine and masculine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if\u201d you were reading this and became so angry, that you forgot it was a \u201cwhat if\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/221\/2012\/09\/rise07212007.sized_.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1385\" title=\"rise07212007.sized\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/221\/2012\/09\/rise07212007.sized_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spend lots of time thinking about the path. \u00a0Or a path, or spiritual vs human, and yet we negate that the word \u201chuman\u201d simply means GOD-MAN. \u00a0So it is not so much about whether we are human or spiritual, whether we are religious or not, whether there is a God or no God, whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[1015,163,986,942,1014,1016,1013,725],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual","category-uncategorized","tag-body","tag-david-matthew-brown","tag-politics-2012","tag-the-naked-mystic","tag-time","tag-transportation","tag-what-if","tag-wrestling-with-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}