26 Aug 2004 @ 00:37, by Craig Lang
Today has been one of those rather non-spiritual days - one of those times in life when we realize that, even though we are spirits living in the material world, it is a material world that can be rather trying. I truly think that today was one of those "material moments".
In the two days since returning from a rather relaxing break from the day job, the hypnosis practice, the national guild, and other influences in my life, some "interesting" things have happenned. In large part, they involve the day job.
In my previous post, I had indicated that there was the possibility of losing my job. However, I got lucky (at least I think it was lucky) and didn't get the sudden "opportunity" to find a new income. As a matter of fact, everyone in my department was spared from layoff. I guess in our department, we are just too - well - just too something or other... :-)
So now that hurdle is past, at least for now. So the work continues - and the pace picks up. It almost seems as if, in the days since then, the Lords of Cubeworld were trying to punish us for staying.
So the obvious solution would be to leave, right? ...to go independent? Well, I discovered in the last couple of days just how non-fun being independent can be, also. Instead of having just one boss (or one chain of command), as one would in CubeWorld, an independent has many - they are called clients, associates, customers, etc. Each has their own "orders" and "requirements", and each has their own agendas.
Just like me, they are humans, spirits in the material world. And so, just like me, they exert their own influences on this same material world. However, since the general body of clients/customers/associates/etc. are not organized, their influences tend to be largely statistical, non-cohesive, and uncoordinated. Whereas it is relatively easy to meet the reuqirements of one boss or group, having many - which is what one has as an independent, becomes far less straightforward.
Another disconcerting thing I learned much more about in the last couple of weeks, is how the laws in Minnesota are changing with regard to alternative medicine, hypnotherapy, etc. And what I learned is just how much political turf-guarding there is among healers. Psychologists, MD's, counselors, alternative healers, hypnotherapists, we are all in reality, just beings trying to earn a living in the material world. And in spite of the very reasons why many of us became healers, we sometimes see how it is possible to forget the "healing" nature and become just as territorial and political as anybody else. It's can sometimes be a first-chakra world out there.
Then comes the political front. On the drive home from the day job, I noted several "W"04 bumber stickers. One of them, I had to work really hard to avoid flipping the bird to - as he was a bit of a jerk in traffic as well. He really thought he was cool, cutting off people on the freeway with his Hummer. I think we all know the type.
Another thing I find disappointing to look at the overall political scene, and find the same old excrement going on. As the campaign swings into full gear, the business as usual that I was complaining about in an earlier post becomes noisier and uglier. Only now it is national. Reading Whitley Streiber's Swiftboat commentary didn't make me feel any better. In fact, I begin to feel sorry for a nation crumbling under it's own political system - a gridlock between two dysfunctional political machines.
So, in the end, the saying that "there is no such thing as a free lunch" turns out to be very true. And the only thing any of us can really rely on is the light within. I keep trying to remind myself, whenever life gets "interesting" as it was today, that each of us is really more than all of this. We are spirits in the material world - and in the end, it is really only that light of the spirit that matters.
So maybe that's the lesson in the "grouchiness" influences that I have noted today. I can only take comfort in the notion that the Universe teaches each of us in our own way, the lessons that we need to learn. And for me, one of the biggest is to keep perspective during those times when life just wants me to get pissed off...
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