THE BITTERS

When one has trouble in the digestion, bitters are a good agent for healing. They work by signaling the body to release more bile, and that helps to break down the fats in consumed foods, thereby releasing other ingested properties to the other agents of digestion. When one says “That experience made me bitter,” they are not saying that they were healed by the agent of bitterness, but that they resisted the agent of bitters by trying to replicate or replace the natural agent itself.

When we try to break down an experience by degrading it into tiny pieces in order to make that experience more easily understood, we lose sight of the big picture. We try to become the Bitters. Often, we end up ‘becoming bitter.’ We become bitter because we see one tree at a time, rather than the whole of the woods, teeming with its life and majesty.

As you listen to people’s stories, including your own, and you hear which notes are plucked and which notes fall absent, remark to yourself what the Song is missing. Is this a true representation of the big picture? If this story was a painting, would it be whole? What does the painting lack? Is it three-dimensional? two? one? A story is often a person’s representation of an event, remembered as that person chooses to remember it, then edited and embellished as time passes, and that person’s emotional evocations demand even more change.

Sometimes, the consciousness of whole families, tribes, communities, city-states, nations, and cultures are lacking, wrong, or so mythically or politically reSung as to be unrecognizable from its same form of truth. This is the nature of seeing reality and truth through the lens of human consciousness and consideration, with its emotions, beliefs, and fears.  

To do this work you must understand what you are about and what is at stake. How is it to be human? What is it to be human? Is being human an easy task? What rewards are to be had during the time you experience your humanity and which experiences there feel more like punishment? When you are clear on the answers to these questions, you may help guide others to answer these same questions for themselves.

Being human is not about being perfect. It is not about being above others, not even while leading. ESPECIALLY while leading. Leading requires great strength, wisdom, clarity, compassion, and generosity. 

It does not require you to be supreme, 

egomaniacal, deity, or superhuman. 

It requires you to be human. Human.

Human

Study this word inside yourself today. 

What is Human.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me

from the other side of the veil.

March 05, 2014

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