THE NAMING

2014, COMPARISONS, IDENTITY, VALUE

JULY 9, 2014

 

When you come to something purely, the experience of it is pure.  This is as far as purity can extend.  For as we have shown, all matter has been constructed and reconstructed many times, and though taken back to its base forms, histories linger.  Look into the eyes of a newborn and feel its weight and wisdom.

You look for a newborn’s purity and innocence.  That is there, too.  But, look:  see that wise Spirit, freshly engaged in that new body; see its history and desires and will.  See beyond what you have been taught to see and assume.  There is a Life here, that has been many Lives before, that is long and wild and busy knowing itself.

What if you were taught that a baby is a proud, strong Spirit come again to know another journey—a peer at your door who has sought your shelter—and whom you have agreed to provide shelter?  What if you saw the developing years of the conscious human mind as the years of the Spirit coming to know and understand the new body, seating the Soul and purpose inside the heavy and sometimes foreign biology?

What is the experience of being human?

Many Masters have told you that you do not need to seek your spirituality, for you are Spirit.  You do not need to develop your spirituality, or increase it, or focus on it.  It is you.  You are Spirit.  But, you are here, doing this, having this experience, and the pureness of this is directly experiential/causal to your sense of what that means.

How do you name this experience?  How do you name Great All?  How do you name your Spirit Self?  And . . . how do you name the Self that you are while you are here having this experience?  What is Naming?

Naming is defining, summing-up.  More than making observations, applying Names to peoples, places, objects and ideas, places on them values in the social hierarchies within the stratas of their existences.  They are powerful things, Names, so much so, that many Names are held sacred to the initiates of Mysteries once received at certain levels of achievement.

Let us consider some simple, comparative Names:

trail/path/road/highway/interstate

mist/sprinkle/rain/thundershower/deluge/hurricane

contribute/assist/command

starve/fast/crumbs/snack/meal/banquet/feast

kind/blameless/saint/demi-god

father/grandfather/great-Grandfather

pawn/knight/bishop/rook/queen/king

penny/nickel/dime/quarter/dollar

hobby/job/career/ceo/owner of corporation

walking/biking/carpooling/car-owning/used car/new car/status car

Have you noticed the way that we have ordered these lists?  They are ordered in the probable way that you likely believe in the value or power of things as they exist in your life today.  In the last example, walking is listed on the left, while status car is listed on the far right.  Consciousness is a pool.  We have drawn from that pool.

The point is this:  Naming has power.  When we use the word walking, do you think pleasant thoughts or do you think unpleasant thoughts?  When we use the word status car do you think pleasant thoughts or do you think unpleasant thoughts?  This is not an exercise in judgment.  This is a prompt for you to understand the power of Names.

Yes, “. . . a rose by any other name . . .”  A status car, called something else would imbue that Name with a similar power.  Still, the power of the Name is what we consider here.  The power of the idea.  When you say the Name of something, its power opens, because its power is attached to the Name which is assigned to it, in whatever language, in whatever time, in whatever place or culture.

When you begin a sentence with, “That is just a . . .” what do you follow with?  What Name of smallness or un-importance do you attach there?  Why is it unimportant?  What thing in this amazing Great All is unimportant?

When you begin a sentence with, “That is . . .” and proceed to exalt it, what do you follow with?  What Name of grandness do you attach?  Do you belittle yourself in comparison to this thing?  In comparison to the thing of smallness that you Name, do you falsely exalt yourself?

Naming things gives power to Hierarchy.  Naming things also gives power to order.  We cannot avoid Naming things.  We must Name things to understand our world and our place in it.  The question is:  Can we do it kindly, fairly, and as neutral observers, rather than automatons?


 

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. 

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