TERMINALS AND END POINTS

2014, BELIEF, OPENNESS

AUGUST 31, 2014

Measuring progress is a matter for perspective.  When looking back, you might be considering periods of great activity or inactivity where memories cluster into Terminals, usually a point at which you were required to make a significant decision before moving on. 

If viewed from above, these Terminals might look like, and sometimes function similarly to, a hub or a power station that you can ‘plug into’, receiving data and guidance.  Informing your future and your future behavior often relies on the lessons you have gained, and stored at these Terminals.  Avoiding learned danger is one such example.


What happens, however, when a Terminal closes, and becomes an End Point?  An End Point is a closed field, a tribute, part of a record and part of what has gone into making You.  Learning to crawl and then to walk, in this mortal lifetime, were stored in Terminals while the accumulating ideas were active.  Once you had mastered these skills, those Terminals become End Points, with the attachments sites all occurring along the ‘stem’ up to a certain and final point.

Even if you were to lose your motor skills and had to learn again in this mortal lifetime how to crawl and how to walk, the resonance of those helpful memories would continue to be available to you in the still-live attachment sites below the End Point.  If you did not advance from crawling to walking to running to flying to teleporting, your Terminal would have a very predictable pattern.

But:  what if, once walking and running was mastered, you mutated for flying and then teleporting?  What if the state of your Belief was one of openness and expectation?  What if you embraced the idea that more is unknown to you than is known?  What if, instead of closing the Terminal, finalizing the ideas stored there as complete, and making an End Point (essentially stamping that file folder with the bold red words:  CLOSED), you kept open those Spiritual and neurological pathways to ideas yet unknown?

Can you fly?  How do you know?  As an infant, did you know you would crawl?  Can you teleport?  How do you know?  As an infant, did you know you would walk?

Returning again and again to End Points for information that was gathered and marked “Closed” long ago has its uses, and its faults.  New thinking does not arise from End Points.  End Points are static, they contain records of what was.  Fresh thinking, applied to old knowledge, keeps the branches of the tree alive and growing.  Terminals, to work properly, must be fed, just as a tree must be fed.

How often have you seen old data applied to new conditions with failed results?  A painter who paints the same piece over and over again will fail.  A car manufactured each year without new innovations will fail.  And a person who relies only on the ideas and beliefs that grow close to the trunk of his tree will fail—in expansion if nothing else.
Terminals form connections.  Like the neurological systems in your bodies, sending and receiving information, Terminals keep you connected, and fresh.  End Points are stagnant.

Are you working from End Points to form your opinions and ideas?  Do an assessment.  The more rigid an idea, the more likely the idea is stored in an End Point.  The more open and expansive an idea, the more likely the idea is stored in an alive and open-ended Terminal.  How many of your ideas are also Beliefs?  How many of your Beliefs do you take for Truth?

Imagine for a moment that your Life is a tree.  Imagine that you are a tree.  Lift your branches.  Move them.  Let them dance.  There is no need for stunted, arthritic, and immobile branches.  Let them all swing and sway to Great All’s symphony.  Let the Song move through you.

You are part of that Song.  Watch the wind and the grasses.  Watch the trees.  They will show you how Joy looks in the body.  Remember.

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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