Goddesses

Hello family, 

This weekend marks a huge milestone for us at Nature Creature as we will be beginning a long sojourn into the Goddesses book by Joseph Campbell. Like the KM, Nature, Rosi Cross, Cassiopaean, and Zen series, this will be yet another deep dive into a concerning subject — concerning in a good way. 

As I have been going over the material and working to get it how I like it, its appearing to me like we will be in the series through the winter which is so appropriate as the winter is the dark season for us above the 33rd, and so energetically a very fitting environment for the journey we are embarking with the Goddess. 

To give you some inside baseball, we will be covering introductions on Saturday. I have a big set of statements to kick off our Goddesses series in a proper setting of change. We then next week will go into chapter one. Saturday is to establish a setting. Chapter 1 will take 2-4 weeks depending on what sparks we hit along the way that emphasize good points of interest. Every lecture is extemporaneous in one way or another, so how this all comes out, and the time frame it fits into, is like guessing when and where the next lightening bolt will strike. We will just go with the stream, and guide ourselves as we traverse the material. It should do well to land everyone on a shore we all can readily observe and learn from. 

I’ve begun my new book on Zen and it is going very well. Due to all that is happening in the family, it is good to be heavily writing again as it keeps me on my intellectual game and keeps me from mulling over details in life I cannot influence. The book is shaped and structured by the Zen series I presented based on the lectures I offered. The material in the book will be a distilled version of both the lectures and the content of the slides. I think it will be about 150 pages so a good size most everyone can handle when it comes to such an involved subject. The book follows exactly the pace and way I suggested in the Zen series, so anyone who maybe can’t understand a portion of the book, can simply match the chapter of the book to the week I presented! 

For instance, let’s say you are on chapter 7, which is a consideration of spontaneity and its sense, and how it cannot be planned. If the chapter trips the reader up, they can just watch week 7 of the Zen series for a 3 hour lecture on the subject, which should clarify any questions about the chapter! It’s really a great plan.

All of this writing may be followed up with an audiobook version should demand insist it. I am happy to accommodate if that is what is needed. 

So, I will be at the writers desk for some time now and well into next year. This will be a heavy, heavy writing phase of my life, and I am up for the task. It is a good time for me to plant myself at the desk and do what is necessary to get this information out and available to anyone that wants to expand their awareness on some subjects, and these seem to be great areas of concern. I certainly am no final authority, but I do offer considerable arguments, and my interests and life experience are well suited to this kinda thing due to all that is happening currently in the world. We all must sprout where we are planted. Go with it as life delivers. 

Here is one paragraph for Saturday I will be presenting at the start of the lecture. It is from a dialog I had with an individual that contacted me this week and we spoke for about an hour. Within the conversation she had a question that sparked the entire opening of the Goddesses series, so I am very grateful for the conversation! It will kick off one of the grandest challenges of my life! 

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1. Love cannot be instructed nor is it a choice. 

The Bible’s CORE psychologically is unfounded by requiring a person to love the lord god with all their heart, soul, and mind. But love is not a choice, cannot be forced, cannot be instructed, and listens to no man’s ideas about it.

Can you see then that what the bible introjects insults upon that with which it toys? It speaks in an ignorant way towards its claims as a first year chemistry student speaks to powers they don’t realize nor comprehend. So their ideas are adolescent to the experienced, who already know the result of their musings. This is the position of the eastern philosopher who is well versed in christian languages. The master sees perspectives the inhabitants of the farm cannot see from inside. 

Basing one’s spiritual understanding in the hands of a psychologically inexperienced instructor inevitably leads to a lack of self awareness and an inability to see outside the instructor. Such is the case of the bibles understanding of human psychology, and that of love. It is attempting instruction about subjects to which it is incompetent, and of which it stubbornly refuses to acknowledge, thus leaving its followers bankrupt of psychological understanding of themselves—which is tragic and sad—yet the inevitable fallout of giving one’s identity to an institution. We are in fact nature creatures.

I did not choose my favorite color, food, or style of clothing. I found these things out in my own experience attempting options. Who I love and do not love is not a choice, I either foster the love urging, or I don’t. The urge is not a choice, it comes from within. None of the Deeper Sense is choice or belief, it is discovered. Therefore, love cannot be demanded or asked or chosen or instructed, and so, it is inappropriate to leverage as such in the same way one cannot demand someone love them, or not love them. LOVE IS NOT A CHOICE. Love can’t be asked for, because when it is asked for, it dies. The bible demands (not even asks) to love its own instructed god, its own historical persona of god – none of which have anything to do with love because love isn’t placed anymore than it is asked! The heart cannot be instructed, and idolizing and worshiping instructed forms leads to idolatry for the same reasons one does not worship their spouse. Doing something like that would only lead to disillusionment and alienation. Furthermore, love cannot be worshiped because love has no self. Love does not and cannot have an identity—thats why it cant be taught, asked for, or placed!

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See you soon!

Chuck