It ain’t enough, I tell you.
I guess if the message doesn’t get through, or rather if people can’t get through to the message, just keep repeating it, or maybe say it louder?
Sorry to hear about you lying in bed.
Some of us already know how the tablets can work, and sometimes they don’t; sometimes unfortunately, they make everything worse. It can get very bad, and part of the pain is knowing it can get even worse. This is the human condition, a good part of what makes us all, one. We can distract ourselves, especially when things go our way. We can cut ourselves off from what we are, pretending bad things happen to them; until that turns into “Why me?!”
There is something called humanity, and what is clear if not in the moment, definitely historically, is that we suffer. Who is it that suffers? Why “me” of course; let’s call that the self. That self does not exist in isolation, but is connected to everything that it is not. There isn’t one cosmic soup of consciousness; rather the universe is composed of more or less an infinite number of “selves” connected to other “selves”. The reader and I are engaged in this moment, bridging time and space, in a simple dialogue, that staggers the mind in its complexity and sophistication. This is amazing! This is a “connection” that is characteristic of being human.
We can think of there being all kinds of different “selves” populating the cosmos, i.e. things as they are, being themselves. What we have is a hierarchy of systems, each of which is a whole in itself - those which have a physical nature in addition to a growing degree of the psychological, as well as the spiritual which is their being, include atoms, vegetative organisms, animals, and human beings. All relate as unities composed of parts, the type of relationships they form being an aspect of what they are. Each, an expression of its kind of being, may also be seen as a component of some greater whole. We, in Love, in Christ, form one church, the Body of Christ, having fallen as one humanity in Adam.
These different kinds of being can be understood as brought into existence in their moment; like right now, this is. And, we are atoms and feelings and ideas, more than interwoven, but actually one person as an individual and unique expression of the kind of creation we are. In time, humanity had a beginning; there was a first person, a first couple of persons. Before that, there were animals and plants and lesser living forms. Before that there was simple matter. Before that - light.
The focus on matter and its interactions leads us astray when trying to understand who we are and how we got here. With evolution, we have an illusion that contradicts the reality of what we are - creatures intimately invovled in a relationship with the Source of our being.