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What is organic spirituality all about. You and everything else! Not me creating a new church or becoming a guru that you should follow. Hell, who am I? I am but a speck of dirt at the feet of Nature.
It's all about you, your ancestors, your future children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and, indeed, the entire planet within this great big universe. So, is it about you? Yes, you and everything else. You too are but a speck of dirt on the feet of your God and Goddess. What am I but a pinprick in Mother' Nature's spine? But in being that pinprick, I am all of Her. So, as we will see, you truly belong here in this world and will eternally mirror it, even when your body dissolves into dust. If you feel alienated and depressed, it is because you are being lied to by those that want you to be something you may not necessarily be. And, worse yet, you've ingrained those expectations. Stop living up to them. Go skinny dipping! Be yourself.
Organic spirituality, as I am defining it, is the ability to allow the innate possibilities of any organism, be it person, animal, or environment, to unfold by natural means that include natural consequences, nurturing, proper diet, and respecting the deep knowledge mysteriously hidden within its being.
Organic spirituality focuses on diversity of expression, be it in an individual, an institution (e.g., marriage), or in the environment. It further allows for natural development (from the inside out, from center to periphery) more so than external control (e.g., police, government, bosses, theoretical perspectives, etc).
Organic spirituality ultimately produces the Queen of Paradoxes. What we find in allowing for diversity is a unity that is beyond words. Let's go back to thinking of an ecosystem. Why there are a myriad of species in an ecosystem composed of trees, birds, reptiles, animals, plants, soil types, etc. Just in my little acre, I couldn't name the number of different species there are. Furthermore, the damn thing changes every week. Bugs that bit me one week are gone the next, only to be replaced by something different.
Yet, all of those creatures make up one functioning ecosystem and it is that diversity that allows for the ecosystem to function as a whole. My yard ultimately is one being yet that one being has a multitude of cells, parts, potentials, and so on. That yard is "quite a lot like me" as Hendrix sings in Bold as Love, for I too am made of a variety of cells, parts, potentials and so on. Go to any inch of my body, and you will find differences that are drastically distinct from any other part. Furthermore, like the ecosystem, my body is always changing. Cells die and new ones reborn. I am aging (quickly, I'm afraid). Yet, these changes are all me and somehow they are a reflection of my consistency. Furthermore, those changes have always been inside me as potential. The possibility of an old man existed when I was in my mother's womb. Interestingly, I've heard that it is not uncommon for a person to curl into a fetal position at death. There are times when we sleep that we do this same thing. What is this if not an inherent memory of pre-birth conditions?
In the Bible's "Hagia Sophia," it is said that Sophia is unchanging yet renews the world. In my view, Sophia or Wisdom is Nature. Each of us is a distinct cell in the Universal Body of Nature. Each of us is changing, yet there is some essence in us that doesn't change. This our truest Nature. Nature means Essence.
There is no accident behind the term Nature meaning the birds, bees and coconut trees as well as essence. When we gaze into the ecosystems of the world, we gaze into ourselves. As any fetus knows, "Mother and I are one." This is all a miraculous system. We truly are everything.
As we know through the theory behind cloning, each cell contains the knowledge for making the whole person. What is true for you is true for the universe. Hence, in your very being, you express the all….each star, each blade of grass, each cave and each molecule of dust. As the Hindus say, "You are That," with That being All and Nothing. I say All and Nothing because All and Nothing are one.
When you do not limit yourself to definitions and become nothing you can become everything. See how related you feel to the world when you give up definitions of yourself such as, "I am a liberal feminist behaviorist yuppie that gets into the Parkinson Diet and Dr. Phil's behavioral parenting tactics." If you give all that up and become nothing, then you can see yourself in the all. All wars and battles will stop. Parents will no longer be at war with their children, the battle of the sexes will end, and we will stop being manipulated by dogmas that use fear to continue their domination over us. Why will that happen? Because in getting ourselves out of our boxy coffins that we call labels, philosophies, etc., we will see ourselves as part of everything.
It is by giving up these battles that we will find the One true religion unfolding. The true religion won't be Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, or any of the others. Giving all those up will lead to a remarkable acceptance of all of them. You will understand the true French definitive of religion, to connect. Religion means you are my sister or brother. Gazing into your eyes, I see myself. And, indeed, ultimately, both of us connect to everything from the bumble bee to the tootsie fly to the infinity of stars in intergalactic space. See what happens when you give up the one and only? Why you discover that all is the one and only! Hence, in transcending all the different religious, philosophical and political institutions of the world and dissolving them into dust, you will find them joining hands as one organism. This unity in diversity is what I mean when I say organic spirituality.
