The miracle of your mind
I believe that Mind is the foundation of creation and existence. It exists beyond time, space and matter. It is an eternally shared reality which is the medium for all Life experiences.
An artist’s soul
The song ‘Shaman’s Blues’ begins with the existential statement:
There will never be another one like you.
There will never be another one who can
Do the things you do, oh
Jim Morrison wrote those words even as his mind’s self-destructive choices steered him towards an early death.
A unique expression of Life.
Jim was a unique man, but no more unique than you - the reader of these words.
Your mind is the seat of your soul.
Your soul is the container of your life and everything you experience.
Gary Zukav’s classic book Seat of the Soul had a profound effect on my thinking over two decades ago. It’s the only book that I have read twice.
In Canada, there are about 40 million active minds whose souls are as unique as yours. Here are questions to ponder:
Do you possess the right to control the mind’s of others?
Do others have the right to control yours?
And what is a “right” anyway?
Is a “right” more about mutual respect than about a social convention or an ethical expectation? In other words …
… does a “right” establish an inviolable expectation within communities of souls that each individual can lay claim to a freedom of their mind - a freedom which allows their soul to follow a life path of their individual choosing?
‘Rights’ are squishy things
Like Play-doe , ‘rights’ can be squeezed into any shape the holder desires.
Artistic freedoms are understood as ‘rights’ by all because every artist knows that society-at-large understands and accepts the creator’s inherent ‘right’ to express whatever his or her soul desires.
Is “living life” an art form?
Does each and every soul crave the “artistic freedom” to express life in the same way that artists express the contents of their souls on canvas or in the lyrics of a song?
Is this what the rallying cry for “freedom” actually means when demanded by members of the many “freedom groups” which are the backbone of the contemporary “populist” movement?
It was the mind of Jim Morrison that created the lyrics above as an artistic expression of a soulful moment which still lives on today. He was posing essentially the same question in the 1960s and so many of us as still asking today. I wonder why the souls of humanity seem to be eternally condemned to run this maze of life.