Using Words to Enhance Our Nature in Nature

The connection we feel to Nature, to Spirit is individually intrinsic and is something we all share as a species as well. Something so personal, so intimate is not what we have been taught by society to share, yet it is exactly what we need to rediscover and explore to find who each one of us actually is. As a matter of fact, we have been taught by society to have shame for most of our personal, intrinsic, natural feelings and emotions, that these individualistic tendencies are simply proof that we are all sinners. We have also been taught that nature has no importance in this world.

Through words, we have been fed a contextual reality which has painted concepts and belief systems that are merely illusions. Most of these have been based upon our deeply rooted religious structures, which are based onshame and guilt. We have been discouraged to use our own words to depict what is true for us. We have been discouraged to look for our own truth. Yes, we have been told that we do not have our own truth, but are dependent on those authorities outside of ourselves to give us this truth; our parents, our teachers, our clergymen, our government. These figures have assured us that by living within the boundaries of their defined ideas that they derived from words, we would live happy, peaceful, harmonious lives. These experts took their words and made up stories upon stories to fit into each other, thus creating a reality that was not tested by virtual truth - what one experiences through one's senses and comes to know as truth -- but a domino effect, one story supporting another. Has living our lives by someone else's words led us, as a species, to happiness? I think not if one looks at the continued wars, the killings amongst our adolescent population, the high percentages of substance abuse and the amount of people who sit at home and watch their TV set in lieu of fulfillment.

It is the virtual truth that can set us free that we all inherently own. Our natural senses are our access to our knowledge. We have nature to look to as our teacher to rediscover what these natural senses are. Our sense of community, for example, as has a colony of ants. Our sense of humility when we inwardly feel the power of a lightening storm come rolling in over a mountainside. Our sense of peace and abundance when we take only what we need and leave the rest, as do lions and tigers and bears. We must get away from the bickering over words, turn inward and simply listen. We can allow nature to lead us to our natural truth and then we must turn back to words to describe what that is so that we can reconnect to each other in truth. Once we have experienced our own truth, we will have no need to bicker over the words, we will recognize them as we say them and hear them. We have to be willing to let go of our belief systems that are not working for us. We have the perfect system that is working in its full capacity of perfection all around us. Nature. Do you see anything in nature that depends on something outside of itself to define its purpose, it's function, and it's harmony? Do you see anything in nature that is a sinner? Could it be possible that we, in fact, are not sinners but perfect natural beings inbred with the knowledge on how to live our perfect harmony, as are the birds, bees, plants and naturally flowing systems in nature?

I cannot know the experience of childbirth if I am childless, regardless of the words that describe it to me. This is why we must get out of our boxes and go outside. We must have our own experiences in order to know that the words of others are merely words until something in our personal experiences rings true with those words. Two mothers can surely share their experiences of childbirth as truth! In these words that vibrate with truth shall we find comfort, support and cameraderie within our species instead of a feeling of low self-esteem that cannot fulfill someone else's definition of what our joy should feel like.

Our belief that we are sinners has included the story that we are all separate, individual entities. Indeed, a sinner could not be a part of God. And so our self-esteem has been kept at a very low level so that those in power, those that have the words, have also retained the power over telling us what our truth is defined as. What would your life look like if you abandoned what others have dictated it should look like? Where is your passion? Where are your talents?

Some of us cannot even begin to feel our own passions because they have been suppressed for so long. Go outside. What attracts you? Why? What are the birds doing that fill you with joy? Flying? Playing? Singing? Building a home? Feeding their young? What part of your joy is connecting to theirs? Can it be that we are not separate beings? Can it be that we are all part of each other, of everything, of Spirit, of God? What if we treated everything in the world as if this were true? What would the outcome be? My inner truth says that the answer to that question includes loving each other, allowing each other to be who they are without judgment, holding each other in as high a reverence as possible to support our fullest potentials. I would want these things for myself and therefore for all others as well. I would not want to be poisoned, so I would not poison my food with pesticides. I would not want to be polluted upon, so I would not pollute the water, air or land. I would use my unique gift of consciousness to make choices based upon the highest well being of myself, and therefore all that is. Is that not what we experience in nature? Nature does not pollute. Nature does not hold judgments. Nature provides for every species to have a balanced existence.

Words hold a lot of significance if they can be tested by experience first. Experiencing one's self in nature, as a natural being, a part of Spirit, a part of all that is, is a very self-uplifting process. Sharing words about those experiences solidifies the reality of the truth that lies within each one of us. My experience in nature has shown me that by paying attention to my senses I find truth and feel peace within and without. This I wish for the world. In these words coming from experience it is my hope to support and validate the same truth in others.