Idiot's Guide

Let's say your interest has been piqued, tounged and titillated by that vast rubric cuboid of assumptions, projections and conjectures loosely known as 'spirituality'.

So many opinions. Jargon. Hopes. Fears. Thoughts..………Blah blah blah.………….

After 40 years of confused assumptions, projections and conjectures- I got the bug when I was like, 7- I can proudly say that I've come to a place of total, absolute confusion. So much paradox……………………………………………….Spock.……………

I don't like it, letting go. Ego doesn't like it. But then again…...Love is a Rose.

You'd better not pick it. It only grows when it's on the vine.

And just to finish that thought, handful of thorns, you know you missed it, lose your Love when you say the word………………….

Whatever. You know what the song says.

Anyway, I want to share a very simple approach to spirituality. Super short, super easy, super difficult without real effort. Easy, relaxed constant effort.

O.K. Here's the deal. All this is boiled down to a very pragmatic, relatively intuitive approach.

We have 3 brains, not 1. Three centers, roughly and practically speaking. These centers are literal; most people can feel them without too much effort.

Brain 1- The Head. Organize, analyze, plan, think- think -think. All conceptual activity. Yeah, we know this one…..

Brain 2- The Gut. Also known as the ton-tien in eastern tradition. 2 inches below your belly button, 3 inches in. Feel for it. Maybe the toughest for modern people to feel directly. Also, maybe the most important for modern people to feel directly! This is the Instinctual center- where we feel Basic Power, Beingness, Confidence. Very simple feeling of grounded connection to Earth. Nothing to do, just to be, and doing comes naturally, organically, out of that.

Brain 3- The Heart. Bridges non-thought 'beingness' of Gut with hyper-conceptual 'truthiness' of Head. Feels, dreams in images and intuition. Compassion, tenderness. what makes us truly Human.

That's it. All you have to do to grow 'spiritually' is to tune into these three, feel them, without picking a fave. Most folks hang, daily, in 2 of 3 centers, ignoring one.

Which one do you ignore?

For me it's always been Gut- I haven't wanted to really be Here, embodied. I fly away into the dream-scape of the Heart or the Wonkscape of my tired little Head.

But then, last summer, I really tuned into the Gut, digested some of that shit. Got carried away. Now I'm tuning back to Heart…………Easy Boy.

So, as for 'spiritual practice'. Just remain as aware as you can of all three centers as you go about your day. Literally- you can learn to feel them directly without the constant Hegemony of 'Headonism'.

Or, even more simply- do whatever helps you be in your body. The body cannot lie.

That's why we avoid it! Honesty, quite honestly, scares the shit out of us.

Or, feel for which center doesn't seem 'on-line' and spend time feeling for it, wining and dining it. Bring it your gift of attention- she'll forgive you very quickly if you show a good heart, and commit to the relationship! The Heart Center likes flowers, still rooted- the Gut's desire as well.

The Head, well, great servant- lousy master………

Bread And Circuses Link:

Check this guy- a 60 Minutes report on a British cat what learned Icelandic fluently in one week. (And Icelandic is a bitch!) Memorized Pi to over 20 thousand places. took the man 5 hours to recite it. Yet, strikingly, uniquely, he can describe his inner process, and amazingly, he doesn't use numbers in his head. Synthesazia. Amazing.

Click the viewer in center of link to watch.

Oh- and have a good day! Feel for it!