Forest Gardening meets Deep and Personal Ecology

This world has two intriguing qualities which mean so much to us. So many of our ideas are black and white.

Black in which every colour has been absorbed.
White in which all colours of the rainbow are reflected back to us.

Black is the dark in which light in all its colours has been taken from us and held by dark forces, unseen because they reflect no light, and seen only by their outlines when their is light. It is here we feel cold, separated from the warmth of the sun, surrounded by objects absorbing all they can of the available heat.

We imagine our eyes deceive us, for in the dark we cannot make out the edges of objects, cannot tell how far away objects are, and cannot see if something is moving slow or fast. The dark leaves a lot to the imagination, and we imagine our fears are present before us. Once we have faced our fears we feel at home in the dark and find we feel, hear, and know - more so than in the light.

White is light because each and every colour our eye sees is gifted back to us. Now the things we know define themselves again and we know what is around us. Now our mind steps in and interpretes what our eye sees, and tells us what we are seeing. Light is dominated by the mind. It is the world of information, in which, again, the senses are bombarded. Now our fears come to us in visible form, but they are seen and are unseen fears lie hidden in the dark, awaiting those darker moments when we journey within our imaginations again.

White light in the true heart of the spiritual gives freely and we receive it gratefully. When we receive we trust that we are supported. We allow the light to nourish us; we feel warm in its cloak of many colours. we enjoy the colour in plants.

Green in the middle of the spectrum is the colour of the green heart of this our planet.

In our lust and greed we love to receive, and thus do not always feel comfortable giving everything, every colour, we have. The light gives its all and gives it freely. Looking only to the light we feel we must have light. True, to live, we must have light, but we need not hold it so tightly that we never have enough, and always want more.

For if we do not give out the very light we receive those around us are denied, and without light they will hold it tightly. They will be dark as we are light. Dark they will take the light.
Our lives then darken from our our own lust and greed. We will see them as dark, and rarely note the dark, cold image, of our own unsharing selves.

We enter the dark days of hell (dark night of Soul), receiving nothing back, we cannot see ourselves in the light of other objects, our identity is lost to us.

In truth our inner radiance shines brightly from its own true source, and if we allow this energy to radiate out, to be absorbed, and to be reflected, as it will, without concern for our identity or its return, we find ourselves as Soul, stripped of greed and lust, clearly connected to the Loving Source of All Being.

It is in this space that we can trust the void of the dark. It is here that we can let go of our mind and operate as Soul. It is here that we find ourselves as spiritual ecologists, unafraid of the dark, and accepting of ourselves as who we are.

We have crossed the void, with the help of the spiritual master, faced ourselves, received the divine gift of self-realisation, the knowing of ourselves as dark and light.

This freedom of Soul is however taken from us, as being the dangerous, untamed wilderness in which we come to harm. To know our wild side is to recognise our divinity. Our own divine power to work with the spiritual helping other beings. Here we are no longer manipulated by the seduction of advertising to take what we can from others. Instead we give freely of the love, which is light, following the dictates of heart, in which the world is sustainable, our neighbour being fed feeds us, and we face the challenges of living, the fears of life together.

In gifting the light we find ourselves surrounding by the bright light flame of love and we do indeed become free. Now in the space of the dark, in which we find the light stronger than ever, we see the unknown as an adventure, we follow the beat of our own drum, and give freely to others. Others freed from the struggle of never being able to grab enough to look after their own ever increasing needs, and again follow instead the dictates of their own heart.

This is not to be encouraged of course, because this sort of (self-responsible) behaviour feeds the rich the riches of the heart, and on the grab all you can, rich diet of gluttony and greed - the inflationary economy - love is worth no thing.

Thus the rules of beings in power would say "Don't enter the dark" Stay here with us in the light, money make heaven on earth, and all ... eventually ... goes dark.

Light remains in the dark wilderness of the discovery of self as Soul.

My greatest teacher of ecology has been my guide across the void, the Mahanta, the living ECK Master. Eckankar.org. Ecology is truly my spiritual adventure.

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