Release December 29, 2020
Episode 52 blog/ Let’s Do It Again
It has been frustrating to write a blog for this episode. I
haven’t had one clear focus. Both you and I have been enjoying all the portals
that Crystal has provided us with as this year comes to an end.
And, end of years are about the year in review and mine is
also focused on another remarkable year of this podcast. It has been my delight
and saving grace at times. I think I will save that for my first episode in
January 2021 that is in a couple of weeks.
With Endings come conclusions. Here are some of mine as we
call it a wrap on this year.
The uproar of this last year, in virus, politics and
democracy, racial bias and the collapse of so much we take for granted, like
the air, shared breath and paychecks. We have all felt under assault and daily
routines compromised. Much will never be the same. How do we chose to live
together and what it takes for a society to stand in grace and harmony? Maybe
it is not important to all. It is to me.
I look to provide a sense of something different for us to
experience. Whatever is out there is a reflection of our inner worlds. You know
that. How you think forms your sense of reality. The questions we find
ourselves shaking our heads about have origins in someone’s thinking and
feelings. What version of reality are they living in? Different than mine.
I have seen this year, through the filter of Respect, and
unfortunately, too many instances of lack of respect. Rudeness, fear, yelling,
the manipulation of truth to convince others who are not in the know, denial, resistance, rebelling, destruction,
killing another so often have, at basis, a lack of respect being directed at
another. When you value another as yourself it is different than when you
don’t. We are each entitled to our opinions we may say but maybe that is not
saying enough. We each are entitled to our opinions with respect for our
differences and similarities. I might not agree with them but you have value to
society. Even those we don’t agree with have some sort of value, either as
lesson or as one to emulate.
We are spectrum-based lifeforms or we would all be the same
and we are individuals as humans, human but not the same.
We call it basic decency. Treat others as you would like to
be treated. Pretty simple. When we don’t hold ourselves with respect, with
worthiness, how can we offer it to others?
We hopefully have come to realize our connectedness with
all around us. Oneness is real. Social distancing has made everyone aware of
our shared breath and how powerful we each are. We can make sick and even kill
each other just be breathing on them. Our emotional maturity seems at play. Many
people are unaware of how they affect other.
Respect can be as simple as passing another person on the
street and you are not wearing a mask while they are. You are unaware of their
internal conversation. They are thinking, “I don’t know you, you don’t know me,
but I am feeling disrespected by your actions.” You may be secure in your world view of
reality, but their reality may allow of them to feel ill effects and have a
different relationship to the virus. They have worry where you have denial or
apathy running.
As Consciousness we are beyond all that. We appreciate the
humanity present and realize it’s limits. And, we touch the place within that
reaches out beyond our human definitions, those limitations that define us. We
embrace that which can not be described, only felt as the essence of Life, the
spirit within to be found in BEing.
Thank you for joining me here. Let’s do it again.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com
