Womb-Man (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

There is but a "b" which links Woman into Man and then disappears.
Nice to consider this "B" though.
It is like She. "She" contains both "he" and "she".
Mother and Father both contain "her" and "he".
"Mot" means "word" and "Fat" means "corpulent" or "big" or "yield" (as in the fat of the land) so we could have a new definition: "Wordfat".

In a series of articles that I am going to publish under the "Womb-Man" lable, I would like to investigate those apparent differences and drives which often fuel feminism or at least drive a wedge between the sexes. Sometimes in fun, other times in more serious contexts.

The topics will all be entitled with "B" as in "Boobs et al" (about plastic surgery), "Belligerance"(as in wars and who makes them), "Bastard" (how can anyone be that anyway?), "Babies" (the ultimate sex driver) and so on. I shall see how it goes. . .

The Power of Not Quite There Yet (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

Eckhart Tolle’s book on “The Power of Now” is very good and very powerful. But it is very hard to grasp some things and even with a genuine aspiration to do so, we still fall on our feet of clay. Well, I do. Sometimes I can have really spiritual moments, even days and grasp the ungraspable but to be such a guru or approaching that level as a norm is quite beyond me.

Happily, I really do not think that it is necessary to feel inadequate or incapable when life’s material presence intervenes and drags us back down again; when we feel like we have totally missed the point so we might as well give up.

There are many saints who have grappled with the struggle between what I want and what God wants or what we think God wants. Those normal, everyday feelings when we feel anger, bitterness, jealousy, desire, selfishness (and witness these things from others and actually enjoy them) and plain can’t be bothered will keep intervening because it is normal and human. Our addictions to whatever substances, our cravings for certain circumstances for a bit of a jolly, a bit of respite are part of who we are. Whether ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in whoever’s perspective they are part of who we are. And most saints were not aware that they were saints, remember; this title was given many years after their death, after deep consideration of their lives by other people, many years beyond their life.

I really do find the company of people with acknowledged and embraced shortcomings and vices far more comfortable and even elevating than the company of people who seem to have no vices at all. The reason for this is that they are more likely to accept you as you are, with your vice or shortcoming. To be with someone who seems to have conquered all desire, all attachments to this world whilst you struggle on can be daunting. I am not saying it can’t be elevating and create aspirations but after a good read through a chapter of The Power of Now, I would still like to pour out some wine and have a cigarette to reflect on it. Well, I haven’t got very far with letting go then have I?

Probably not.

But I do believe that a very practical way of moving forward at all, is to live from where we are right now. We cannot possibly start from anywhere else can we? As the Irish man said to you when you asked the way from here to there: “well, if you want to go there, I wouldn’t start from here!”. But where else can we start from? Indeed, do we want to go anywhere at all?

Realisation over the years of times of grace, enlightenment, some visions, signs, dreams, ponderings and changing perspectives within the context of the very hard reality of every day life and how I fall short most times, including creating very difficult circumstances within that context, actually helps me just try to be content with who I am right now, in the present reality including what I think it is, which might, indeed, be wrong. But it is all I have. And I shall start from here even if I get stuck.

Like any multi-faceted stone, a diamond, some facets are highly polished and some are very rough and dull but they each make up the whole. We are like a diamond; there is a desire to live through the highly polished facets and appear to be all that way. But outsiders will see those other facets too, even if we refuse to and that is arrogance. I know all about arrogance, selfishness, cowardice, haughtiness, lack of compassion as I have them all in huge measure. That’s a lot to come to terms with but maybe whilst I am doing that, I will leave other people’s shortcomings alone. Perhaps by trying to address the huge plank in my own eye, I shall not endeavour to take out the splinter in someone else’s. And a diamond is for ever, remember.

It’s a start anyway. The power of being not quite there is quite substantial, in itself.

What is politics about? (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

Politics is about anything other than the truth.

It can't ever be about the truth because where ever you have two people you have the beginning of the deceit; where you have three, you have the beginning of siding with the one most able to press your own buttons. The truth gets lost in the interests of self-interest.

If there is a politician who is capable of standing up impartially for the truth, then their party will get rid of them as they are of no use to party-interests and narrow national interests.

So those who are left are the ones who will act in self-interest, party-interest and national interest, in that order.

There are always people looking for a podium upon which to place their particular inadequacy or "chip on their shoulder", so that they can 'become' "something important". Clubs with members and political parties are good places to do this as you can practise on all kinds of people, press buttons, get alliances, build walls (not bridges) and generally give yourself a reason to live. Which means that they are sad people; politicians who get 'somewhere' in national politics are the cream of the notoriously inadequate with good suits on and vulgar salaries.

Don't be deceived by their education, intelligence or presentational skills.

A fool is a fool. An educated fool is still a fool. (I think it was Oscar Wilde that said this).

Channellings (© 2008 “Mrs. Overall” – Ann Emmitt)

These writings are “channellings” – mind thoughts that come into the conscious mind with a profound resonance, yet they have a subconscious origin; they ultimately find expression via the written or verbal word.

They are an expression of Universal Knowledge and intelligence, vibrations given from the universe, and are a culmination of many words and phrases that at some point have made an impact on my own mind processes.

I share them with an open mind and heart and pass them on, so that in the reading of these passages of prose, others may find stimulation, support, comfort, encouragement. They are shared with the wish that your own awarenesses may be enhanced, awarenesses that are endemic within everyone’s inner core; they simply, patiently await that time of awakening. Perhaps these few words may be in some way that special catalyst.

The writings are mainly my own channellings, but also include “thought-full” words of other writers, ancient and modern. Together they make a “pot-pourri” of messages from the Universe, to enhace the awarenesses of each one of us, and help us to find our Truth. When we find our Truth, we have within us that Peace which “passeth all understanding”.

Many insights and channellings occur when the system is in trauma, even severe trauma. This is when the higher energies (e.g. Angel energies) bring gifts from the Universe to resurrect us, support us, confort us and re-align us on our spiritual path. Traumas are invaluable teachings, bringing profound lessons for our spirit. These circumstances and situations can help to raise our own vibrational level, bringing us the concept of “light at the end of the tunnel” and leaving with us (if we allow our awarenesses to expand) new facets of perception, new insights, new understandings and our vibrational frequencies become raised and uplifted.

It is then that we are able to recognise new truths about ourselves and our Universe, we begin to recognise the Divine within us, within each and every one of us, and we discover who we really are.

Traumas overwhelm us or eventually uplift us, it is always our choice, our free will is never compromised by the Universal energies. They simply, gently, powerfully, encourage, help and guide us to experience the joy of our own self-discovery.

Violence be-Gooded (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

Sounds a bit odd for a bit of spiritual development doesn’t it?

Violence as a word means: "physical force used to inflict injury or damage," from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. violence, from L. violentia "vehemence, impetuosity," from violentus "vehement, forcible," probably related to violare. Weakened sense of "improper treatment" is attested from 1596. (© 2001 Douglas Harper, www.etymonline.com.)

What about a violin? It is interesting to find that there is a relationship between the term 'violin' and the Roman Goddess of Exaltation or Victory. Does this mean that there is a link between violin and violence? It is equally amazing to discover that there is an etymological relationship between the stringed instruments and the device used to torture slaves. If exaltation or victory can be good in a peaceful sense, could the world ‘violence’ also have a positive outcome? Could it be a good violence or a bad violence depending on our actions? What about the violence in a storm? Is that good or bad or is it just a result, an effect of underlying causes? After a storm, all is calm and clean and, sometimes, after an outburst of personal anger there is calm because we have let go of the irritant. Why do we relate anger and violence so closely?

Our anger is directed internally and not always at our family and friends in an overt way. In a covert way, however, it might take hold and take charge. Do we lash out at others in a physical way because of the internal festering of anger?I

If we have to be constantly ‘nice’ to our family and friends we have to hide who we really are because who we really are, might have a great deal of anger and hurt so we masquerade our nice side to our nearest and dearest, mostly.

We are never allowed to bring the issues which anger us out into the open with our family and friends unless seeking approval for the same ‘views’ because this is not a ‘nice’ thing to do.

With our family and friends we have been conditioned to be ‘nice’ so, as we equate anger and violence with being ‘not nice’ we can be suppressed.

Our best friends and family can often (unwittingly) keep us in our untruthful state for all of our lives. Why? Because it suits us and them. If we do not have to face ourselves then we will not have to unearth our anger, and then work it out. Equally, therefore everyone is in on the collusion to remain hidden. But we act in ignorance.

We tend to choose ‘friends’ and ‘colleagues’ based on the lies holding our families together; our families continue the ongoing lie through conditioning from birth; we are given the ground rules and we are programmed.

There is enough guilt laid upon any one to stop any ‘untoward’ actions and overt violence within our social groups. To consolidate us, we might also choose our friends who will equally help us continue to live the lie. Why should we choose people as our friends who make us feel uncomfortable about ourselves?

Festering anger which will get worse with guilt about the underlying real way we feel about our family and ourselves, will come out in other ways. Ultimately, these ‘other ways’ will find us our enemies.

Why should this be? Our enemies will give us a reason and a rationale for being violent towards them in a justifiable way. They allow us to be violent (negatively). So we can vent our anger. (Vent is associated with ‘wind’ and wind is usually part of a storm, moving things on, changing the scene.)

Our enemies could be our best friends in disguise, because they have the power to bring out of us what and who we really are. Their views are probably accurate about us, because they have a better perspective of who we are and what we give out.

We are not concerned about hiding anything from them that might be construed as ‘not nice’ to our family and friends.

In fact, we can often get our family and friends to join us in this placing of the anger externally, because then they can vent their true feelings too.

So we direct all of our anger externally and create a ‘violent’ result. These violent emotions are directed elsewhere. Internally, in the known groups, we can agree to remain covert and we can pretend that everything is all right.

Yet could violence brought out in the healing atmosphere of love give a beautiful effect? In that the violence played out could become positive, not negative as in physical fighting and armed warfare. So ‘violence’, like ‘effect’, could be positive or negative. Is ‘violence’ the ‘cadence of ourselves? ( Cadence (music), a particular series of intervals or chords that ends a phrase, section, or piece of music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence). Our vibrations at every level of our being will be making music.

How could it become positive? We would have to face our emotions and ourselves. We would have to let these powerful emotions overwhelm us, flow over us and be set free. Like a beautiful raging storm, these powerful emotions will wreak havoc but be set free on their way.

Love is not blind, it is clear sighted. We are blind in our conditioning, we cannot see clearly at all and we are too frightened to start clearing out the rubble because of what we might have to face inside ourselves.

Perhaps we can look at violence as a tool to explain to us what is going on: that this is the music we are creating from our selves, then it would be plausible to learn of the relationship between a beautiful musical instrument, associated with the most sublime music on earth, and ‘violence’, associated with war and hurt.

If we are violins, our strings are being plucked by ourselves, family, friends, enemies and others. The music we create comes from these plucking fingers. Perhaps the cadence of our world today, is through us all being the instruments, (our strings being plucked by each other) and therein lies our delivered violence.

Violence, I believe, is just the vibrations that we produce from and to each other; our cadences or our vibrations are the resulting violence which spreads throughout the earth. Violence, therefore could be wholly harmonious and beautiful. Violence is merely our music.

What is the music that we are making on this good earth? What is our score? Note that the association between ‘score’ and settling differences in a ‘violent’ way is known; as is the association between a musical manuscript and ‘score’.

There are so many parallels that I cannot ignore. So I ponder on.

Prejudice (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

Let not prejudice blind us to truth and universal law.
Might we come back and be that which we have hated?
So let it all go.

Give it up.

Bid it farewell and give it to the light of Christ; it shall be taken away from you.

Then it is finished and we have only love.