worm fate falling apart with a misltetoe phobia!

WORM FATE.

Saw a worm on the pavement, crawling? or sliding? his way towards the grass. i knew he/she/it would die if it didn't get there. i could always pick it up and place it there.  i thought about it. then i decided not to. who am i to interfere with someone else's destiny? much better i thought, to believe the worm would make it. which i did as i walked off. i believed. I'm sure he did.

MISLETOE. 

Why did the druids and others revere it so much????? why is it used as a cure for cancer??? what is the mystery here? why do we kiss under it???? i think the answer here, if indeed there can be an answer, is in the way the plant grows.

Mistletoe plants grow on a wide range of host trees, and commonly reduce their growth but can kill them with heavy infestation. Viscum album can parasitise more than 200 tree and shrub species. All mistletoes are hemi-parasites, bearing evergreen leaves that do some photosynthesis, and using the host mainly for water and mineral nutrients. Mistletoe first sprouts from bird feces^{[citation needed]} on the trunk of the tree and in its early stages of life it takes nutrients from this source.^{[citation needed]} Species more or less completely parasitic include the leafless quintral, Tristerix aphyllus, which lives deep inside the sugar-transporting tissue of a spiny cactus, appearing only to show its tubular red flowers,^[6] and the genus Arceuthobium (dwarf mistletoe; Santalaceae) which has reduced photosynthesis; as an adult, it manufactures only a small proportion of the sugars it needs from its own photosythesis but as a seedling it actively photosynthesizes until a connection to the host is established.

we can see that MISTLETOE is unique in not wanting to be independent. it uses a host. it does not connect to the ground. apart from this being in mirror for cancer, in that cancer is something that develops independently of the needs of the host, it is also a mirror for the well known spiritual cliche, where we talk of being of the world, but not in the world. which is to say, i am it, but i don't identify with it. a well known strategy for dealing with illness itself. this is what MISTLETOE seems to symbolise or mirror. could this account for its veneration and use medicnally and in a folk sense. i wonder?? also the fact that it is propagated by bird shit. it seems to value our most undervalued thing. i.e. shit. is this wisdom? is MISLETOE just a very wise plant?????

PHOBIAS.

a fear that does not seem in proportion to its cause. or is justified by its cause. my friend, God bless her, had a phobia about going into department stores. we have to ask, what actual harm could come to her? even had she spent all her money, her husband has a good job. she cannot starve.

i think a phobia represents an area in which we have a faulty perception of what is taking place. it is a communication from our dark denied side, to our light accepted side, about where we should look for in terms of a way to heal ourselves. help ourselves. find which area is the right area to work in,in this regard. or as it is put in the TOLTEC TEACHINGS about knowing which battle to fight.

 in this way phobias are extremely useful, in that if we try and treat them positively, and not just try to get rid of them, they could lead us to very fruitful places indeed.

For a more comprehensive look at this area see Thomas Dethelsen's famous work.

 

KAPUTT!!

Pema Chodron in her marvellous book, when things go kaputt!!! talks about BODICHITTA.
now this is one of those very technical buddhist things. yawn.  this kind of terminolgy always puts me off.
however, she is actually talking about what is referred to in the TOLTEC TEACHINGS

http://www.toltec-foundation.org/
http://www.toltec-foundation.org/

as 'the quietness of life'. a thing a warrior needs to cultivate, on his definitive journey. what she says about this is indeed very wise and very true, and i reccomend her book to everyone with a serious interest in this
subject area.