Signs
Disclaimer of sorts: what I am about to say is a description of my current beliefs. It is what I am holding to be true for me at this moment in time. It doesn’t invalidate what you believe nor does your belief impinge on its validity. Phew! Let’s get on.
The first point to note is that signs and omens are a deeply personal affair. If you think an event is a sign for you, then no one else can gain say it. The reverse of this is true too. If someone else thinks an event is a sign for you and you don’t, then it isn’t a sign. Signs are personal!
The second point leads from the first really. An event doesn’t have to be uniquely pointed at you to represent itself as a sign. For example, for me, the Sun coming out of heavy clouds to shine on me whilst I am engaged in Energy Work is a sign. Now obviously the sun came out for many other people to, but because I gave it meaning, it becomes a sign for me.
Point three, multiple people can claim an event as a sign, taking the sun as an example again, quite often I have claimed this as a sign as have others who have been out energy working with me. Each for our own reasons. Thus it is difficult to see how one can lay claim to a sign.
And number four, a psychological argument is that because we expect a sign, we get one, after all a dog barking or a cat mewing can be taken for a sign. Indeed, one could find signs everywhere if one is loose enough with their interpretation. I agree. There is no place to go with this counter position.
Position five is that a sign is a combination of thought (feelings), time and place. For instance my totem (see coming post) is the crow. Thus a crow appearing at the right time and place and when I am in a certain thought-full mood is a sign. The many other occasions that a crow crosses my path, it is just a crow.
Be careful of the 23-effect this relates to the film the number 23 where the main character becomes obsessed with the notion that everything in his life is connected to the number 23. Obsession is one of the most debilitating human conditions there is (up coming post).
How do I know if an event is a sign
Oh, that is a tough one. Consider the first point from above…
- An omen is only an omen if you think it is an omen
Ask yourself, was that a sign? If the answer is Yes, then it is. Probably a more pertinent question is what does that sign mean? Now then, here we go into realms of understanding signs. Which we’ll look at in the next post.
Kal Malik
Wages of War and the Heroes Heart
April 22nd, 2012 | Posted by Kal in comment | inspiring - (Comments)I first came across the work of Siegfried Sassoon in an episode of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. The episode in question was called Trenches of Hell. Siegrfried was a hero of two kinds. During the Great War (the First World War) he became a decorated hero receiving a medal for bravery (Military Cross)…
Sassoon’s bravery was inspiring to the extent that soldiers of his company said that they felt confident only when they were accompanied by him. He often went out on night-raids and bombing patrols and demonstrated ruthless efficiency as a company commander.
The second kind of heroism that Siegrfried showed was his attitude towards the War. Having spent many years in fighting along the front and lost some close friends Siegfried, at the end of a spell of convalescent leave, Sassoon declined to return to duty. Instead he sent this letter to his commanding officer…
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that the war upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them and that had this been done the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops and I can no longer be a party to prolonging these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
On behalf of those who are suffering now, I make this protest against the deception which is being practised upon them; also I believe it may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share and which they have not enough imagination to realise. (source: Finished with the War)
Siegfried Sassoon
It’s probably true that this Hero was speaking about every war that has ever been fought. Certainly we can see the shadows that his words cast upon wars that are being fought today. Consider though the reaction to the above letter which had the opportunity to be read out in Parliament. Some saw statements such as “I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority” as treason whereas others complained that such statements as “I believe that the war upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation has now become a war of aggression and conquest” as condemnation of the War governments motives. Which in my honest opinion, it was.
However one definitely has to consider that this man was courageous to risk treason (punished by death) to say these words which one can feel came from his poets heart. What did Siegfried do? He took personal responsibility for his actions. He became response-able. Such responsibility is empowering, it creates a sense of freedom that profoundly expresses our spirit.
It is the heroes heart such as demonstrated by Seigfried that I call upon. To become response-able is to breathe life into our spirit. Indeed, it awakens that spirit that is inherent in all of us.
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Thanks for your time,
Kal Malik
post script:
A Mystic As Soldier
I lived my days apart,
Dreaming fair songs for God;
By the glory in my heart
Covered and crowned and shod.
Now God is in the strife,
And I must seek Him there,
Where death outnumbers life,
And fury smites the air.
I walk the secret way
With anger in my brain.
O music through my clay,
When will you sound again?
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