Special Guest Post: The Energy of Ourselves

Special Guest Post

Update: This is a satire, primarily of New Agers and Gaiaists.

The following is a guest post from a reader. She has a degree from Oberlin College in Environmental Studies and a minor in Film. She currently works at a local natural food store.

I thank OneSTDV for giving me this opportunity to share myself with the lovely denizens of this blog. I am writing this article primarily as a means of informing and enlightening the readers here. Think of this as a short primer to life, its soul, and what of it. I will briefly go over some important topics concerning those undeniable gifts that enrich us, hoping that some readers find peace in my words.

In short, we all must come to understand the energy and therein how it feels. It is this undeniable lifeforce, this gift of the divine, this spirit which moves us that gives us each ourselves. And it is ourselves, our energy and our souls, which guide us towards the divine, enriching, giving, supporting, and hoping. How then does one understand the concept of ethereal energy and thereby allow oneself to connect to this source of life. One must come to the collective spirit of man, of Earth, and of nature. It is only through all of these facets of the soul that we can feel our own selves and our energies. One must come to the energy and the soul, through his own volition, but nonetheless being open to the collective will of these selves. His openness to others, to other things, and other energies, other souls, all venturing both a different and exactly the same path, will ultimately guide him to the spirit of his own soul and that of his own energy. In time, one will find this energy source, knowing one has done so when he can feel the emotion of that energy without struggle.

Once this energy has been realized, one is free to explore further into the spirit of people, individuals and groups, sharing, loving, and feeling together and as one. In the midst of others is where we share the deepest emotions. It is where we can realize the potential of the spirit which guides us all the time, in all of space, and forever without end or limit. The spirit amongst or in tune with other spirits and auras is the soul divine of which we can never know but know nonetheless. And when with other energies, basking in that which we know of, we experience the emotional fervor only one in tune with that energy and soul can feel. I advise that we all look for this energy amongst others, the people, their emotions intertwined with the vast world, but free to explore whatever emotions may arise in such contexts.

And what of wonder and awe that invigorates us. We must explore, to find the energy of ourselves and our souls and spirit, but ultimately we must find contentment. We must find the spirit of happiness and wonder, that spark inside of ourselves that doesn't die, but instead pushes us to imagine the world in which we are. It pushes us to try to know what will come and what has come. It pushes us to imagine all the people, their energy. That spark of energy inside who we are as individuals and groups within such energy inspires our awe of that which we can see and not see, what we can feel and not feel, what we can know and not know. Of nature, of selves, of man and his being.

Of course, for those who have reached this feeling, perhaps amongst others' energy, we know that energy lives on. It is the spirit of man and his place within nature and the soul that can never whither away. So we must then understand the eternal and how this affects our emotions, how the eternal guides where we go and where we've been. In the end, time goes forth and it goes back, it envelopes us and it ignores us. Time tells us where the soul must go, on what path it must venture, even if we can only experience such chaos through the energy of the unknown. So one must understand time, but do not fear time as it flows like a river through the trees, through the forest, whirling ourselves inside it, but never ceasing to stop nor allowing us to drown. Time will eventually know us even if we initially reject such knowledge. Time is nature's way of keeping us within its grasp. And the eternal is time's way of harnessing our spirit without trying to dampen our energy.

All of this together, of course, becomes life, that unknowable being that encompasses all that we are and can ever be. It is life that gives us ourselves and our energy. It is life that enlivens our spirit. It is life that connects us with the energy of life and all that surrounds our souls even if we do not know or care to know the value of those aspects. So we live life and we respect life without being too concerned with the life. We live it and are of it and gladly accept it as the domain of our energy and our spirits. From life comes love. And love is the highest point of that life therein. So we must reach for love in this life if we can never know the spirit of ourselves, then we have accomplished something which our souls aspire to.

And it is my hope that we can all do just that. Thank you.