A PORPOISE WITH A PURPOSE
The
basic motivational forces guiding the direction of
any intelligent species is an amalgamation of
dreams, desires and decisions. Those translate
into the experience that we call life but why are
we here? What is the purpose of this life and what
is the purpose for all the life that surrounds us?
It can best be explained by a cheese sandwich. It
was written once that if you were to take into
account all the processes that go into the
seemingly innocuous task of making a cheese
sandwich, you would see behind the scenes hundreds
if not thousands of people and at least one cow
having some part in creating the ingredients to
make that sandwich. In other words, billions of
people perform whatever tasks that get them
through life while interconnected to everyone else
through supply chains that stretch around the
globe in a necessary web called supply and demand.
It does not stop there though, that same
interconnectedness follows through to the animals
that share this planet with us for they too have a
purpose.
Known or
unknown, that purpose directs our steps to the
appropriate place we need to be at the exact
moment we need to be there through a mysterious
combination of karma, past lives, guides, our
subconscious, super ego and rational thought. The
way it works could be compared to writing a book,
starting a business, composing a song or making a
telephone call. We present ourselves to the world
through the creation of the aspect we call “I”.
That “I” aspect goes through a series of daily
routines to learn the lessons of life with the
best lessons coming when those routines are
interrupted. All of which leads to either one of
our two purposes in life if not both, to learn or
to teach. We are here in body after body to grow
as conscious individuals no matter how long it
takes to progress because there is no end to
ascension. Continuing the path upward takes place
without the need for any input from us as we have
to learn from the decisions we make anyway. It
never hurts however to take some pro-active steps
to help us along our journey so here is just one
for example where you'll never even have to leave
the comfort of your mind.
Try to
imagine yourself as a porpoise swimming in the sea
with the great depths below you have mapped with
your sonar and the great heights above you know
are there every time you draw a breath. Few
creatures in the sea around you have the ability
to live in two worlds as you do with both sea and
sky your domain when you take flight and soar like
a bird if only for a short time. Few creatures in
the ocean care as much as you do, play as much as
you do or fight as fiercely as you can whenever a
threat is identified that may harm your podmates.
Now imagine swimming with your pod on a beautiful,
sunny day when you come across a kayaker paddling
near your path. Gliding over to investigate, the
person paddling the kayak stops so you pop your
head up just out of the water near one side of it.
The two of you lock eyes until the scene shifts
and now you are the kayaker looking into the eyes
of a porpoise. Now imagine using that same
technique to step into the life of someone you
wish to know better. Imagine living their life for
a day to know how best to approach them in a new
and empathic understanding of the life they lead.
As you
can see, even an imaginary porpoise can have a
purpose so, what are we here to learn and what is
it we need to teach? The answer to these two
questions has taken thousands of years of
returning to this third dimensional speck of dust
in the universe again and again in body after
body. It is, and has always been, the goal of
achieving excellence in everything we do. No
matter if it is being a better person, a better
worker, a better student, we are always looking to
stand out from before and do better than we did
the last time we did something. Life is no
different. Each one is an improvement on the last
and we are setting in place the structure to build
on for our next foray into reality. Before that
though, we have this reality ahead of us and it’s
no accident that we find ourselves in the bodies
that we do with no memory of the bodies we have
inhabited before this one. Knowing exactly why we
are here would spoil the surprise that is waiting
for us as we ascend ever higher in consciousness.
Of course we must love surprises, otherwise we
would already be on the next dimension with a
complete memory of our past lives at our recall
and so it is that we unravel the mystery of our
existence with each breath that we take, each
conversation that we have, every browser search
conducted and every thought that crosses our
comprehension. Is it a mystery though or do we,
like the porpoise, exist just for the fun of
existing?
In love and light as one,
Russ and Karra
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