Get Resmerized 03-07-2010
The phrase “sacred space” is something you’ve heard multiple times yet may not truly understand. When something is sacred to you, you own it, and because you own it, you cherish it, and because you cherish it, you take care of it, you focus on it, you maintain it, it then becomes as real and tangible as anything else you can experience with all your senses. It becomes a real place in which you spend time, energy, you interweave your whole self with it, and it with you; that is the essence of sacredness itself; its the highest form of relationship in existence.
In The Lounge this week: Malicious Animal Magnetism. We picked on Mary Baker Eddy just a tad but talk about things that can be used for good or evil; it all depends on your perspective sometimes.
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To me a sacred space is a place where I can commune with my Deity. To others i could be a bedroom where they commune with their lover. etc.
Re for good or bad.
Just about anything can be used for good or bad. Take food for instance. In proper proportions it’s good, taken to excess it’s bad. Some people don’t know the difference between good and bad. Something that to one may appear good to another may be bad. Take prayer for instance. When praying for one’s self it’s usually good. When praying for another, particularly without their permission or asking, it may be bad. Why? Because you don’t know what their wishes or desires are. So praying for them in that case is tantamount to casting a spell or curse on them.
Thank you so much for your interesting comment Gary.
The concepts of good and bad are really interesting. Some might say ‘its all about your intention’ but I would add to that, its about your intention AND the outcome of same. When performing anything on behalf of someone else, prayer, spell, whatever you want to call it, directing your focus and intention for or on behalf of someone else, your intention may be pure but if you don’t know their needs or give thought to longer term effects, you’re not helping in some cases, like giving someone who is a diabetic a big ol’ chocolate cake and they go into insulin shock because of it. I say ‘some cases’ because there are the obvious examples of performing sacred acts like feeding the hungry, caring for the sick or infirmed, serving your community unconditionally, and yes even prayer for the healing or highest good of someone else. There are many cases when you cannot know the short or long term effects but if you see suffering and need yet do nothing about it because you fear messing up their karma or yours, you’re just being selfish.
The concepts of good and bad can indeed be complicated if we make it so, but when in doubt, a little something called the golden rule makes it real simple. Treat others as you would like to be treated. If humanity could just get that ONE thing down, what a different world this would be.:)