“The physical body is the projection of man’s idea; we carry the body in the mind. The body is the fruit of the tree of life, which grows in the midst of the garden of mind. If the body-idea is grounded and rooted in Divine Mind, the body will be filled with perpetual life flow that will repair all its imperfect parts and heal all its diseases.” (Charles Fillmore)
We begin on a new journey, a new year. in America we say 2025. In China we would begin celebrating the year, 4722, the year of the green snake that begins the Lunar New Year on the lunisolar calendar, which is used in many East Asian cultures. The year 2025 in the lunar calendar begins on January 29th. This calendar is based on the cycles of the moon as well as the solar year. It is also worth noting that each year in the lunar calendar is associated with one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. As I mentioned earlier, 2025 will be the Year of the Green Snake. In the west, we refer to the zodiac as our horoscopes, both align with corresponding stars that are true to our origins.
I like to think of both because it reminds us that we are meant to be universal in nature, and that nature has no boundaries. When looking at the earth from above, we see a planet of blue ocean, and green land. There are no national boundaries. The only artificial boundaries are found in our minds. Just as all things found in nature are marked by beginnings and endings that evolve in continual transition, so do we. Everything in perpetual motion, just as with spirit, given the opportunity to flourish as a part of a changing environment. Our lives, just as nature, are subject to this transcendence and change. To what the Buddhist would refer to as impermanence as we change our lives and attitude towards living as we grow older and hopefully wiser.
For myself, that means developing ways to become a better writer and conveying what I have written with an emphasis on self-reflection from a historical perspective and current way of thinking. As though present from earlier times, but not necessarily old. Both as an historian and as a teacher. In this vein, I have committed myself to the following year an effort to bring forth what I have written over the years to a commentary that may fit better into what may be referred to as “popular culture.”
To a Daily Entry on my re-vamped website. Not so much to build audience, as to explore the inner workings as Charles Filmore expressed here in the beginning… to remain grounded and rooted in divine mind and to live within the eternal meaning of perpetual life flow. Finally, it is essential to not only be a reader and writer of text, but a participant. From the beginning when I began writing in earnest over thirty years ago, I have considered myself a conveyer, or conduit, of knowledge and wisdom from the past. To what can be defined as the work of an historian. At times, it is as though thoughts and words simply need updating. Or if I am writing my own version of something that was text translated into English from what is called a strait translation, the true meaning or intent unclear, or more importantly seems unfinished. My efforts not intended to diminish or downplay an earlier translation, but to bring forth, or further, the intent of the ancients as though they were here speaking into the present. As though a continuous up-dating or edition for both the present and future.
Like what I will be writing over the next year, adding context and character as though I am writing another version of what I have previously written, with updated commentary with what I have gained through over twenty years of travel and teaching in China. Writing about both Eastern and Western philosophy, having my own foundation, and having books published about the I Ching, Taoism, Confucius, and others I have befriended over eons of time. Traveling and living in the place of the source I feel I have always been a part of and known. Often only concerned or curious with changes since my last visit. Writing as though I have always been present. To some reading this you may say simply, Dan you have a very vivid imagination. To others, simply know the journey remains incomplete, that going forward in to present requires fine-tuning directions from the past to fine my way home. And so, I live and write guided by divine mind… keeping to the vibrations and voices of nature and the ancients.
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