Dedication to truth and radical self care, says Aisha Salem, can hold this culture in the embrace of existence as heaven on earth. What does that mean?
Here I walk in the forest; dedicated to truth and self care. I’ve left all needs to be something for someone, all housekeeping, all mobile media, to invisibly pace daily along this old-growth forest walk, chanting. Chanting a mantra. Communion.
Sustaining, Liberating, Enlightening, Infinite, Destroying, Creating, Nameless, Desireless.
“The Guru Gayatri mantra eliminates karmic blocks and past errors, balances brain hemispheres, purifies the magnetic field, and brings compassion and patience.”
Balance, purification, compassion, patience. That’s what it takes to live by truth and self care. These trees have been meditating maybe 400 years. All the time. They’re so grounded, their roots go deep, and so high, reaching towards a transcendental relation with the solar logos. Balanced, or they would fall.
Once it was sanskrit, now I recite the Foundation Stone Meditation. Angels, Archangels, Archai, Dynamis, Exusiai, Kyriotetes, Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones.
I imagine the beings of trees as I walk, chanting. Trees are my models of dedication to truth and self care. I become like a tree – radiating healthy greenness, allowing humans to pass me by without worrying – so strong in my centred self AM I.
This is my radical self care practise, after so many years of being scourged for my dedication to truth. Aisha Salem’s revelation is not news to me. Somehow I’ve always known a dedication to truth which goes beyond the hive mind matrix, and an attention to care through diet, rest and spiritual activity that is seen by western culture as radical.
Today, debating a “scientific fact” makes one a heretic to the mainstream. The science is settled, they lie. I wish I could remember the title of that book I read at 11 … about heretics who persisted into the abyss of annihilation, and were rewarded by becoming the secret elders of the land. Because they could think free.
Freethinkers.
That sounds dangerous to the status quo. But us truth seekers, we journey beyond the dominant paradigm into realms where spiritual science gives us answers and experiences that far exceed the expectations of the average human.
And radical self care?
When we drop into what we really need – in each moment – we find that it is often hard to justify. It takes practise to allow our deepest needs to guide us. What we think we ought to do is a cultural program perpetuating falsehoods and procreating dystopias. So when we are able to drop the babble and deeply feel what nurtures our self, we begin acting in ways which go against the grain of dystopia.
We slow down, we eat organic, even biodynamic. We spend time really listening and create for joy not for money. And we do Yoga. Tantric yoga, Cognitive yoga, Christian yoga. We practise the union of soul and body, of inner masculine and feminine, sun and moon, spirit and matter. Reconciliation.
This creation; footfall after footfall in a magical forest with a mantra.
This radical way of becoming whole.
My dedication to truth. My radical self care. My breath of sanity so I may return – through all the separation – to inner union – face up and open hearted in the world.
Wholeness River Retreat 