Peeking behind the veil I

More than ten years ago, I had the opportunity to peak behind the veil of reality.  I was shown the deep symbolism of our planet and the richness of love that permeates Everything.

The experience was staggering in its depth and beauty.  It changed me forever, but it wasn't enlightenment, just a glimpse of what that could be: a glimpse so intense that I stopped meditating for years in order to feel more 'normal' again.    And with all the contrariness of a human being, life is now so 'normal' that I miss the richness of those experiences!  But humanity is changing, changing rapidly; I have no doubt that what was so exceptional then will become commonplace understanding before long.

We are surrounded by nature, by trees, mountains, clouds, rocks... We were originally embedded in the natural world, living as one with the cycles of the earth, the energy of the seasons, of night and day.  It permeated us.  We were that energy.  Indeed, we still are.

With industrialisation, we moved away from our intimate connection with the earth energy, the energy of creation, to create for ourselves, by our own minds.  While this has been a part of the journey, its success needs to be juxtaposed with the cost of our relentless consumption of finite resources in order to fuel that creation, a principle that is utterly out of sync with the natural forces that pillage nothing, but recycle everything.

Through our success, we became disjointed from ourselves.  We are of the earth, of the cycles, of nature.  We can suppress that intrinsic part of ourselves, but we cannot eradicate it.  We are as inexorably connected to this primal energy as we are to our very souls.

Peeking behind the veil, I became aware of a deeper truth embedded in nature.  Take trees as an example: at the superficial level, they provide oxygen, shade, fruit... some may even believe that they have a soul, that they are an incarnation of the divine, just as we are.

There is an even deeper significance: each species of tree holds a different 'code', a vibration... We may look at the leaves of a tree and see the leaf, the veins, the stem but, simultaneously, our soul recognises the message of the leaf.  That leaf has reminded our unconscious of our true origin, of our divinity, of our soul essences (our values and qualities).

Each leaf, each species, tells a slightly different story, but all with the one story line, the Book of Divine Love.  Nor is this just true of trees: it is true of every species of flower, bush and grass... all elements of nature.  It is even true of every cloud shape.

This is one of the reasons why it feels so good to be in nature.  When we are in nature, it's not just the richer oxygen level, the beauty of the trees, or even the blessings and detoxifications that the Nature angels and elementals offer us.  It is because we are returning to our source - our physical source, in harmony with the primal energy of Gaia, Mother Earth, and our Divine source, as we are reminded by the deep symbolism all around us in nature.