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A Nature Walk
By Walt Zabel
Balboa Press
Copyright © 2012 Walt J Zabel
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-5574-4
Chapter One
When it comes to the knowing of God There is no religion to believe There is only an Awakening
As life is ever evolving So must the mind That perceives it Our minds Must be open To the truth Yet to be learned
An open mind can evolve towards new awareness
A closed mind resists that which will change it
We are as the infant Discovering its own hand As we reach out Into the awareness Of the larger self That we are
Through our reverence We gain awareness By our consciousness We awaken
We are creations of life Not the creators Of it Therefore we need To have reverence for it
The Almighty is this creation in its entirety
One creation of light caring for the life within it
The universe Both creator and creation Omnipotent and ubiquitous A universal presence
All of existence Matter energy and All the laws Of nature and physics
All life As a collective intelligence An interactive Consuming and sustaining Of itself
God compressed the heavens Until they could be no more With the force Of creation Exploded the core As the core blazed into flight The universe was filled With its light And the proof can be seen In the night sky As embers still burn Into the nigh
On a clear night when all the stars are at their brightest imagine our vision can travel out into the depths of the universe
As our vision reaches out farther and farther more and more stars come into view until in every direction our vision is blocked by their light
It is then that we become aware that we are now living within the light itself
One system of light with a sole purpose of caring for the life within it we are now truly living within the light Of God
The universe is kept in balance through a series of caring forces Without these forces there would not be a universe Even an atom has its own caring force keeping its electrons in suspension
If not for different caring forces suspending masses of matter and keeping everything in balance there would not be any suspension Without suspension time would not exist Without time for life life would not exist
The elements in the universe are all we have We depend on them for our survival Through their caring forces the elements have made up living things and now support the life they created
This special interaction between nonliving and living is a gift of care and caring is what it's all about If not for love life would not exist
God is Love the highest degree of caring contained in all of natures elements
Omnipresence A universal presence All of existence Matter energy And all the laws Of nature and physics All life As a collective intelligence An interactive Consuming and sustaining of itself
As we may try Our minds will not Totally understand our Creation As we live within Creation itself And can only reach its boundaries
This creation and all the life within it was and is a single creation of light
We are indeed creations of the light and from the light
We are as drops of water each having our own form
As drops of water that return to the sea to become one with it
Such is our soul as our body dies so does the ego and our energy returns to the source form which it came
Our soul is immersed within a sea of light within the light is contained all the love and caring for the collective life within it
The soul Is an inherent energy within us It's the connection to the source From which we came
As the distance from God Has its apex So mans ego Reaches its height Before it falls
Both ironic and arrogant that man thinks he can control or that he should control the very system that created him
The veil
Judgments are made and walls put
up to protect the child inside and
our ego stands at the entrance as
a sentinel protecting its pride
The ego has woven a mighty veil
that closes off the mind and the only
knowledge received by the child
is of an egos kind
Man's ego keeps the truth at
bay so the child may not see
blinded by the ego the child is never free
Busy with creations of its own
the ego has grown strong
and if the children don't
remove their veils
they won't have their pride very long
Zombies walking
The corpse that never walked
this way lives on the hill
in view of life as it is and as it always will
When the corpse left the cave
and stepped into the light
he molded weapons with his fear
turning him into might
Keeping back others and killing his game
the corpse entered nature looking for fame
With made up religions and
chanting his song
the corpse conquered and grew very strong
Progressing and advancing
to an industrial age
but in natures book only a page
The corpse that never walked this way
with his soul will some day pay
the corpse is ego DOA
Take advantage of position and get your fill
someday your corpse will be on the hill
From the light
From living to dead
into the light our soul is fed
We release our ego with child like fright
and return our energy back to the light
Because the ego that lives in the mind
in the light you'll never find
Ego wants
When leaders allow egos to run free
it commissions men to be
better than thee
In the spirit of God they think they live
sacrificing their nature in order to give
Exalting and glorifying
with egos in mind
they rise above their own man kind
Using man and nature for
their selfish needs
they divide one from another
as separatism breeds
Freedom of the rich leads to
the slavery of the poor
leaving the egos' wants at every door
Devils hand
Not surrendering to the nature of God
we challenge the truth
with our mental prod
Bolstering each other with
feelings of being saved
our minds became no longer enslaved
With God like egos expanded the mind
as we dominate nature for
our own man kind
Exalting the ego to a higher place
nature began falling and
so did our grace
The earth is being destroyed
by the egos of man
as our egos have become the devils hand
In denial we pray to a specious God
continuing to use our mental prod
Born again
When the truth becomes your
enemy the ego is the foe
the mental shielding in your brain
must weaken and let go
The ego surrenders to the truth
as you pray and cry
repenting and hoping to
God you'll never die
But you left the garden on your own
and in your own design
now your prayers are only
compensation for the crime
With man's ego not heaven sent
you profited from nature
with your self intent
Now you feel the pain of love lost
and are willing to be saved at any cost
You surrender to a messiah
where egos are bound
or seek within where
enlightenment is found
Life is ever lasting Death is of the ego It's the ego That fears it end
To think to act for God is the height of mans arrogance
If someone has hurt you do not forget the pain as you feel your anger
Striking back with anger you will be the cause of the pain
Although prideful of our chosen religion there is little honor in remaining shackled to an archaic belief system that alienates us to the detriment of caring for one another
When it comes to having respect for each others religion it is not their faith in religion that we honor It is their sincerity in the idea of a God common to us all
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