Sea Beings and Special Tidings

Mermaids

The guru Yogananda (1893-1952) writes his departed guru communicated one day: "The ordinary astral universe . . . is peopled with . . . myriads of fairies, mermaids, fishes . . . goblins, gnomes, demigods and spirits." - Autobiography of a Yogi (1998, 355).

"Seeing (mermaids in heaven) is believing (mermaids exist in heaven). Either you believe it, or you don't. Alternatively, you sense it, feel it a lot, as a philosopher (below) -

Not worried, but still victimised perhaps

When you are liberated from the world of illusion [inhaling and exhaling], then you will not feel worried about good or bad words and comments by others. [Lahiri Mahasaya, Yoga Sutras 2:52 (An utterance along with it: no translation)]

The intrigue tightens: "All is illusory. There is no doubt about this. People are mad . . ." [Shyama Lahiri Mahasaya, Abadhuta Gita, 2:7].

If all is illusory, was Lahiri illusory too? Think sharply. Be careful about who you listen to and what outré teachings you take to heart. It could be that many are mad and sane ones are few and far between if they are not run over eventually. Mankind has worked towards destruction of the planet for many years now. To saw off the branch you sit on, is it sane? The minority that go against it may be sane against the dominant powers that ride folks, though.

Dorothy Maclean (1920 -), one of the three founders of the Findhorn Community in northern Scotland, tells how from a garden pea she "got an immediate response in thought and feeling which I put into the following words":

I can speak to you . . . my work [is] molded . . . I merely bring [it] to fruition. . . . [I] bring the force fields into manifestation regardless of obstacles, and there are many in this man-infested world. . . . [W]e forge ahead . . . Humans generally seem not to know where they are going of why. If they . . . were on the straight course of what is to be done, we could cooperate with them!" (Findhorn Community 2008:57)

Published pea tidings and other tidings were also very down-on-earth at times, and helped in making Findhorn community in northwest Scotland (near Inverness) what it is. (Findhorn Community 2008; MacLean 2004, 2006, 2008.)

Are you one of those who wonder what the dandelion could have to tell you one way or other? Enjoy and be gentle for a reply, as one of Maclean's messages hint at, it could make a difference if a dandelion were welcomed, for then it "could expand and do of its best", and you could learn with Ralph Waldo Emerson: "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." Dorothy Maclean spent time listening in to it, and it rounded off with "I hope to be greeting you from odd corners."(Maclean 2004, 1)

Enjoy the flowers with a well-directed aloha of a sort. Then what about trees? Maclean has published a book with "tree calls" too, in addition to deva messages she put down in writing and got published in the Findhorn Garden Story. In the book Call of the Trees (2006), a message is:

We come to your consciousness in the joy of our worlds -

Contact with us always uplifts you -

It may seem that some elementals are very strange and even hostile, but -

Any hostility has been of man's making and has been deserved. -

The nature kingdoms need their champions to help redress the balance that has been upset by man, but it is a balance that needs to be found. Balance is . . . one of great ease, . . . of giving and taking and adjusting  . . . close to the Creator. In the wholeness of creation all life serves and complements each other -

Man does need to change -

Share our gaiety, you solemn humans! [and] be what you truly are . . .

(Maclean 2006, Fragments from p. 68).

Really unreal?

Dorothy Maclean thought in her heart that many sorts of spirits, including plant-focused spirits said things to her. But here comes Yogananda again: "All nature is unreal." (1982, 448)

One had better not not say the world is unreal and expect to be counted among real gurus.

No Reductionistic Promotion

Things that seem good in the start, may not work well after a while if "Too much of a good thing is a bad thing". There is also: "Too little of a good thing is not as good as can be" either. Research into long-range benefits and/or harms of what at first seems good may be missing or inconclusive. So until many findings are studied carefully: "Do not believe, make sure (Proverb)". As Edmund Burke (1790) writes in another context: "A claim is . . . ill-suited [if] unsupported." First get to the facts and study them well. Why? It is fit for progress and upkeep of soundness.

It can be hard to relate unless upright sincerity is mature and reciprocal.

Gauge possible harmful effects of going far off from nature's schemes for coping and thriving. The Greek term metron, balance, sound measure, is into this. Burke (1790): "Found your doings on sound precedent, authority, and example." It might work, but there are other ways and means to explore as well. [Compare] [Kalama Sutta]

Bamboo has tidings too:

Bamboo

"I conjure up in your mind an essence [that] you realise is but man-made.

"I am Spirit come to manifest here in the garden where . . . given a charge.

"The conditions are not natural, but the intelligence and force-field  . . . which I am, is implanting itself here now to establish an aura, a vibration which will be unaffected by atmosphere. I am grounding myself, making myself what I am in that small corner.

"You would help that grounding. Salute it whenever you pass or think of it, and so further establish it. Of course, help with conditions on the physical level as much as you can, but above all aid in the consciousness of bamboo being there. Let that consciousness be guided by what you see, fortifying those particular leaves, that particular stem. Help me be. This is the helpful approach at the moment, delineating the lines of force as I am doing.

"Another time when you see the bamboo, it may be that another process is going on. Therefore be sensitive and ready to pick up the need of that moment. Nature - and indeed all creation - expresses itself on all levels: in the color, the shape, the texture, the direction of every leaf, but above all and containing all, is that wonderful combined "feel" which I am, my note which I would sound strongly here. Let that be your concentration, for it is of the Spirit and permeates all levels. That established, I can be, I can express and contribute. This is important here, and it is important that we talk as we do, rise up and soar to the highest heavens, to the one Source of All . . ." (Maclean 2006, 30)

Heidegger Lore

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher. His work may be associated with phenomenology and existentialism. What is more, his ideas have had a seminal influence on the development of contemporary European philosophy. They have also had an impact in architectural theory, literary criticism, theology, psychotherapy and cognitive science. (Stanford Encyclopedia, "Martin Heidegger")

According to Heidegger, 'mood' or feeling [German: Stimmung] makes a substantial contribution to the sense that we have of belonging to a world. Lauren Freeman argues that

Heidegger's phenomenology of mood is an important resource for addressing certain oversights, contradictions, and misunderstandings found in the psychology of emotions. Central to Freeman's analysis is the fact that moods are not mere mental states but are rather the worldly preconditions for mental states (including emotions, feelings, beliefs, and so forth). Stated differently, moods are more basic than cognitive and/or emotional states. Indeed, private states of mind are derivative of a more general (public) mood. Yet in psychology, the worldly [one's environment's] dimension of mood is often ignored or confused with private, subjective, and internal emotions. (Tyson Lewis, in "Heidegger and Mood", 2016)

Dorothy Maclean's Bamboo and Heidegger . . . go into "feel" -