I seem mired in the flesh a bit. My last story wrote itself in one of the strangest and most wonderful experiences I have had. It took my mind and my hands and told me what it wanted me to say. I have never surfed, being afraid of dangerous sports. However, I bet that is how one feels when one rides a wave. Sometimes, when I play music with another person, I ride the same kind of a wave. One transcends one’s finite self, mind and body. I imagine that is what drugs feel like but I have not used them,. One of my favorite authors is Carlos Castenada. He takes you into a magical world in which reality shifts.
My article was about the the longings of the flesh. The flesh can yearn like the wild cries of the wolves. The flesh is powerful. It’s desires are powerful. They can get you into a lot of trouble and they do. For the human, he is both flesh and spirit.The flesh is the body and the mind. This would include the personality, Anything we can access with our five senses is the flesh.
We cannot feel our own spirit. People use the words soul and spirit interchangeably but they are very, very different according to the Bible, worlds apart, actually. I will try to explain here. As long as one is on this earth, one will deal with the flesh. One will have needs of the flesh like food and sleep. One will have desires of the flesh such as popularity, beauty and riches.
I will share one of my best OBE’s( out of body experiences). It was one in which I was very conscious of what I was doing. You are this way in all of them but this was my the one I remember most. I was flying over a body of water. The people were Asian. They were in the water with surfboards and wind sails. It was a beautiful day. I was flying overhead. I kept repeating, “It doesn’t hurt anymore”. I felt total peace. I had never felt that. I know that Ii have woken up from OBEs homesick. I don’t know what I was homesick for, exactly. I think it was for the loss of the ego.
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