secrets of the immortals: affirm life, affirm freedom

"All of life is like a foreign country." - Jack Kerouac

My name is Genai. I am pleased to be a guest here today. It may be our last, or the first, or you may know time as a nonlinear spiral as you hear me. I am what you may term an immortal like Babaji, or Eratosthenes.

In this final physical vehicle I was born in a small house with bonsai trees near a Shinto shrine in Kamakura, Japan on a harvest moon under the sign of Virgo in what might be deemed a very long time ago. Immortals traverse worlds and timelines as easily as you traverse TV channels. If we should appear suprapowered it is only in same sense that in Flatland a common housecat might appear as a god.

Since my host chose an auspicious name for her blog, let me add now that you are collectively reaching crossroads where the path is not forked - it is braided, eighted, levitated.

The multiverse is like a canvas - we can paint it all black, or all blue like Picasso, or multi-hued like a rainbow. It is neutral. Thus it is not bad or good to pave the entire world with asphalt or concrete. Nor is it bad or good to hold our breath for an eternity. But there is that which is life-affirming, and that which is not.

Affirm life.

Affirm freedom.

Freedom means not needing anything or anybody to make you free. (That would be a manufactured freedom impossible to produce in perpetuity.)

The secret of immortality is to fro-lic as a child. Turn pages of your soul story ever forward, and lick the ice cream cones. Love the moment when your next step is pure potential...which is every moment.

May blessings shower upon you as cherry blossoms shiver the earth in spring.

ART Figures in Flight, by Jia Lu; photo by Alan Grant of Sasuke Inari shrine, Kamakura

p.s. Please don't ask if Genai is real. (I'm not channelling.) Make-believe is real. Myths are real. Archetypes are real. Symbols are real. Discard the 4D imaginal realm of feelings, and the magical collective soul at your own risk.

Comments

[Peter]

"Affirm life. Affirm freedom."

Accept not knowing, become laughter, embrace change.

[Rita]

Thanks you - love this post...affirm!

Just knowing.

[Brent MacKinnon]

I really liked your story and especially your ending with the call for unfettered enjoyment of the imagination