Falling into Is-I-Ness

by Nancy Mehegan

I am going to assume that our thoughts have power.

Power to move, to create.

I don’t understand the principles of this.  But I don’t understand how my car works either.

So I am making an assumption.

I’m leaving nouns on the side too.

 

One day sitting by a river in the woods, I became amused by the fish jumping up into the air.

 

I could hear the water crashing down the rock cliffs behind me.   Swooosshing… 

And I started thinking. Ha! I thought,  the river would not exist without the streams behind me cascading down.  Humph I thought, the streams would not exist without the rain that falls.

Ah ha I thought the water could not fall down to the river without the mountains to fall from.  And there would be no fish, no river.

 

Good grief WHAT IS A RIVER?  Is it the fish, the plants, the coursing moving water, is it the product of the streams or the rain??
 

And then I fell, I crashed into IS-I-NESS.

It all swooshed together into some beautiful song --- trees, frogs, fish, wind, turtle, running water, rocks, river?...

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“We project static nouns onto our wordworld and thus our worldview. .. In just such a way

we can enter a forest and imagine it to be full of things,

for which we have nouns, such as the names of trees--oak, pine, mahogany. The English language is, relative to indigenous languages of the world, quite noun-oriented (as are European languages in general). …

 Most indigenous American languages, by contrast, are more verb-oriented, and their speakers are pointed by their grammars toward relationships, process and flux rather than things. ...Algonquian languages like Mi'kmaq tend to 'name 'things' for the sounds they make rather than something about their form, which is less permanent.

the ways by which Mi'kmaq speakers refer to trees actually refer to

the sound that the wind makes when it blows through the leaves during autumn about an hour after sunset,

when the wind usually comes from a particular direction. So one tree is more like a shu-shu-something and another more like a tinka-tinka-something. “~ Dan Moonhawk Alford

See You at the ‘Border’

The Crossover zone

For the Hopi “ manifesting begins with “everything that appears or exists in the mind, or, as the Hopi would prefer to say, in the HEART, not only in the heart of man, but in the heart of animals, plants, and things, and behind and within all the forms and appearances of nature in the heart of nature, …. quivering with life, power, and potency .” A dynamic state, … advancing toward us out of a future, but ALREADY WITH US in vital and mental form, ... at work in the field of eventuating or manifesting”. (Alford)

Manifesting for the Hopi, is that which is “beginning to emerge into manifestation; ... but is not yet in full operation.

This nearer edge of the ‘manifesting’ “cuts across and includes a part of our present time, i.e. the moment of inception. …"

Living in original participation means

using speech and language to evoke,

to bring into existence more harmony between the realms; it means speaking only that which you would like to happen in reality. In such a worldview there is simply no excuse for saying things like, "Boy, am I stupid!" because it's not anything you would care to come true in reality.” (Alford)

Okay – it’s really important…what we think.  Very important.

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"Many people are waiting for prosperity. It cannot come in the future. When you honor, acknowledge, and fully accept your present reality - where you are, who you are, what you are doing right now ... Then, in time, that prosperity manifests for you in various ways." -- Eckart Tolle

 

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