SHACK 4152 GOINGS-ON

Courtesy GOINGS-ON

The title of this entry is in no way an adequate description or even the faintest expression I sought to deliver, yet I am impelled by an irresistible prompt to do so, so please forgive the outstanding impish vain egoistic attempt to do so. 

 In these trees pigeons, squirrels, magpies and sometimes rare birds appeared we used to have migrating geese fly through they sadly have not been around now for six years. We now have a kind of parrots visit, there was excitement one day when we saw a king fisher.

I have written my experience with the trees many times. I became really aware of them through I felt a silent communication and I thought just imagination until one night this happened.  Saturday March 2nd 2019 ' TREES' please read in SHACK

 Then on this morning of the 10th August 2025 I just could not get out of bed, I was restless because the trees were 'calling me' and I felt to stay in bed, then it happened; suddenly 'I felt I saw' like a sort of x-ray in a sort of 'reddish hue' the inner workings of the tree, all of the workings the 'goings-on' which many who have studied the trees will know and to list it is not applicable at this event, I knew instantly that the tree and plants live and have their being as we do, their 'organs and capillaries' have their equivalent as our human bodies, they did feel, they did communicate with everything and everybody and us humans have to be still, quiet and out of the chattering ego and although I knew this intellectually, I felt it in a deep visceral way, from the film Avatar I said to them ' I see you' this when I first got acquainted with this expression has meant ' I see you beyond your personality, beyond any traits and quirks, wrinkles and bodily shapes or contours, I see your essence' I felt a deep connection more so than March 2nd above this was as if I were a tree and my organs were as if transplanted for that instant and I became a living tree and it me. This is only the barest approximation to the feel and experience. This distance I had as explained above to nature was shattered and I felt the beauty and the scenes I had been through and somehow I felt those neglected beauty spots were alive in me now as it were.

 I now know and have experienced 'it blew my mind' this indeed did, I have insights and Ha Ha's but this was so profound that I felt it literally blew something away, I could feel it reverberate throughout my body it shook my bones and frame, my scalp seemed to move as if my brain was being reconfigured and maybe it was somehow, something shifted and later on I realised it was 'the intellectual sceptic' in me I always wanted to feel and believe not so much believe but feel deeply without the echo and sinister shadows of doubt about communications with all life not just communication but dialogues. This meant suspending the intellect and ego and this was wilful and contrived and this was spontaneous and free. Literally blowing away bits of the mind brainwashed inculcated bits and pieces, mind you there maybe bits of going-on in the ego realm which might contend this.   

I like Eckhart Tolle Divine Intelligence quote; 'You didn't create your body, nor are we able to control the body's functions. An Intelligence greater than the human mind is at work.  It is the same Intelligence that sustains all of nature. You cannot get any closer to that Intelligence than being aware of your own energy field ---by feeling the aliveness, the animating presence within your body'

I felt this Intelligence 'working' silently and quietly I could feel the 'goings-on' doing their things, it is the stillness, the quiet space of consciousness that these  'organic algorithms and sequential signals' were moving in the silent space of awareness there were no words as such but movements felt deeply with no bodily effect just a silent visceral 'intuitive comprehension'  with no intrusion of the mind or need to diagnose or understand it, it was understanding as a direct knowing, it was a one to one seamless and flowing as if the Universe Itself worked this way. It was Life in action at the deepest level.

SHACK  aka   GEOFF

 

SHACK 4150 TUSSLE

Courtesy Tussle for the Keg

Oh restless mind searching hither and thither desperately endeavouring to establish yourself as authentic and real. Yet dear mind you are a collection of thoughts and experiences beliefs and agendas with cultural upbringing from earlier years and instilled into your open receptive space bereft of choice at that time.

How I see you struggle to still the cascading thoughts and emotions and you feel victim to your own collection and bundles of random chaos and yet still trying to form an orderly approach and reason to this disorderly orchestration and vainly trying to make this a reasonable presentation and often let down by the inherited data and often realising you are someone else's ideas and often they go back generations and then regurgitated and sometimes modified so as to appear new and fresh and original and then let down again as this reincarnated information and indeed yourself falls short of convincing you it is creative and original.

How much more you cry, how much more do I try to convince myself that I am real and here and solid and yet I know deep in the cellars and crevices of the vaults of the unconscious I am but an entity, a splinter of the lasting attempts to prove I am real and authentic. Alas I collapse and have to accept albeit reluctantly I am a shadow and do not reflect reality. Oh woe is me, is there a saviour, yet I know only the complete dissolution of this shadow will suffice.

Whilst in the background so to speak there is a witness to this cacophony, this assemblage of random chaos and outworn and faded patterns and loose bits and pieces, this silent and yet attentive presence of awareness and is the fount of life watching the endless forms come and go as clouds in the sky and patches that reveal the sun and keeps on the vigil of witness and and aware stillness until the recognition of the restless mind ceases to be by the understanding of its own mortality.   

SHACK   aka    GEOFF

 

SHACK 4146 KOAN

Courtesy  You Tube Ted

 'I want has happiness--get rid of the I want and there is happiness' 'What is the sound of one hand clapping' 'Atoms are empty, the body has 28 billion, billion, billion, billion of them how come anything is here'

Oh yes one can make up intellectual and even logical scientific explanations but they may give one a temporary satisfaction and a superior feeling and somewhat smug and know I understand and so I am in control, I know the mystery contained therein.

Experience has shown that the 'honeymoon' wears off and the old familiar 'nag' returns ' I want to know, I don't like my brain being broken, I want to be in control, I cannot bear the mystery of the unknown or be without desire for knowing by intellect and academic, scientific proof or even this 'outside the box' control and the satisfaction of intellectual ego of having it all sussed and this leading me to a definite reality and seeming unchallenged life, secure in my brain washed conditioned mind until perhaps a shattering event causes me to pause and consider and then swish it away in some form of distraction in order to fill the gap and void the Koan presents. 

'Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one' Einstein 'We exist in a matrix, simulation, hologram, or virtually programmed reality that we believe is real because our brains tell us it is'. Crystal Links. I need to know I am not an illusion, I need to know to know I know. The Despot needs borders, territory, political superiority, religious domination, scientific verification and intellectual academic acclaim and notoriety.

The experience of the Koan shifts the want and desire for the known to the unknown and alleviates the 'want' factor and one's needs are accomplished in a 'mind of no mind', a sort of natural spontaneity not to be confused with just wild ego impulsive behaviour. There are many traps on the 'way' drugs, material wealth and tapping's, alcohol, sexual indulgence, fetishes, intellectual perquisites, running wildly into dangerous pursuits and reckless and dangerous behaviour.

Still want to know?

SHACK   aka   GEOFF  

SHACK 4149 ON WALL

Courtesy Eveminet Communications

 'Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all'. from the fairy tale Snow White and the Seven dwarves. I used this several times in workshop presentations, to look into your own face in a mirror without assessing your features and just feel the vibes coming to you whether pleasant or not and then we would share afterwards. What came up and this happened to many workshop attendees feelings and 'knowing's' which did not seem to connect to the vibes felt at the mirror, as if it stirred something deeper and allowed it to surface for cleansing and healing.

When I did this the first few times what came to me was in the sharing and did not seem to fit the mirror feelings that I had lost a few friends and upset some family members and I realised I had foisted upon them a pet theory or pronouncement and would not yield an inch so to speak when challenged and became so obdurate as to offend them and lose them and later on I did forgiveness in the Ho opono pono way and realised I blamed them for not understanding and not seeing my point of view and that my obdurate stance was the cause of the strained family relationship and loss of some friends and acquaintances.

By understanding that my bold and determined stance and not even allowing discussion or some sort of dialogue caused me to feel I was not understood and they were ignorant. My ego demanded sole recognition and my territory my borders were not safe. Indeed I was the creator of my loss and downfall, yet at the time did not see it as a down fall but a victim of their obdurate stances and agendas.  

Over the years and events I have 'softened' and instead of obduration and impenitence and have found compassion through acknowledgement of my own agenda and inculcation. By owning a feeling and agenda and realising what you own you can change but you blame the feelings of being victim through one's own hard line and not allowing a choice, then we become trapped in our own emotions and cause additional karma.

SHACK   aka   GEOFF