The decay of our metaphysical world.

There are two worlds that we live in, the physical and the metaphysical. The physical world being everything that we can see, feel, smell, hear and taste and the metaphysical being pretty much everything else i.e. our consciousness and our soul. It's pretty easy for us to sit back and evaluate our physical world with tests, and examinations, and research and find that while things aren't perfect, we're not on the verge of some cataclysmic end to all that we know. But how do we do this same kind of evaluation of our metaphysical world? How can we peer into this elusive world and see what it's health is like?

The other day in class my professor was describing the sense of smell that a hound has, specifically he was talking about Beagles. He proceeded to tell us that a Beagle could easily find out ten times more information about a room in ten seconds than we could find in ten hours, even if that Beagle were to be blind. The sense of smell that a dog has could easily sense ten times more information that our eyes can in a fraction of a second. If that Beagle could talk, he could tell you everyone that's been in your room in the past month, that the shirt you've been looking for is under your bed, and that your friend John was the one that left that empty soda can on the table. Now what does that have to do with the health of our metaphysical world? I'm glad you asked.

I believe that we have a direct connection to our metaphysical world through our heart, no ... not the physical one that vigorously pumps oxygen rich blood throughout your body, but the metaphysical one that we could probably be more accurately called our soul. Whatever you want to call it, it's a connection. I believe that we have the potential to develop this organ that we have and get in touch with the metaphysical world, but all too often we are more concerned with the physical world.

The other night I was watching the movie "Evan Almighty", and there is a scene in that movie that has one of my favorite fake God quotes ever. It comes at a scene where Evan's family is abandoning him because they think he has gone crazy, his wife and children are all out at some diner eating when one of the waiters named "Al Mighty" ( Yah, corny right? ) starts talking to Evan's wife. This is when "Al Mighty" aka God aka Morgan Freeman says,

"Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?"

I think this quote shows quite eloquently how connected God is to our heart, to our soul, to our metaphysical world. ( I really like using that word as you can see, it makes me feel smart ). See, God here sees that there is something broken, and while it is having consequences in the physical world, its something deeper and more metaphysical that needs to be fixed. It would be easy for someone to provide a million possible solutions to the problems their family was having including counseling, and vacations and new cars, but God here sees that in that we are curing the symptom and not the disease. This is our problem when we start dealing with problems like this, we truly want to make things seem good on the outside, without even thinking about what's going on inside.

So how do we evaluate the health of our metaphysical world? We need to take a look at the health of our soul, we need to see what's going on in there, and if you're anything like me you will see that there is a lot of work that needs to be done, and I've always believed that when something needs to be done, there's no better time than now ... Unless you need to do the yard and it's raining.

Until next time ... rock it with a smile.

buddy xxx