TREEAWAKENING: Of Virgin Births And Risen Dead

Every so often it's reported that there has been a miraculous birth. In the case of the Great Peacemaker of the Haudenosee, it was said that he was born of a virgin. So it was also said of Jesus of Nazareth. And of Gautama Buddha it was said that he simply exited the womb via his mother's side, and walked as soon as he was born, and lotuses sprang up in his footsteps.

The raising of the dead - whether by some healer or by the dead one's own self, is an interesting phenomenon - though not nearly as rare as some religions would have the world believe. For instance, in the ancient days of shamanism it would happen that in contests of magical power, some shamans would have a game of killing each other and bringing each other back to life. In ancient Egyptian times there was at least one death/reawakening initiation. And of course in Judeo/Christianity, there's the account of Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples bringing Lazarus back from death; and Jesus' own reawakening post-crucifixion. There are some researchers who believe Jesus was a high initiate in the Egyptian mysteries, as was Moses (of 10 Commandments fame) before him. And so it goes...

Miracles can be quick, miracles can be slow - some take an instant, some take generations, some take ages, milleniae. In the end, there is nothing BUT the miraculous, which is also the state of beauty [maturity] we know as simplicity.

Every so often it's reported that a forest has grown up where before, a desert had lain. Sometimes that reporting may include the miraculous fact that one or more humans felt a calling to plant trees in a wasteland, and kept at it, and the trees became a forest. Jean Giono's wonderful little story, THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, has miraculously inspired many present-day forest renewers....Forest reawakeners.  So has the work of Julia Butterfly Hill, and of Wangari Maathai.

There's a thought that rises to the surface persistently in every age, every paradigm - that the Creator, or Creative Love Force, embodies itself to varying degrees in material forms, including living bodies. Well, why on earth - why in the universe - not? To think that only one of the avatars (like Buddha, like Christed Jesus, like Sai Baba, like Great Peacemaker) - say, Jesus - was "God" (or was constantly filled with God, so as to be indistinguishable from the Creator) - to say that there has been only one vessel for the embodiment of the divine source? That's either limiting or stretching whatever Truth works out to be. After all, I've been in the presence of embodiments of the energies of various saints, avatars, divine source-----I've been so overwhelmed with divine love emanating from one of these embodiments (trees, animals, occasionally humans....) that I could not move for a long time. In my experience, the Force / the Source loves to love, and loves to shape-shift (or embody in this material body or that one...some for a moment, some for a lifetime, some - as in the case of the relics of saints - for many years beyond physical death.)

I love simplicy / the miraculous. In order to truly enjoy it, I do my best to free-up God, and not insist that Creator/Source/Love be limited to human form or one human personage, for heaven's sake. Let the miraculous miracles flow and flow and keep on flowing, through all time, space, and dimensions - in the NOW.