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Well" Logic in Spiritual Interactions
Jan. 1st, 2010 11:11 amWell" Logic in Spiritual Interactions
I admit, I was raised on country music and bluegrass. It has a special place in my heart. And while I do not admit to this very readily, I find that often times it holds gems even as I run across them haphazardly while changing stations. I am going to date my country music secret a bit and bring up a dandy tune from the early 80s by the Oak Ridge Boys…
"My daddy used to tell me don't be fooled by what you see
If you want to get to the heart of things you gotta look way down deep"
As I thought about this, my brain stopped and went into that deep place we all know and said..."what?! I should be able to tell what something is by what it looks like, smells like or acts like. In fact, I should be able to tell fairly quickly if I want it, what is is, box it, label the box and put it neatly on a shelf somewhere." But I know that I do need to look closer too... and that is a lot like work. To paraphrase a common quote here in the coven…. The song has HELL logic. Hell logic for those not from Oregon is a tongue in cheek phrase that we use to describe a suggestion or an idea that makes too much sense and we either should have thought of it ourselves or we see that we are being silly in making it more difficult than it needed to be.
I’d like to assert that it is in fact Hell logic’s little sister “Well logic!” Also known as Miss "Nothing Is As It Seems On The Surface." We live in an age of technology where we plug something in and it turns on, we put in a secret code and we get invincibility. (Did my geek girl side peek out?!) We are in an age where most things can be evaluated on the surface. This is alluring and comfortable. We can look at something in this realm and discern right away whether or not it is something that we want or need due to specs on the side of a box written by the manufacturer, and we can discern if something is working whether the light turns on when we plug it in.
However, in our spiritual lives, this may not be the case. We have look a little deeper in the well. A Sufi mystic once said that it is our thirst as we sit next to the deepest well that shows that we are doing it right, not the lack of thirst. As we grow closer to our conversation with our True Will, we find ourselves more and more thirsty. Our well runs deep and it is thirsty. This is counter to what we might want to think in our plug it in world which is if it was working we’d be less thirsty. Spirituality is counter intuitive… or we might say it has Well logic.
We can also be deceived and think that we know ourselves too by our outer actions and ultimately try to use these as manufacturers labels for ourselves. We all do it. “I’m a gardener, an outdoor person,” “I’m a geek,” “A gamer,” “A loser,” “Way on top of it…”"Not like that/them". These are just labels of an outer identity that our minds have put on to make the world make sense to us and make us feel like we fit in.
But our true selves are none of these. Hell, we don’t even get to be our thoughts. These all influence us, they ultimately prejudice us against other people, other ideas, and ultimately ourselves. As the apparently strange things come out of our core being, we start labeling them with labels such as a good or bad, or me or not me. But this is not the case. This is our minds trying to keep order and make sure that we stay on the ego path. This magical working winds up creating a soul cage for us to take up residence in.
Dig a little deeper in your Well. Truth is understood in paradox. Look closer at the mystery under the water. The still pool reflects the Goddess in the sense that we have to look into the depths underneath to really understand this. Craft is not plug it in technology. This is the mystic path. The one that if we are more thirsty, we know we are doing it right.
"The mighty river's flowin' where the water's cool and sweet
Don't be fooled by a muddy dream be careful when you drink
Life is what you make it sometimes a livin' hell
If you want to find that promised land dig a little deeper in the well."
I admit, I was raised on country music and bluegrass. It has a special place in my heart. And while I do not admit to this very readily, I find that often times it holds gems even as I run across them haphazardly while changing stations. I am going to date my country music secret a bit and bring up a dandy tune from the early 80s by the Oak Ridge Boys…"My daddy used to tell me don't be fooled by what you see
If you want to get to the heart of things you gotta look way down deep"
As I thought about this, my brain stopped and went into that deep place we all know and said..."what?! I should be able to tell what something is by what it looks like, smells like or acts like. In fact, I should be able to tell fairly quickly if I want it, what is is, box it, label the box and put it neatly on a shelf somewhere." But I know that I do need to look closer too... and that is a lot like work. To paraphrase a common quote here in the coven…. The song has HELL logic. Hell logic for those not from Oregon is a tongue in cheek phrase that we use to describe a suggestion or an idea that makes too much sense and we either should have thought of it ourselves or we see that we are being silly in making it more difficult than it needed to be.
I’d like to assert that it is in fact Hell logic’s little sister “Well logic!” Also known as Miss "Nothing Is As It Seems On The Surface." We live in an age of technology where we plug something in and it turns on, we put in a secret code and we get invincibility. (Did my geek girl side peek out?!) We are in an age where most things can be evaluated on the surface. This is alluring and comfortable. We can look at something in this realm and discern right away whether or not it is something that we want or need due to specs on the side of a box written by the manufacturer, and we can discern if something is working whether the light turns on when we plug it in.
However, in our spiritual lives, this may not be the case. We have look a little deeper in the well. A Sufi mystic once said that it is our thirst as we sit next to the deepest well that shows that we are doing it right, not the lack of thirst. As we grow closer to our conversation with our True Will, we find ourselves more and more thirsty. Our well runs deep and it is thirsty. This is counter to what we might want to think in our plug it in world which is if it was working we’d be less thirsty. Spirituality is counter intuitive… or we might say it has Well logic.
We can also be deceived and think that we know ourselves too by our outer actions and ultimately try to use these as manufacturers labels for ourselves. We all do it. “I’m a gardener, an outdoor person,” “I’m a geek,” “A gamer,” “A loser,” “Way on top of it…”"Not like that/them". These are just labels of an outer identity that our minds have put on to make the world make sense to us and make us feel like we fit in.
But our true selves are none of these. Hell, we don’t even get to be our thoughts. These all influence us, they ultimately prejudice us against other people, other ideas, and ultimately ourselves. As the apparently strange things come out of our core being, we start labeling them with labels such as a good or bad, or me or not me. But this is not the case. This is our minds trying to keep order and make sure that we stay on the ego path. This magical working winds up creating a soul cage for us to take up residence in.
Dig a little deeper in your Well. Truth is understood in paradox. Look closer at the mystery under the water. The still pool reflects the Goddess in the sense that we have to look into the depths underneath to really understand this. Craft is not plug it in technology. This is the mystic path. The one that if we are more thirsty, we know we are doing it right.
"The mighty river's flowin' where the water's cool and sweet
Don't be fooled by a muddy dream be careful when you drink
Life is what you make it sometimes a livin' hell
If you want to find that promised land dig a little deeper in the well."
