Yes death is today's topic...Yes to death!

Image via Wikipedia Yes I love to live! But do I know I grow nearer and nearer to the end of this life span! I am hale and hearty for an old fool and I do savor each day. Still, sudden or lingering, I understand that my physical death to this life will be perfectly natural no matter how this biggest shapeshifting happens for me.

Good old Death has been a favorite traveling companion and respected teacher of mine for many years, because a while or two ago I began the spiritual practice of each morning inviting DEATH along for another day's and night's journey and requesting daily doses of the healing, transforming Medicines that Death has to offer body and soul. Death is detoxifying.

Daily mini-doses of aging, death, and dying have become for me more and more a major source and upsurge of life-enhancing invigorating rejuvenation! Death has taught me ecstatic play and deepened both passion and compassion within me.

I am also inspired and encouraged by a fellow shamanic circle companion who has made a hobby of death. Tom and I agree, there is nothing morbid about death - ha ha ha! (This is my friendly reminder to Tom to get blogging again. But who am I to point a skeletal finger?)

So here I am laughing along with Companion Death and claiming I have not died nearly enough yet. Yes and no indeed I have not died nearly enough for this life yet, not by a long shot!

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Spirit and Spirits of the land, sea, air all shift wildly

Image by Tania Ho via Flickr I wonder more deeply yet just as foolishly day by day as I contemplate the invisible, unmeasurable, mysterious sides of life and everything. And now and then I hear myself asking: How harmful is it to project neurotic complexes (generated from cycles of trauma and reaction) onto Spirit and Spirits through new age and traditionalist dogmata alike?

The waters, winds, and mountains of Earth keep bubbling, blowing, heaving, and folding so must not the same processes be happening in the realms, dimensions, and orders of Spirit? Even the oldest mountains and hardest crystals are not 'set in stone' but macro- and micro-shift all the time...so must not their spirits be shifting even more profoundly?

Clearly wild life shifting is the revel-evolutionary way of growing matter and spirit co-creatively and civilized preserving has brought forth recipies for making jams and jellies conservatively...or formulae for trying to turn our world into a jar of pickles. Shamanic ways can help us happily jam new songs and dances everywhere so why do so many seem to be shamanic-journeying to bring back past religions?

Probably many, if not most, if not all, old dreams, ways, and shapes died and die naturally and live on renewed and renewing as this ordinary in-our-faces here now reality that many wish they could reject and escape. Shamanic ways can allow us to escape reality re-creatively so long as we journey away from here just to return with new energy-flows, stories, and gifts.

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As usual, no daylight savings for me!

No daylight savings for Chammy! For the 3rd year in a row, I am officially rejecting Daylight Savings Time. I go along with the joke of 'daylight savings' for scheduled events and appointments so as not to confound companions and colleagues.

I make my own adjustments, hour by hour, as I go along. But I keep my clocks set on standard time all year!

Here is a cloudy site with clear information about Daylight Savings Time. There are many others agreeing with me for serious reasons!