Love, or the Mind of This Octogenarian

Words resonate. When spoken, quantitatively, they amplify the vibrations of the air they occupy, and qualitatively amplify a message you want to impart. We Zaadsters use the word love a lot. Today I want to discuss love.

On my first date with Karen, my wife, on a hike in the mountains near Portland, Oregon, she said she wanted our's to be a "platonic" relationship. I interpreted her statement to mean she wanted our relationship to be without sex. In other words, it wasn't going anywhere; she must have been committed to someone else.

As it turned out, there wasn't anyone else. Platonic is derived from Platonism. The followers of Plato's philosophy held the belief that the physical is not permanent but ideas can be, since they come from the mind. Karen cannot say why she made the statement, but in that the mind is the essence of our being, of who we are and what we are about, absent of sex, since sex is a physical drive, besides sex, Karen and I have spiritual love. Our minds exist in a state. States don't have boundaries. Although we are not conscious of it, our minds are way ahead of us. From the moment I met Karen, it has been de-ja vu. Our minds are unconsciously connected with our higher selves. In my mind, I know that Karen and I have been related at some other time in some other place.

The most amazing thing about Karen's statement is that a moment after she made it, we were made aware of the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens not 50 miles to our northwest. That moment in time marked the renewal of hope in two spiritual beings who had suffered the calamity of divorce. It reminds us of the Phoenix legend. A bird that lived five or six centuries immolated itself on a pyre and was resurrected. The Phoenix is an emblem of immortality or the rebirth of an ideal.

In nature, calamities, such as the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, are followed by a renewing process. Our calamities are followed by a renewal process. At the very moment of the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens, came the rebirth of our spiritual love. It was meant to be.

I was laying awake thinking about all the above. When I got up this morning, Karen was reading. She handed me Sylvia Browne's Lessons for Life, asking that I read the page she had just read. (She frequently hands me something to read that just happens to be apropos to what I'm thinking about.) What would it be this morning, I thought. By the way, numerology, for my "Life Lesson number" gives me a 7. I'm here to use my mind. My Zaadz friend, Keith, "I think it would be grand fun to get inside your brain sometimes and just look around at all the neat stuff you have, but then realize that would be impossible because there'd be NO ROOM for me to do that!"

I read in Lessons for Life, "our soul's essence is that elusive concept of forgiveness," and "there is nothing wrong with hating evil," two contra ideas. It came to my mind, what the heck does it mean to love your enemy? I'm aware that at our deepest level we are good. I'm aware of evil, but of a mind to accentuate good-not to say that I always do. At times my emotions get the best of me. With so many people at Zaadz spreading good, my membership in Zaadz has helped me.

Like I say, our minds are way ahead of us. I was led to Zaadz from a word I typed in my Google search engine. I don't remember the word, but Zaadz appeared in the list of Web sites. The same as the moment I met Karen, my intuition told me I found a home in Zaadz. We are spiritual beings who have found unity in the belief that God is love.

Esoteric means understood or meant only for those who have special knowledge or interest. "I want our's to be a platonic relationship." What I mean by this statement is a spiritual mutation of the sex drive, the strongest of drives.

Mathematically, numbers are used to make logic in the physical world. Numbers are also used, qualitatively, to make logic. Every letter in a word has a representative number. In Faith Javane's and Dusty Bunker's "Esoteric Numerology," 9, the highest number, is the symbol for selflessness. "It bestows an impersonal but just view of life, one that is generous, benevolent and patient. This is the artist and thinker who has developed skills through the preceding cycles and is now ready to share his or her knowledge with the rest of the world." Zaadz represents 9, the highest aspirations of mankind.