| DO YOU STILL LOVE YOUR INNER CHILD? This kind of reminds me a bit of last week's letter where I explored the relationship between spiritual maturity and how it doesn't always guarantee a total healthy life. In other words, you could be spiritually advanced and also an asshole. I think one reason is because people who are spiritually advanced lose touch with the material. Like my mom used to say, "So heavenly minded they're no earthly good"! Is there something to that? So... I've been listening to my heart lately. To my inner child too. And it's very weird to me. On the one hand, I might be reading Krishnamurti or David Bohm or Carlo Rovelli or Meister Eckhart or Thomas Merton, writing deep thoughts in my journal, and all the while appreciate and enjoy a state of peace of mind. Meanwhile, my inner child cries out in jealousy or anger or lust or fear or whatever... something seemingly totally incongruent with where my mind is... and it throws me for a loop. I've come to the conclusion that even the most spiritually advanced should wrestle with their psychological selves too. Just so they avoid falling into that traps where their spiritual awareness blinds them to their material selves... their physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, and social (etcetera) selves. I think it's unhealthy to dismiss and neglect our spiritual selves. I'm also beginning to see that it's just as unhealthy to dismiss and neglect our material selves. Do you know what I mean? I hope I'm not being too unclear. Thanks for listening. | 