Anarchistbanjo's World

I’ve been spending a lot of time this past month reconnecting to my past, in particular retracing some of my personal spiritual journey and it continues to take up a lot of my time. As I go back over past material and things I’ve learned I’m looking at all of it with a more experienced eye so to speak. That means I’m more able to sort the wheat from the chaff and really get to the core or heart of things.

None of these spiritual traditions are Organic Gnosticism, yet Organic Gnosticism lies at the very foundation of all of them in the most basic form of all. Organic Gnosticism is the wisdom of life itself and requires no teachings, only the requirement of living a full and complete life in a balanced way! It’s spiritual path is a personal path unique to each individual as they follow the guidance of the Christ spirit within their own hearts. It is a path of accumulated life experience and good-will toward others which includes the full spectrum of what life has to offer.

Perhaps the most dangerous thing I see is how far we as a society and culture have distanced ourselves from the organic reality of physical life and continue to live in our heads. We also have forgotten how important community really is, how important family really is in an organic and physical way. We need to reintegrate our hearts, our emotions and most important our physical reality in the present moment.

So what I’m left with is the importance of good-will to others, the ability to see the divinity within all things and the importance of good actions and good thoughts in the uplifting of the soul. These are all very basic organic things in life and therefore an important part of Organic Gnosticism.

For the past three years I’ve paid for listing a local meetup group in the hopes of attracting local people in my community with the same values and interests that I have. People signed up as members but only two or three ever showed up to meet for coffee…then they too stopped coming…no interest…or not enough interest…

A similar thing happened with online communities like Narrative.org. Everyone is so busy doing their own thing that they have no time for community or collective activities. I’m not saying this is right or wrong…I’m just saying that’s the way things are in today’s world. I would also like to share the obvious, sharing within an online community is not as organic as sitting down across the table having coffee with someone and having a heartfelt conversation. If you have a choice, go with the coffee shop!

The new energies are now in place and its time to begin taking advantage of them! From now on there is only the present moment. What are you doing in the present moment? What opportunities are open to you right now in the present moment? What organic opportunities are open to you in the present moment? How can you share in meaningful ways with others?

I thought that having a Meetup group would provide the organic opportunities to meet other people and make new friends, but it didn’t. There was not enough interest. I even considered joining a local church to connect with others that had similar spiritual values. But that wasn’t really a good fit because my spirituality was of the heart and conscience and not of an external authority such as the Church or the Bible (which I consider to be symbolic and not literal).

I also thought that renewing my MENSA membership would allow me to connect in a satisfying way with others who shared some of my spiritual beliefs and values. To my dismay I found that MENSA groups on Face Book and other online communities were full of head trippers without any meaningful heart connections. They were also very politically correct and simple echo chambers of popular thought. Most were rational atheists that didn’t recognize the spirituality that was so important in my own life. For the most part these people were full of intellectual pride, considering themselves above the common folk. That is not what I was looking for.

So the closest thing to what I desired was the local masonic lodge. The Blue Lodge is the original foundation of Freemasonry with its roots going back to early Christianity around AD 935. It’s requirements are to believe in a Supreme Being, to follow one’s conscience in all things and the importance of community or fraternity and doing good deeds. Let me be specific here. I’m talking about the Blue Lodge of Freemasonry and the Order of the Eastern Star which is for both men and women. I am not talking about higher levels of speculative Freemasonry such as the York Rite or Scottish Rite. I place important distinctions between them.

I’ve shared how the spiritual path is different for males and females, and I’ve also shared how important interaction and relationships between the opposite sexes are in the creation and development of the soul and its powers. In this respect the Blue Lodge and the Order of the Eastern Star are the closest thing that I can find for local and organic interaction that fulfills both of these requirements. They are also found within almost every community! This is why they are both now becoming very important to me in my continued spiritual journey. They provide an organic path of human interaction that is available to me in my local community and I look forward to meeting new friends and sharing a common journey.

I will continue to share my ongoing spiritual journey in future posts for those interested. Making the transition from a purely speculative path (spiritual and philosophical) to an organic (action and experience oriented) is a formidable task because the gap between them is so wide…the key to uniting them lies within our hearts…and within the still small voice of our conscience. It also requires the continued good-will between men and women as they share their respective spiritual journeys.