Soul Mining

 

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine

?? Don't know who wrote this song? 

Man...I am kind of making myself nauseated with all this "poor me" crap I have whirling around in my my mind.  Yes, I have encountered some darkness.  And what do we do when we encounter darkness? Shed a little light on it.  

Darkness

What do we do, then,  when we perceive suffering? 

We slip down past it into the deeper realms of who we are. 

Now we might think, because we are going deeper, it will be darker...like going into a tunnel, mine, hole or cave. It may be darker on the way down...true.  There is the proverbial "dark night of the soul"  to consider...so named for a reason. As we move towards the depths of truth, there may be some confusion, fear of the unknown and the pains of letting go of what was familar to us. We may get walloped with more than our fair share of external challenges ( so it seems).  What we knew as reality, the body's version of light that we have come to believe is the only light there is gets dim, dimmer and dark on the way there.

Miners Going Into Darkness

We are in a sense miners. What does a miner wear on his/her hard hat, that they turn on, as they begin their descent away from the surface reality? A light ( which ironically is usually situated where the third eye is said to be). They use a light to guide them, give them comfort and allow them to see where they are going when they get down below surface level. 

We have such a light, an inner light, we seldom access because we are either so dependent on the eyes on our heads to determine reality (our five senses) and if our eyes don't see it  we convince ourselves there is nothing there to shine light on.  Or we absolutely refuse to hop on the elevator that takes us down.  We refuse to leave the surface level and go deeper.  So we don't access this light within.

Pushed Toward the Elevator

What if the things on the surface becomes so challenging  and so chaotic that old ways of dealing with them just don't seem to work anymore?  What if one gets so tired and beat down by surface level reality they just do not want to stay on the surface anymore?  What if someone, or something reminds the someone or something within them of another, better  place to be that exists beyond the darkness? What if they got on the elevator to go down? What light do they turn on?

Faith...The Light In The Soul Miner's Head and Heart. 

Faith is the light we can turn on on our way to Light. Truth is ...the darkness we so often resist takes us to light. Unlike most of the human population who stay on the surface level, and unlike the miner who stays on the level of darkness...we are called to go even deeper. 

At the deepest level we experience a light so different, so much more powerful than anything we can imagine. To get there we often need to travel into darkness and uncertainty first.  The little light we have inside us ...faith...can be the thing that is needed to get us there, to get us on the elevator in the first place and through the dark night to the truth of who we are. We need to have faith as we fall deeper into Self, that the light of Life is there...heck we need to have just an inkling in our conscious minds that we are not just going to the light, we are the light of Life.  Faith is the light we use to get to the realization that we need no light because we are Light. 

Unlike the Miner

We are unlike the miner in other ways. We aren't mining for coal.  We aren't mining for ore or precious gems to bring back to the surface.  We are mining for Light, for Self, for Truth and it is that we bring back to the surface with us. It is this we give back to the world. 

We do not have to "work" and struggle as hard as the miner does, either. Going deeper is not about "doing"or "thinking", it is about "being". 

And we also know, unlike the miner, that when we return to the surface we are not going home. We understand that the surface world is not our reality...it is temporary and perishable, offering nothing that can sustain us and fulfill us.  It's light is artificial and dim compared to the Light we find below the surface.  

We can enjoy being on the surface, play with what's there and definitely shed our light to all...but once we encounter the Light below  we will never be home on the surface of our existence.  Home is in the depth of who we are. The Kingdom of Heaven/God  is within. The more we go home, the more home we bring to the surface and the smoother and more beautiful  that world gets.

So let the light of faith in you take you through the darkness that comes with challenge to the greatest Light of all.  Let the Light shine in you and through you to all.

Hmmm! Now that is something to think about.

All is well!