Riffin' On the Wellspring of Wellness (it’s wealthy)…

‘Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” John 6:35

  In our culture we’re pretty accustomed to interpreting today’s passage in terms of devotion to Jesus, but it’s pretty rare that I’ve heard it expounded upon in transcendental terms. You see, we tend to think of life as something the living inherently have rather than something they are perpetually coming towards/into congress with through their actions, in the capacity of their free will as agents capable of making moral decisions. Life is about the cultivation of eternal life, as much of a riddle as that can be to unpack, and the time we are given in this world is about said cultivation.

        I’ve argued (successfully, at that) that the dominion of God’s love, which is but God manifest, ensures that every single life lived is perfect…it’s locked within deterministic frameworks that ensure that said individuated life forms cultivate eternal life…that old Christian paradigm of earning your way into heaven actually denotes something meaningful (just not the threat of it ever going awry/falling short)…it is about what the mortal life, as well as its capacity for suffering, original sin, is about…you need to learn to crawl before you can walk, apparently, and it’s at times a traumatizing affair.

                Life is about some sort of transmission. The universe transmits whatever it is that is being imparted, and when it’s all said and done, through experience, we have an eternal life. Which is precisely what today’s passage/teaching is about.

                Thirst…disease…sickness…these are not constants. They are social phenomena, although they pre-date civilization….the social collective was about neutering these entirely, removing them from the lives of the people, as they are necessary evils at best- suffering is in service to grace, to the objective of the mortal life, but it’s one that can be side-stepped through righteous action/making effective moral decisions. To do as much is not to follow a strict moral code as much as it is adhering to God’s will in all things at all moments, but the two become nearly synonymous in a spiritually serious life.  

                Truthfully if one “comes” to “life”…they will find that they have ended up with the “bread of life”. They will not want… will “never” “go hungry” or “thirsty”. Life will provide materially, for both them as well as their fellow man whom they are spiritually tasked to adhering to. What they have is eternal life manifest, God incarnate in a way that is theirs as an individuated I… it may manifest as bread…wealth…the home you live in…it’s made of the very same stuff, primordially, as your Eternal life. The forms wither and pass across time (to be recycled), but the shadow lives on eternal and unchanged, now manifested by the material realm in a meaningful way.

                I mean to convey that if one wants to sidestep the sheer idea of devotion, for the sake of a hypothetical practice, so as to be comprehensive… that Jesus is the universe/has dominion over all affairs. To live life on life’s terms…to seem to do exactly what the context wants you to do through intelligent behavior… is the very same, at some level, as coming to “life”, as seeking the “bread of life”.

                That being said, what are you seeking? Not what you specifically manifest (hopefully) but “the bread of life”…which is a devotional practice. In this day and age some argue that the idea of Christ, or the lack of the notion that Christ is expressing himself perfectly in all affairs as they transpire in all moments, is in the way of actually coming to Christ. That we try to come to him in all things without effectively knowing how to do so, and that the Vatican being outright wrong about dogma in the ways that they are make it particularly difficult for their parishioners/us trying to effectively come to Christ.

                Meanwhile, if one tunes into Deepak Chopra, to old lectures from Alan Watts or Ram Dass, to old lectures from Terence McKenna, to Duncan Trussell, to Yogic culture in general…they will see a format very much unlike religion, and a lot more like what Jesus was up to in the Bible…people wandering the land and putting words to their truth day in and day out, living life nearly on display or partially so…all of them clearly imbibed with spirit, and representing something far more impactful than I have ever witnessed the Catholic Mass over this way being…

                They’re mystics…and for some reason, a lot of modern Catholics don’t even know the term, and if presented a definition of the term, feel that Jesus is the only human who could’ve ever hoped to become that… (meanwhile it's a type of Being that comes to define the priest-class...)

Perhaps its for the families…and not the institutions.  Perhaps it operates best in people who aren’t running active systems, who are just individuals…then again…the Dalai Lama sets a perfect example year in and year out…    

        Snarkyness aside, this is the source of personal efficacy. I’m pretty sure every head of household is supposed to be pretty savvy in this conceptual territory…every parent…every manager in every industry…everyone…

I am not only the medicine…I’m the rancor in the youth/on the streets…

Remember, even the most fallow/evil persona is but a transitive image meant to serve the perceiver with some sort of treat. All things are in service to the prospects of life, even the dark stuff, and all individuals have as their nature, pure love…