Been doing a bit of
gardening, since spring is finally here, which gives me time to think.
You may have heard the analogy that the mind/soul is like a garden.
You got to plant good things and pull the weeds. Simple yes? No, no,
not quite. . . You've got have the right tools and some knowledge of
plants. There's normal weeds you can just pull up, then there's
things like dandelions where you've got to dig up the roots, and
blackberries where you've got to protect you hands dig even deeper,
and worse still there's plants (I don't know the name of this plant)
that take over the whole garden during winter, having a runner root
that breaks really easy, making it almost impossible to get rid of
them.
If the weeds are really
bad, it's tempting to simply take out the hoe and tear it all up, but
might still be some good things in there. Asparagus come back year
after year as long as the roots are safe, and potatoes can regularly
spring up from missed roots or seeds. The best solution to that is to
keep up on weeding, once you've weeded the garden, it's easier to
remove young weeds as they appear, before they can take hold. Though
sometimes it's tempting to leave young plants, until you can tell
what they are. There was a lush green plant growing among my
sunflowers, and I thought it was a cherry tomato. It had tomato-like
leaves, tiny tomato-like flowers, and then little green berries. And
suddenly one day, they turned black (without any visible variation of
shades between green and black). It wasn't tomatoes, but another
member of the nightshade family, Black Nightshade, which can be
poisonous. Though pretty with the striking black berries, I have
nephews that know I grow food in the garden, so it had to go.
What does this have to do
with mental or spiritual health? Well, you have to recognize the bad
things in your life. You prepare yourself to deal with them, and
taking preemptive action almost always works better then
procrastination. It probably won't be easy, but you're doing it for
you, and you're doing it for those you love.
Okay, the mushy
motivational stuff is over.
OpenOffice likes to try to
predict what I'm typing. Typing 'better' it suggests 'betelgeuse',
and typing 'love' it suggests 'Lovecraft', this probably says
something about my mind garden. . .
I also looked into some books on Near Death Experiences and Reincarnation, so far nothing that doesn't make me scoff with skepticism about poor research and manipulation when it comes to supporting their personal theories, but I'll keep looking. Looking into a couple of investigative leads as well. I think it'd be interesting to investigate a fairy case. Even in these modern times, patches of trees in farmland left for fairies (or more logically, wildlife), are surprisingly common.
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