Sweet Mystery Tour Chapter 9

When I first arrived on this planet I felt like the Velveteen Rabbit. Like the stuffed bunny who wanted to be a real rabbit, I wanted to be a real human.

Then came the 60's, the Beatles, the Viet Nam war, and I wanted to be a real hippie. I remember learning how to say the "F" word driving down an American freeway in a wingtipped push-buttoned convertable yelling the "F" word outloud for the first time in my life. This was the time of learning to say "no". "No" to war, "no" to make-up and meat, "no" to anything that could keep me from learning how to be real.

Then came the New Age and new thought and saying "yes" to life. "Yes" was about opening up again after building huge protection walls around my heart. "Yes" and "Wow" to the wonder of life and the door cracking to the possibilities of who I really was.

Now I'm learning to say "I don't know." After so many years of trying to understand what this planet is about and who I am, after so long trying to become human, I find that the more I "think" I know, the less I really know.

So I am turning homeward in the spirit of not knowing. In the spirit of surrender to the deeper mystery of what it means to be truely Real.

In the Spirit....let journey number 9 begin.