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Reflecting on Now from Energies of the Past: We Can Grow
A reflective mood defines me on this day every year, at least for the last few decades. April 15th marks the anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln, 155 years ago today. This year, perhaps more than ever, I reflect on the issues that President Lincoln believed were significant enough to stand against the South, even if it meant war. It could have been different, but it’s past. Today, I reflect on the fact that enslaving a human race for the sake of the economy reveals the misappropriation of human Ego.
Ego has its wonderful, appropriate function, but when we choose Ego energy over Heart energy, we will neither enjoy as rich of a life experience nor as happy — lower life frequencies instead of higher ones.
Walt Whitman’s responses to Abraham Lincoln’s death in poetic form offer reflection and celebration with a melancholy overlay, all symbolized in elements of Nature in “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” Meditating in and on Nature can reveal much about us. Allowing Nature to mirror us as individuals and in the collective yields healing.
Whitman considered three natural elements of a lilac tree, the song of a solitary, unseen thrush, and the appearance and waning of Venus: “Comrades mine and I in the midst and their memory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well, / For the…
