nov 1st, all saints day, my son's 18th birthday: he had his party in the afternoon so i went to the Pistis Sophia study that night.
Magdalene Circle meets in round rock which is not convenient. at all. minimally 45 minutes north of my house. i've learned to take mo-pac on the way there cause even on saturday afternoons, traffic on i35 can be a pain. but Usually, coming home, i35 is no trouble. which is good cause it's usually late, i'm usually tired (coming down from altered states) and it's a straight shot anyway. it's the shortest route. (altered states, as in, from meditation and study/discourse.)
on this particular sunday, i practically get to my exit but then traffic stops. i'm less than 100 yards from my exit (stassney) and it's a parking lot. emergency vehicles are racing by and i look ahead to see flames jumping up above the cars. the smoke and flames aren't slowing down so several of us turn off our cars, even the truckers turn their trucks off, and get out to stretch our legs. it was nice out, cept for the caustic cloud, and it was sorta nice to walk around a freeway where probably nobody ever just, you know, walks.
so we're walkin around. i'm really wantin some spray paint. guys are racing and rappin. there's a highway support that's within reach, that i can literally reach out and touch, and that's what i'm wishin i had spray paint for. i'd spray a equalateral cross within a circle with "WWMMD?" inside both arms, overlapping/sharing the first "M." but then it's pro'ly good i don't have spray paint cause i'd only have 100s of witnesses to report me.
where i was stopped on the freeway, there were 3 levels. below us 290/71 ran east/west (sorta). i was on i35 which runs relatively north/south and then above us, what the highway support, uhm, supported was the flyover from 290/71 to i35 northbound.
so then i get that i'm on the Neshama level here, lol. below us is Nefesh and above is Yechida and this highway support, that i can reach out and touch, is Ruach and Hayya.
not that i totally, truly *get* this. i'm still learning. but what i've learned is that two aspects of the 5 levels of the soul (Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Hayya, Yechida) are connectors. Ruach connects Nefesh with Neshama and Hayya connects Neshama with the infinite aspect of our soul, Yechida, that part of us that doesn't incarnate, that always resides with God.
it was an interesting metaphor that popped up, whether accurate or not, it made being stuck in traffic more interesting.
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