HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY FARM…….is back!

As the three major festivals of Easter, Wesak and Goodwill approach, I find myself drawn once again to the Djwal Khul material, as recorded by Alice Bailey at the beginning of the last century. Below is an article from the current Lucis Trust newsletter.

“The new materialism” is the curious term used in the writings of Alice Bailey to describe the potential of the spiritual forces most prominent at this time of year in the annual cycle of energy-flow, the higher interlude of the three spiritual Festivals. So powerful is the materialism which has led to the global financial crisis of the past year, and so shocking are the materialistic values which the crisis has revealed, that it is difficult to imagine how a “new materialism” could possibly be spiritual. Yet so it is. The depths of human selfishness in the handling of money, the densest aspect of material substance, have been brought to recognition for everyone to see. In spite of the damage done to the world’s economy, and without denying the hardship which this crisis has caused for many, nevertheless it has the potential to bring about a transformation of human values. If the crisis can ignite not only the willingness but the need to share on the part of all people of goodwill, then something of enduring spiritual value will have been achieved.

The spiritual energies now pouring into the planet make this a real possibility, for the bringing of pure spirit into contact with material substance is the unique task of the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order. This will be the governing ray of the incoming age and therefore a potent spiritual energy acting in conformity with the divine Plan for the coming cycle. The past 2000 years of conditioning by the sixth Ray of Devotion and Idealism have endowed humanity with a legacy of spiritual aspiration which has fostered a belief that spirituality is found apart from the outer world, by disengaging one’s attention from the realm of the tangible and reorienting it to the abstract levels of the inner realms. As the writings of Alice Bailey point out, “It is this failure to work intelligently, and I would like to add, lovingly with substance and so bring it into right relation with the dense outer form that has made the last two thousand years produce so disastrously a mismanaged world and which has brought the population of the planet into its present serious condition.”

The outcome of this failure is a separation of the physical plane from the spiritual, leading to a cleavage which can be likened to that of a “split personality.” The schism thus created is perhaps most visible in the mutual antagonism demonstrated by certain quarters within the fields of science and religion. In some religious realms there is an effort to silence or at least curtail a serious scientific study of evolution, while from certain scientific quarters periodic attacks are launched on religious belief with little appreciation for the subjective realm and the beauty of faith, “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Perhaps the loudness of the voices coming from the far corners of both the scientific and religious fields is simply verification that a climax is being reached in their long and mutual antipathy. Viewed in terms of energy, conflict generates light and eventual emergence into right control of forces. Thus, when conflict is seen as a spiritual instrument, it can bring about emergence from wrong controls, selfish desires, and misguided principles. As the issues become increasingly clear to human minds and the weight of public opinion gains sufficient momentum, the duality of opposites can shift to equilibrium, and balance can be restored. The process of release begins with bringing the issues before the eyes of men so that people can see clearly and choose correctly. This is the task of the new age workers, Alice Bailey said: “to bring the two apparent opposites of spirit and matter together, to demonstrate that they are not antagonistic to each other and to demonstrate that throughout the universe there is only spiritual substance, working on and producing the outer tangible forms”.

This year, which begins a cycle of Emergence/Impact on Public Consciousness, offers a significant opportunity to mobilise public consciousness to a recognition of the spiritual values which underlie “the new materialism” and which will demonstrate as the great spiritual “Principle of Sharing” in human relationships from the inter-personal to the planetary level. This is not an idle dream but an actual possibility, Alice Bailey wrote, if we keep in mind that there will still be selfish people, but “certain fundamental ideals will motivate business, being forced upon business by public opinion.”

With the incoming seventh ray steadily gaining power, there is a growing realisation of the divinity that exists within the visible, tangible world and permeates the human, animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. Growing numbers of human beings are recognising that the way they handle the material substance in their possession is a spiritual responsibility and a gauge of their spiritual understanding. This, too, is an expression of the incoming seventh ray—“the great impulse which will bring into the light of day all that is to be found clothed with matter”, leading eventually to the revelation of spirit and of the hidden glory. And thus the stage we live in today, when “all things are being shouted from the housetops”, as Christ foretold, and all hidden things are being made plain.

I’ve booked myself in for a Space Clearing Workshop in April in Cork with a woman from California (where else?!). Five days of intensive practical training and I will be a qualified stuffshifter with a ’stifikit to prove it!

I also bought a book called The Primal Wound. Well worth reading.

Ah, yes, things are definitely on the move again in the tortured depths of the Higgledy Piggledy Farm psyche! In a very good way.

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Good luck!

Yes indeedy, no farm, no pigs, no hens, no bad water, no field of weeds, no rats, no muck, no draughty rooms and no psychobitch and NO mortgage.  Woo..Hoo!! Just the brand name. Bread, vegetarian pies, bracks, teas, coffees. And whatever else takes my fancy. Coming soon to a beach near you!

Vile January is gone for another year and my mojo came back with the sunshine, so all friends are warned that their respite from emails over the past few months was only temporary and you can expect your inboxes to be brimming again soon.

I have now shed just over 10lbs and hugely delighted with myself, neither a chocolate nor a crisp has passed my lips since mid January. No wine either but since I hardly ever drink here, reserving my alcoholic adventures for trips home to SA, I can hardly congratulate myself for that!

I am past the halfway mark on the opus magnum as well as up to my tonsils in horses.

This Sunday I shall roll out the Higgledy Piggledy Farm mobile coffee shop at Annestown for the first time this year and I may be learning to speak Arabic soon, but more on that next time.

This year is looking highly auspicious and proper order, says me. I deserve it!

Another week passed and 3Kg lighter. I have my manuscript divided into thirty chapters, madly delighted about that. I am ahead of schedule now. Baking is starting to pick up, as is the weather and my shoulder is almost back to normal. And I am beginning to believe I may actually crack a month in South Africa in May.

Doesn’t look like anything is happening in Kilsteague. All the frenzied activity has come to a halt since well before Christmas. Maybe the bank has repossessed it. I’ll definitely be going to that auction!

I set myself a target to finish one chapter a week of the second draft of my novel and despite a perfectly horrid week I actually managed to finish chapter one yesterday. Hugely pleased with myself. Especially since it has been my lifelong tendency to set impossible targets for myself and land up never finishing anything.

The weather has really got to me this year. Miserable, dark and depressing. And that’s only my state of mind!

Popping down happy pills as fast as I can get them and indulging myself in fantasies of holidays in Spain and South Africa.

This is what she said in July 2008, around the time she was bonking Kirk McCambley.

“Let’s look at it. Can you think of anything more vile than man and man or woman and woman and sexually abusing children?

Er….yes Mrs Robinson, actually we can.

What I say I base on biblical pronouncements, based on God’s word. I am amazed that people are surprised when I quote from scriptures. It shows the churches either aren’t preaching God’s word or are watering it down,”

Ohhhhhh, isn’t she just toooooooooooo precious?

Mrs Robinson added: “I cannot think of anything more sickening than a child being abused. It is comparable to the act of homosexuality. I think they are all comparable. I feel totally repulsed by both.”

Ahhh, Mrs Robinson, some of us feel utterly revolted by the thought of a 59 year old woman shagging a 19 year old boy, especially if that woman is you.

She then said that her comments were not made out of hate.

“I am trying to reach out to people. I try to reach out and love them. That is what Christ teaches us. He wants us to help all people and give them an opportunity. We all have the opportunity to come to know the Lord Jesus Christ. Anything I say is out of love. I am not hate-mongering. I cannot leave my Christian values hanging at the door when I go into politics.

Indeed.

“I am speaking out more now because we are getting it more and more rammed down our throats that the minority views are more important than the majority views. I am not trying to alienate anyone. Anyone can come to me with any problems. I do not turn anyone away.

Oh yes, Mrs Robinson, we know that now. Fifty thousand quid’s worth of problems was it? And I’ll throw in a bit of nookie too.

“I would never water down anything with the scriptures and I don’t think I should. I find it (the controversy over her comments) amazing, if not unexpected, as these days Christians are persecuted for their views but that will not stop me. There will be a judgement day and when I am judged I want to know that I did all I could to spread the word of God.”

Ah yes. Judgement day has indeed come. And now Mr Robinson is going to lose his job, too. And Mr Paisley? Well. Mr Paisley is probably on life support by now! I can only imagine the conversations going on at Maison Robinson this evening.

I can’t type any more I am laughing so much. What a shower of hypocrites.

I am surprised at how liberating it feels to be getting rid of all my stuff. That hadn’t been my intention when I left Higgledy Piggledy Farm. I had thought I might move in with mother for a few months whilst I considered my options, get rid of whatever was surplus to requirements and scale down the baking business to focus on finishing my novel. But then I got on a roll. The fever overtook me and before I knew it I was flogging everything I could lay my hands on. I discovered that nearly everything is surplus to requirements. Which left me with less and less to take care of. Which freed up my head. I sold the second range today and now I’m even going to sell the precious Aga, which Gillian bought for me in a fit of booze induced generosity! I might never bake again! Quelle horreure!

Bloody marvellous actually.