LISTENING TO THE UNIVERSE!

Be a "son of the Universe"!

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Saturday, February 25, 2017
LISTENING TO THE UNIVERSE!

LISTENING
TO THE UNIVERSE!
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
1/14/2017

When I was a kid, I owned the world through what I knew as the McCullough Peaks. Such is a bit of a mostly barren mountain range that was behind our family farm outside of Powell, Wyoming. My brothers and I used to hike in those mountains quite a lot. I do not know what my brothers found there, but I found "salvation" - to some degree. I did not know it at the time that I wandered that region that salvation was at hand, but as life has taught me since, that is exactly what I found. In finding God - and value - in one place - and that is what I found in my hikes in the McCullough Peaks - it was really like finding God everywhere.

The reason for that is that since I was a kid hiking the McCullough Peaks with my brothers and a dear friend named "Donny," I have found that nowhere that I have gone in my whole life has it been any different, holy wise, than I found in the McCullough Peaks when I was a mere teenager. No matter where I have gone, the dirt has been mostly the same as I found in the McCullough Peaks; and comparing one dirt on this grand ole Earth to another dirt, that has taught me that there has been almost no significant difference between samples. If I really listen to that tale, it tells me almost as much as I need to know to realize the truth.

Now many will disagree with that, of course; but if it is true that the rocks of the McCullough Peaks are no less holy that the rocks in and around Jerusalem, what does that say? If I were to build a temple in the middle of the McCullough Peaks out of the rocks that are found there, what is the chance that my temple in the McCullough Peaks - and from the McCullough Peaks - would be somehow less holy than a temple in Jerusalem - made out of the rocks around there?

But, Mr. Bessler, temples are not really made out of rock. They are made out of spirit. Some would say, yes, they are made out of rock, physical wise, but the people who make them are spiritual; and thus what is made is spiritual and not physical.

I agreed with that as a kid. Before going forward and realizing that, in truth, one mound on this Earth is probably not any holier than another mound on this Earth, I went along with that notion that one place on this Earth could be holier than another place. Having in mind that who I considered friends, Moses & Jesus, walked the hills around Jerusalem, my eyes were told to look toward Jerusalem to find someplace holier than the McCullough Peaks, but that was before I questioned how it could be so?

Let us be honest. Compare the McCullough Peaks with some peaks found in "the Holy Land." How are they different? Reach down and grab a handful of dirt in the McCullough Peaks with your right hand. Now, grab a handful of dirt from "the Holy Land" with your left hand. Compare the two. What is the difference? Can it be that God is really more in one than the other?

Now, take a space ship to Mars. Having landed, grab a handful of dirt on Mars - and compare that with your handfuls of dirt from the McCullough Peaks and from "the Holy Land." Is there any difference in terms of the quality between each sample? Now, go on to Jupiter. If there is some dirt there, grab a handful of that too; and compare it to that which you found from the McCullough Peaks, "the Holy Land" and Mars. Again, ask yourself, is any of it any holier than another?

And that is what I call "Listening to the Universe." Ask the Universe about what is holy and listen to its tale. Then as a true "son of the Universe," dare to ignore befuddled mankind and exclaim the wonder of it all - including yourself! Then just tell whoever will listen - Wow!

I do believe that we fail so often as a human race - simply because we turn deaf ears to the Universe - and declare various inequality. We dare to see one place holier than another and we "act out" our insistence of rating one place "superior" to another place by rating one person over another, or one race over another, or one gender over another - or one nation over another, etc. We have not "Listened to the Universe" and the tale it should have told us; and we have ignored the true meaning of life.

What is that true meaning? That every thing is equal to every thing else. That is the simple truth we have failed to accept and understand; but I must admit that it did take me wandering away from the McCullough Peaks to realize the tale. I have wandered much and I have found that where I grew up is not really any different than where I have gone; and knowing that - and having "Listened to the Universe," I am completely confident that no matter where I go - in this life or another - it will always be the same. Virtue, for me, is to know every thing & every place is equal in value - and to act like it - knowing I am a "true son of the Infinite Universe and The Infinite God that is present throughout."

Or so I Believe!