FEATHER FALL "...following the flight of a bird." Sunrise/Afternoon February 9, 2016

SUN STREAMING DIRECTLY ALIGNED ON DUNES PATH DIRECTING/INFUSING
FEATHER FALLS** INTO THE ENERGY OF EVERSHINING FORM
(this occurred at end of sunrise 2/8/16)
 

 
PHOENIX RISEN/RISING
SANS ANY VOLITION
PERFECTLY PLUGGED INTO COSMIC GRACE
POOFED IDO’S ADO
THE VAST CORE PEACE THAT PASSETH ONLY EARTHLY UNDERSTANDING
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3:37 AM-2/9/16

**FEATHER FALL: An Anthology - Laurens Van der Post
a VITAL book in my life...had not thought of, or read, this book in many years....
until this morning when remembering yesterday's post sunrise experience...
...see slideshow at top of sand dunes path on this link:
  http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/a-seed-of-clear-seeing-milestone-sunriseafternoon-february-8-2016

But then it was suddenly as if a voice within him
was commanding him to look up at the forbidden summit
and as he did so he saw,
in the light of one of the greatest of mythological African sunsets,
a pure white feather fluttering down from on high towards him.

He put out his hand and grasped the feather and,
they who told me the story said,
he died content.

When I asked them what the name of this great white bird was, they told me:
'The bird has many names but we believe it was the Bird of Truth.'
From the writings of Laurens Van der Post
http://home.earthlink.net/~hipbone/IDTWeb/LvdPReq.html

The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin,
and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self;
and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design
but as someone following the flight of a bird.

Laurens Van der Post

There is a small bird
Living behind the skin.
Upon hearing its song,
Worries and the world
Lose their importance.
Wu Hsin
(also on yesterdays' OceanSpeak)

I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity
of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. 
A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. 
There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest;
and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security,
its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values
has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree
that may produce the most dangerous consequences.

Laurens Van der Post

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening
than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens Van der Post

In his other great book about the Bushmen, The Heart of the Hunter (1961),
Sir Laurens wrote that,
‘mere contact with twentieth-century life seemed lethal to the Bushman.
He was essentially so innocent and natural a person
that he had only to come near us for a sort of radioactive fall-out
from our unnatural world to produce
a fatal leukaemia in his spirit’
(p.111 of 233)
http://www.humancondition.com/freedom-expanded-book1-sir-laurens-van-der-posts-vision

The Bushmen, being Christ-like themselves in their innocence,
weren’t in need of Christianity.
They didn’t need a sound person to defer to, live through, be ‘born-again’ through as a result of being so upset they could no longer afford
to trust in and live through themselves.
They weren’t that upset.
In his 1985 book Black Robe, the Northern Irish novelist Brian Moore recorded this revealing comment made by an American Indian to Jesuit missionaries in Canada about the comparative innocence of native people:
‘It is because you Normans are deaf and blind
that you think this world is a world of darkness
and the world of the dead is a world of light’
(p.184 of 256).
http://www.humancondition.com/freedom-expanded-book1-sir-laurens-van-der-posts-vision

Elsewhere in his writings about the Bushmen, Sir Laurens wrote of
‘This shrill, brittle, self-important life of today is by comparison a graveyard
where the living are dead and the dead are alive
and talking [through our soul] in the still, small, clear voice of a love and trust in life that we have for the moment lost…
[there was a time when] All on earth and in the universe were still members and family of the early race seeking comfort and warmth through the long,
cold night before the dawning of individual consciousness
in a togetherness which still gnaws like an unappeasable homesickness
at the base of the human heart’
(Testament to the Bushmen, 1984,
pp.127--128 of 176).

Sir Laurens further recognized the battle between our original innocent instinctive self and our newer ‘individual consciousness’ when he wrote,
‘I spoke to you earlier on of this dark child of nature, this other primitive man within each one of us with whom we are at war in our spirit’
(The Dark Eye in Africa, 1955,
p.154 of 159).
http://www.humancondition.com/freedom-expanded-book1-sir-laurens-van-der-posts-vision

As the natural coherence of the world vanishes,
there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.”
Laurens Van der Post

Above shell piece found near The Rock, reminds of FEATHER that fell on us at end of sunrise yesterday..
..and is another reminder of FEATHER FALL - Laurens Van der Post
see the slideshow here of the feather that fell yesterday....
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/a-seed-of-clear-seeing-milestone-sunriseafternoon-february-8-2016