Asha Elijah ~ All of the pieces

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This is the opening track on "Butterfly in Chains." 'All of the pieces' is a spiritually-themed ballad about the clarity of thought and feeling that comes from whole-hearted faith in spiritual reality, when engaging with the mystery of the world beyond us.

Egoic, mechanistic thinking tends to say: "I'll believe it when I see it!" This is actually an immature, entitled demand of God/spirit as a 'parent'. Spiritualised thinking, however, can say: "I believe IN ORDER to see." So the first move is made by us TOWARDS God... it's not a demand OF God.

Faith is not just a fanciful construct, it's a cosmic force like electricity! That's why it's said that 'faith can move mountains.' This is because faith can be a decision made without proof, without demanding anything in return or beforehand. It brings cosmic forces into earthly reasoning.

Faith is a gift that we can freely offer the spiritual world, and when we do that and maintain it, a channel is created from transient earth reality to the realm of eternity, through which we SEE. We see the bigger picture. We see the truth beyond our transient fantasies. We gain wisdom, and in this we feel guided.

This is how it is, poetically: our incarnation is a seed planted in time and space, and if we support its growth it becomes a rose, which we can then offer to our creator as a gift, given in love. This is a metaphor that occurred to me for the initiation path of awakening to higher consciousness.

The key ingredients of awakening are: gratitude; humility; faith; active acceptance and devotion. The obstacles to this are: doubt; fear; judgement; envy and the comfort-zone.

Some pro-life thinking examples are: spiritual reality exists; it can be known; 'I believe in order to see'; we are a spiritual being with a physical body; we have an eternal aspect; we have a unique higher purpose; we naturally strive for unity with source.

And some anti-life examples are: there is a rational explanation for everything; 'I'll believe it if I see it'; everything has a material origin; we have no free will; there is no God; there is no higher purpose; spirituality is fake news!

So I wrote and sang this song to share my faith in spiritual reality!

'Butterfly in Chains' is a title I plucked from a presentation on spiritual reality, where our eternal soul inside our mortal body was likened to a butterfly in chains.

Deciding to have faith in a mystery beyond our ordinary comprehension is actually a free-will choice, not dependent upon any religion or belief-system. It's a natural impulse in us, often buried beneath centuries of materialistic conditioning. It's a natural yearning of the soul for source.

It's an act of love; of devotion; a gift given freely.

It is the highest form of faith... actually the only true expression of faith. Lesser expressions of faith are when we become faithful after a life-changing (or near-death) experience, or when someone we trust persuades us to believe in transcendent reality.

But to simply decide to have faith in spiritual reality, without proof, is the game-changer. It is a kind of active surrender. Passive surrender is often fatalistic, resigned or even cynical, so that's not it. That's an 'attitude'; a grudge!

To have faith in the mystery of spiritual reality is actually to simply believe that we are loved in ways we don't always recognise or understand. For example, take the paradox of illness.

Ordinary consciousness might see illness as a problem; a curse; a warning; something random or a punishment. But higher consciousness sees illness as the HEALING, not the symptom. Illness comes because we are already sick in our soul, due to our conditioning, belief systems or life-style; it comes as a process of healing and cleansing.

So what of fatal illness? Well, this can seem like a hardcore issue, but sometimes death is the healing from the point-of-view of the eternal soul, rather than the transient ego.

I think about that kind of thing a lot, relatively speaking... illness; accident and so on! Personally, my wiser self is trying to prepare my little ego for existence beyond the transient, and to accept that death in the physical sense is release and re-birth in the spiritual sense.

The psychologist Carl Jung noticed that the dreams of the dying (whether known by the person or not) produced images of initiation, like birth; graduation; conformation, and marriage. So death was viewed by the soul as simply a graduation or initiation into another reality... not the terror of the void.

My aspiration is to continue to live and then to die with as much grace and integrity as I can muster, based around active acceptance; gratitude; humility; faith and devotion, and to offer my life as a rose to my creator grown from the seed I was given at birth.