Embodied Knowing

Natural Law & Grounding God

Cliff at Dieppe, Claude Monet

With all the undoings simultaneously un-doing our world; their reverberating revelations shaking lose societal foundations as we deepen our recognition on the many ways we’ve been lied to and betrayed, experimented on, commoditized, pitted against each other and even killed…

We wouldn’t expect we’d have to ‘wake up’ to the obvious stuff too. Obvious stuff is… obvious.

We wouldn’t expect any layer-peeling needed to get at what’s self-evident; to get at what we know via our very existence.

Self-evident is just that. Our very being-ness is evidence and provides the basis for things we can’t not know. A built-in self-referencing knowing that includes a moral code. We know it’s wrong to kill, to steal, to deceive, etc.

This inherent knowing has been referred to as Natural Law.

Nonetheless, it’s on daily display that some kind of severing or interruption occurred at even this basic level. Increasingly it’s impossible to avoid the realization that it’s not just governments and institutions (those big, “impersonals”) that have been taken over by anti-human agendas - turning the world upside down - people have been taken over too.

As Tereza Coraggio of Third Paradigm, would say, (paraphrasing) people are inherently good, and when they are not, they’ve been corrupted by corrupt systems and their supporting narratives or stories (The Chosen People as example.)

An assumption I carried was that propaganda campaigns have a lifespan. In the last few years that assumption has been challenged - what if its propaganda campaigns throughout one’s lifespan? What if endless deceptive stories and corrupt systems is all we’ve ever known?

We’d all be Truman (the world a staged production). As Trumans, we’d still be subjected to ongoing new propaganda on top of old. Layers and layers of them.

That’s where we are in a nutshell. Our histories are full of lies and more and more of us are seeing through them.

This long history of corrupt systems - and the stories that go with them - go back far further than the few hundred years the United States has existed. Yet even in already distorted terrain, humans found ways to shine, to create, to feel joy, write poems, fall in love and basically make the most of it. We are incredibly adaptive.

We paint beautiful things too. (Monet, The Bridge at Argenteuil)

Even in midst of secretive and controlling agendas, remarkable assertions of human rights and dignity were claimed. The Declaration of Independence (DoI) being a famous example.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,

… to assume among the powers of the earth…

I’ve read the DoI multiple times and yet that line surprised me - how did I not latch on to it?

Our Declaration of Independence (from an encroaching tyrannical government) is staking its ground in the ground; grounding our rights to the earth itself.

… the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,

Nature’s God, not an elusive God of the sky, or one attached to a particular religion. The God referenced in this founding declaration, is Nature’s God; Nature being the evidence of God (self-referencing) and we, are part of Nature.

Can I say how much I love this?

Can I also say that it’s not this document or any other that holds the power to convey rights: They come from existence itself. They are innate. This declaration merely describes this inheritance and claims it as a self-evident. No ‘proof’ required.

It further claims that Nature comes with its own Laws. Because we are part of Nature these laws apply to us.

The writers put Nature front and center as the Source of our Rights, because it is. Our Rights are tied to our physical presence as human beings on earth. Without a body on a physical planet in its Natural terrain, there would be no need to assert human Rights.

We are part of the Natural world. Not supreme over, but part of.

Humanity itself is held within Nature. And this too is obvious; Nature provides for and is necessary to human life, not the other way round.

Yes, we are also multi-dimensional beings - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual - as I would assert the earth itself is. These aspects of our being are not separate of course, they work together - all are required.

Everything is energy, vibration and frequency happening within an intelligent sentient background. Plants respond to human thought and feeling as The Secret Life of Plants showed us decades ago. Human relationships with animals, make this clear too.

And regarding our connection to this earth, Heartmath Institute experiments have shown we can bring our hearts into coherence with the earth’s electromagnetic field to powerful effect, amplifying our frequency signal and improving our health and the larger world.

We surely understand now, the foundational truths claimed by our founders have been long abandoned and replaced with a convoluted legal system and seemingly endless ‘laws’ and ‘regulations’ that have acted to largely enslave and imprison us.

A legal system that works against us, and the claimed foundation of our Natural Rights.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

We hold these truths to be self-evident - this is the needed claim - that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator (the God of Nature) with certain unalienable Rights…

Certain truths are self-evident and require no supporting anything. Do we inherently know all humans are created equal? We do. Do we know we come with inalienable Rights? Of course.

We know this in our Being. When we see challenges to these claims, they come from the mental sphere; in minds that have become estranged from embodied knowing, disconnected from their hearts and even their literal place on the earth.

The massive series of manipulations that have dominated our world is due, in part, to this imbalance; placing our mental understanding of the world over and above our felt and intuitive aspects. (Major area of hijack.) Again, we need all of them - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Grounding God in Nature is as grounded as it gets. It means as long as we are here on earth, Nature’s God and its laws are present. It’s not untethered and hanging out in the spiritual realm. It’s there too, but not just there - it’s physically present.

Today, embodied knowing of our Natural, Creator-given Rights has been severed so thoroughly that well-meaning humans have been diverted down an authoritarian track in the very name of human equality.

And no wonder - we handed over that self-evident knowing and the direct-connect it offers to religious institutions who play of role of mediator. (As if.)

Nature’s God is not a God of a few, or a certain people, not a God to be feared, or that requires rules and rituals to please. Not a God that placed humans above the Natural world. No, this was a God of the Natural world, a world that sprang forth from it and which we are part of. Because our world is not chaotic and random and of clearly intelligent design - Natural Laws must exist.

(Importantly the founders’ claim does not exclude religious expression that incorporates other beliefs about God, as long as these beliefs do not infringe upon our Natural Rights.)

It make sense that we tend to feel most connected to Source in Nature. Nature refreshes us, calms us, nourishes and sustains us. It provides the remedies even to heal us. That we have experiences of reverence in Nature, for life and all its inhabitants.

…with certain unalienable Rights…

Not capable of being taken away or denied.

…that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Pretty simple.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

It’s painful to read that. How far we’ve strayed. Our reality is so starkly at odds with ‘consent of the governed’ that surely even the most numbed out normie can register the irony here, if not the outrage.

Our governments do not secure our Rights - they are gutting them. They operate not by consent but as outlaws who ignore and threaten them, and now even threaten our very lives.

Fortunately we don’t need them.

Our future depends on us and how quickly we can throw those governments off.

I’m passing on a documentary - just over an hour - I was directed to from Sue Cartwright and a recent post on her stack, Spiral Leaf. (Recommended)

The Nature of Natural Law

Now having watched the documentary (Mark Passio & The Science of Natural Law) and appreciated its clarity of presentation on this strangely hidden (yet intuitively obvious) subject, I wanted to share it.

Here is another take on Natural Law from Judge Napolitano. This is from July of 2020 and I think it’s well worth the hour.

One line from Napolitano’s lecture: Freedom lies in the human heart, and while it lies there, no army, no threat, no positivism nonsense can take it away, but it must do more than just lie there.

Exactly.

We’ve lost touch with something deeply innate to our human Nature.

As the elaborate scaffolding of lies and laws and fake authorities that came with this fabricated world comes down, we’ll be left with the amazing, life-sustaining, spirit-inspiring Natural world, its Laws, and our place in that.

We will again, remember.

The slave-system is falling apart. It won’t go willingly, we know. As we move into 2024 with all the expected chaos and unknowns, it’s good to remember, that we are still here on abundant earth, embodied beings part of the Natural world and its Laws.

I encourage everyone to view the documentary and lecture - I’d love to hear your comments. (There are lots of people who cover this subject, if you have references you’ve found helpful, feel free to share.)

If enough of us really understood this, I suspect we wouldn’t waste our time trying to buttress an immoral governing system. Trying to fix what is fundamentally flawed. We wouldn’t seek to write new legislation and find ‘good’ judges or ‘better’ candidates. While good intentions are behind that - and they may be useful to some degree as we transition - they are also redundant.

An aligning to Nature and Natural Law, isn’t fantasy or wishful thinking. It’s real. What we’ve been living in, isn’t real.

I’m not suggesting an easy transition. I am suggesting this is not impossible, in fact I suspect, it’s inevitable. Natural Law provides a clear guidepost in the direction of where Humanity must go because it is where Humanity naturally belongs.

Thanks for reading.

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