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Dear Readers,<\/p>\n
As winter arrives in my beautiful country, I’ve been reflecting on how these shorter days of the snow and ice season lead to introspection and connection with the soul.<\/p>\n
One thing I’ve often found is that all the answers we need are in nature.\u00a0 There are no lies or half-truths in nature. Everything, absolutely everything in nature reflects reality, truth, universal laws, everything we need to understand life and evolve to our fullest potential.<\/p>\n
There comes a time when we must hibernate. There comes a time in life when we must, like the earth, burrow under a white blanket of snow and go into the subtle regions of the soul that are not always accessible when we are in our daily activities. This access isn’t always possible in meditation, because access to reality is often tainted by our conditioned thoughts. Dreams, journeys into the subtle worlds, pilgrimages of the soul into the light of spirit, are essential.\u00a0 We don’t always bring back the conscious memory of these journeys into the days of everyday life.\u00a0 But that’s not necessary. The soul remembers everything.\u00a0 If it doesn’t give you the memory, it’s because it’s not useful or necessary. But rest, a break from the daily grind and the incessant activity of modern life, that’s essential.<\/p>\n
We are eternal. The soul will never know death. There are human bodies today that have experienced the divorce of the soul, that is to say that certain people that I see no longer have a soul, or rather that the connection with their soul has been severed.\u00a0 To give primacy to money, power, material, work, social conventions and the aims of this modern global civilization that destroys nature and seeks to enslave human beings to the system, no better way to lead the soul astray into illusions and falsehoods that gradually sever our connection with our immortal being.\u00a0 It’s always possible to reconnect with our essence, and that’s what the stillness of winter silence invites us to do.<\/p>\n
In the Canadian winter, many animals like the bear sleep for long periods and go into hibernation.\u00a0 In fact, as is taught in many health systems in various cultures, we can cut back on sleep during the long days of summer, but sleep deprivation during the short days of winter can take its toll on our health.<\/p>\n
We will return, willingly or not, to the teachings and wisdom of nature. That’s why the heritage of indigenous peoples is so important.\u00a0 Those who lived simply in the bosom of nature, with only the tools made by their own hands, had a health and wisdom superior to what we see today in our modern societies.\u00a0 What’s important to understand is that the natural world around us, which extends to the distant galaxies, reflects the laws, wisdom and knowledge we need for maximum development of our health, love life, harmonious community relationships, correct thinking, applicable philosophy and the needs of the soul and spirit.<\/p>\n