My Rebecca questioned me about yesterday’s post thinking that I was to vague. She has called me on this before so maybe I ought to pay attention. So, maybe I will explain what was going on yesterday from a different angle.
So basically, we had the two tracks that were traveling along seemingly independent of each other. We had the purely medical track recorded by the hospital personnel. I don’t know what is even in there but it has to be volumes by now. Then we have this journal occurring here with over 1300 entries. It attempts to explain the day to day business of being Felipe with interactions with Catholicism, Cancer and Camino. Trying to connect the two tracks or exploring the area that lies between them is the effort that is interesting me at the moment. This is what I was writing about yesterday that maybe was vague.
It is sort of like trying to connect art and science perhaps or religion and science. At first there may seem to have little connection or that they are even opposed to each other. But underlying there may be all kinds of similarities. And maybe this knowledge would help both efforts. This is what I am trying to get at.
When I mentioned things that Jim and I talked about they are just snippets of all that went on. But they are things that stand out to me. And they may seem disjointed at first but they all lie in this area of interest.
One other thing that I remember now was this Jimism, that one definition of health is when a person is total unaware of the state. In other words they are aware of health only when they are unhealthy. They are then aware of the lack of it. When you are blissfully healthy you are healthy. This may seem simplistic but it is valuable for this exploration.
OK, let’s not forget the important stuff like praying for Betsy as she makes her Camino. Or for Las Vegas or for Puerto Rico. We all take our turns at the hard stuff. Love you, buoying you up, Felipe.
Dear Felipe,
A few of busy days lately, but have been reading despite not commenting. But this topic about the intertwined of the life of the soul with the life of the body, is one that interests me too, and deeply.
And there are many aspects of it, like what was that ignited first this awareness of the relationship (an emotional wound that thereafter expressed in back pain or a heart attack; a heart attack that left us vulnerable and our soul became exposed, etc, just to quote one possibility, but there are many more).
I am interested in what we can do with what we find as challenging in our lives, with the “dis-ease” whatever it is, because largely that will determine not “how we die” but it will determine “how we live” until that moment comes.
David Whyte, in the poem Santiago, wrote: “your loss brought you here”. And the Buddha recognized that in every life, there will be 1000 joys and 1000 sorrows, so maybe the purpose of the sorrows, the “dis-ease”, the loss, and whatever is challenging, is to give us a chance to start a new path, one where we have no choice other than to find the way to live it fully, mindfully, and meaningfully until it ends.
I am again too long! Let’s talk about this soon!
Love&hugs
Cris
PS: There is a branch in medicine studying this, it is called “psycho-neuro-immuno-biology” 🙂
Oh Cris ~ I am out of time. I took so long on today’s blog post. But we have plenty to talk about when you get here. I am following what you are writing, thanks, Felipe.x