Angels and Vampires and
New Ideas--Stay With Me
If you think
that the title of today’s post is a little odd, you’re right; if you don’t,
well, I don’t even want to get into it.
So I’ll just
jump right in and explain. A few weeks ago, when I drove my brain into a writer’s
block, I turned on the radio to dance my way back to normal. I heard an artist
I hadn’t heard in years. Terrence Trent, D’Arby was crooning his raspy, soulful
voice through Sign My Name.
I love his
voice and began to wonder where he had been and why I hadn’t heard him. I did a
quick search and found that he, like so many artists had gone independent. I
also learned that he had changed his name to Sananda Maitreya. He had also released
volumes 1 and 2 of albums he’d named Angels
and Vampires and just when I was
about to laugh and shake my head, I came upon and interview he’d done and actually
listened to what he had to say.
Maitreya
said that there is an epic battle between the Angles; those who recognize themselves
as a vessel for spirit and the Vampires, those who would keep the light blotted
out so they can continue to manipulate in darkness.
“Wow! This sounds
like the novel I’m working on.” I said out loud. My daughter asked what I was
talking about and before I could explain she was shaking her head and laughing
at me.
Here’s my point and the lesson for
today; we don’t know that we don’t know something until we look with new eyes
and child-like curiosity.
Today, allow
your dance break to turn into a research project and let yourself wander down
the lane of “I wonder.”
You need to learn new things on a
regular basis. Your brain is only 2% of your body mass and yet it uses about
26% of your energy. Learning something new requires even more energy, but by
learning new things, you have made it easier to learn more. Each new idea
creates a new pathway through your brain connecting one road to another and
your capacity for learning is greater.
Finding
Maitreya’s Angels and Vampires was
not the prize; it was following the path that led me there.
Learn something new and
then allow yourself to wonder until you learn something else.
Be you, be well, be a
seeker.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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