Don’t Let the Gravity Get You Down

I don’t know what kind of woo-woo they taught you in school, but I can tell you this: there’s more going on outside of time and space than you or I could ever pin down in a microscope slide or lab test. I’ve lived nearly a century in this skin, and I’ve tinkered with machines, healing, and metaphysics long enough to say it plain: You are not your body. You are the energy running through it.

Outside of this dust ball we call Earth, you are still you, only more. You are one with the Source of all life. I know that might sound too big to swallow if you’re still wrapped up in the grind of clocks, calendars, and religion. But you are life as it relates to this planet, eternity as it brushes against time, and infinity pressing gently into the finite world of forms and faces.

You are the Spirit animated, not some disconnected cog in the meat machine. And here’s the kicker: there’s only one Spirit, but an endless buffet of bodies, personalities, and expressions. The shapes may vary like clouds across the ridge, but the water vapor is the same. Every being, every critter, every feather, fur, and face? They’re all little expressions of the same uncontainable Life Force. You are part of that source and within it to have experience for yourself, as well as for it.

Most folks are stuck in a limited idea of God, some well-behaved holy grandpa with a beard, sitting in judgment. That’s not the Source I know. Source isn’t here to be worshipped with somber faces and uncomfortable shoes. Source is wild. It sings through thunderstorms, dances in firelight, and laughs through the newborn cry of calves in spring. If you’re walking around thinking you have to be “good enough” to deserve a sliver of that, well, you’ve already missed the point because no matter how hard you try, can’t not have experiences for it.

You are it.

But I get it. We live under gravity, and I’m not just talking about the kind that keeps your boots on the dirt. There’s another kind; the gravity of your own thoughts, your assumptions, your interpretations of reality. And it’s heavy. It holds your consciousness down like a steel gate over a spring.

To rise, you don’t need to drop your body or become some monk floating in a cave. You just have to drop the story. The labels. The fear. You have to stop believing you are the form and start realizing you’re the force that animates that form.

The shift I’m talking about is not a religious conversion. It’s not joining a cult or wearing a white robe. It’s more like remembering. You already are one with Source. You just forgot. Your rational mind, like a jackhammer, keeps chewing away at the truth with all its definitions and “certainties.” But truth doesn’t live in the head. It lives in the now. And the now I’m talking about is not something you think, it’s something you become.

Let’s talk about thought for a second. You want to know why life seems bleak or why disease spreads like wildfire in the minds of men? Because most folks are addicted to negative thought, an inner commentary poisoned by fear and falsehood. And the universe, like a good shepherd, can’t give you full access to your creative power while you’re still sowing discord. It’d be like handing a loaded rifle to a toddler.

But the moment you shift, when your thoughts turn toward love, life, and creativity, something beautiful happens. That’s when Source pours itself into you. That’s when you get the download, clear, loving awareness. First impulse, always clean. It doesn’t argue or analyze. It just knows.

Pay attention to that. Your first spontaneous impulse, when it rises clean like spring water from your gut, that’s not just instinct. That’s your Life Manager speaking. And let me tell you, the Life Manager part of your subconscious doesn’t mess around with second-guessing.

Now, you’ve been wandering for a long time, away from your natural state of grace. You got tangled in the energetic spiderweb of this dimension: materialism, bonded energy, definitions. You’ve mistaken the container for the contents. And the longer you misidentify what you are, the more scattered your life energy gets. That’s why people feel exhausted, sick, and unfulfilled.

So, here’s my advice:

Let it go. All of it. The beliefs that told you you’re small. The fears that bound you to the floor. The concepts that cheat you of your destiny. Let ‘em burn.

You don’t need to invent a new you. You just need to uncover the you that was always there; the force of animation behind your face, that runs in and through all life, everything that is in time, space, and beyond.

Let that vibrant, playful Source of all life shine through your form like sunlight through morning mist. Walk with it. Have fun with it. Let it flow through your heart and hands and dream through your sleep.

You are the living revelation of Source, showing up in human skin for more experiences.

Don’t wait for heaven. Don’t wait for death. Don’t wait for approval. Step back into the state of grace that’s been here all along, simply waiting for you to climb back aboard.

And don’t let the gravity get you down.

~ Herb Roi Richards
Old-timer, Rancher, Naturalist, and Lover of the Wild Spirit Within