The Gumby Challenge

As I sit here on the cliffs and look down at my human self in the boat, a plethora of thoughts stream through my mind.

“I look so pathetic down there all alone in my boat.”

“It’s a big ocean; where is everybody?”

“Why aren’t there any other boats around?”

“Is there a regatta going on somewhere that I wasn’t invited to?”

However, at the moment, the most important thought for me is…How can I stay rooted in this Self point of view, this expanded consciousness, and, at the same time, reconnect with the part of my self which I left in the boat?? The part that exists in the ebb and flow of the main stream of life?

And to be honest, I don’t even know if that me in the boat is:

a. a part of Me
b. an aberration of Me
c. a transformable Me
d. a mini Me
e. none of the above

I feel disconnected from my human self up here, but not disconnected enough to leave this God Self I have discovered. Problem is that I don’t know how to gather up my God Self and bring It back to watery terra firma with me. I don’t know how to live in the ocean of devotion with humanoids and maintain my centered, peaceful, and (dare I say) spiritual perspective.

Like most of you, I have experienced peak moments where It all comes together with the internal stretch, the expansion of self to Self…those moments of awe and wonder and miracle that we all experience on occasion and look back on for the rest of our lives. I think it is possible to live that experience on a daily basis. Therefore, I am hesitant go back, raise the sails, and get on with my life without first anchoring into some kind of beginning awareness that I am navigating from a place that will eventually blossom into a full-time, full bodied mind/body connection: Me connected to me.

I wonder; is it possible to physically extend myself from my cliff Self to my boat self and remain on the cliffs? Can I stretch enough to generate a connected, whole and integrated fountainhead of flexibility, extension, and expansion with all of humanity and the Greater Field of Life via a deep, unbroken and fully integrated connection with my Greater Me and my human version of me?

Does any of this even make any sense?

Sense or non-sense, until I know how to deal with that me in the boat, I’m going to stay here and practice spiritual yoga by stretching through time and space while holding my position to remain faithful to the universal unknowns.

In the meantime, just think of me as Gumby (in a curly red wig).