Month: January 2023

I just made a post about ‘It’s All Good’ and I mentioned that you quite often hear the phrase from the most ordinary people in the most ordinary circumstances.

I think it is interesting to consider that those people may not be simply parroting something they’ve heard,  may not be sarcastically commenting on events, but may actually be expressing a realisation they’ve come to.

Perhaps they’ve had NDE experiences and had it revealed to them.

Perhaps they figured it out.

Perhaps they were born some kind of guru with elevated ‘spiritual knowledge’.

Whatever.   The point is there may be a real enlightened one standing right next to you at any time.  They don’t all walk around in bedsheets you know.

And in that context I’d like to reiterate – I think/hope I’ve iterated it – that here is no enlightened guru.  Here is a statement of the current beliefs of a wonderer and a wanderer and a venue for others to engage in discussion and exposition of such beliefs.

That’s what the ‘fairdinkchurch’ is.  A statement of what we currently find to be real,  ‘fairdink’.

 

You often hear that: ‘It’s all good’.  Often just muttered in passing by someone apropos of some little thing or almost nothing.

That’s at the ordinary ‘mundane’ level of life isn’t it?

And then at the ‘other end’ where they get all arcane and highly technical and super intelligent and knowing they say pretty much that same thing.

For they say that All is God and All if Proceeding according to God’s Design and stuff like that:  So: All is good.

I say it. We say it.  In the ‘fairdinkchurch’.  We say, like the NDE people, that we come to earth voluntarily to inhabit a human body in order to learn something and somehow improve ourselves – our ‘selves’ being a spirit self or something, not this human body which changes all the time and eventually gets shuffled off.

So there’s people everywhere saying it up to and including right here.

But just what does it mean?  How much do we take it in?

Like it’s pretty easy to adopt the attitude that ‘It’s all good’ along with ‘if only other people would realise it’.  See?

I think that’s the commonest way. It is for me.  I think ‘It’s all good but this one doesn’t know it or that one doesn’t know and this, that and the other is bad..’

But I’m wrong aren’t I?  It is ALL good is the postulate.  People are doing what is more or less foreordained and overall it IS  ALL good. ALL.

So:  It is all good but that bloke is behaving in a shocking and bad manner.

Well: that’s GOOD.  Because it is ‘ALL GOOD’.  It really is.

And that’s not the same as saying we should accept his shocking behaviour, endorse it, mimic it,  meet it with something even more shocking is it?

We see this clearly enough with little kids.  We see them in kindy or child care or wherever and all sorts of behaviours are manifest, all sorts of ‘bad’ things happen but we look at it all and decide ‘It’s all good’.  Nothing to get excited about.  To be expected, we say, we think.  That’s overall all to the good in a bunch of children interacting. It all has to happen. There has to be some tension and some differences demanding adjustments here and there.

So little Michael bopped Mary on the head with a plastic toy and that’s BAD.

So we stop him doing it.  But overall it’s GOOD.  The children’s interactions are GOOD for they’re learning.  We can now teach Michael and Mary learned something.  See?

Well of course exactly the same should apply in the adult world.  The same does apply.

So what’s the point of that?

Well it can take the drama and excess unnecessary pain and such out of things.  You feel very little drama and pain when dealing with the children in the pre-school.  But when dealing with your peers in the adult world you can feel a lot of pain and drama.

Even when dealing with your own children.

That pain and drama makes the whole thing more difficult.  If we could take it away it would get easier just as it is easy to deal with the pre-school incidents it would become easy to deal with the adult incidents.  Or easier, anyway.

Mainly what I’m saying is that whatever happens whilst it may be inarguably awful and bad in itself it doesn’t change the fact that overall ALL Is Good!  It’s all good.

We allow, sometimes, I think, a local incident that is not good change our overall apprehension of the world so’s we wander around basically with a cast of mind that ‘It is not all good’.

Like ‘It was All Good until you came along.’

Or ‘It was All Good Until the Roof Fell In’.

But really it remains All Good.

Hard to believe, eh?