Hoosier Heaven

Description

As the Garden of Eden cooled from creation, God’s first decree to Adam was to partake only from the Tree of Life, not the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Unmeasured Knowledge is not experientially assimilated Life truth. Live in heavenly awareness or lost to confused ignorance. God so forewarned.Conventional human conditioning facilitates misperceiving this reality’s dimensional nature as continual … not impermanent. In rushes naive attachment to the imagined unchanging essence of things with uncompromised clinging to an ego-managed sense of an unreal “I am”, postured in a very real emotional minefield. Each is liable for the nature of knowledge vindicating their Life wisdom.Hoosier Heaven cites living manifestations of time-suspended cognitively etched cerebrally stored abstract theological notions. These experientially unverifiable spiritual signposts get intellectually planted in the continual specter of human imagination. When thinking “heaven”, blindly trusted book/chapter/verse adopted from time and translation-worn sandal-clad biblical promise still leaves many gazing hopefully upward, yet to detect the Tree of Life truth vibrating within.Lau Tzu originated either/or insight that while borrowed book wisdom lacking personal experiential tie-in might allow one the strength to conquer the world, through engendered mind/body harmony witnessing Life manifest, the wisdom-enriched self-knowledge gained allows instead conquering the self-ego, enlightened about “heaven ’n hell”. Siddhartha taught, as he did, how self-training that harmony allows self-training the same Tree of Life wisdom God warned Adam to ingest. His last word prescribed diligence to understand impermanence.How individuals characterize this reality’s time/space nature, transitory or continual, echoes from their every decision. It determines the cumulative nature of acquired knowledge forming the collective substance of wisdom personified through their worldview … the nature of their mind.The cause/effect relational justice coding impermanence keeps synched together reality’s only web of ageless wisdom. Its universal pulse ripples across this sole/soul pool of Life wisdom, often misconstrued to satisfy various factions’ contrarily conditioned purpose.It’s the Garden of Eden Tree of Life fiber of sustenance. Omnipresent consistency in this reality’s time/space transitional relationship seeds humanity’s steadfast faith in newly surfacing Life truth, while keeping this world’s material presence in its dimensionally balanced perpetual state of fully animated live “present moment” feed, since before God’s virgin commandment to partake only of the Tree of Life was violated and man’s ignorance created need for ten more.

About Dave McCaslin

David McCaslin was raised in central Indiana and from age seven until graduating from New Castle’s only high school, he attended a local church 3 times a week with his parents and three brothers. He was the only family member who never blindly accepted Christianity’s templated claim that its god had a living presence in shaping the heartbeat of this ephemeral reality’s ever-changing present moment flash-in-time.He never took the blind leap to become a Christian.Having been raised under semi-fundamental living circumstances may have left the author with somewhat of a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude towards Christian wisdom. The insights that surfaced in writing this text has exposed and helped bring clarity to the miscued rational those fundamental beliefs are founded in, bringing him closer to realizing emotional balance.At age 21, he barely survived a car accident that left him weak and feeling quite grateful just to be alive. During recovery, out of innate curiosity and the gratitude for life itself, he wanted to consciously touch the buzz of life to intrinsically witness it in action.He intuitively felt this living force had an intrinsic connection … that this could only be done where he had the capacity to actually feel or touch life itself and that was inside his living body.At the time, he made no association between the intellectually sketched cognitive impressions left from the rather abstract religious theology’s template he was taught at church and the living message he was seeking with his self-designed sensual method for reaching this end of consciously touching the living presence of life’s essence.It took twenty-five years before, while hearing the end of a book review on an obscure internet radio station, describing how a certain strain of a spiritual discipline uses the same method he had engineered to feel the buzz of life, that he made any conscious connection between an intellectually learned and remembered religious template and its present moment sensual incarnation.Theravada Buddhism uses the act of feeling the buzz of life to self-train the mind control to develop a wisdom-enriched enlightened understanding about the nature of the ways of this impermanent reality to undo the human ignorance that causes human suffering…. Two years high school NFL debate finals, 1 year as high school tennis team captain, 16th in ’75 New Castle, Indiana High School class of 354 students… Four years Snow Ski Instructor, four years National Ski Patrol Slope Leader Long Mountain and Nashville Alps Ski Resorts… Indiana University Business Management/Administration degree, Bloomington campus… Owned restaurant, land surveying company, real estate broker/appraiser/ investor company… 6th Dan Master Tae Kwan Do … Chung Park, Grandmaster 9th Dan… Published 1st book … Hoosier Heaven… Published 2nd book … Fig Leaf Wisdom