Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00027)

Interesting debate on this, most thought provoking.  Took me back to the
'60's and all those books on the "territorial imperative" and
experiments in elevators and such!

One could include other forms of communication of Love.  Global
meditations to heal the planet, for instance.  Or organizational feeding
of the starving in the once called Third World.

There's no doubt that at certain times in the physical we need contact.
I have heard from others and have experienced myself situations when I
was alone and in fear and asked for support and received a hug.  A big,
warm, enveloping hug.

A Hopi trained healer taught me how to hug so that the heart chakras
connected and then instructed me to go out and hug trees, before I
hugged other humans.

Internet postings have often provided me with a hug.

Hands on healers channel energy to massage the dis-eased physical.  A
smile, a song, a kind word or touch has been shown to cause people,
animals and plants to blossom.

On the other hand, there's much evidence too that those who experience
other states in meditation, astral travel, sense deprivation water tanks
and the such, do not tend to seek or experience physical contact.

All evidence of the task of dealing with the duality of energy within
the physical.

Perhaps it is not a matter of custom and such, but the responsibility of
those involved in the act of expression of Love (in either physical or
mental form) to "read" the state of the others and to give what is best
at the time.  Before one reaches a stage of "knowing" what is required
(without words), one can ask, "may I give you a hug (or whatever)".
Meaning, I feel I have Love to give, I would like to connect with you,
are you willing to connect this way with me.  Then to listen to the
answer.

Rather than to assume that we can go crashing around expressing our
emotions and perhaps invading the "space" of others in the moment?
Now crashing out :)
Annette