Can We Find Our Salvation In The Tub?14:25 May 30 2007
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Now, I originally addressed this issue in an online blog on 15 February, 2007…I think it’s time we expanded upon the topic. And I know; you think I’m off my rocker. Well maybe I am. However, unless you know me personally and have a PhD after your name, it isn’t really your call, is it? No, I didn’t think so.
But I pose this as a serious question. Humans tend to over-analyze just about everything (as evidenced by this article), but cats don’t. Perhaps we should learn something more from the cats we own; or should I say, the cat that allow us to keep them. Any why not, after all, didn’t we once worship cats as Gods? Have they ever forgotten that worship?
I don’t have children and I admittedly don’t have much of a life, so I spend a lot of time watching my two cats, Peter and Parker. They can be complete opposites, so their interactions range from humorous to soothing. Parker is soothing almost all of the time, but sadly he isn’t the focus of today’s article. Peter, on the other hand, could only be described as soothing when asleep. He does the funniest things; in fact, I’m not sure if he’s aware he’s a cat! He chirps like a bird, sits on his haunches like a rabbit (think the picture of the ‘Velveteen Rabbit’)…and don’t even get me started on him and the way he will stand up and lean against the wall (think of being arrested and having the police yell “SPREAD ‘EM” at you!). More than anything else though, I think Peter loves the water. Well, at least things that either contain or have contained water.
With the amount of time my cat spends in the tub, it seriously begs the question – can we find our salvation in the tub? Peter isn’t yet a year old so he loves to be held and petted still (you know, a form of worship), but even more, he just loves to be in the tub. He does remember he’s a cat long enough to make sure there’s no standing water in the tub, though. As I said, Peter is funny; he really loves his tub. He will sit on the bathmat waiting for either myself or my husband to get done with our shower, not moving the entire time we’re in the shower…he plays in the tub, going so far as to chase his ball around in there…he has even been known to just sit in the tub and stare at the wall upon occasion. Once when I was in the bathroom he ran to the doorway, paused, and then JUMPED to the tub, which is a good six feet away! Peter is truly a sight to behold. I guess I should have added hops like a kangaroo to the above list because he will randomly jump straight in the air and land a few feet away. I really need a video camera, eh? (Anyway, back on topic!)
This erratic behavior of Peter’s has me thinking though; don’t we all love the tub (let’s not prevaricate here)? Granted, most of us prefer showers, when available, to get clean, but don’t we all enjoy a good soak in the tub? And aren’t we discussing salvation, not cleanliness?
Soaking in the tub relaxes us, it soothes us, and it comforts us. A lot of people are born under water signs and have a real affinity with water. Some of the more eclectic of us are able to gather energy from water. How, you ask? Well, the how’s will vary for all of us, but water, just like almost everything else, is a living energy. It contains quite a bit of energy, in fact.
Let’s consider the water, shall we? Water is one of the few things that you can remove from its original source (lake, river, pond, sea, ocean, etc…) and it will still be considered “living” with a viable energy for quite an extended period of time. While no source of energy will last forever, water does have quite a good “shelf life”. It comes into the tub from a “source”, so gathering energy isn’t a problem.
It’s been established before today that even the more “mundane” of us, those not lacking energy, are able to work with energy and gather it – Pagans do it when working with rituals. So it’s natural that even those who might not understand what they’re doing are taking in energy periodically. While I dislike the separation caused by “us” vs. “them”, I would like to point out there really isn’t much difference: we all consume energy externally naturally, but some of us do so because we must whereas others do so because they can. It’s unconscious, and maybe not always necessary due to their own ability to create energy which we lack, but there it is.
Just think of all the uses for water these days; we baptize with water, we put out fires with water, we cook with water, we cleanse with water, we slake our thirst with water. Heck, we have Holy water for the Catholics and “Unholy” water for the not-so-traditional Ozzy followers. Our own bodies are comprised mostly of water.
For the religious, water and salvation certainly seem to go hand in hand. But even the other, more ordinary uses of water are necessary – cooking, cleaning, putting out fires, hydration. For some of us, isn’t external energy a form of salvation?
To me, it seems inherent in humanity that water and salvation go hand in hand. What say you?
COMMENTS
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dracken
11:02 Jan 10 2010
There is nothing more relaxing than a nice bath in my oppinion, it also makes me feel wide awake and gives me more energy, i think so anyway, i am happy i came to see this written down somewhere : )