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13. Angel Games

The Greeks originated the word angelos and the meaning, "messenger", said that angels were supernatural beings and ranked them closer to their gods than humans and further said that angels were superior to man in power and intelligence. The word 'humanus' was coined by the Italians to indicate the rest of us and I think the Greco-Romans were wrong. I think we're the angels and only using, the "bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens)" for our fun and games. But just between you and me aren't the human-games getting a little thin? The power-game is tedious, the terrorist-game is beneath contempt, the aggression-game is brainless, the show-off-game has lost its charm, the accumulation-game is really too transparent and on and on. I think it's time we downplay the human games. Let's start playing some angel games.

Let's play a truly satisfying love-game (all too infrequent now), an achievement-game that makes some sense, a teaching-game to be proud of, a really quick self-learning game, a sound-healing game, etc. How about an instant-communication-game with all its delicious problems? Ennui, if not outright disgust, is looming on the horizon folks and we just have too many abilities and too much power to be fooling around with these limiting human games.

Why did we accept the idea that we weren't angels in the first place? Just because the Greeks and the Italians said so? Don't forget there are very different ideas (ergo games) in other belief systems in Africa, Mexico, Australia, the Arctic, South America and all over Asia. These people weren't (and aren't) morons and 'ignorant savages'. Some were extremely sophisticated and accomplished technical feats of astronomy, human communication, healing and engineering that we cannot, today, duplicate.

And that's just the games that we know about. It's distinctly possible that they were, and are, playing angel games. Okay, maybe we were only warming up and limbering our muscles and maybe the limiting definitions were necessary in the past but they are, it seems to me, just not appropriate any more.

Experience has shown me, and probably you too, that simply accepting someone else's definitions as your own (even the wise old Greco-Romans) can limit the hell out of your games. Haven't we all said, "Please, Mom, I'm grown up now and I can do it myself."?

The angelic new games are beginning to bloom all over the place and some, like direct and explicit animal communication, are going on in my house! They need to be encouraged and supported. It's plain to me that these newer ones are a lot more fun than the old ones we grew up with. At my age I'm starting to get really impatient and to paraphrase the Roman Emperors, "Let the new games begin!"

I think we actually know already, as angels purportedly know, that we are inextricably part of The Supreme Being. There seems to be an unconscious knowing of this fact. It comes, I think, from only being able to do what we want for, despite what you say to yourself (and others) you are always doing what you want to do. In fact, it's technically impossible to do otherwise, i.e., do something you don't want to do. If you don't want to do something it's because you do want to do something else.

If you say, as many do, that you didn't actually want to do xyz but you did it because you had to, that doesn't hold water. The comedian Flip Wilson used to say, "The devil made me do it" and it was funny because we all understood that he was really doing what he wanted to do. But if you substitute for the devil, your commanding officer, your mother, your friend, etc., or some other authoritarian figure it seems to acquire more validity. But in fact what any authority does is force you to obey or not. I freely grant you that not obeying may cost you your life but that's your choice. You are wanting something, maybe personal integrity, more than something else, like living.

That old adage, "Be careful of what you wish for because if you persist, you'll likely get it", is literally true. Well dearies, if we always are doing what we want and likely to get the results, doesn't that make us fairly powerful beings? And doesn't that make us a little too powerful to be hacking around playing human games? Andale, andale, let the new games begin!

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