Crying

One of the most important functions of the human body

One of my favorite spiritual teachers, Sheradon Bryce, often reiterated the extreme importance of crying. She said that crying is an extremely important function of the human body. She said that it was literally impossible to release anything at all until the body shed a tear. It is through the physical release of that tear that we release things. Nothing is ever truly released until that tear is propelled out of our body.

I’ve been thinking about that for around 30 years or so and I am finally starting to get it. We cannot have a spiritual release or a mental release until we also have a physical release. And that physical release comes in the form of crying.

It is the natural human way. It is a profoundly beautiful act.

In our Western society based on predatory capitalism males are taught from a very young age not to ever cry. It is a sign of weakness. It is something only females do. (Or gays.) It is a sign of vulnerability — something no male must ever show.

Is that why males are lagging behind in our collective human evolution? Is that why they are still living in the 1700s? Is that why their predatory mentality is never released? Is that why their mental and spiritual and physical baggage continues to get in the way of any significant progress? Because they refuse to shed a tear? Is that why they cannot seem to release all their long history of macho caveman-isms?

Is that why we are not progressing as fast as we would like?

Is it because males cannot release things? Is it because males have been conditioned to not cry?

I’m an old fogey now by some standards but I have to admit that I cry now more often than I ever have in my entire life — even when I was a child.

But my crying is different today than it was when I was young. It is a silent crying. There is no sobbing or wailing or any auditory evidence of the crying. I never know when it is going to happen. A tear just suddenly squirts out of my eye.

Usually it flows down my cheek. But sometimes it squirts with great intensity out of my eye and ends up on the inside of my glasses. Goshdarnit, I don’t know how many times I’ve had to clean my glasses because of projectile tears!

But I no longer hold back any of those tears. I know of their importance. I know that through those tears I am releasing something — and there seems to be no end to all the shit that I need to release.

We need to know that every time we cry we release and come closer to realizing our divinity. Not until we release EVERYTHING can we see through eyes that hold no more tears. Nothing becomes crystal clear until AFTER the tears have been shed. Crying is vital.

We cannot surrender without crying and we cannot release without crying. And we cannot cry without surrender — something we have been taught to never do.

We have been taught to never cry and never surrender and this is the very thing that is holding us back. Human evolution is only a few billion tears away.

Allow them to flow. They are healing. They are uplifting. They are cleansing. They are releasing all the shit we continuously deal with in our noggins. They are bringing us closer to peace and love. And God. And She loves it when we come closer to Her.

They are the magic elixir that initiates change. If we can’t cry then our lives will never change. If we cannot truly cry then we cannot truly live.

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