Element 22. Mindfulness.

The Periodic Table of The Spiritual Elements

Illustration: The vineyards of the Attention Vine in the Argolithic Mountains.

The element of mindfulness is easily misplaced in the lower realms. For this reason, it’s often bottled and preserved by higher beings, in order for its location to be properly fixed and known. Monasteries across the cosmos keep storage rooms filled with it, which are of great use to their inhabitants, but not so much to the public at large. Monks and most of the lower realms have become greedy regarding this particular element and do not share it readily, although they talk about doing so all the time.

Because mindfulness is poorly attended to in lower realms, Angels have established special schools throughout the Multiverse, in which the subject of collecting and storing the element is taught. This storage is a tricky thing. Ideally, storage is accomplished not in bottles or jars stuck in monasteries, but in persons and beings.

Yet this is difficult. Perversely, mindfulness was created by God in such a way that it is highly perishable when brought into contact with material things, and quickly binds with them so that it can no longer be used by the subject. One can't understand why He/She does such things, but there you are. It is rumored among those who study the esoteric work of the Obdessenes that this flaw was intentional, put there so that we would value mindfulness more. If so, it has not worked out that well.