Re: (Essay) A Phenomenology of Mechanism: The Liminal Spaces of Perception
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 9:14 pm
Thank you Lou!Lou Gold wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 8:18 pm Oh, Federica, I do get that you think I'm on a tour bus while you are working hard at the office. I've already done my office time, paid my dues and received my social security pension. All I can report from my present seat on an elder branch is that the view is quite liminal and I feel tremendously grateful. In Santo Daime the spiritual saying is Bons Trabalhos, meaning "good works to you!" May your efforts bear good fruits, bring satisfaction to you and gifts to the world.
My wish to you is that you will soon see through the veil of the picturesque views and the edifying feelings!
Cleric K wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 5:05 pm As soon as we become a more or less self-conscious spiritual being, then it is already within our hands to at least attune our being towards the future we want to experience. It belongs to our essential freedom to make this choice. If the Divine ray in us wants to experience dissolution, who can stop it? So even though much of the journey, the stages of metamorphosis and so on, are currently determined by forces greater than us, it is within our jurisdiction to have clear vision for the path we would Love to experience as evolutionary journey.
There's an interesting self-test with which we can find something about ourselves. There are various wells of attraction within the invisible potential. Even if we feel that it is not yet our time to do anything deliberately, that we still expect things to unfold by Divine ordainment, we can still see where we stand through our inner attitude to prayer.
Let's consider this with the utmost seriousness. We don't know where our destiny drags us. We're not sure within whose gravity well we are. The fact that the free fall feels pleasant says nothing about where it leads us. Many of the things that feel pleasant in our life lead to the bottom.
Prayer is our technique for spiritual attunement. Even if we have accepted our free fall for the moment, we can at least test ourselves to see whether we have made a choice for the direction in which we would like to be falling. We can say something like:
Of course, it is not at all the goal here to have some spatial image of the Being that we address. It is our whole soul disposition that should express these words. It's the feeling that there are many wells where our world line can take us but we desire to be attracted by the well leading to the abundant Life."Oh Great Being, who gives me my life and thinks its unfoldment,
Even though in this moment I've completely let go myself into you,
I beg you - draw me nearer to you and flow into me.
With all my soul I desire to walk the path that leads me stage by stage into the Divine.
Watch over me, pull me towards you, don't allow me to stray and fall into
The wells which lead my soul into oblivion.
Fill my being with your strength so one day I can start walking on my own
In absolute freedom and out of Love
For the Good of all beings."
If we feel inner resistance to summon such a soul disposition within ourselves, it simply means one of two things:
1. We're overly confident that other forces are responsible to take our worldline to the green pastures and still waters. We believe that not only we can free fall but we can even let our self-determination free fall, believing that other beings should take care and make sure we don't end up in the abyss.
2. We're simply indifferent whether our worldline will spiral through the fractal levels of Time integration or it will dissolve into the darkness of Cosmic sleep.
If we have determined for ourselves which path we would Love to experience as our unique evolutionary journey, yet we have accepted free fall for the time being, then the least thing we can do is to fill our soul with the mood of prayer and desire to be attracted on the path of Light that we'll tread in full consciousness and freedom.