'Darkness' Articles
I don’t scare me. Fear is in the eye of the beholder. In fact always is. We have only two instinctive fears, falling and loud noises. Everything else we make up. What are our options? Both confinement and freedom. It is why people fail to find freedom, they think they won’t have any limitations.
When all turns to ashes you realize ashes feed growth. It’s a burning world, but we each burn at different rates. The spirit is as a phoenix, and for all the burning it is not and cannot be destroyed.
“In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o’ clock in the morning, day after day.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inner Deaths
Inner deaths. Those little changes that represent a growth period, but do end a facet of your existence. When it feels like an iron door has slammed shut, but was it really “abandon all hope ye who enter here”? For me it was more of an entering into the world, and in a way more a gain of power and life rather than a loss. Much like the baptismal ceremonies of many faiths. In Buddhism they have a baptism by conflict ceremony. Mine was not so formalized, nor so short and merciful, but it did happen. Ritual often in this… Seek More
Spiritual Pain
You choose the pain because you choose the role. Pain is better then numb, if it hurts it can stop. If it’s doing nothing … The great way or “will of God” (to use metaphor) is not a nebulous void. It’s dynamic actualization. The will of God is not separate from your will. The great way has its seeds in all that stems from it. The great way is your way, in part. Guilt. Why would we choose to be in such pain? Guilt is a terrible illusion. You have to be crazy to have guilt. Guilt is insane. In… Seek More
Boredom
Lately I am dealing with a severe case of ennui. Existential boredom. How can that be? So much knowledge to learn? The disciplines of the mind reduce to exercising human perception. This is starkly limited and easily exhausted. From basic human premises of philosophy and science you can extrapolate any argument that has ever arisen in consensus reality. Even the cosmic humour of seemingly random events grows old. One joke told far too much. When you really get it, it is hard to tell whether you should laugh or cry. These illusions of efficacy, or a sort of immortality through… Seek More
Consciousness is the Order
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake would seem to be gratifying, but the presence of the implicate order in any field of knowledge is readily evident. All existence is limited or else it would be present solely as a potentiality spread throughout the implicate order Gnosis and knowledge are inextricable. Even science requires that in the absence of proof to the contrary we must rely on experience. Science cannot differentiate meaningfully between living matter and unliving matter. This contradiction must be logically addressed. So since life is evident to our senses, one is forced to presume the universality… Seek More
Our Dark Side
There is a dark side to may popular attitudes that people deny, and in fact everything we think and do is symbolic. Even with the more “normal” types. Some say suicide is by no means symbolic, but indeed it is. It is usually the playing out of a drama that was full of symbolism. It just ends badly. Why does this morbid stuff appeal to us so? Are we as sick as people think we are? It is the same reason mortification of the flesh was considered an approach to communion with divinity and purity of soul. It is proven that… Seek More
Getting over Tragedy
Do people get over tragedies or do they just move on? The idea you forgive and forget is a lie, and an injurious one. You can forgive and let go, but the delusion that you can forget makes people feel bad about themselves. Faith can be a strength, but understanding is still necessary, and organized faith as it stands is not so organized. People work so hard for the Church, for God, thinking he can just heal as a prize. It would be justice, wouldn’t it? People have faith, but then run up against “why”. This is human. People get… Seek More
Do the Opposite
The shamans knew about the full mind. Do everything counter to the way that everybody else did. This is the path of the Heyoka. Sacred clown. They support their tribe by showing them how things are undone, keeping them alert. They were tricksters, but because they went backwards. They just “undid” things. People kept aware of what they were doing and why. Shamans need power to heal, and they need to counter the fear of the one they help. Genghis Kahn was a shaman. They were men of power, for good or ill. When Kahn underwent the rite of initiation,… Seek More
Power Beyond Measure
What it would be like if I could do anything? The wizard is eventually revealed as a silly little man behind a curtain. He still had the power, and magic is everywhere. Martin Luther King was really just upset that people were being creepy to each other, and yet he made a big change in the world. That which is immortal is the power, not the person. What would happen if every poor person became wealthy? Yay! Chaos. I love chaos, but inevitably people have to have their order. Somebody would get the idea that the wealth had to be… Seek More
Suffering
We heal by knowing why we are where we are, and maybe discovering how that can change. For all our pursuit of light, we still fall into darkness. It is a part of the cycle. The right hand is strong. The left hand is sensitive. In general, we live with people who are eager to see evil, but if you see how your brother suffers clearly it changes everything. Suffering in normal circumstances exhausts itself. Refusal to let another suffer often wraps them in suffering. For me the dark path is mine, but there is compassion even in darkness. In… Seek More
Transition
Have you considered what you will do at transition? Some people think that it works one way. Spirit communicating with incarnated. It isn’t that neat, not that orderly, and some put forth the idea that anything in human incarnation is human. That isn’t necessarily so either. I didn’t undergo the process of immersion, and I am sort of stuck between. So I am still doing what I did. I am still connected, and the dissonance is hard to deal with. Most people when they transition are told to go to the light. To me that is just a change of… Seek More
