“Some have declared that it lies within our choice to gaze upon a world of even greater wonder and beauty. It is said by theses that the experiments of the mystics are related to the transmutation of the entire Universe. This method, or art, or science, or whatever we choose to call it (supposing it to exist, or to have existed), is simply concerned to restore the delights of Paradise; to enable men and women, if they will, to inhabit a world of joy and splendour. It is perhaps possible that there is such an experiment, and that there are some who have made it.” HAMPOLE
Without defining it yet…..”The Spiritual Work,” at least partly, is about doing inquiry into what our world is? What do I mean about inquiry? Well, it is what the yogi does when he/she practices the art and science of yoga. Look; View: Observe; Witness; See; Understand; Master and, ultimately, Celebrate!
There are several entry points. In fact, there is, at a minimum, as many entry points as there are human souls. Let’s start to break it down and see if we can notice, observe and discover tracks or signs; Ripples..
Let’s assume for our inquiry here that we are motivated to gain wisdom into how to bring more soul into the “body’: Bring Heaven to Earth.
I think we need to talk about religion. Can you feel what is happening in this “area” of the map of the territory? While many would like to throw the whole “subject” of religion in the trash bin of forgotten history, the “concept” and “meaning” and “purpose” and “appearance” and….of religion is Integral to the human condition.
Ken Wilber wrote a really good book entitled ‘The Marriage of Sense and Soul; Integrating Science and Religion.” He called this endeavor the challenge of our lifetime. I remember purchasing the book when It first came out in 1998. I had been reading several of Wilber’s books and applying the “system and perspective” of his emerging theory of everything (TOE) called Integral Theory.
The seed level meaning of the word “religion” equates to a system and procedures in which one BINDS one self to live by. Many religions refer to scripture to support their under standing of our existence.
What BINDS you? What are you certain of? How do you view faith? Do you see faith as something woo-woo are do you see it as a “faculty” available within our “body/mind” which can be accessed and explored and developed?
“The world” will soon be presented with a “One Religion Option.” This should be interesting.
Wilber starts his book with a quote from Oscar Wilde….”There is nothing that will cure the senses but the soul, and nothing that will cure the soul but the senses.”
The present objective of humanity’s endeavor is focused on fulfillment of desire through resolution, compromise, winning; ending up on top. “It’s a dog eat dog world out there for Heaven’s sake.” Survival of the Fittest…Right? There has got to be a winner and a loser. Be the best version of who you are! Look at who gets paid the BIG BUCKS…..The Quarterback, The Magical Midfielder, The 7’5 Center, Tiger….
Sure, there has been attempts at changing it. You know…everyone gets a trophy. It just doesn’t sit right with the way it is…does it….??
The shift that I think needs to happen is a hard one. It is a significant change. Fundamental in nature.
From my own personal experience with inquiry I have done over the past 35 years and working with you over the past few years, I think a new objective must be established.
A Drastic change.
Changing the objective is really like getting up from the present game and moving over to another field or board or court where the objective is now The Truth.
Right away I would expect resistance from 99% of humans who read this or consider it. Think of all the “Objections”……”Truth is relative”. “Your truth is your truth and my truth is my truth.” “Nobody can know The Truth so what’s the point?” I’m sure you can think of more objections to changing up the game …
The reason the spiral dynamic map of human consciousness development is so important to check out is because it paints a picture of how we (humanity) got to this point and what may be the next phases.
The map has an explanation for why all the chaos in the world right now and what is required for the shift to happen. Unfortunately or Fortunately and perhaps Paradoxically (it depends how you look at it) the shift happens on an individual level. It is not a community or group effort. Everyone is on their own.
“The Truth will set you Free” …………..
Buckminster Fuller in his foreword of the reasons he wrote arguably, his most profound book….’Critical Path’: Bucky writes….
“Because
A.) of my driving conviction that all of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now.
Because
B.). I am convinced that humanity’s fitness for continuance in the cosmic scheme no longer depends on the validity of political, religious, economic, or social organizations, which altogether heretofore have been assumed to represent the many.
C.). Because contrary to B, I am convinced that human continuance now depends entirely upon:
(1) The intuitive wisdom of each and every individual.
(2) The individual’s comprehensive informedness.
(3) The individual’s integrity of speaking and acting only on the individual’s own within-self-intuited and reasoned initiative.
(4) The individual’s joining action with others, as motivated only by the individually conceived consequences of doing so.
(5) The individual’s never-joining action with others, as motivated only by crowd-engendered emotionalism, or by a sense of the crowd’s power to overwhelm, or in fear of holding to the course indicated by one’s own intellectual convictions.
The spiral dynamic map has 6 levels in Tier One. These levels are really Paradigm shifts in human consciousness development. In psychological talk like, for example Piaget, each level is a stage development, i.e. Sensorimotor to Pre-Operational to Operational to Post Operational. Stages in development represent a new perspective that is characterized by a deeper and wider understanding and ability to perform inquiry into your environment and yourself.
Humanity over the many thousands of years it has been on this planet have moved from Archaic to Magic to Mythic to Rational to Rational Modern to Post Rational to Post Modern Pluralistic.
Each Stage believes their perspective is the true and correct perspective and that anyone who “lives” in a different perspective is, at best, mostly wrong and in need of education. All of these stages of human development are in Tier 1 of the spiral dynamic map.
The Move that is now required is a move into Tier 2. This is where the objective changes from fulfillment of desire to realizing and remembering the Truth.
The Problem. And yes, I know some people don’t appreciate the word problem but I like it. I find it honest. I also see it more from a mathematical or scientific origin so I see a problem as something to be solutioned or solved or worked out. If you need to, and many of you will because the vast majority of us are currently living in the the uppermost phase of Tier 1 which is Green which is a community based phase which means there is a tremendous amount of peer pressure to stick to the story of Green which is best characterized by a famous quote….”Can’t we all get along” ……if you have to then change problem to challenge.
Anyways, back to the problem…..the problem is that to move to Tier 2 which means to change the objective to Truth requires that you experience the death of the ego which can be described as “The Dark Night of The Soul” for some of us. Because The Truth is that all the work of honing your “self”; of creating an identity that is “YOU”; of becoming the best version of You; has to be let go. Ego must be seen for what it is; A mental/emotional/physical and energetic construct. Only then can THE TRUTH replace desire for fulfillment as the object of the game.
Furthermore, the problem is exasperated because this process is not only difficult, it allows certain latent conditions of body and mind to arise. I think the best description is that we go through a GRIEF PROCESS when the EGO DIES. Everyone manifests symptoms differently. Some get depressed, some get angry, some get anxious or have panic attacks. Some form addictions or manifest illness and dis-ease. You go to a psychiatrist and they will tell you that you have Cognitive Dissonance and maybe Adjustment Disorder and you respond ….’No Shit! I could have told you that!”
At first, one foot is in Tier 1 and one foot is stepping into the Yellow Phase; The first Phase in Tier 2. It totally feels schizophrenic or even multiple personality.
Ken Wilber said, and I am paraphrasing……”You can have a “state” experience in a higher stage but you can’t live there. You can visit stages through a state experience but you must come back to the stage you live in. You must earn the stage.”
So, the problem. as you can see, is who would really choose to make this move into Tier 2? Only those who get a glimpse of The Truth and realize it is more important than their tribe’s current narrative or those who experience some kind of Trauma like an illness or bad accident or loss or even something positive like tremendous success or fame or recognition.
I was blessed with that kind of Trauma when I got Diabetes at age 14. Insulin shots for the rest of my now shortened life. Felt like I went 10 pegs down when it came to competing with my friends on the field, rink or golf course. I could go on but, in the beginning, and for a long time after it was a lot of suffering and I just saw it all as a curse.
But now, I see that, perhaps, it was meant to be this way. The Trauma of the dis-ease and all that it came with vectored me on a different course direction which has landed me here, right now writing to you, who have read this far, to be able to tell you that we are ready to make a quantum leap in our development. And I am not just saying it. I feel like I am living it. Can you feel it yet?
I have been in Yellow checking out all the maps so you don’t have to. I am ready to move into Turquoise with those who want to Transcend, Awaken and Ascend.
The move from Green to Yellow is the most difficult, seemingly irrational and yet necessary stage leap that must be made. Only about 10% of us need to achieve this stage change in order to positively affect all of humanity. But in order to do it we/you must take Buckminster Fuller’s advice. It is a move from group think to your higher self. Think of Tier one development as aligning the first three Koshas or the first 5 Chakras…Once you have accomplished this then you have created a “portal” by which you may connect to your higher self…..your Soul….Spirit…Creator…..
The purpose of Creation does not lie in any higher spiritual or metaphysical world. The purpose of Creation can be found right here, right now, in this three dimensional Physical Existence we live in.
The Creator charged us (the souls of humanity) with the task of brightening up our otherwise dim world by channeling “His Light?”
It is our “mission” to discover holiness within the mundane; the supernatural within the natural; the spiritual within the physical?
If we accept this mission, perhaps, we might be cultivate the ability to decode the apparent and distorted mumbo-jumbo-chaos-Maya-delusion.
In so doing, we will channel an intense light and reveal how this world is actually holier than any that is beyond it?
The next several blog posts will involve an inquiry into this hypothesis utilizing several “maps of the territory.”
So, this morning, I was on this live YouTube session where a small group listens to the study of Torah and Zohar and spiritual stuff. And this morning the concept of “healing” came up and the “teacher” shared that we must get to the spiritual aspect or cause or root of the aliment or dis-ease before we could heal that which ails us.
And I wrote in the chat….”What do we do when we get to the spiritual root.?” And the response in the chat was “energy., frequency and vibration” And, after the session, I talked to Nedra a bit and she said, “”Yeah, we must first become aware of and get into agreement or sync with the energy/frequency/vibration and then,, and only then, can we begin to change/transform/heal/cure…..
Ok, then I decided to search my blog post for anything I wrote about “healing” and I have written a lot about healing, as you might imagine.
This post is an attempt to bring current my thinking, perspective and experience of the healing path. As you will see, it is evolving.
To boot, I found a really cool video I had embedded in a post on healing I wrote 10 years ago. It is 23 minutes long. Suggest you find a time when you won’t be disturbed. Also suggest wearing headphones. The link will be down at the end of the post.
