Do we see all there is to see in our world at any given moment? Why not? It’s beyond the scope of the human brain in the state of normal consciousness. Indeed, it is. In the total spectrum of life, are our choices necessarily the best informed? They are as best informed as they are able to be in the given moment. So, since that part of the world we don’t see doesn’t go away, what could and maybe should it be called? Shadow. Out of sight is out of mind. The occult? That is an appropriate word used in its… Seek More
As people focus there awareness on any single facet of the world, it comes to fill our minds. Define our experience, if only for a moment. But as we become more accustomed, those moments get longer and longer until this thing that we were observing from the outside is now something we are immersed in, and it in us. You cannot come to know anything deeply without also being known by your deeds and words, if not in your essence. And for everything that you judge as something that “should not be”, you take one more step into being defined… Seek More
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. That is absolutely true. I will even ask, how do we know what is wrong? Every failure teaches us about the ways that do not lead to success. And all ways lead to success, but they don’t all lead to the heart. If one hates the self, then there are very many ways to punish, obscure, and even obliterate the self, at least in a sense. Some ways are a more direct path while others are more roundabout. That is true. This is perhaps why they say “The Devil is in the details.”… Seek More
