05-07-2011, 12:00 AM
"Glance is there another point you are trying to make? Could you be more direct and if possible relate it to this thread?"
Not another point, no. And apologies in just launching in the middle of the thread....hopefully there is some relation to the overall meaning...if I'm lucky LOL. I confess I didn't read the whole thing of it.
Somewhere you wrote that the Israelites and Arabs are fight over a piece of land that is an allegory. I agree wholeheartedly with this...in a way that relates specifically to impressions I felt compelled to put down in another thread just prior to the serendipity of reading the words written here. Synchronicity....of the type that I've learned to pay attention to.
Canaan is a state and quality of awareness that transcends previous socially enforced boundaries...a state of union that extends beyond previous encapsulation. I've felt something like this in intermittend states of expansion...the most profound when I was sitting on the side of the bed that one night...my awareness flowing through the walls of our apartment and out into the street and surrounding landing our apartment sits on. With this as a fundamental preview in my life (I hope and pray ...and a fundamental thread which seems to be emphasized almost constantly now. And all stories in the Bible seem to revolve around this thread for me. All are allegorical in this respect...a return to the Garden so to speak. The walls coming down in Jericho (sorry Rahab....bummer! But that fits too....the crumbling destruction of her externally based sense of certainty: the walls of her "city of safety"). I simply cannot see the Bible in any other light. And the perpetual dispute over the physical land of Israel simply represents what takes place on a personal level for me...my struggle with those elements of the self that vie for perpetuation....for "me vs. you" for "us and them"...on and on and on, perpetuation extending beyond lifetimes, if you believe the Buddhist perspective (I do in many ways).
So, I'm seeking for a personal death and ascension....the tearing of my veil separating me from the holy of holies. I had a big moment, yes..sitting on that bed at night several years ago....but it seems that I'm approaching my Canaan via the "scenic" 40 years venture LOL. I acknowledge my fears....trepidation looking at the soldiers of Canaan which caused me to shrink from initial opportunities to "take the land". Whatever. Back to it....the wandering has been a joy of ever increasing portions, meandering here and there (coyote trail . I don't know if I'll make it...but consider myself fortunate to have found a path at least.
Best to you, Lex. It's good to hear your voice again. I apologize for my disrespectful "hubris", as you put it, in the past. I thought I was doing the right thing...turns out I was just being obnoxious.
Not another point, no. And apologies in just launching in the middle of the thread....hopefully there is some relation to the overall meaning...if I'm lucky LOL. I confess I didn't read the whole thing of it.
Somewhere you wrote that the Israelites and Arabs are fight over a piece of land that is an allegory. I agree wholeheartedly with this...in a way that relates specifically to impressions I felt compelled to put down in another thread just prior to the serendipity of reading the words written here. Synchronicity....of the type that I've learned to pay attention to.
Canaan is a state and quality of awareness that transcends previous socially enforced boundaries...a state of union that extends beyond previous encapsulation. I've felt something like this in intermittend states of expansion...the most profound when I was sitting on the side of the bed that one night...my awareness flowing through the walls of our apartment and out into the street and surrounding landing our apartment sits on. With this as a fundamental preview in my life (I hope and pray ...and a fundamental thread which seems to be emphasized almost constantly now. And all stories in the Bible seem to revolve around this thread for me. All are allegorical in this respect...a return to the Garden so to speak. The walls coming down in Jericho (sorry Rahab....bummer! But that fits too....the crumbling destruction of her externally based sense of certainty: the walls of her "city of safety"). I simply cannot see the Bible in any other light. And the perpetual dispute over the physical land of Israel simply represents what takes place on a personal level for me...my struggle with those elements of the self that vie for perpetuation....for "me vs. you" for "us and them"...on and on and on, perpetuation extending beyond lifetimes, if you believe the Buddhist perspective (I do in many ways).
So, I'm seeking for a personal death and ascension....the tearing of my veil separating me from the holy of holies. I had a big moment, yes..sitting on that bed at night several years ago....but it seems that I'm approaching my Canaan via the "scenic" 40 years venture LOL. I acknowledge my fears....trepidation looking at the soldiers of Canaan which caused me to shrink from initial opportunities to "take the land". Whatever. Back to it....the wandering has been a joy of ever increasing portions, meandering here and there (coyote trail . I don't know if I'll make it...but consider myself fortunate to have found a path at least.
Best to you, Lex. It's good to hear your voice again. I apologize for my disrespectful "hubris", as you put it, in the past. I thought I was doing the right thing...turns out I was just being obnoxious.