We'll see

[glance left]

Arnway, I've seen and experienced some incredible things, as have you I'm sure.




I've seen the world of objects turn to wispy vapor right before my very eyes and felt my awareness spread like warm oil throughout its construct, feeling
every movement of everything around me as if it were happening within my own body....the corpus of my being. I've seen the world resolve into the most
unfathomable display of feathery fractal-ated fibrous colored light and traversed and "played" amongst this incomprehensible sea of awareness and
brought back silent knowledge like a trophy. I've done war with shadow beings who followed my fear right back into my bedroom in the waking world and
subdued them with a stroke of courage..with unlikely laughter in the face of exquisite fear. I've been to other planets, changed into other creatures both
winged and clawed, interacted with a myriad of shining beings, been tempted and offered power by flesh-eaters, been ministered to by the Witches and Carlos
Castaneda and don Juan, and Lujan, on and on and on...all in complete lucidity and consciousness.




But honestly Aranno, who gives a ****?




If I've experienced all of this but don't have the elegance and sobriety to bring humility and a sense of service to the world of people that surrounds
me every day in the first attention, then all of these experiences become a profound waste of time. I'd be better off experiencing none of these exotic
states and simply learn to dissolve my self-importance while in the first attention than to become an arrogant earl in the second attention.




We'd best learn the lesson of the first attention while we still have it available to us. It is a gift....a rare state that offers incredible possibilities
for evolution of our spirit.