09-11-2010, 12:00 AM
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Do you want to be a warrior? How about just a better person, one that releases the tiller and just allows Life to flow. What about impeccability? Would you like to be more impeccable? How about enlightenment? Would you like enlightenment to wash over you, or experience and understand the totality of yourself? Would you like to recapitulate your life all the way to where you can see your unborn face? Free and clear, no attachments? Perhaps you’d just like to begin lucid Dreaming, or, improve your Dreaming.
Gee, sounds like an infomercial, eh?
Whatever you are, or want to be, whatever your purpose is, whatever you have faith in or put your hope in, there’s a pattern. Can you see it?
Quotes from, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, by Joseph Chilton Pearce.
"Is there a pattern? Yes. There is the conscious desire for the experience, the asking of the question. There is the detachment from the commonplace; the commitment to replace the conventional with a new construct; the passion and decorum – the intensive preparation, the gathering of materials for the answer; the freedom to be dominated by the subject of desire – the sudden seizure, the break-through of mind that gives the inexplicable conviction that it can, after all, be done; and then the serving of the new construct, the instant application."
Let’s use and example, Dreaming. If this doesn’t work for you, pick something you’d like to do and fill in the blanks below.
“There is the conscious desire for the experience, the asking of the question.” Do you have the desire, true desire to lucidly Dream? Have you asked the question, voiced your Intent to the Universe to lucidly Dream? Comments on The Question are addressed further, below.
“There is the detachment from the commonplace.” Dreaming is the not-doing of dreaming. Have you detached from dreaming, the commonplace and set a new Intent for Dreaming?
“The commitment to replace the conventional with a new construct.” This seems pretty straight forward. Even to just BE, or be a better person, or to lucidly Dream takes commitment replacing the conventional dream with Dreaming, or BE-ing a better person.
“The passion and decorum – the intensive preparation, the gathering of materials for the answer.” For Dreaming, do you begin to take naps during the day, or wake yourself up on the hour then fall back asleep with the Intent to Dream? Do you ask yourself while awake, “am I Dreaming?” Do you read up on lucid Dreaming or consciousness or the assemblage point? For you and what it is you wish to accomplish, prepare and gather.
“The freedom to be dominated by the subject of desire – the sudden seizure, the break-through of mind that gives the inexplicable conviction that it can, after all, be done.” This quote is just priceless. The freedom…are you allowing this? Are you free to be dominated by the subject desired??? If so, you will then experience that inexplicable conviction that it can, after all, be done. During a lull of reason, or in meditation or whatever, the break-through of the mind occurs. That 'a-ha!' moment arises. Inexplicable conviction is also extremely important. In Aikido, Curtis Sensei calls this 'sureity.' When we perform Ki tests, this is what we're testing; not our physical stability and such. We're testing our 'inexplicable conviction.'
“And then the serving of the new construct, the instant application.” Yes, if you follow the steps above, this new construct WILL serve you. And of course, you will apply it. How marvelous!
Pearce continues….
“One does not abandon the eminently satisfactory system. New life can only be created by metaphoric mutation – synthetic re-creation of the old, and the old must be surrendered for this synthesis to take place.
To give up one’s belief concerning some structure of reality, there must be an image that stands for the new goal or framework, even if the specifics of the goal are unclear. The new goal must be ultimately desirable or ambiguity results, and ambiguity which prevents the new from forming and only fragments and weaken the old. It is an all-or-nothing process. [Ed. Note: As brother Jed mentions, death and re-birth.]
Voodoo for instance, is a potent and real power in the Caribbean and other areas. If a man learns that he is destined to die, he tends to oblige. The same force is operative in our culture, but under sophisticated metaphors and more subtle sureties. If we are told that one of every four of us is destined to die of a certain disease, we fill the social requirements. The one on whom the lot randomly falls feel fated to oblige as surely as the black victim of voodoo.
If an arbitrary and premature death is announced as your statistical imperative, why not give up allegiance to that system and devote yourself to something less statistical? With death the alternative, surely you could generate the same intensity the Hindu does with Kataragama, and find a new structure of concept-percept. Granted, the statistical world is a broad and powerful way. You would need a strong image for the new goal to break completely with the bad-news system and risk your life in a new one. It is the equivalent of asking a passionate question. If you hold and serve the question, until all ambiguity is erased and you really believe in your question, it will be answered; the break-point will arrive when you will suddenly be “ready.” Then you must put your hand to the plow and not look back; walk out onto the water unmindful of the waves.”
Once the above is achieved, you will find yourself in the position of being able to focus your unbending intent on an abstract purpose.
All you will have to do, from then on, is to keep the whole of your unbending intent, allowing no distraction whatsoever, hooked to the warrior's way, to freedom. You must do this regardless of the obstacles that may appear on your way.
And then you will automatically find yourself feeling reverent awe, because doors will open that you never imagined existed. The rest is between you and the Spirit.
Thank you for your time and have a beautiful weekend!
SHM
Do you want to be a warrior? How about just a better person, one that releases the tiller and just allows Life to flow. What about impeccability? Would you like to be more impeccable? How about enlightenment? Would you like enlightenment to wash over you, or experience and understand the totality of yourself? Would you like to recapitulate your life all the way to where you can see your unborn face? Free and clear, no attachments? Perhaps you’d just like to begin lucid Dreaming, or, improve your Dreaming.
Gee, sounds like an infomercial, eh?
Whatever you are, or want to be, whatever your purpose is, whatever you have faith in or put your hope in, there’s a pattern. Can you see it?
Quotes from, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, by Joseph Chilton Pearce.
"Is there a pattern? Yes. There is the conscious desire for the experience, the asking of the question. There is the detachment from the commonplace; the commitment to replace the conventional with a new construct; the passion and decorum – the intensive preparation, the gathering of materials for the answer; the freedom to be dominated by the subject of desire – the sudden seizure, the break-through of mind that gives the inexplicable conviction that it can, after all, be done; and then the serving of the new construct, the instant application."
Let’s use and example, Dreaming. If this doesn’t work for you, pick something you’d like to do and fill in the blanks below.
“There is the conscious desire for the experience, the asking of the question.” Do you have the desire, true desire to lucidly Dream? Have you asked the question, voiced your Intent to the Universe to lucidly Dream? Comments on The Question are addressed further, below.
“There is the detachment from the commonplace.” Dreaming is the not-doing of dreaming. Have you detached from dreaming, the commonplace and set a new Intent for Dreaming?
“The commitment to replace the conventional with a new construct.” This seems pretty straight forward. Even to just BE, or be a better person, or to lucidly Dream takes commitment replacing the conventional dream with Dreaming, or BE-ing a better person.
“The passion and decorum – the intensive preparation, the gathering of materials for the answer.” For Dreaming, do you begin to take naps during the day, or wake yourself up on the hour then fall back asleep with the Intent to Dream? Do you ask yourself while awake, “am I Dreaming?” Do you read up on lucid Dreaming or consciousness or the assemblage point? For you and what it is you wish to accomplish, prepare and gather.
“The freedom to be dominated by the subject of desire – the sudden seizure, the break-through of mind that gives the inexplicable conviction that it can, after all, be done.” This quote is just priceless. The freedom…are you allowing this? Are you free to be dominated by the subject desired??? If so, you will then experience that inexplicable conviction that it can, after all, be done. During a lull of reason, or in meditation or whatever, the break-through of the mind occurs. That 'a-ha!' moment arises. Inexplicable conviction is also extremely important. In Aikido, Curtis Sensei calls this 'sureity.' When we perform Ki tests, this is what we're testing; not our physical stability and such. We're testing our 'inexplicable conviction.'
“And then the serving of the new construct, the instant application.” Yes, if you follow the steps above, this new construct WILL serve you. And of course, you will apply it. How marvelous!
Pearce continues….
“One does not abandon the eminently satisfactory system. New life can only be created by metaphoric mutation – synthetic re-creation of the old, and the old must be surrendered for this synthesis to take place.
To give up one’s belief concerning some structure of reality, there must be an image that stands for the new goal or framework, even if the specifics of the goal are unclear. The new goal must be ultimately desirable or ambiguity results, and ambiguity which prevents the new from forming and only fragments and weaken the old. It is an all-or-nothing process. [Ed. Note: As brother Jed mentions, death and re-birth.]
Voodoo for instance, is a potent and real power in the Caribbean and other areas. If a man learns that he is destined to die, he tends to oblige. The same force is operative in our culture, but under sophisticated metaphors and more subtle sureties. If we are told that one of every four of us is destined to die of a certain disease, we fill the social requirements. The one on whom the lot randomly falls feel fated to oblige as surely as the black victim of voodoo.
If an arbitrary and premature death is announced as your statistical imperative, why not give up allegiance to that system and devote yourself to something less statistical? With death the alternative, surely you could generate the same intensity the Hindu does with Kataragama, and find a new structure of concept-percept. Granted, the statistical world is a broad and powerful way. You would need a strong image for the new goal to break completely with the bad-news system and risk your life in a new one. It is the equivalent of asking a passionate question. If you hold and serve the question, until all ambiguity is erased and you really believe in your question, it will be answered; the break-point will arrive when you will suddenly be “ready.” Then you must put your hand to the plow and not look back; walk out onto the water unmindful of the waves.”
Once the above is achieved, you will find yourself in the position of being able to focus your unbending intent on an abstract purpose.
All you will have to do, from then on, is to keep the whole of your unbending intent, allowing no distraction whatsoever, hooked to the warrior's way, to freedom. You must do this regardless of the obstacles that may appear on your way.
And then you will automatically find yourself feeling reverent awe, because doors will open that you never imagined existed. The rest is between you and the Spirit.
Thank you for your time and have a beautiful weekend!
SHM