Susan
This revelatory piece burst with a flash of energy on to one of our mailing lists, and Susan graciously gave permission for it to be copied on to this site.When we recycle into this life we experience a 'separation' from the source of ourSelves. energy separating from Energy. It 'feels' like pain. As we begin to move around within this frequency we move further from the pain of this separation and operate within the egoic level of energy. (Certain frequency patterns would create the 'feeling' of pain and others would create a feeling of love. A very high vibration would be what we call - the ever elusive, unconditional love - a rejoining of energy to the Collective Pool within this life, on our way toward Energy). But as we develop through this life that pain is at the bottom of EVERYTHING. It manifests as disharmony and disease - on the individual, societal, cultural levels. We express it through anger, emotional dysfunction, racism - all the 'isms'.
At certain points in this recycle cycle we become aware of the tools with which we can end recycling at this level. We call this Spiritual Practice. For thousands of years spiritual practice has been used to control the egoic development of the species and called religion. Only a few were able to recognize the tools and use them - Jesus, Buddha, all the Great Teachers. But now we've reached a point where more and more of 'us' are vibrating at ever increasing levels of energy and more are recognizing and using the tools - meditation, love, forgiveness. These all bring the unconscious to conscious awareness.
Because we are human, we will express our awareness within the framework of the whole of us or we try. Our own individual holon. None better or worse than another. It's all energy, it's all moving within a greater pattern than we can possibly know.
The point of all of this was for me to understand about the collective pain we are in. We mask it through distraction, compulsion, analyzing, doing rather than being. We get glimpses of something else, something beyond this pain through our practices and so we continue to stretch - but what we don't do is forgive ourselves for something that is out of our control, for our human-ness - whatever form of 'original sin' you want to use. Energy has to move, has to recycle into and out of this frequency. Life/death. And we don't forgive ourselves for this necessary act of separation so we can't forgive another. Individually or collectively.
Those that do become our most holy men and women.
21 October 1997
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