My original title for this blog was Messages from the Edge but, on further reflection, I wasn't sure what edge I meant. I am a metaphysician in training with 40 years or so of self-directed practice and study while the past 4 years have been school training. I am earning a second Master's degree. The first one was in Sociology. This one is in Consciousness Studies at the Holmes Institute School of Consciousness Studies, a ministerial school with regional centers dotted throughout the US.
The Messages from the Edge title seemed to reflect my experiences in school. There is the edge or boundary between academic effort and surrendering to Infinite Intelligence. On the academic side of the experience I read books, write papers and exams, do internship projects, and check my grade on everything I do. Yet, and it is ideally all the time, I am aware that I am a unique expression of the Infinite Source and my task is a very Taoist one, to go with the flow and surrender to that vibrant power of Spirit.
There's the edge or precipice of my awareness of the absolute singularity of the Cosmos - One Infinite Mind/Heart/Consciousness expressing Itself innumerably as forms of matter and energy. Each of us is a unique creation of that singular Consciousness which pervades all matter; each of us is one with the One. But everyday life continually insists that we are separate beings. It seems self-evident. So, my awareness of being one in the One comes and goes in me. I walk that edge.
The common theme here might be paradox rather than edge. Certainly, the ideas above convey it - doing school while going with the flow, being one in the One while being one among many. I am learning to dance between meanings and hold my beliefs more lightly than I used to.
Let's embrace the paradoxes we see and develop a more flexible mind and heart.
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