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Spiritual SleepUnless guidance comes from that source beyond, we keep moving
from one place in the conventional dimension to another place
in the same dimension. We haven't got the vaguest idea of what
awaits us, of what is possible in our potential. We don't know
the extent, the depth, the infinite possibilities that lie underneath
the surface. So we tend to judge everything by our knowledge,
attitudes, and feelings that come from the surface. We don't know
that by taking that knowledge to be final knowledge, we identify
with the very barriers that prevent the depth from emerging and
guiding us. This is why the conventional dimension is a state
of spiritual sleep, of being spiritually lost. When we recognize
that we are lost and that we cannot move out of our lostness with
the conventional knowledge we have, we become aware of the terror
of our situation. We recognize just how lost we are and how scary
that is. We realize that whatever we try to do -- read books,
practice this or that technique, attend this or that workshop,
try to figure out things ourselves -- we do not feel any less
lost. Our situation really is much more difficult, much more profound,
than we allow ourselves to see for a long time. That's why we
speak of the terror of the situation -- because it is so frightening
to finally realize and admit how lost we are, and how at the mercy
we are of so many elements that we have no handle on. The terror
of the situation has a lot to do with how much we believe what
we think we know, with how much we are caught in the gravity of
our planet of conventional reality, believing it to be the centre
of the universe -- and sometimes all that exists. We usually do
not realize that our experience of reality has to shift only a
little bit and all will disappear, leaving us totally terrified.
Our only hope is a guidance, a discernment, an indication that
comes from a realm beyond. (Spacecruiser Inquiry, pg 210) |
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