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Recieved: 2002/04/04 17:33
Subject: [K-list] Roots ..
From: Christopher Wynter
On 2002/04/04 17:33, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:
Thinking aloud in retrospect ..
I was sorting through some of my old "processing" notes a few
minutes ago and came across the statement ..
"By removing the concept of any "god" or "goddess"
from my referential framework, I can choose to define and create
any purpose, passion, experience or meaning for my life
that lies beyond the myth of "god"
I had long forgotten this statement - consciously - but, as I look
back at the material that I am preparing for the web-site now, I
can see that none of my understandings would have been possible if
I did not relegate the concept of a "god" to the realms of a
"figment of my imagination"
Not only this, but I can see that I have not gone through the
experience so eloquently described by "John of the Cross" as "The
Dark Night of the Soul".
If I hold on to the "god-myth" then my whole purpose - and the
definition of who I am - lies within the constraints of the
definitions of other people.
Sure, Religion and Spirituality had their place in my life as my
introduction to a lot of the moral and ethical standards - but were
they Law?
What I found was that they were principles of cause and effect and
could be used as "Stepping Stones" to move deeper in my own inner
search.
"Stepping Stones" is a phrase I often use now for anything that I
read - or that someone has said. A stepping stone is something to
be touched lightly, then moved over - something that marks a path
that someone perhaps has walked before.
The moment I lift my eyes from one stone, I can see that there is
another in front of it, and another. How am I limiting myself by
being rooted to the spot.
Eventually, in the distance,
I can see that there are no more stepping stones.
This, to me was a little scary .. until I got to the last stepping
stone .. "Oh s#*T .. where now .. ?" .. the body and the senses
were used to having stones on which to walk .. they were used to
having a map and a guide book .. they still are in some ways
because what I am writing now, you won't find in any of the tombs -
not in the words that I am writing anyway.
One possibility - that maybe, as some of the previous stones had
suggested, at the end of the path, the explorer becomes the path
itself. Interesting thought - a bit scary - but is there something
more .. (scientific brain at work here) ..
Was it possible that consciousness itself had not evolved to the
point where there was a real-life expression, words (or "Stepping
Stones") which could bring Historical Spirituality and Life Itself
back together again.
What would be the potential of going back
into "The Garden of Eden" and merging
"The Tree of Life" with the "Tree of Knowledge" ..
Hmmm .. this ties into the concept of the "seeker becoming the
expression of the one sought in the act of seeking". Definitely not
a concept that lies within the Doctrine of Western Spiritual
Tradition .. or does it? Eastern Spirituality hints at the
possibilities ..
Is this about merging - or finding a common ground -
a meeting point between East and West ..?
Many people seem to think that there is an impenetrable barrier
which separates Spirituality and Science. Some even try to see
hidden meanings to prove that the two cannot be reconciled. I write
here from my the childhood memories of a mind that was always
asking "Why .. ?"
What I have found is that both are talking the same language in
many cases .. and by ridding myself of the preconceived meaning of
words and symbols, the eclectic confines of self-limiting
mind-sets, I was able to revisit some of my old "Stepping Stones".
>From the marvels of modern medical research, what could be a more
powerful demonstration of the symbology, myth and metaphor of
Tantra than the merge of the Male (Sperm) and the (Female) Ovum to
produce the Quantum Mind and Consciousness of the Stem Cell from
which all human life and experience diversifies.
The question arises here -- how many of the "Spiritual Myths"
(which we "worship" and seek and observe) are merely man's attempt
to describe the human biological process?.
Is it possible that the "Kund" of Kundalini - the pot buried in the
Earth from which the sacred energy of purification rises is nothing
more than the Quantum Consciousness of the Stem Cell?
Revisiting some of the many paths I have walked and looking closely
at, some of the stepping stones I was, for a time rooted to, I can
see a repeating patterns etched in the grain of the words.
hmmm .. another memory ..
I was too busy looking around me to see where others were,
shouting out what the view was like from here, wanting to get
others to join me in my own "little community"
to look down and see the swamp that surrounded this particular
stone and the alligators that had been drawn to the vicinity by
all of the fuss that I was making ..
to look forward to see the next stone .. and the next ..
to look behind me to see where I had come from
to get to this point
I talked to the alligators - made friends with them even - and
jumped off my stepping stone so that I could pick it up and have a
close look at what it was trying to tell me.
You want to know the funny thing ..
the moment I jumped off the stepping stone,
the swamp mysteriously drained away ..
the mist lifted from in front of my eyes
and I could see
that all of my stepping stones
were the figment of some-one else's imagination.
There was nothing to merge ..
and my life experience moved beyond determinism
to the expression of the passion of my free will
Oh .. BTW .. nearly every spiritual tradition tells exactly the
same Tantric Metaphor using different symbolism ..
The Lotus Blooms
as the expression of the Union of Heaven and Earth,
Malkuth meeting Kether
rises from the roots of man's minds imaginings
on the nature of God
--
Christopher Wynter,
ChristopherATnospamlifestreams.com.au
http://www.anunda.com
http://www.kundalini-gateway.org
http://www.domin8rex.com/serpent/spirit/kindex.htm
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