To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/01/24 12:51
Subject: RE: [K-list] Resting in the Tranquil Peace of I AM
From: Llewellyn
On 1999/01/24 12:51, Llewellyn posted thus to the K-list:
> Spiritual awakening isn't something to be taken lightly. Your whole life
> could be ripped apart. You may feel like you are completely nuts. You may
> become physically ill. You may lose all of your material possessions. All
> of your current family and friends may not work for your life
> anymore.
Yes I have to agree with some of this - my family threw me into a mental
hospital - why I am not sure - it has been very difficult for me to
understand or to come to any real peace about this - society tends to be
harsh to anybody who is significantly different - I chose to leave a good
job to live on a farm in a rural area where finding employment is difficult
and spent my savings all in the name of finding myself- but it was
necessary for my spiritual peace of mind - somehow there needs to be a
balance - My family never really worked for me but I didn't perceive that
they worked against me until my K awakening - again somehow I need to find
a balance in this - someplace there is a lesson that I must learn, I must
try to understand my family even if they do not understand me.
> When the lower ego, our socially made illusion, are splintered into
> ten thousand
> pieces of caos by the very nature of a spiritual initiation itself, where
> else can you find a firm, stable ground than in Your Own High Self ? Where
> else than in Your own Divine Center of I Am ? Nowhere !
I agree kundalini tends to force us to delve into ourselves - to understand
the I Am as you say.
But this process must not take on the aspect of a job or a necessity - or a
part of an initiation into some group.
>
> The whole idea of *strong techniques* as Kriya Yoga, Prana Vidya
> etc, is to
> put energy in motion. The unmoving must move. Energy must circulate. This
> can be a devastating process for our lower ego, but energy in motion isn't
> *frenetic*. Have You ever observed that in the center of a storm, there
> rules complete silence ?
>
Yes it just seemed like a lot of storm for very little center.
>> To *visit the woods* - in the meaning of escaping from one's vision of
> birth, your spiritual reason for beeing born - is stagnation. Strong
> spiritual energies must be crystallized, manifested, in our daily life. We
> go up to the spiritual, the fourth dimension, in order to receive
> inspiration to spiritualize our material world, not to escape from it.
>
To me visiting the woods or my forest is not escaping from one's vision of
birth but invigorating that vision - the forest helps me to be more with my
spirit when I am too centered in the mundane activities of living in this
world and it helps me to realize the importance of being part of everyday
life when I am too spacey - it helps me to balance - it restores some
sense of perspective -
So I am heading out the door - for my forest - my few acres of woods is
just a short walk to the back of my land - and I need to get some
perspective - and soak up some wisdom from my ancestors.
Peace from upstate central New York.
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