Spiritual reading — even in the good times, seek to be deep

September 30

You have sent many hours, months, years developing your conscious relationship with the place within you that knows. That is connected to all that is. That is eternal. Most of you touch into it and then move out into ‘the world’ and then forget and then remember. And forget again. This has been fine as long as it has been fine.

*** Even when times are good, keep on daily reading and thinking spiritual

When people are in a miserable phase of their life, THEN they might try engaging higher wisdom — or more likely just fret, fret, fret, and drink themselves silly. 😉

I found that when the money was going okay, and other things were smoth, I slacked off reading spiritual things. Bad idea. Because the bad times WILL return, and actually they will return FASTER because you slacked off.

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But now we want to invite you to take a new step. There isn’t anything you need to do differently, and yet there are plenty of things that you can approach differently.

Begin with this: you know nothing. Okay, you know how to operate the things that are necessary to maintaining your form. To some extent or another.

Master of the Universe 😉

But your ideas about life and love and light and dark and God and the meaning of it all—allow their solidity and rigidity to dissolve.

It is not that they are wrong, but they may cause you grief, they may cause you to stray from your true way if you adhere to them too strongly. They are likely very good starting
places, but the universe will continue to teach you, as it always will if you attend. And there is no sense in being stuck behind while the very powerful energies that are ranging through are moving swiftly and surely. You could be moving with them.

Once you have allowed yourself to know nothing you will be free to learn what is being taught. See just how blank a slate you are able to be. For the experience. To see what you might see.

*** Tolle is big on this

He calls it presence. It is when the chattering mind is gone.

Just LOOK, without thought.

No mental chittchat — words, words, words, old stuff, often pointless and rehashed.

Pick up the vibe, see the reality. No labelling, cogitating, processing.

Shut the mind down and just see what IS.

Believe me, your soul and unconscious mind are very busy taking it in. This is not time wasted.

In the Fred Rogers movie, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” you can see the power of just LOOKING.

The reporter melts, because he feels his soul being scanned and his self-b-s is now lying there exposed. He breaks down and finally tells Rogers what is really going on in his life, starting with how he got a black eye at his sister’s wedding. 😉

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Human beings are incredible. Not in the ways that you often imagine, not because of what you have accomplished or created or envisioned, but because of your ability to synthesize and grow.

And to do that in form is to do it in a way that has a richness and a complexity that is otherwise unavailable. But it is only possible if one is purely open.

So try that. Let yourself be open to the voice of what is eternal in you and around you. Let the voices that come from the material plane, the collision of denser [more primitive human] beings, make their cacophony, and do all you can to turn to that which speaks of things you know not yet.

You have seen and heard enough of suspicion, fear, anger and deceit. You know those voices. Let them, and the actions they engender in others, jabber on and give them no audience.

Allow yourself to be a beginner, learning from that which lies deeper and beckons you.

Let’s see if we can be clearer and more specific, because as is often the case, the translation of energetic movement into language can be challenging.

You may encounter people and their actions which are inspired by fear. It is pretty likely, actually. You know how to deal with this kind of a situation.

Maybe you react, and then later you see your own reaction and regret it.

Maybe you see the fear and decide not to engage with it or the action. Maybe you meet it with love. It depends on you and how this particular situation arrives on your doorstep, but given the amount of fear that is abroad and the regularity of its colliding with each and every soul on the planet, it is pretty certain that you will have this opportunity.

What we want to suggest is that you not worry about how you handle it. This will be dictated by the circumstances, who you are and where you are in your life. What we want to suggest is that no matter how you handle it, you look underneath the experience for the teaching that lies there.

If you can do this without preconception (and this is the tough part for many who have studied and practiced a great deal) then you could be moved far beyond anything you have encountered before.

The time is rich and fertile for big movement, but in order to realize it, you need to leave behind many of the internal structures you have used to shape and hold yourself up. You need to become a tabula rasa, a beginner, a novice.

You have to see without the fog that is created not just by the nonsense of illusion, but
also by the beliefs that grow up as you learn to look for the truth.

If you can, take a breath, take a moment to stop and refklect when you are faced with something you don’t like—big or little—and just ask: what is really here?

Let your mind be still and see what comes.

Blessings to all. — E. West