Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s four-book series The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is set largely in Barcelona and Madrid following the Spanish Civil war of the late 1930s. I discern in each of its characters an aspect of human consciousness. That is, the books illustrate the relationships saddling each of us as a single human creature. That…
Month: September 2021
A Dylan Verse
Here’s a verse from Bob Dylan’s song “Like a Rolling Stone:” “You said you’d never compromiseWith the mystery tramp, but now you realizeHe’s not selling any alibisAs you stare into the vacuum of his eyesAnd say do you want to make a deal?” I used to think that this was meant to simply be a putdown…
What Is the Spiritual Path – Part Two
The spiritual Path is Lived as multidimensional consciousness bringing about Soul Beauty as the alchemical equation I AM THAT I AM. Assuming yourSelf as the spiritual Hierarchy, you presume the spiritual Path as the twinkling of a starry body. THAT recognition is like Sir Henry Morton Stanley encountering the famed missionary and explorer Dr. Livingston…
Subtlety – Part Twenty-Two
Complexity Versus
Spiritual Evolution
Subtlety – Part Twenty-TwoComplexity VersusSpiritual Evolution I received a short paper from a friend, which describes the complexity of the DNA in various species and compares that to the DNA of humans. Some are comparable in the number of genes they sport, and others have many more genes than us. I appreciate what he is…
Subtlety – Part Twenty-One
Embarrassing Immorality
“We” are One. In the Edenic state, the Real estate, we know it; “We” feel it; “We” ARE It. Not only ARE “We” One, “We” evolve infinite mystery simply by Being ourselves and recognizing ourSelves. Yet, in our 3D sense of separation, we hoodwink ourselves into thinking that we are divorced from one another and…
Subtlety – Part Twenty
Nourish Soul
People who practice a spiritual Path too strictly, too literally, endanger their opportunity to nourish Soul. Their humanity can wither. Their empathy can shrink into a stilted BB that awaits not the kiss of a meandering Prince, but divine Love’s ballpeen hammer blow to awaken Soul’s comforting antahkarana. Indeed, Love’s otherworldly blows find Soul continuously…
Subtlety – Part Nineteen
Full Enlightenment
Is Never Achieved
The word “full” implies a maximized quantity. Yet, “full enlightenment” is a resonance mode, not some achieved, quantized state. Since BEING, infinite mystery, evolves, the concept of “full enlightenment” is moot. Indeed, since only the One IS, enlightenment is an all or nothing affair. In this moment, You either realize that you ARE in and…
Subtlety – Part Eighteen: Living Art
In last night’s dream, I was running a list processing computer program[1] with someone. The program blew up and displayed the error message: “That list has never appeared on this world or any other.” I thought that was just the result of some bored, wiseacre programmer spicing up their job with a comedic remark coded…
Subtlety – Part Seventeen
Nobody Moves; Nobody Gets Hurt
You know how the cops or robbers sometimes say, “Nobody moves; nobody gets hurt.” They don’t know it, themselves, but they’re conveying how people can stay safe, not just in a guns-pulled situation but also throughout their fallen estate navigating. Evolving Yes; Moving No Abolish the consciousness mode that hoodwinks you into thinking that you…