The least initial deviation from truth is multiplied a thousandfold.— Aristotle You may think that you’re the person you’ve known all your life. But everyone beholding you casts you as themselves from their own viewpoint. Moreover, you complicate that mix with your own multiple personality fanfares. Joanne Woodward’s film “The Three Faces of Eve” illustrates…
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Subtlety – Part Forty-Seven
Divine Evolution of ALL in All
Light breaks where no sun shinesDylan Thomas Only the One IS. The self-urging provenance of infinite mystery evolves as divine universality and Individual Selfhood simultaneously. Like two sides of a coin, this ongoing evolution interweaves to enfold All in ALL as the fabric of the divine Mother’s whole cloth. The Real imagery that You, as…
Subtlety – Part Forty-Six: Immanence
What of the Immanent Will and its designs?It works unconsciously as heretofore,External artistries in circumstance.–Thomas Hardy Fallen-estate, 3D consciousness is a self-reinforcing momentum. Is phantom generation is more difficult to stop than a Mack Truck or the Queen Mary. But, here’s your Real wakeup call: Engaging spiritual enlightenment doesn’t involve stopping fallen-estate momenta. In fact,…
Subtlety – Part Forty-Five
Real Time: A Meditation
Real time refers not to sequence, but to Being resolving Life’s archetypal qualities of sentient opportunity. The Presence of past: I AM the answers to questions ever more humbly blessing light’s radiance. The Presence of present: I AM the answers to questions urging Love’s surrendered Selfhood. The Presence of future: I AM the answers to…
Subtlety – Part Forty-Four
Orthogonality
Almost all people descend to meet.–Ralph Waldo Emerson Your consciousness is an instance of the infinite One. Yet, an imaginary confabulation that “you” consider to be you persists in the finite space-time fallen estate. How is that possible? Isn’t it obvious that infinity touching finitude would be so explosive to the latter as to make…
If you build a stage set for the ego,it becomes a fortress.In a fortress, transformation is impossible.You have isolated yourself,and the intimacy that assists transformationis not there.–Audrey Flack, artist. Subtlety – Part Forty-threeYour Zingy Zen Tryst The divine Mother is a tease. She never completely strips. Every timeless moment, Ma hurls Her challenge to you…
Subtlety – Part Forty-Two
Alchemy
I often use the terms alchemy, alchemical and alchemical processing. These signal that I am referring to consciousness ALIVE in the Real estate, acting as an infinite agent in and as the One. Any creative endeavor involves an alchemist stirring up a beginningless/endless, divine evolutionary brew. When an artist paints, they have an internal vector…
Subtlety – Part Forty-One
Stop Resenting Yourself
Take Eve into Your Arms
Try to Love Again
You did it wrong at that first fall. And every now and then, you remember. The pang sinks deep. Poignancy is too gentle a word for it. The Cat Stevens song says it all: “The first cut is the deepest.” Maya Is Not Bad So, now you go on…and on…and on. Many lifetimes have witnessed…
The MOFC Anonymous Twelve-Step Program
Introduction The maya of false conception (MOFC) characterizing humanity’s fallen-estate outlook burdens everyone who grants it permission to do so. Hence, this MOFC Anonymous program is no joke. It is not a satiric takeoff on AA meant to cadge a laugh out of you at the Alcoholics Anonymous group’s expense. You are meant to take…
Subtlety – Part Forty: Sacrifice – Activating the Archetypal Mandala Of BEING
Consciousness finds Selfhood as the One’s own sacrifice upon grace’s infinitely mysterious altar. Yes. yes, yes. You, as conscious Being, are a SACred oRIFICE of the One employing gracious opportunity to joyously nourish activated divine evolution. Your up-and-doing consciousness inflames Shiva to dance the One’s heart out to captivate yourSelf as blooming NOTHING. Indeed, a…