Visible Origami – June 8, 2023
God Poet Transmitting…….
Surely… by now… anyone who chooses to… can see the evidence of spiritual warfare… close up… or at a distance… or in some cases… both. One can see it in the external sense. One can also see it in one’s own mind… where that applies.
Some of us have been fortunate enough… over the course of a long haul of lives… to shut down the wheedling… threatening… whining… urging and cajoling menace of The Carnal Mind and its vehicle… the unregenerate personality. Others still wrestle with The Beast. Most are less than blissfully unaware of it altogether. That will not last. Things change… regardless of the level of one’s resistance to that cornerstone of manifest existence.
I can only speak for myself. Perhaps the effect of conditions and forces are different for others. I have 3 sources for what I know; my own experience… the legacy and records left by others… and The Intuition. I have many sources for what I do not know… brought to my attention by The Separated Mind.
What is the point of being rigorously and ruthlessly vigilant… concerning the operations of The Separated Mind? It is because that is the force that empowers assumption as a defining source. The Separated Mind cannot possibly… ever… know certain things because it cannot detach itself from itself in order to assess and analyze itself. That has to occur from another level of perception.
Some things can only be known in Unity, and they cannot be spoken on unless the unity is broken for the purpose of discussion. There is little difference between the chattering of chipmunks and squirrels… and the chattering of humankind. It all seems reasonable within the parameters of shared experience. Take it up a notch or two and it sounds like nonsense.
That is one of the valuable things that psychedelics taught me. You can learn things in altered states. Such experiences can be as valuable and illuminating as they can be dangerous and deceiving. What is true is that such insights can only go so far. This is something I have learned personally as a former psychedelic traveler of many… many hundreds of excursions. There is a limit to what you can discover on mind-altering substances.
It becomes a looping process within boundaries that you can neither get through nor around. I did not want to learn that this was true. I had big investments there, but it was true… and it is true. Certain levels and areas of perception are closed off to such intrusions. They can certainly be gateways to states of realization, but one must put them aside to go further on.
At every stage of transition, one must leave something behind in order to continue. Sometimes it is more than one thing. You cannot rise unless you become lighter. Like someone in The New Testament said… “you must put away childish things.” As is consistently the case… scripture has several or more possible meanings with every statement. This is why people argue about meaning. Those who argue have missed the point. There can be no argument in a state of unity.
It is always the foolish ego… the calculating mind… and the willful personality that continually insists upon or argues against something that life proves to be wrong or irrelevant… sooner or later. This is why THE doors close behind you after you pass through them;
31. Through perfectly concentrated Meditation on the
light in the head comes the vision of the Masters who have attained.
The tradition is, that there is a certain center of force in
the head, perhaps the “Pineal gland,” which some of our Western
philosophers have supposed to be the dwelling of the
soul,—a center which is, as it were, the doorway between the
natural and the spiritual man.
It is the seat of that better and wiser consciousness behind the outward-looking consciousness
in the forward part of the head; that better and wiser consciousness of “the back of the mind,”
which views spiritual things, and seeks to impress the spiritual view on the outward-
looking consciousness in the forward part of the head.
It is the spiritual man seeking to guide the natural man, seeking to bring the natural man to concern himself with the things of his immortality. This is suggested in the words of the Upanishad already quoted: “There, where the dividing of the hair turns, extending upward to the crown of the head”; all of which may sound very fantastical until one comes to understand it.
It is said that when this power is fully awakened, it brings
a vision of the great Companions of the spiritual man, those
who have already attained, crossing over to the further shore
of the sea of death and rebirth. Perhaps it is to this divine
sight that the Master alluded, who is reported to have said;
“I counsel you to buy of me eye-salve, that you may see.” It
is of this same vision of the great Companions, the children of
light, that a seer wrote,
“Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither,
Can in a moment travel thither,
And see the Children sport upon the shore
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.”
- Or through the divining power of intuition he knows all things.
This is really the supplement, the spiritual side, of the
sutra just translated. Step by step, as the better consciousness,
the spiritual view, gains force in the back of the mind,
so, in the same measure, the spiritual man is gaining the power
to see: learning to open the spiritual eyes.
When the eyes are fully opened, the spiritual man beholds the great Companions standing about him; he has begun to “know all things.”
This divining power of intuition is the power which lies
above and behind the so-called rational mind; the rational mind
formulates a question and lays it before the intuition, which
gives a real answer, often immediately distorted by the rational
mind, yet always embodying a kernel of truth. It is by this
process, through which the rational mind brings questions to
the intuition for solution, that the truths of science are reached,
the flashes of discovery and genius. But this higher power
need not work in subordination to the so-called rational mind,
it may act directly, as full illumination, “the vision and the faculty divine.”
Some will read these words and gain some intellectual perception of their meaning. Some may get flashes of the moment… through which a greater insight is given. Some may later experience an enlightening flashback… due to working out a deeper meaning… through the agency of The Subconscious. Some will find their eyes glaze over; probably lacking in eye-salve. (grin)
The Devil is The Separated Mind… dancing outside the state of resonating Unity, where every conflict and contention is resolved… where self-importance has no place because ONLY The Higher Self is important OR… real. It is there… where there is no strife… no suffering… no sense of alienation… no despair… and no fear.
The World is a theater of dynamic tensions personalized for The Purpose of Demonstration… where the elements attract and repel in their magnetic polarities… and seeming antagonisms. It is here that you find peace, BY… THE… GRACE… OF… GOD. Otherwise, you will find it nowhere else; and you will keep returning here until you do.
The World is made visible by the separations and conflicts that ensue in the dance of opposites… slower and faster… higher and lower… easier and harder… depending on you.
The World is the place where you get everything you thought you wanted only to find you no longer want it now that it is yours. It is the place where EVERYTHING falls short of the promises it made to attract you. The point of it all is to compel you to look within. You… yourself… are everything you seek in a world where missing pieces spin in an eternal… electromagnetic helix.
It is wanting that forms The World you exist in. It is not wanting that reveals The World you truly seek.
End Transmission…….
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Beautiful, Thank you.
I think a Cat could grasp this much better than I could.
I really miss not having a Cat.
One day I will again 🐈
Practicing and promulgating Patanjali’s wise advice… what could possibly be more useful?
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“There is an acceptance of transcendental pleasure in the Patanjali system, but the monists do not accept this transcendental pleasure, out of fear of jeopardizing the theory of oneness.”
The Six Schools of Philosophy
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Homer; is that you?
Yes Visible prabhu, it’s me. Just trying to help complete the circle, as you know.
I’m all for the ‘easy way out’ especially since it’s also the only way out. Spiritual irony.
But most people in Kali yuga are their own worst impediments and only live for material verification in its various and sundry forms. The epitome of Kali yuga.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step and the journey of liberation from Maya begins with bending a knee to the Lord Himself.
Even as I understand 98% don’t really desire relief from material misery and enjoyment there are still 2% who do and for them information and encouragement very much matters. (no pun)
Best wishes to you prabhu.
Ah… I thought so. As I remember, you were in Kalifornia. I am in Arizona so… if it ever becomes possible, you would be an honored guest here and would have no expenses except for the coming and going. You know my email, easily sourced in the comments section of the blogs. God’s love be PROFOUNDLY visited upon you in the person of his presence continuously.
Visible prabhu, appreciate your gracious offer and perhaps one day I will visit.
The idea of your personal association is in itself entertaining and intriguing.
Though I’m not out West rather up East near Lake Erie.
Thank you and best wishes for your good health.
Right. Now I remember. We went through this before and you cleared it up… and I forgot. (grin) Well… no matter, given how the universe works, it’s inevitable in some location… sometime.
As many eastern sages have noted: vigilance with the dualistic, samsara, prideful mind is a good thing but don’t get upset and don’t try to fight it – the key is to IGNORE it.
Very few know that thoughts arise – they truly are NOT your own (for the most part).
The ocean doesn’t know from waves, stay there and watch how things become easy and joy can be attained, joy and abandonment of the “personality”.
“A poet once described the pranks of the mind as: “Primarily a drunk monkey that gets bitten by a scorpion.” Even such a poet would put his pen down seeing the ludicrous absurdities of this human being and would bid goodbye to his poetic talents.”