Wednesday, September 16, 2015

THE PROGRESSION OF AWAKENING

The progression goes a little like this: One searches and thinks he has found—and grows arrogant in that finding for a long time, thence to be humbled.

Then, he finds again and really knows.

One lives this discovery and proves it.

One keeps going onward and finds the relationships between himself and the outside. Many people never reach this point because no one has told them or convinced them there is a relationship between the inside and the quantum outside or that these two are a single one.

One perceives the wholeness of outside because he has found it for himself.

One perceives the relationships between himself inside, and the appearances outside, in their increasing detail. This has been called the web of interrelatedness. A leaf falls to the earth and the universe is shaken.

One comes slowly to know the marvel that will unfold outside from what has already unfolded within himself—and he lives in continuing expectancy of this unfolding in the world.

One speaks to his world as seems best.

All along this progression, one is faithful to those who have been given to him. He tells them to go and do the same and instruct their given to do the same.

We, and those who have been given to us, become the New community, the flower of the tree of life. The Community grows.
This progression happens in linear time, “line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little.”

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It appears I have been kept in the middle of the River of Life from the beginning, but only after all these years have I learned my relationship to the world and its relationship to me. I have known what will “happen” in time because it has already happened here as I-Identity in those glimpses of timelessness. It is the same for Everyman. Everyman becomes the flower and the flower's seed. The seed survives.

Excerpt from "The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics"
by William Samuel available on Amazon

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