GROUNDED
It is important, when you become involved with the world of
'Spirit', to retain a strong contact with normality; to temper your
cosmic consciousness with common sense, keeping your feet
on the ground while your head is in the clouds - especially if
you are intending to pass on any of your new-found knowledge
to others who are just starting to look, or if you are wanting to
stay in touch with those who don't even think there's anything to
look for. It's like, with so many new vistas opening up in the
upstairs window in front of you, you have to keep the back door
open for when your friends come round. Trouble is, while
you've been staring out of the upstairs window, you've started
talking in Sumerian, or Martian, and they don't appreciate it.
Something happens and you start looking more closely - or you
make a decision to actively start seeing, and your perspective -
your point of view - changes dramatically. It is a process of
transmutation and it cannot be reversed. Once you have seen
and experienced the fact of, firstly, survival beyond 'death',
your whole world view shifts massively. You feel differently
about people. You can see the best in people. You cannot lie,
or tolerate lies in others. You think before you speak, so as not
to harm others, for once a word is spoken, it has a life of its
own. It cannot be taken back. A word is, of course, the surface
representation - the physical manifestation - of a thought. Your
thoughts change too, because you realize their power. You
know how fast they travel - all the faster if unencumbered by
words, - and they are the power of the universe. They can do
immense good, or devastating damage. I have seen the effects
of both varieties.
So, your position has shifted, and for a while you sit gazing
about you at the lovely new universe you now inhabit. But there
is just something - up in the top right-hand corner - that is not
quite... it puzzles you. You put together all your bits of
new-found knowledge in different ways, but that piece of jigsaw
- it doesn't look quite right, somehow. Then you have a dream -
a vivid one. Or one of the children makes one of those
profound remarks that make you drop your basket in Tesco's,
and - whoosh - you are out of that comfy place, through a hole
in the cloud in that top right-hand corner and into a new,
higher, faster, vaster place that's even lighter and whiter and
more amazing than the place you were before. And it keeps on
happening, Mandelbrot-style.
Now, whilst all this is deeply satisfying, especially when you see
how you can do good stuff with it - for what's the point of having
it otherwise - you find that the increasingly rarefied nature of
your conversation precludes small-talk, and you are somewhat
blunter than previously. Lots of people do not want to talk to
you, because you question their beliefs and prejudices just by
telling the truth in a nice way, and by not playing sly little games
with them; so, unless you are prepared to talk only with people
on the same level as you, you have to try to explain, without
being smug or boring or antagonizing. Even if you try to talk
about other things, so as to avoid contention, people will attack
you to some degree, because they feel threatened by your new
ideas, which inevitably challenge the stock ideas they are
hiding uncomfortably behind.
The universal truths you are discovering have been so well
hidden, through lies, half-truths and distortions, for so long, that
it causes pain when they are even hinted at, like seeing the
light from inside Plato's cave. It has to be done gradually, this
acquiring of new knowledge - and wisdom, which is what results
from putting the knowledge to good use. Not only that, but there
are many vested interests in keeping them hidden, for as we
know - knowledge is power - for good or otherwise.
It is difficult, then, to decide on the best course of action. It is
wrong, and useless, to press people to take in information they
do not want. It is necessary just to be there, doing whatever
good and useful stuff you can to improve the state of things
generally, and those people who are ready to take the leap will
ask if there's anything they need help with on the way.
It is important, when you become involved with the world of
'Spirit', to retain a strong contact with normality; to temper your
cosmic consciousness with common sense, keeping your feet
on the ground while your head is in the clouds - especially if
you are intending to pass on any of your new-found knowledge
to others who are just starting to look, or if you are wanting to
stay in touch with those who don't even think there's anything to
look for. It's like, with so many new vistas opening up in the
upstairs window in front of you, you have to keep the back door
open for when your friends come round. Trouble is, while
you've been staring out of the upstairs window, you've started
talking in Sumerian, or Martian, and they don't appreciate it.
Something happens and you start looking more closely - or you
make a decision to actively start seeing, and your perspective -
your point of view - changes dramatically. It is a process of
transmutation and it cannot be reversed. Once you have seen
and experienced the fact of, firstly, survival beyond 'death',
your whole world view shifts massively. You feel differently
about people. You can see the best in people. You cannot lie,
or tolerate lies in others. You think before you speak, so as not
to harm others, for once a word is spoken, it has a life of its
own. It cannot be taken back. A word is, of course, the surface
representation - the physical manifestation - of a thought. Your
thoughts change too, because you realize their power. You
know how fast they travel - all the faster if unencumbered by
words, - and they are the power of the universe. They can do
immense good, or devastating damage. I have seen the effects
of both varieties.
So, your position has shifted, and for a while you sit gazing
about you at the lovely new universe you now inhabit. But there
is just something - up in the top right-hand corner - that is not
quite... it puzzles you. You put together all your bits of
new-found knowledge in different ways, but that piece of jigsaw
- it doesn't look quite right, somehow. Then you have a dream -
a vivid one. Or one of the children makes one of those
profound remarks that make you drop your basket in Tesco's,
and - whoosh - you are out of that comfy place, through a hole
in the cloud in that top right-hand corner and into a new,
higher, faster, vaster place that's even lighter and whiter and
more amazing than the place you were before. And it keeps on
happening, Mandelbrot-style.
Now, whilst all this is deeply satisfying, especially when you see
how you can do good stuff with it - for what's the point of having
it otherwise - you find that the increasingly rarefied nature of
your conversation precludes small-talk, and you are somewhat
blunter than previously. Lots of people do not want to talk to
you, because you question their beliefs and prejudices just by
telling the truth in a nice way, and by not playing sly little games
with them; so, unless you are prepared to talk only with people
on the same level as you, you have to try to explain, without
being smug or boring or antagonizing. Even if you try to talk
about other things, so as to avoid contention, people will attack
you to some degree, because they feel threatened by your new
ideas, which inevitably challenge the stock ideas they are
hiding uncomfortably behind.
The universal truths you are discovering have been so well
hidden, through lies, half-truths and distortions, for so long, that
it causes pain when they are even hinted at, like seeing the
light from inside Plato's cave. It has to be done gradually, this
acquiring of new knowledge - and wisdom, which is what results
from putting the knowledge to good use. Not only that, but there
are many vested interests in keeping them hidden, for as we
know - knowledge is power - for good or otherwise.
It is difficult, then, to decide on the best course of action. It is
wrong, and useless, to press people to take in information they
do not want. It is necessary just to be there, doing whatever
good and useful stuff you can to improve the state of things
generally, and those people who are ready to take the leap will
ask if there's anything they need help with on the way.
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