Vernon Howard - The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power - Warner - 1976
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Vernon Howard - The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power - Warner - 1976
path of life
☆ Becoming a Crone ☆
Much of what has been written on middle age and becoming a crone only partially resonates with me, if it does at all. I feel the relative truth of what I hear and read, my truth though related is different. From my vantage point my experience and truth feels more expansive, as it does not limit me to a form, gender narratives, nor ancestral myths.
The states I am being initiated into are not as earthbound, or linked to ancestral traditions still known to us. They are ancient in that they have been present on this planet in times before - before the forgetting and atrocities of separation consciousness. The states I am being led to carry in them the frequencies of earth, our galactic origins, as well as the dark formless that preceded all form.
The much glorified and centered rewilding has been a part of my journey, a part that was given to my thirties and which played a part in my liberation. Looking from where I am now it becomes obvious that it was but a preparatory stage, not an end or climax of this path. My Soul calling me to walk further, to remember ancient knowing of *all* my lineages planetary, non-planetary, and all the way back to the source of all form - the numinosity of the void.
One piece of this becoming is the lesson of stripping off all human identities, identifications with personality, body, and mind, to immerse into and know the formless essence of being. In stripping off the aforementioned I find myself no longer beholden to them, seeing them as mere constructs, artificial to the boundless nature of being. Realizing how being human has been limited to repeating patterns and limited possibilities of expressing and being due to the great forgetting and the rule of stark unconsciousness. Our being knows that there is another way of being human and exploring this dimension, and this knowing is calling ever so loudly for embodiment. To do so we have to take off the heaviness of unconscious patterning, and distorted perceptions, only then will we be truly receptive to and have enough spaciousness to call in expanded possibilities to flow through our being and rework our collective field.
Another aspect of this becoming is to wholly embrace oneness. It sounds simple but experience shows how much our mind body system resists it. It will accept it here and there but in the next moment it will hold on to separation consciousness in order to differentiate itself from 'others', which it holds in some form of judgement or dislike. So deeply ingrained are these conditioned distortions that we find ourselves once again split within, some part vibrating with the frequency of oneness and others clinging to separation consciousness.
And I am learning that a nervous system which has been dysregulated by complex trauma is slow in releasing the fears and automated responses it has created for survival and open to the deeper meanings and ramifications of oneness. This is where deep compassion and skillfulness are needed to help integrate and heal with the guidance and grace of Self energy. It is a very slow process and yet it is a crucial part of this journey, it is the most important key to unlocking our full potential, expanded knowing, and full alignment with consciousness/life.
While working on the previous a third aspect is being learned and gently entrained in our body:
To drink of the poison cup without sickening or dying.
What I mean by it is the capacity to be present with the most harrowing aspects of human doing, with the oppressions, injustices, and violence our plant, animal, and human kin are suffering without resorting to denial, repression, numbing, or acting out. To be a vessel large enough to feel and hold it with compassion and perceive with eyes of consciousness, witnessing it fully and honoring the experiences observed, and act where it is in our power with love and care to alleviate and balance what we can. To feel and know the suffering of all - victim, perpetrator, bystanders, and saviors alike - knowing the underlying distortions and conditioning that keep recreating these experiences across millennia.
Being, seeing, feeling, reflecting at the same time, side-stepping explanations and resolutions of the conditioned mind, and opening to the mystery while leaning into not-knowing with trust. Letting the love at the core of our being call to the mystery to reveal knowing, a path to change or healing, and support us in holding it in a way that doesn't poison us to be a(n unwitting) part of it.
This is what embodying a different frequency and holding it in a dissonant field is to me.
... continued on the blog.
Art: 'ATMA - The Guide of Souls' by Autumn Skye
Source: https://venuskind.de/2023/11/crone/
Transcendental Path
The Transcendental Path is not one of destination only, but of origin as well, and of journey between both points. One may transcend their origin, yes, but transcendence does not imply disconnection or occlusion. You do not become "better than" or "wiser than" your origin. You may only ever access or disallow echelons of this wisdom and betterment that were always inherently yours. And you may only ever discover, open yourself to or close yourself from, whatever array of tools are there on your Path.
There is no point on the Path that may obliterate the fact of points prior or ahead. There are only points that obscure or illuminate what is there, what came before and what lay ahead.
The Path may be a journey of a million miles of space by very large or small amounts of time, or a million nanoseconds of time examining large swaths or tiny bubbles of space. These distinctions and metrics both do and do not matter.
What matters is what you choose to make real of your journey, how you arrive at destinations and what you return to your origin. How conscious you are of your thoughts or actions matters only by the degree of your wish and will, moderated by your mood.
If you choose to access the unknowable realms, and you have permitted yourself that access, this then is your right, and your way of passage shall always be secure. Though there may seem to be "Guardians" of that knowledge, or obstacles before you. Though you may be confronted by "Nay Sayers" or "doubters" who would seek to alter the course of your journey. And sometimes by force. Sometimes by persecution. Sometimes by brutality. Sometimes by torture.
It is your choice that precedes you always. The Choice to be Originated. And it is always this choice that is meeting the Original Choice of others along the Path. In these meeting points, it is still always your choice to be altered in your path by others or to be as willfully ignorant of their choices as they are of yours.
The Choice to be Originated implies the Choice to be Destined.
An acorn is always an acorn before a Squirrel who is always a Squirrel. Somedays the acorn is good to the Squirrel, somedays it is not. Some days the Squirrel is good to the acorn, some days it is not. These are matters that exist between the acorn and the Squirrel. And whether or not there is any transcendence between or among them, is only for them to know.
Esoteric Mystic Paths Like Sant Mat vs. Outer Exoteric World Religions The Mahatmas Who come from Sach Khand do not divide the world, nor do they condemn any existing religion or community; They do not form any new religions; They only tell us the truth. They teach us how to do the devotion of God Almighty, because God Himself is residing within all of us. Mahatmas tell us, "Just as the sun does not have any caste or creed -- he gives life to everyone -- in the same way, God Almighty does not have any caste or creed either. Those who do His devotion, who devote themselves to Him-He becomes theirs." Saints and Mahatmas do not teach us to criticize any community or religion, and they do not tell us to comment about the practices of those religions and communities. They do tell us the Reality, the Truth, and They always inspire us to get the Naam initiation, and meditating upon that Naam, to go within and see what the Reality is... Masters come in this world to make us free from the attachments and the bounds of religions and communities. They do not come in this world to attach us to any particular religion or community. They do not tell us to give up any religion or community; but They do tell us to do the meditation of Shabd Naam and rise above all these things, because except for the devotion of Shabd Naam, there is no practice doing which we can achieve the liberation. They always teach us the importance of the meditation of Shabd Naam. Saints and Mahatmas do not say that any religion or any community is bad. They say that you should remain in whatever religion you are born in. It is a good thing to be born into a religion. But they also say that the religions and the communities should serve as schools and colleges for us, where we can learn about God Almighty. And if we go deep into the basic teachings of those religions, we will find that the practice of the Surat Shabda Naam is always there: it is always taught that by doing the meditation of Shabd Naam, we can be liberated. But in those religions we do not have practical people, but only those who read and teach the outer teachings; and that is why they teach us that we can get liberation by only following rites and rituals and doing outer things. So, when we follow the religions, we get stuck in that kind of thing, so that we think that we can achieve liberation and realize God Almighty by only doing the rites and rituals; and then we do not feel that it is important to do the meditation of Shabd Naam. (Santji/Ajaib Singh, In the Palace of Love)
Santji/Ajaib Singh, In the Palace of Love
Mystic path. Andalucía, Spain by Zu Sánchez on Flickr.
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