It’s up again…actually, I think it does not ever go away but for awareness turning its face away…the double-edged sword:
On one side of spiritual and personal growth is increased Presencing and awareness, living more consciously, and so with the passage of time in one’s life, greater authority and wisdom.
(This is where the book title: ‘When You Can Walk On Water, Take the Boat’ fits in…)
On the other side, Elitism.
There is a way that Elitists ‘like’ to stay that way — primarily because — well — one can!
But there is a ‘fortress of rightness’ (detecting threads of how radicals becomes so?) that separates them in their humanness, FROM their humanness:)
Unspoken agreement fields are an amazing thing:)
There is always a shared, common reality of some kind — a shared ‘belief system’, if you will, where as Rumi hysterically puts it, Spiritual Seniority rears its ugly head….here that is:
SPIRITUAL SENIORITY
A camel and an ox and a ram
were ambling along a road, when they saw
a fresh tuft of barley grass that they all wanted.
They stopped, and the ram said, “If we divide this,
none of us will be satisfied. Let us do
as Muhammed advised and give it to the eldest,
honoring his superior experience.
No one honors their elders these days
without some ulterior motive. The young
invite them to taste the food first
only when they suspect it’s too hot.
They invite them to cross the bridge ahead of them
only when they see dangerous cracks in the arches,
and no one bows to a Teacher in these times
without some scam in mind. So let us each
declare his age and settle this matter.
As for me I don’t know my exact years,
but I was once pastured with that ram
that Abraham sacrificed instead of Isaac.”
The ox, “Well, I can beat that! I was yoked
in the team that Adam plowed with
when he left Eden.”
The camel listened silently to their amazing lies,
reached his long neck down, plucked the luscious tuft,
and as he held it over their heads and ate it,
he said, “I don’t know much about this chronology,
sweethearts, but I know I’m taller than you two,
and that has obvious spiritual significance.”
– Rumi
Ah, enter The Light to break down the barriers:)
Living a conscious life?
Demands exploration of consciousness…demands truth and honesty…requires emptiness…stillness — indeed, it requires a duly diligent walk that takes one into the Void. But that also takes one into A BALANCED, INTEGRATED EARTH WALK.
One sabotages one’s own growth when one gets too comfortable with their identity — and seeks to keep it.
Elitism has an element of sublime in it — this is bliss.
But you really can’t hold onto such an experience:)
The only way to create a new one that might be at least as good?
Is to not insist it be like the last one!
That’s the nature of the living light! You want more? Empty out so you can hold it.
It has an element of ‘crowned’ in it — but this is false power.
And, kings do get bumped…
Aah, control….
It has an element of ‘destination’ to it — a ‘this is IT’ 
When I kept seeking destination? I bumped into my dreams that took me to Hedgerows…
http://writerevelation.wordpress.com/hedgerows/
One truly on the Path would throw this away at every opportunity; would recognize the pitfall and seduction.
Why?
Because there is more Light available, to harness, to anchor, to hold.
I keep thinking of a piece written years ago now…Hedgerows…
http://writerevelation.wordpress.com/hedgerows/
