Staying Present for Your Own Life …
In the early 80s, Ram Dass, interviewed for a piece on ‘Mysticism in America’, talked of a survey which found that 40% of people queried, indicated they’d had some kind of transcendental, cosmic, revelatory experience.
And, that of that 40% who did, 80% said,
‘It was the most profound experience of my life and I never want to have another one.’
It takes time … when the seed of light awakens within you … it gestates, is nurtured, eventually roots, then grows into the Tree of Self …
Over the years in the Work I notice this most of all; how having touched the light – whether you or me – not quite knowing ‘what just happened’ – shatters everything that seemingly was – silently crumbles it to ash – and leaves YOU – this experiential self – in a whole new opportunity of quietly being newborn — and naked. And paradoxically, seemingly without a mother.
Enter ‘adopting a spiritual practice’.
In the outer world, this manifests and unfolds in 3D panoramic display. And, depending on your personal approach to growth, shows up on the emotional spectrum in dozens of ways, from cleansing and physical detox, to rejection and annihilation of your experience, to rejection and annihilation of others — to questioning beliefs you’ve held dear — which has you either sticking to them or letting them breakdown and fall.
But not always.