So many of them wanted nothing to do with the lives they ultimately ended up living. You could say that heaven pursued them. In the old days, the pursuits resulted in individuals founding religious communities or drawing crowds to them or producing exquisite immortal sacred poetry like Rumi. That doesn’t seem to happen anymore and I wonder about that, speaking personally. Has heaven ceased its pursuits or have these quests to seduce human beings taken another form?
I believe that we are wired to seek the Light, but perhaps our love of all things intellectual and rational has become more of a barrier than we realize or even think about. And we fear the Light in ways unfamiliar to the great mystics. We are consumers, deeply entrenched in a sensual and economically driven lifestyle. We also live in a society that has grown comfortable with lies and lying. I listened to a reporter interview a woman on Donald Trump, pointing out that he lied about something he said during the last debate. Her response was, “I don’t care. I’m voting for him.”
Our society fears truth and finds comfort and safety in deception. We even require a new archetype in our social climate that is a renegade truth-teller – the Whistleblower. And a law has been passed that makes it illegal to “blow the whistle” on a company one works for. Here’s another measure of how seriously toxic we are when it comes to speaking the truth: Many married couples have to seek out a third party in order to actually tell their partner how they “honestly” feel. What? After living with someone for years, having children with that person, sleeping and waking up with that person – can you imagine that you require a third person’s assistance to communicate the “truth” to that person? Are you serious?
That’s how frightened we are of going anywhere near the Light – because truth is Light. And everyone knows that even the smallest candle, which is to say the smallest truthful word, is bright enough or powerful enough to be seen across miles of darkness.
Entering Your Own Light
Let me offer you some thoughts about your own experience of inner illumination. To be illuminated means “to see with more Light.” But inner illumination refers to mystical sight; that is, you are seeing “truth”, not objects, not people, not stuff. You are not seeking information about other people so you can make safer decisions for and about yourself. Rather, it is your own fears and personal motivations that become illuminated, for example. Or you become able to understand how meaningless something really is that you thought was so important. Light breaks through darkness. You see clearly what is real and what is not and what all mystics came and continue to come to realize is that great clarity requires great courage. This is a not a world that welcomes the power of the Light. It is far easier to cooperate with darkness – to not tell the truth and to betray your own feelings at times. But acts of deception, no matter how insignificant you think they are, ultimately become the seeds of illness – I can assure you of that.
I’ve chosen the following selections because they are Light-filled. I won’t tell you what you might or might not experience when you read these passages, but I will share with you how they affect me. I love to reflect on sacred or inspirational writings that elevate my senses or that draw me inward. I love feeling detached from the “here and now”, even if it is not chaotic. I don’t need chaos and confusion to enter into my inner castle – I love the mystical realm. I often feel that I am even bypassing my imagination and that my mind is anesthetized for a second or two and I enter into a type of timeless bliss. Let me suggest that you read these more than once and ask, “Does this passage have relevance for me?”
I give you an emptiness,I give you a plentitude, Unwrap them carefully –One’s as fragile as the other –And when you thank me I’ll pretend not to notice the doubt in your voice When you say they’re just what you wanted.
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 