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11-25-2015, 03:14 PM
If we are going to step into a process that's going somewhere (directionality, telos), we, in a sense, have to get going.
We need to 'get going' from the deepest level of our being and becoming. For most of us, our experience of consciousness is localized at a particular place, within a particular body-mind/personality space. We generally see ourselves moving in the realm of time & space and place & location; inwardly, however, the psychological and psychic space of location that we tend to see the world from, is often perceived as being static.
When we really awaken to the realization that the process is going somewhere - through deep and profound contemplation and spiritual practice - what happens is that we will fall out of this static position. We begin to consciously embrace, surrender, accept and embody that evolutionary movement which we were, formerly, merely bearing witness to as separate from self. We move from 1) identification with the separate self, to 2) identification with the evolutionary impulse itself awakening.
This is what we might call evolutionary mysticism. At the core of it is embracing evolutionary Eros - the primordial creative drive or force in the universe - as the essence of my identity. It is this embrace that sets us free.
All of manifestation emerged in the great 'flaring forth' that has become the creative process. The evolutionary process is the creative process. In the deepest understanding of the greatest realizers in human history - from Plotinus, to the Vedic Sages, to the Kabbalists - this creative process is motivated by source. Source self-limits its infinite nature into matter. Then it gradually evolves from matter to body. Life emerges out of matter. From life emerges mind.
With mind and thought come an ever-evolving and ever greater capacity for interiority and self-reflectivity. And with self-reflection comes the greatest gift we've all been given by the evolving universe: a measure of freedom, and more precisely, a measure of freedom to choose.
An unedited first draft text from forthcoming book The Path and Practice of Outrageous Love by Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=terms.html/) It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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We need to 'get going' from the deepest level of our being and becoming. For most of us, our experience of consciousness is localized at a particular place, within a particular body-mind/personality space. We generally see ourselves moving in the realm of time & space and place & location; inwardly, however, the psychological and psychic space of location that we tend to see the world from, is often perceived as being static.
When we really awaken to the realization that the process is going somewhere - through deep and profound contemplation and spiritual practice - what happens is that we will fall out of this static position. We begin to consciously embrace, surrender, accept and embody that evolutionary movement which we were, formerly, merely bearing witness to as separate from self. We move from 1) identification with the separate self, to 2) identification with the evolutionary impulse itself awakening.
This is what we might call evolutionary mysticism. At the core of it is embracing evolutionary Eros - the primordial creative drive or force in the universe - as the essence of my identity. It is this embrace that sets us free.
All of manifestation emerged in the great 'flaring forth' that has become the creative process. The evolutionary process is the creative process. In the deepest understanding of the greatest realizers in human history - from Plotinus, to the Vedic Sages, to the Kabbalists - this creative process is motivated by source. Source self-limits its infinite nature into matter. Then it gradually evolves from matter to body. Life emerges out of matter. From life emerges mind.
With mind and thought come an ever-evolving and ever greater capacity for interiority and self-reflectivity. And with self-reflection comes the greatest gift we've all been given by the evolving universe: a measure of freedom, and more precisely, a measure of freedom to choose.
An unedited first draft text from forthcoming book The Path and Practice of Outrageous Love by Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=terms.html/) It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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