December 16-A, 2022

The Transcendent is called "transcendent"
because it transcends all categories
of rational/logical/analytical thought.

Sheldon Kopp captured the essence of transcendence
when he said,
"Some things can be experienced,
but not understood,
and some things can be understood,
but not explained."

We can distance ourselves
from the experience of transcendence
in 10,000 ways,
that can be summarized
by simply thinking about something else.
Or, just by thinking!

When we think,
we shut down experience.

We think and talk about what we are thinking.
Or we applaud.
We do not just sit with the experience
of wonder,
amazement,
joy,
love,
rapture,
beauty,
radiance...

We react to it,
and in reacting to it,
we shut it down.

Joseph Campbell said,
"This is the meaning of myth:
That we should become a vehicle
of the transcendent
by realizing it in ourselves.
Our culture has lost it.
We do not believe it,
or experience it."

It is our center,
our core,
our heart!
LIFE is IT!
That we are alive 
is transcendent reality
at the heart of our existence!

We are one slight perspective shift away
from realizing
"Thou Art That!"
WE are IT!
WE are Transcendent Reality!"

But, we don't believe it.

When we come to the realization
of the spirit that is within us,
it will pour forth,
informing/directing/guiding/leading
our life,
our being, 
and our going, 
and our doing.

Waking up will bring us forth.
It is the way.

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