July, 2025

The best thing we can do for ourselves
is to be quiet in a routine and regular way.

When Jesus said, "Pray always," he meant, "Live out of the silence."

In the silence, we are in the presence of What Has Always Been Called "God." The silence is the bridge between worlds--the world of conscious reality and the world of unconscious reality.    

Our role is to live in two worlds at the same time.

In the early days/years of the species, this was a snap. It is how life is in the natural world. Civilization is unnatural, and is cutoff from the world of unconscious reality, a world that can access us primarily when we are sleeping, but also when we are in a trance state, which we access through the meditative practice of entering the silence and tuning into what is happening there.

When we make ourselves available to the silence (emptiness and stillness--the three things are one), we consciously "bridge the worlds," and wait receptively to sense, "see," "hear," "experience" a communion with "the other side." 

This "other side" has been thought of as "the unconscious," or "the psychic world" because it is accessed through our "psyche"
and experienced through experiences with the Paranormal world of "woo-hoo, woo-hoo," and is the Provence of "That which has always been called "God."

The word "God" has been adopted/co-opted by Jewish/Christian theologians to mean specifically the God of the Bible, with all other gods being dismissed, discounted, ignored, condemned to the outer darkness and held in utter contempt. But Psychic reality will not go away. There is a world of Psychic/Paranormal goings-on "behind the scenes" which includes, "That which has always been called "God," but operates outside of the realm/range/territory of Orthodox theology, whether Jewish or Christian.

And we bridge the worlds. Or can, if/when we open ourselves to the worlds beyond the world of normal, apparent, reality. And when we don't do that, and even refuse to do that, we cut ourselves off from the Psychoid (A word coined by Carl Jung representing the supposed world beyond the physical and psychological realms of conscious reality and composing "The underlying, primary psychic reality which is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly." 

Which makes it very difficult to talk about--but it is there the way Dark Matter is there, as a way of holding things together that we sense but cannot see/touch/feel/talk about or explain. And it impacts us in ways we can only speculate and wonder about. But much that we call "God" has to do with this "Psychoid Realm" which R.D. Laing referenced when he said, "Some things can be experienced but not understood, and some things can be understood, but not explained. And which Heinrich Zimmer must have had in mind when he said, "The best things cannot be said, and the second-best things create confusion by trying to say what words cannot express, leaving us with the third-best things to talk about, news, weather, sports, hearsay and gossip."