Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Moraine Lake — Banff National Park, near Lake Louise, Alberta, Canadian Rockies
Reflection leads to realization. This was Joseph Campbell's Buddha impersonation. The heart, soul, foundation of enlightenment is reflection leading to realization.
Enlightenment is not a steady state of being. It is one step after another all the way to here, now.
There is no destination. There is no place to be other than here, now. Once we realize this, we are set. We are done. There is nothing beyond one realization after another.
So, we spend our life dropping into emptiness, stillness, silence, wondering, "What do you have for me here, now?" And "waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear," in order to see, hear, know, understand, do, be some more again.
The spiritual world has a Psychic foundation. "Spiritual" is another term for "Psychic." We are spiritual to the extent/degree that we are getting to know, explore, grasp, the depth and breadth of the Psyche. Everything worth knowing is tucked away in the Psyche. Dropping into emptiness, stillness, silence is dropping into the Psyche.
We are the meeting place of physical with Psychic. We are physical becoming Psychic. We never have a need to be anywhere other than here, now with our eyes and ears open to what's what and what needs to be done in response no matter what forever.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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