--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> Yes, I see there being two phases to the process, the TB process
> where one follows the guru and tunes one's mind and heart to Him
> perfectly, so that when it is time to learn to fly, one's faith in
> the guru and the guru-mind that one now carries will allow each of
> us to ascend at that time to our own unbounded freedom, no longer
> tethered to the guru, but set limitlessly free.
>
> The second phase could be called TBE, True Believer in Everything,
> because one is now at the point where every moment, every
> singularity is offered up on the throne of the Divine, as an
> instantaneous opportunity to turn Infinity as one desires, the much
> vaunted "Field of All Possibilities" in action.
>
> When I remarked that your expression of the word "sweet" was real,
> it was not meant as a criticism of the cherished True Believer
> devotion, but rather a recognition that you are a knower of
Reality;
> dynamic, instantaneopus Infinity, more TBE than TB. That's all.
Sweet! :-)
Yes, although in one sense spacetime and growth is a big joke, on the
other hand I think M. Scott Peck put it really well when he outlined
four stages of growth: 1) Chaos, 2) Fundamentalism, 3) Eclecticism,
4) Love. He points out that a being identifying with any given stage
cannot see above or beyond where it is, but can only interpret others
as being in its own stage ("one of us") or in any stages already
recognized and "below" it, which (generally) it is reacting against
as "evil". Thus a fundamentalist (2), only familiar with (1) chaos
and (2) fundamentalism, would interpret an eclectic (3) as being a
non-fundamentalist, hence as chaotic, or "evil" (1). Similarly, an
eclectic (3) can only interpret Love (4) as being non-eclectic, or
somehow fundamentalist/chaotic, now synonymous with "evil" (2).
I remember exactly when I first recognized unconditional Love as an
actual presence or state, irrespective of person, and while I was
instantly attracted to it, knew I had to Be it, it also scared the
bejeezus out of me, as I realized that its very presence destroyed
all my carefully-built-up scholarship and discrimination and mastery
of eclecticism, everything I had identified with, revealing its core-
nature of semi-conscious competition, power, etc. (this was in
Harvard Divinity School). Not surprisingly, this glimpse also
triggered the onset of a two-year Dark Night of the Soul :-)
*L*L*L*
