In The Covenant and
The Scrolls, after one of his chats with Devorah, General Barak begins to
understand what she is trying to help him understand and has this dialogue with
himself; a dialogue we might want to have also.
My mind, and yours too, seems split between the ego and
spirit. This is intolerable and so the seeming split, not the mind’s reality as
spirit, is projected out. Thus everything I perceive as the outside world is
merely my attempt to maintain my ego identification, which as an ego I believe
to be salvation. Consider what this means….
I, and you, have become at odds with the world as we perceive
it, because we think it is antagonistic to us. This is a necessary consequence
of what we have done - projecting out what is antagonistic to what is our true
identity, and therefore would have to perceive things antagonistically.
This projection is why I must realize that my hatred is in
my mind and not outside it before I can stop projecting it and get rid of it –
stop going to the screen to fix the out of focus picture and going to the
projection booth instead; and why I must get rid of it before I can perceive
the world as it really is. This is also why the world I perceive is totally
chaotic and without meaning of any kind. It is made of what I did not want and
projected from my mind because I was afraid of it.
Yet this projected world is only in my mind, the mind of its
maker, along with my real salvation. Salvation is a choice. The more invested I
am in the world, believing it outside me, the less control over it I have. Only
be recognizing it where it is will I gain control over it.
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