The Pearl Beyond Price
“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are, if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time”
Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth
The Actuality of Life
We all have spent many years establishing a conditioned view of life, only to arrive at a conclusion that life either offends me or pleases me. We tend to spend our whole life trying to avoid all that brings pain, noticing the objects, people or situations and pursuing all that which brings pleasure.
Without exception, we all do this. We remain separated from areas of our life, looking at it, analyzing it, judging it, seeking to answer the questions. What am I going to get out of it ? Is it going to give me pleasure or should I avoid the situation altogether ?
We do this constantly and just below the surface of this dilemma, one is experiencing fear, pain and anxiety from within.
Exploring inner conflicts
By going within, we have the opportunity to explore our responses to people and the environment.
To gain immediate access and raise awareness of presenting difficulties, concerns and issues.
Also to enquire where and how I am holding and blocking my energy from negative
past experiences which in turn, develops into repression and censoring of
feelings that will quite often, lead to ill health.
The outcome of processing inner conflicts
1. Ending the conflict with boundaries established in childhood to the needs of the maturing adult.
2. Firm understanding of immediate difficulties, concerns and issues.
3. Move beyond the confines of living within a bubble.
4. Redistribution of repressed and blocked energy.
5. Expand awareness and elevate consciousness.
6. Develop latent spiritual potentialities.
Hero’s Journey
“The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there’s something lacking in the normal experiences available or permitted to the members of his society. This person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life giving elixir”
“But the structure and something of the spiritual sense of this adventure can be seen already anticipated in the puberty or initiation rituals of early tribal societies, through which a child is compelled to give up its childhood and become an adult – to die, you might say, to its infantile personality and psyche and come back as a responsible adult”
‘To evolve out of this position of psychological immaturity to the courage of self-responsibility and assurance requires a death and a resurrection. That’s the basic motif of the Universal Hero’s Journey and transformation of consciousness into the Transcendence”
“This is an essential experience of any mystical realisation. You die to your flesh and are born into spirit”
Joseph Campbell
Power of Myth
The Art of Dying
“There”ll come a time when all your hopes are fading
When things that seemed so very plain, become an awful pain
Searching for the Truth among the lying and answered when
you’ve learned the Art of Dying”
George Harrison