The Pearl Beyond Price
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.
Going Within
By going within, we have the opportunity to explore our responses to people and environmental situations. Also, to inquire into where and how I am holding and blocking my energy from negative past circustances which develops into repression and censoring of uncomfortable feelings. Through this experience, I can establish a firmer understanding of doubt, distrust, confusion or whatever the issue that has drained our ability to remain focused and balanced.
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”
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell
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