November 1, 2005

• facts…
  reality…
  truth…
  words…
  shit.

  I still flounder about, trying to find the words to expand on the “Wake up!” injunction in my work-in-progress for KaiOaty,
  the FAQ on Lightworkers and Light Working.  I could say, “Pay
  attention.”  Or I could say, “Look within.”  If I say all of
  them, my treatise is now up to six words.  As I mentioned before,
  anyone who gets it from that, doesn’t need it in the first place.

  I found some excellent words in the works of Ramana Maharshi. 
  Unfortunately, most of the best of them are in Sanskrit.  Maharshi
  himself said that the terminology for his basic self-realization
  technique is difficult.  realization.org states it this way:

  The
  Sanskrit name for it, atma-vicara,
  really means self-investigation, self-examination, self-reflection,
  or looking within, but self-inquiry has become
  the standard translation. …this
  can be misleading.

  Yeah, no kidding.

  E.J. Gold talks of this technique in terms of a labyrinth.  We
  Workers, labyrinth voyagers, are seeking the Heart of the
  Labyrinth.  “Heart” figures prominently in Maharshi’s work,
  too.  But talk about “heart” to your average American girl (most
  wannabe Light Workers are young and female) and they think valentines
  and romance.  That’s not what E.J. and Maharshi had in mind.

  E.J., early on, encountered expressions of fear, particularly a fear
  that the seeker would become lost in the labyrinth.  He assures us
  that this is no problem, that as soon as the fear sets in our
  consciousness is back in its accustomed state of identification with
  the “sleep” of the biological machine.  He doesn’t mean the delta
  brainwave state of snooze.  He’s talking about walking sleep, the
  everyday “waking” state of the mass of humanity.

  I know just what he means.  My mind wanders.  I Work my way
  into the labyrinth from time to time, have a few lucid moments and
  then, like a rubber band my mind snaps back into something else besides
  transcendent awareness.  Even when my work is of a more mundane
  sort, such as the research I’ve been doing to find works to cite for
  this FAQ, I’m easily distractable.

  I was following links from Maharshi to a few others who have been
  influenced by him, such as Papaji, Ken Wilber and Paul Brunton. 
  In the 1990s, Wilber’s words about how we affect
  our own reality became one of my most useful resources when I was
  dealing with clients who had swallowed the YCYOR line in full and were
  wondering how the hell and why they had created their current
  realities.  In the 1960s, Brunton’s The Secret Path  led me to my first transcendence and first out-of-body experiences.

  See how easily I was distracted from my research by those memory
  triggers?  That’s not all.  The bio on Paul Brunton stopped
  me cold.  I looked at his dates of birth and death and saw that he
  died July 27, 1981, the day Doug was born.  When I realized how
  far my mind had wandered from the course I’d set myself this morning, I
  decided I might as well blog.

  So, here I am.  I see that in my first few paragraphs above I have
  achieved a little of the exposition I’ve been looking for.  Thank
  you, all of you, for giving me the sounding board.  It occurs to
  me that I might do better here by addressing my FAQ not to the wannabe Light Workers, but to a general audience about them.  That’s progress, I think.
  

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