distress

It’s a thin line

“a thin line”

A very narrow division between two alternatives, one of which is much worse than the other.

When sharing about spiritual experience the thin line mentioned above can become razor sharp and a partisan insistence can seem to overtake any such message in the response patterns of people to having received a message about a spiritual experience, even when the transmission is as utterly nondenominational as the word love, is utterly nondenominational.

This is the razor that I stand upon.

Does this mean that I have to simply close down and shut up?

If my message is merely self generated in my intellect, then yes, to save embarrassment all round, it would be best to shut up.

However, the message that I carry is not an intellectual construct, not a theory that I have that is erected in the wrestling ring of the usual process of disassembly that passes as academic rigour.

What I carry is who I am, rather than something that I have.

Love is not about atheism or theism, the sacred disease of Addiction evidences this fact, for the recovery from Addiction is secured by the language of the heart not the logic of the head.

Yet, logic must serve the communication of the heart if there is to be any chance of such a transmission being received by anyone at all in the wider world, not least by those in the most urgent need as evidenced by their undeniable powerlessness and unmanageability in any of the forms of the disease of stuck and broken addiction.

Here then is the razor, the paradoxical yet logical edge, that has to and can cut through the callous layers of dead inner skin that have grown over Mankind’s ability to believe in a Common Metaphysical Source.

Where there is delusional behaviour and religious mania it may seem an even more impossible scenario to talk of a spiritual remedy for such bizarre and threatening behavioural manifestations.

However, the energy in such powerfully disruptive scenarios, whether individual or collective, can in fact be returned to a vehicle of articulation that can then engage with practical problem solving and coherency.

This word coherency is important, for delusional religiosity becomes stuck in a kind of cotherency as impossible renditions of supposed scriptural interpretation are foisted upon all and sundry, even up to the point of terrorist acts, as if all such action was an enforcement of God’s will.

There is an apocryphal story about Moses who – upon hearing a man walking down a road saying, “where is my baby Lord that I may worship Him, that I may bring Him gifts, wash His tiny feet, sing His lovely praises for ever?” – responded angrily by shouting, “how dare you wander around spouting such nonsense about the ineffable Majesty and Power of the all consuming and creative Lord of All?”

At that, the man screamed and ran off into the desert wailing.

Moses immediately received an intimation from God, “I did not send you to sow further discord and pain amongst those trying to reach Me by whatever means their stage seems to make sense to them, you are sent to bear witness to the Unity of My existence.”

Moses was distraught at this and immediately saw his error, he searched all over for the man for a long time and eventually having found him, ran up to him apologising profusely for having criticised his prayers and worship.

The man accepted the apology from Moses, but then thanked him, he said, “when you first announced your reactions to me I was so shocked I thought that I was dying, I couldn’t find a belief in anything anymore. In the desert, unable to eat or drink eventually I asked God to help me and I was suddenly taken to such a deep insight that I can hardly put it into words, so I promise you all is well.”

This story encapsulates much of the challenge facing Mankind today. It is why Bill W., one of the founders of the 12 Step Programme, described Alcoholics Anonymous as the container of a spiritual kindergarten.

The foundations of any knowledge applicable to Mankind’s life on Earth are those containing creative principles that are ultimately shown to be factually believable.

Yet as “expanding knowledge” seems to destroy what was previously believed to have been impossible, the locus of all belief which is the Heart, must ever renew its ancient causal primordial anchorage, lest Love is lost.

This is the thin line, it is the global situation facing Mankind today, maybe it has been the situation perennially facing Mankind.

How can a Metaphysical solution make any sense to a seemingly physical problem?

I repeat, this is the razor that I stand and serve upon in a world of Mankind that increasingly can no longer deny that by any analysis of current events, is standing upon this same thin line with me, whether it likes it or not.

Stress

“I cannot stress to you enough the importance of being present”.

So, ‘stress’ is a deliberate impression made by someone or something upon a person, it is an emphasising. Can this definition inform any other applications of the word ‘stress’ in order to try to unlock destructive stress at the emotional level of experience.

To liberate is to set free. To deliberate, is to weigh up contraries, to think, to plan, to corale energy into an enclosure, to put experience and knowledge into a harness away from their being free to roam apparently without will.

This can cause stress for a personality, especially when that which seems to be happening to a person from their perspective, is as if life itself is doing things deliberately against them, removing conditions that might seem to be more liberating.

When these projections of imaginings that are is if events are being deliberately planned by life are made around events that are clearly more arbitrary than specific, then this is stress that is an illness.

Love is a deliberation by and from God, just as Rumi said, ‘love is bondage willingly accepted by the free’.

It is Iblis that refused to be deliberated upon by God and in that refusal, then tries to play God by taking away the only source of true deliberation in the Universe away from Mankind by seducing them into thinking that they’re at liberty to think that God is just a thought, i.e. the erroneous and separated “I think, therefore I am”.

In fact then, only God can deliberately act and only God can say “I am”. This was respected in the old Way when the expression “I am” was never uttered by people of the Way. The Christ Jesus only said it by then taking his own “I” out of the matter as was befitting of His expression of Union as He says, “I am who am”.

When people do deliberate, then act deliberately upon those preparations, it is a measure of sanctity to be aware of how much one is part of that ‘willing’, or how much the doing seems to be taking care of itself. Sportsmen talk about being ‘in the zone’ to try and express the disappearance of the second “I” as we move from the ubiquitous “I am who I am”, into the Christ reality of “I am who am”.

“I am who I am” is containing two “I” components, this is di-stressing, whereas, “I am who am” is the vehicle of divine stress, the proper creative, constructive stress as the duality of matter submits to the building plans of One God, The Almighty Architect.

These insights can be arrived at personally as promised by The Christ Jesus and the template for such an arrival, for such a birthing of insight is encoded in the Nativity Story itself when the left hemisphere is Joseph, the right hemisphere is Mary, the arch connecting the then whole brain is Gabriel, the body is the donkey.

Whatever the appearance of the script, whether seemingly sacred or profane, temporal or spiritual, whatever the script of that which is selling the idea of liberty, the thought of liberation, if it is a script that is without recourse to the utter Pole Star of the One Source from which all arrives, then the result eventually, even after the jolt of apparent change, the result of such scripted liberation is inevitably one of calamity and distress.

The distress around the globe today has only one antidote, the distress has to be transformed into stress. This is the alchemy of Sufism, within which Way The Christ Jesus, Isa, is King. This is the transformation of pain into joy, of despair into repair, of terminal duality insulated once again to mediate the flowing of One Life, One Love, One Humanity.

Because only God deliberates, only God liberates.