I was discussing with my friend Richard the other day, sharing with him my adventures of the soul from last week - and how, before I meditated to get into a "higher state", all I was seeing in myself (resentment, despair, hopelessness) seemed to be mirrored everywhere else around me: websites on how to deal with the type of issues I was having with my boyfriend ("dump him!" they say), girlfriends I went to for advice ("dump him!" they said) and other conventional ideas on the subject of relationships. Richard said: "Yes, remember that our culture is spiritually poor".
Another tautology, yet a very powerful one: our "culture" basically embodies the "conventional" stages of human development, while being "on the spiritual path" is reaching out for "post-conventional" stages of human development. The role models in our culture for "post-conventional development" remain few, as the culture will by definition celebrate what best embodies its conventions, and we end up always looking up to the few exceptionally bold individuals through human history that have shown us another way: Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao Tsu, Gandhi, etc.
Also, as I discussed this transformation I had last week with another friend of mine, he told me: "you were down seeing all things negative, now you are up seeing all things positive, now remember that the reality is neither of the two, the reality is in-between".
Well, is it really?
My blog and all I've been focusing upon in the past 2 years or so are shouting quite a different truth actually: that the truth is NOT in-between, but that it is whichever way you choose, i.e. that it CAN be the reality you see when you are high - if you so choose. You CAN choose to bring yourself relentlessly back to that place of "higher consciousness", and choose to think/feel/speak/act, as much as possible, if not exclusively, from that place of joy, insight and clarity.
This is my choice. I choose to seek higher states of consciousness, I choose to consider valid my thoughts, emotions, words and actions when I am in those states, I choose to believe that the higher I am, the closer I am to the truth.
Why do I choose this? Because this is my experience: when I am high, as I could observe so closely last week, I see many, many "strings to pull", while when I am low, all I see is a very limited subset of these, like just 2 or 3 actions that I could take, and that, often, actually won't bring about the results that I actually want to bring about. It is a little bit like in the parable of the two friends who are walking on the road, or like what I was saying to my friend who was wondering if her "true" boyfriend was whatever showed up when he was feeling down, or whatever showed up when he was feeling up: "The true him is the one who loves you and who wants to make his life with you. The true him is the one who loves me as a friend. The true everyone is the one who is all-loving. Everything short of that is obscuration to remove as the Buddhists would put it. Inside is the diamond, the jewel, the Buddha."
The truth is not in the middle between high and low, the truth is in the highest good. I guess this is the fundamental statement that this blog is making, and again, this is not my opinion, this is the result of about any scientific experience of the mind that you will undertake, the same way I have undertaken such experiences in the past 2 years (meditation, etc). Try it for yourself!
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