Spiritual Eyesight

Spiritual Eyesight 

This is the perennial awareness

seeing our true nature

our birthright of Happiness

and available to all

in all times and seasons..

CC

5 "While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
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25 "All I know is that I used to be blind, but now I can see."
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11 "He told me to go and wash it off in Siloam Pool.  When I did, I could see."
(from John 9: 1-41)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+9&version=CEV

“When he awakened from sleep, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it.... This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven” (Genesis 28:16–17). In the Celtic world that gateway is present everywhere. In every place is the immediacy of heaven. In every moment we can glimpse the Light that was in the beginning and from which all things have come. As (Mary) Oliver says, “The threshold is always near.”3 We can step over this threshold and back again in the fleeting span of a second. In a single step we can find ourselves momentarily in that other world, the world of eternal Light, which is woven inseparably through this world—the world of matter that is forever unfolding like a river in flow.” 
― John Philip Newell, The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings

Walking Notes on a sunny February day

Walking Notes on a sunny February day

Life is a coloring of Self

whether realized or not..

And..mostly..seemingly..not...

We all do it

invading the space of another..

When another is met

a need arises

to direct attention

an energy expended

to the appearance

of a seeming other...

This isn't religion..but reality

the perennial Reality

of recognition of "I"

before religion encircles

with  a fence

of objectivity...

Endlessness

Endlessness

He said:

brevity is the soul of wit..

and said T. S. Eliot:

We can say of Shakespeare, that

never has a man turned so little

knowledge to such great account..

and said Rumi:

knowledge of the world is ignorance..

The endlessness of knowledge

is blessing and curse..

Google is one name..

It is easy to forget

to not allow attention

to experience that

in which all knowledge

appears..

To recognize knowledge

flowing in and out of that

in which it appears..

Knowledge in isolation

we place first

in idolatrous fashion

as we search for

the water in the wave...

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,

as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts

from books and from what the teacher says,

collecting information from the traditional sciences

as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.

You get ranked ahead or behind others

in regard to your competence in retaining

information. You stroll with this intelligence

in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more

marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one

already completed and preserved inside you.

A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness

in the center of the chest. This other intelligence

does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,

and it doesn’t move from outside to inside

through conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead

from within you, moving out.” 

― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی

Ascent and Descent (Animas Valley Institute)

"But there are actually two realms, or domains, of the transpersonal, and the vast majority of contemporary spiritual practices access only one. The two realms might be referred to as those of spirit or God on the one hand, and of soul on the other."
~~~Bill Plotkin

(See:  https://animas.org/books/bill-plotkins-soulcraft-musings/newsletter-archive/ )

Amazon review: John Philip Newell, Christ of the Celts

Amazon Review:  John Philip Newell, Christ of the Celts

Customer Review

5.0 out of 5 starsWho am I?

ByCharles R. Coonon February 24, 2018

Format: Hardcover|Verified Purchase

This book serves as a note of encouragement for our times. The Celtic
view of the meaning of "Christ" delivers a message based on experience
over the beliefs that have so long muddied the lives of many people. JPN
brings the experience of Christ to a universal audience. He says that "the
image of God is at the core of our being. And like the Garden, it has not
been destroyed. It may have become covered over or lost sight of, but
it is at the beginning of who we are." Modern non-dual teachings, both
inside and outside of religions, involve this direct approach to the
experience of recognizing ourselves, or the identity of "I." We are not
the identity which our cultures and religions and science keep saying
we are. And the amazing thing is that our own experience, if we carefully
refer to it, will tell us that we are indeed that which JPN says we have
covered over or lost sight of. Paul Cezanne, the painter, said much
the same thing: "The time will come when a single carrot, freshly
observed, will set off a revolution." John Philip Newell is an igniter
of this revolution in each of us!

Billy Graham

Billy Graham

has passed

with our many

wishes for peace..

A preacher for

his times..

Times with steep

reliance and rejection 

of belief: 

reaching an eternal

goal at the end

of our time

in earthly sojourn ..

The times have changed

as many are standing awed

over a new recognition 

of real identity 

directly experienced

glimmering eternally

behind the shading clouds..

(Does the verse above

cover both..?)

New Recognition

http://www.bernardokastrup.com/2018/02/old-loves-die-hard.html








New Recognition

Science's foothold in matter
over many centuries told
is slipping
as transparency arrives..
The particles sought
are illusive
they seem here and then not..
But there is still excitement
on their discovery
even if short-lived..
Something more exciting
may be awaiting
recognition..yes..recognition..
Recognition of that which
is permanent
in which the short-lived
produce their excitement...