by sussurus2 » Wed May 17, 2006 2:39 am
Prof: Is there an official "white lodge" with a history, etc. or is this something you've created yourself. In either case I'd be interested in seeing more of your epigrams if you've posted them else where. <br><br>Someone here posted a rather profound prescription that I'll repost with acknowledgement that it's not all that settling. But I feel like anyone who reads and contributes here has stepped foot into that Chapel, and we need to keep hold of the talismans & practices mentioned/inferred (or our rough personal metaphorical equivalents) so we may emerge with (equally personal metaphorical equivalent -- depending on what you seek) fruits which are worthy & true. We may not emerge "safely" or unscathed, for between entering and leaving we may be transformed--a process that may never be without pain but which forges us to a stronger state if we take to that forging with right-intention:<br><br>"Chapel Perilous, like the mysterious entity called "I," cannot be located in the space-time continuum; it is weightless, odorless, tastless and undetectable by ordinary instruments. Indeed, like the Ego, it is even possible to deny that it is there. And yet, even more like the Ego, once you are inside it, there doesn't seem to be any way to ever get out again, until you suddenly discover that it has been brought into existence by thought and does not exist outside thought. Everything you fear is waiting with slavering jaws in Chapel Perilous, but if you are armed with the wand of intuition, the cup of sympathy, the sword of reason, and the pentacle of valor, you will find there (the legends say) the Medicine of Metals, the Elixir of Life, the Philosopher's Stone, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness. "<br><br>Addressing your original question that started the thread: I've found body-practice (like yoga) combined with meditation works, that or working with my hands on projects that are creative like building a guitar. So much is invested in creation in terms of positive attention & spirit there's no room for fear & negativity--that all just washes away. <br><br>For me this process has meant a series of cycles of: breakthrough, recognition, acknowledgement, paralysis/fear/anger/hatred/screaming grief/vengeance-passion, then stages of assimilation, remapping, redemptive redirection, resumption of forward motion.<br><br>Thanks for asking a question that probably wasn't easy to voice. Here's hoping you feel companionship with others here who are willing to dwell with stages of fear, grief and unknowing so that we may come to know & understand and hopefully at some point actualize some thing positive that arises from that expanded knowing.<br><br>S.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
