Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Some forms of society take our connectedness for granted, though each society may conceptualize differently. Others assume it is not possible. If a church encourages its members to expect to receive messages from spirit (no matter how they define spirit or define messages), those members will be more open to the experience and will be more open to sharing the experience, which in turn will open the way for others. It is a virtuous rather than vicious cycle.
The bump in the road may be that the terms in which the experience is described may be unfamiliar, and so may be suspect. The usual confusion of tongues.
That’s where we are today, isn’t it?
Not exclusively “today,” but yes. In the change from one era to another, much is lost in translation. However, realize that losing things in translation also allows for – encourages, almost enables – things to be found in translation.
I suppose it is an advantage of ILC that it comes with little cultural baggage.
Such baggage as it carries is of course transparent to you, but the less of the past one has to drag around, the more nimble one may be. However, if one disconnects from one’s past entirely, the result is not so much freedom as ungroundedness.
And the happy medium?
You being grounded, your expression of what you experience will be grounded, provided you intend it to be. You are personally well grounded in the history you know and feel. Others may be well grounded in the contemporary society they know and feel.
St. Columba on Iona, the Apostles in their wandering, any hermit or monk or nun or cloistered being; any mystic, any person devoted to an art or to living may feel this, and be sustained by it, and it does not in the slightest degree depend upon their idea of what – or who – they are experiencing. This is the reality behind any religious or artistic or scientific or philosophic conceptions.
I believe you just said – and I fully agree – that this sense of communion with a non-3D reality may be clothed in many belief-systems, but is the same enabling force.
It may lead to fanaticism, or to self-righteous certainty; it may even encourage someone in disastrously misguided directions. It isn’t a panacea.
No, it is the Age of Aquarius.
Very good. It is that.
The Age of Pisces had its own characteristics, and so will the Age of Aquarius, but there is no excuse for thinking that this new age will manifest only positively, any more than the old one did. That isn’t how duality works.
Yes. Very good. Very good.