This blog presents not a simple discourse to entertain the mind. It is not 'philosophical' in the sense that it is speculative about the nature of being as further entertainment in the vastness of the internet, but rather, it posits a way of living that brings us closer to our essence. It does not ask simply, "What is it all about?"; it asks, "How do I need to be, in order to be saved?". If you do not like the idea of salvation and that word caused a reaction, then you do not yet recognise our human plight and, further, there will be no relationship with what is presented. But dear reader, if you continue to read, holding the state of humanity in your heart, there may emerge, firstly such a notion, then a feeling and finally a knowing, that we do indeed need to save ourselves from our self-imposed suffering. We have become so comfortable with suffering that it has lulled us to sleep. The truth is that a desire to reawaken to our true nature shines under the cover of arrogance towards our universal being of love. For many who are willing to look, still there is a desire to remain 'objective' under the so-called clarity of thought, rather than undergo the experience of the relationship with the infinite that requires the greatest of subjectivity. We have become a society of the intellect which looks down upon the community of feeling with distain. Our representative thinkers and philosophers, the elite of the academic world, present a version of reality that exists only in the separation of ideas. This comes with the notion of detachment, but this is a false detachment because it seeks refuge (and therefore comfort) in the mind. Such a safe position will never encounter the real vicissitudes of life which may open the heart to freedom from the thought-dominated known. The True Known, to such minds, is unknown. Engagement in a life of visible emotions brings no less comfort. Suffering in comfort remains suffering nonetheless.

There is no risk for the thinker here. I do not ask you to cloud the clarity of your thought with religious beliefs, and idealistic philosophy, but stay the course of thinking, only this time with an openness of heart that surpasses all need for belief and ideation. We are all called upon to release ourselves from the grip of conforming images to see the nature of that light that gives all such images their capacity to be.

This call to awakening is not about the extinction of the ego or any real part of you. This very life is for finding what you have lost long ago. It is not about losing something. In this finding of what you have lost, there is simply the dissolution of what is not real, seen from the standpoint of having found your true perspective. This perspective is outlined and developed in the Ageless Wisdom of our past, presented now through one who has had the privilege of knowing another further along the path of our return. This other One will appear as these blogs expand what is available to us all.