Tuesday, January 18, 2011

When we’re on track in life, we can feel the relativity of space, time, the underworld, and the wonder of each moment’s bliss! But, bliss can be frightening. It causes folks to fear losing it and then have to return to common everyday misery. Once we realize that we don’t have bliss, that bliss has us, then we are better able to rest in it and cultivate it. In this, we can come to experience the reality of the underworld, dimensions of dreams and intuitions, generating bliss as we face the dark elements within self, relationships, and life. We are then able to negotiate our way through life in a creative, nurturing, manner. Despite the fact that facing destructive facets of self or others is painful, something we would rather shun, it is also necessary since turning our back and running from psychological realities does nothing but worsen an already bad situation. Embracing truth, on the other hand, leads to eventual relief as the mind is unloaded from guilt and fear and is then free to embrace the true nature of self and life. Dreams assist us in embracing truth as in the image of the black dung beetle which is sometimes anthropomorphized in dreams as a man with a scarab beetle head, wings outspread. In such dreams, the scarab is sometimes pushing the dung ball, symbolically representing the psychic nutrients found in life crises that nurture the growth of the soul. Thus, the most repulsive of life events has the potential to propel an awakening of consciousness, something that takes place in the unconscious, outside of time and space, and then makes its way into conscious reality often accompanied by a an exquisite sense of bliss.

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