09-29-2012, 11:10 AM
There are those who call the heart of man his soul, for to those it seems that it is in the heart where they feel their deepest emotions.
This is why the heart has always been associated with love.
However any biologist or surgeon will tell you confidently that the heart is just another organ like any other organ of the body.
Now, there are those who say that the mind of man is somehow hidden within the brain, because to them it seems that their thought processing and their mind’s eye is located in the head.
The heart swells with love. The head spins in confusion.
To the human confined in his physical tomb of experience, emotional experience is attached to parts of the body because that body is all they know and understand. They have no other way of expressing what they feel except to associate those feelings with the part of the body that seems to be touched by the event.
As a matter of fact this is how the primitive human associates with every aspect of interpreting his environment. Without access to technology the human is left with only his own intelligence to interpret.
To us, what seems to be, is that which we accept without question. We tend not to question what seems to be our selves.
This is perception based upon subjection. Some would suggest that this perception is the very universe we create.
Every human experiences emotions and the need to interpret them. And yet each human does so according to his own intellectual ability and understanding. And what is worse than being left to one’s own degree of intellect is the fact that most emotional response is immediate and involuntary. We feel so quickly that we really do not have time to ask why, or to react based upon any discernment of the reason for the emotional reaction.
We simply experience the emotion, and accept it as a credible and worthy reaction to whatever has caused it to occur within us.
In short, from the moment of birth we develop a sincere trust of our emotions as though there is never any need to question them; much the same way that we adopt this temporary identity that we assume is our self.
Most come to know this emotional identity as their true self and trust in it completely.
The heart. The mind. The brain.
Biological organs of flesh, slow decay and each functioning according to a far more inborn design of which most humans are totally unaware. Lacking an understanding of this inner fire, the human becomes the physical reaction of it’s biological processes, essentially an addict to immediate self gratification.
And as we mature and gain in experience we come to realize that there is much more to our experience than the physical. We begin to understand that emotion may not be as biological as we had thought.
We realize that there is always choice associated with most of what we experience. And in that choice is also the choice to allow any particular emotion to rule our next action or decision, or to attempt to override it and discern the reasons behind why we feel this way, and how we should best act on those feelings. not just for our own sake but also for those around us.
The true sign of intelligence is revealed in one’s effort to discern rather than act without thinking.
Emotions are extremely powerful controllers.
We tend to allow our emotions to rule the moment, but it is not our only option. We can deliberate to override them. But beware that you do not override what is revealed deep within them, for in our deepest emotion lies the intuition and guidance of higher self.
Many speak of the inner voice, or the conscience, and if such should exist as somehow a separate process from our own body, then we should be considerate of not cutting ourselves off from that source, and try to discern its influence over us with intelligent thought process. Just because we do not understand it does not mean that is unworthy of hearing. To reach such a conclusion must be done with discernment, just as we should our emotional reactions. And when we do choose to override our emotion, or our inner voice, it should always be under the most serious of consideration.
To deny lust because we are aware of a danger it may impose upon us.
To show courage in the face of certain destruction because one believes it is the right thing to do.
Lust and fear are emotions that often invoke the most powerfully overwhelming and controlling experiences over us. They tend to conquer intelligent thought process immediately. They thrive on instant reaction and paralyzing loss of comprehension.
Love also seems to be beyond our control as once we fall in love we believe we have no means of reacting or feeling in any other way.
We often know only what we feel, even when we so often know better.
It is this aspect of humanity that we see manifest in this world all around us.
The great folly of man to run alongside of his emotions and to chase after the dreams they invoke. Folly because most often what is chased after and experienced is biological stimulation and reactions to environmental conditions that our physical body is subjected to; in lieu of any actual intelligent discernment of the consequences of running with that sudden stimulation.
Folly because the very Intelligence which bestows us with such attribute becomes ignorance within us that wars with it.
Bestowed with both intelligence, and with a vehicle in which to experience such intelligence, most choose to trust more in that vehicle than they do in the inner intelligence which empowers it.
And thus we find such intelligence in man gazing into a microscope to observe cellular division, and explaining life according to only what his eyes reveal to him, while that very empowering factor of both his vision and his intellect displays itself clearly for all to see in the actual act of division.
Two forces of some energy of deepest magnitude tearing apart from each other and becoming fragmented experiences of what is one continuing process.
But the scientific intelligence sees only the obvious, and the mind is so conquered by emotional bias that it simply cannot see the deeper obvious reality. It trusts its eyes, and yet it cannot see at all.
How do we learn to conquer the power the body has over our ability to discern what may not be so obvious?
And how do we conquer that and still manage to experience this life as a human?
Or, how do we manage to be as metaphysical as we are physical?
We see the consequences of being too physical and allowing ourselves to be ruled by emotion, and yet we also realize that there is a far deeper energy lying in wait at our deepest core being.
How do we loose our self in order to find our true self?
How do we comprehend the tearing apart of the two forces without losing the one for the other?
When we can begin to think in these ways we step into the world of the Alchemist.
Balance!
It is always about balance.
From the very origin of awareness and the separation of one in solitude from the one in interaction, duality begot the need for balance.
The entire universe is in a state of constant balancing, from macrocosm to microcosm. Indeed, all of existence from The One to the Fragment.
Without balance there is leaning toward an extremity, and such establishes chaos in the effort of balance. And chaos is not destruction; it is confusion.
Confusion is the result of imbalance.
To fall victim to emotional reaction without the balance of determination is unnecessary for a being bestowed with intelligence and inner fire. We fall victim to confusion that should really not have power over us at all.
Drinking from the graal of the Alchemist reveals imbalance and dispels confusion. The Alchemist blends the physical elements with their metaphysical balances and dispels confusion by fueling that Sacred Fire that resides in both.
If you want to live by the heart, prepare to suffer the consequences of imbalance.
If you want to live in balance with the All, fuel your inner fire, knowing that this has nothing to do with giving in to your emotions, or following your inner voice without first discerning what it seems to be telling you.
In the end, when all is said and done, if we are the last two beings in this existence, each of us must choose whether or not we want to be alone, or to share this experience with the other.
THIS truth is the core of all existence from the One to the Fragment.
The consequences of your decision are at the mercy of the discretion and consideration you give to them.
THIS truth is the true creation of existence and how we are an integral part of that process.
To see one's self as the Creator of some omniverse of potential possibilities is to deny that OTHER which also has the exact same potential and affect.
The Creator without the Other exists in a plenum void of anything else except its self, which then is also nothing but self.
If existence is not a lesson to realize this truth, then the graal of The Alchemist does not exist at all.
What is most important to the Alchemist is not his self, but rather The Other.
For it is in the other that realization of duality is manifest, and with that realization the need for balance.
This is why the heart has always been associated with love.
However any biologist or surgeon will tell you confidently that the heart is just another organ like any other organ of the body.
Now, there are those who say that the mind of man is somehow hidden within the brain, because to them it seems that their thought processing and their mind’s eye is located in the head.
The heart swells with love. The head spins in confusion.
To the human confined in his physical tomb of experience, emotional experience is attached to parts of the body because that body is all they know and understand. They have no other way of expressing what they feel except to associate those feelings with the part of the body that seems to be touched by the event.
As a matter of fact this is how the primitive human associates with every aspect of interpreting his environment. Without access to technology the human is left with only his own intelligence to interpret.
To us, what seems to be, is that which we accept without question. We tend not to question what seems to be our selves.
This is perception based upon subjection. Some would suggest that this perception is the very universe we create.
Every human experiences emotions and the need to interpret them. And yet each human does so according to his own intellectual ability and understanding. And what is worse than being left to one’s own degree of intellect is the fact that most emotional response is immediate and involuntary. We feel so quickly that we really do not have time to ask why, or to react based upon any discernment of the reason for the emotional reaction.
We simply experience the emotion, and accept it as a credible and worthy reaction to whatever has caused it to occur within us.
In short, from the moment of birth we develop a sincere trust of our emotions as though there is never any need to question them; much the same way that we adopt this temporary identity that we assume is our self.
Most come to know this emotional identity as their true self and trust in it completely.
The heart. The mind. The brain.
Biological organs of flesh, slow decay and each functioning according to a far more inborn design of which most humans are totally unaware. Lacking an understanding of this inner fire, the human becomes the physical reaction of it’s biological processes, essentially an addict to immediate self gratification.
And as we mature and gain in experience we come to realize that there is much more to our experience than the physical. We begin to understand that emotion may not be as biological as we had thought.
We realize that there is always choice associated with most of what we experience. And in that choice is also the choice to allow any particular emotion to rule our next action or decision, or to attempt to override it and discern the reasons behind why we feel this way, and how we should best act on those feelings. not just for our own sake but also for those around us.
The true sign of intelligence is revealed in one’s effort to discern rather than act without thinking.
Emotions are extremely powerful controllers.
We tend to allow our emotions to rule the moment, but it is not our only option. We can deliberate to override them. But beware that you do not override what is revealed deep within them, for in our deepest emotion lies the intuition and guidance of higher self.
Many speak of the inner voice, or the conscience, and if such should exist as somehow a separate process from our own body, then we should be considerate of not cutting ourselves off from that source, and try to discern its influence over us with intelligent thought process. Just because we do not understand it does not mean that is unworthy of hearing. To reach such a conclusion must be done with discernment, just as we should our emotional reactions. And when we do choose to override our emotion, or our inner voice, it should always be under the most serious of consideration.
To deny lust because we are aware of a danger it may impose upon us.
To show courage in the face of certain destruction because one believes it is the right thing to do.
Lust and fear are emotions that often invoke the most powerfully overwhelming and controlling experiences over us. They tend to conquer intelligent thought process immediately. They thrive on instant reaction and paralyzing loss of comprehension.
Love also seems to be beyond our control as once we fall in love we believe we have no means of reacting or feeling in any other way.
We often know only what we feel, even when we so often know better.
It is this aspect of humanity that we see manifest in this world all around us.
The great folly of man to run alongside of his emotions and to chase after the dreams they invoke. Folly because most often what is chased after and experienced is biological stimulation and reactions to environmental conditions that our physical body is subjected to; in lieu of any actual intelligent discernment of the consequences of running with that sudden stimulation.
Folly because the very Intelligence which bestows us with such attribute becomes ignorance within us that wars with it.
Bestowed with both intelligence, and with a vehicle in which to experience such intelligence, most choose to trust more in that vehicle than they do in the inner intelligence which empowers it.
And thus we find such intelligence in man gazing into a microscope to observe cellular division, and explaining life according to only what his eyes reveal to him, while that very empowering factor of both his vision and his intellect displays itself clearly for all to see in the actual act of division.
Two forces of some energy of deepest magnitude tearing apart from each other and becoming fragmented experiences of what is one continuing process.
But the scientific intelligence sees only the obvious, and the mind is so conquered by emotional bias that it simply cannot see the deeper obvious reality. It trusts its eyes, and yet it cannot see at all.
How do we learn to conquer the power the body has over our ability to discern what may not be so obvious?
And how do we conquer that and still manage to experience this life as a human?
Or, how do we manage to be as metaphysical as we are physical?
We see the consequences of being too physical and allowing ourselves to be ruled by emotion, and yet we also realize that there is a far deeper energy lying in wait at our deepest core being.
How do we loose our self in order to find our true self?
How do we comprehend the tearing apart of the two forces without losing the one for the other?
When we can begin to think in these ways we step into the world of the Alchemist.
Balance!
It is always about balance.
From the very origin of awareness and the separation of one in solitude from the one in interaction, duality begot the need for balance.
The entire universe is in a state of constant balancing, from macrocosm to microcosm. Indeed, all of existence from The One to the Fragment.
Without balance there is leaning toward an extremity, and such establishes chaos in the effort of balance. And chaos is not destruction; it is confusion.
Confusion is the result of imbalance.
To fall victim to emotional reaction without the balance of determination is unnecessary for a being bestowed with intelligence and inner fire. We fall victim to confusion that should really not have power over us at all.
Drinking from the graal of the Alchemist reveals imbalance and dispels confusion. The Alchemist blends the physical elements with their metaphysical balances and dispels confusion by fueling that Sacred Fire that resides in both.
If you want to live by the heart, prepare to suffer the consequences of imbalance.
If you want to live in balance with the All, fuel your inner fire, knowing that this has nothing to do with giving in to your emotions, or following your inner voice without first discerning what it seems to be telling you.
In the end, when all is said and done, if we are the last two beings in this existence, each of us must choose whether or not we want to be alone, or to share this experience with the other.
THIS truth is the core of all existence from the One to the Fragment.
The consequences of your decision are at the mercy of the discretion and consideration you give to them.
THIS truth is the true creation of existence and how we are an integral part of that process.
To see one's self as the Creator of some omniverse of potential possibilities is to deny that OTHER which also has the exact same potential and affect.
The Creator without the Other exists in a plenum void of anything else except its self, which then is also nothing but self.
If existence is not a lesson to realize this truth, then the graal of The Alchemist does not exist at all.
What is most important to the Alchemist is not his self, but rather The Other.
For it is in the other that realization of duality is manifest, and with that realization the need for balance.
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What I meant with pre-historic was literal - that the wisdom you are speaking is literally from ancient times before history (as it is known now) was recorded.
