Fascination And Imagination...

Aman Arora

Fascination and imagination 

can be recognized by lack of attention - 

thoughts just go from one association to another 

without an awareness 

of other things in our environment. 

Intentional imagination 

is a practice that can be very helpful 

to our state of presence 

but can take time to master and practice. 

In my experience 

it begins with first of all divided attention 

and then bringing an event, 

a scene, a memory to this place of presence. 

We stay with our attention divided 

in the life we are living, 

we stay aware of the chair we are sitting in, 

the objects in the room 

and then we bring something 

that we want to focus on into the divided attention 

and hold presence at the same time. 

This practice burns a lot of hydrogens 

and the effort can take us higher.

~M

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The State Of Fascination...

 

Jaacov Agam

The state of Fascination 

is very problematic and attractive to us.  

We see other people 

become fascinated with emotional states. 

We see the intellect 

become fascinated with words and concepts. 

We see the moving center 

fascinated and lost in movement. 

We see people 

fascinated with their own conversation 

to the extent that they are only really interested 

in the sound of their own voice.  

We see people become unwilling 

to learn or to take in new information - 

only fascinated by the elimination of their own I’s.

~M

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It's Very Easy...

 

Edward Robert Hughes

It's very easy 

to see how someone else 

is in imagination & fascination. 

A practice I've been using is to say to myself: 

"so that's how it looks". 

Then I'm not in judgement - 

but turns it into understanding. 

AND I've noticed 

that when a part of me is in imagination & fascination, 

another part of me (the higher) 

is witnessing this. 

Also a bit uncomfortable

as the soul/higher 

wants to emerge but is having difficulty.

~M

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Awakening...

Awakening is not changing who you are, 

but discarding who you are not.

~Deepak Chopra

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Unity Is The Destination...

 

Unity is the destination. 

I yearn to not squander the opportunity, 

yet so is my work.

"The ones that went before us 

walked through all the opposites 

and merged into unity".

We come from great ones 

showing us the way. 

Unity is the basis of the 3 Abrahamic faiths, 

yet I never got that understanding. 

The work points out what I have been missing. 

The purpose of our being here. 

Unity e.g. transformation.

~G

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Meher Baba Suggests ...

 Meher Baba suggests 

to look at the Sky or the Ocean 

during prayer and Meditations, 

to perhaps taste “Unity” with the Beloved. 

I also remember Mervyn saying 

that Unity was above Love. 

There are no opposites any more, 

just a beautiful Union. 

We are part of the work of a great Harmony 

and I deeply feel that each of us 

is a part of the fabric pointing 

towards this goal. 

It is the hope and faith 

held in the Dark beyond all opposites. 

It is pure inspiration and the seamless wonder 

of “Just wanting to Give” from within, 

with no reward. 

As St John says, 

In the Dark Night of The Soul 

“bright flows the River of God”. 

~C

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Mervyn Used To Say ...

 

Theodore Robinson

Mervyn used to say 

that it is not enough to be present, 

but that we needed to bring our being 

to everything that we do. 

My understanding of this 

is that we must try to live each moment consciously, 

knowing our features 

and working with them in life situations. 

The machine is so tricky and fast. 

The soul is left behind when a feature kicks in. 

So, for me, 

the great challenge is to be present to those moments 

when the machine wants to take over 

and consciously choose the higher right. 

This I feel not only requires presence, 

but also the effort to be in the Kings, 

in order to bring compassion and love to each moment.

~J

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To Forgive ...

 

To forgive 

is to set a prisoner free

and discover that prisoner was you.

~Lewis B. Smedes

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Our Inner World...

 

Our inner world is here with us always. 

It is a matter of opening it up to “life,” i.e., 

listening to music that feeds your inner world 

in the car while doing Influence A things. 

Dividing one’s attention 

while doing anything 

brings one’s inner world 

to whatever is taking 

place at any moment.

~M

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So In This Work ...

 

So in this work 

we are trying to transform 

lower energies to higher energies. 

When higher energy is flowing through us 

we try to 'contain it' 

to go to our higher bodies 

and the container perhaps is our Holy Grail - 

the cup within 

where we are present 

and containing the energy to feed higher bodies - 

where from comes creativity and realizations.

~M

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Three Especially Sublime Benefits ...

Maxfield Parrish

 

Three especially sublime benefits 

are harvested in the soul by these raptures.

The first is knowledge of the greatness of God.

The more we see of this greatness,

the more deeply conscious we become.

The second is humility through self-knowledge.

How can something like the soul,

so limited by comparison to the creator of such magnificence,

dare to dishonor him?

In this state, she can scarcely raise her eyes to him!

The Third is a loss of appetite for worldly things.

Her only interest in the things of the world

lies in their capacity 

to be used in the service of such a great God.

~St. Teresa of Avila 

Interior Castle (on rapture)

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