Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
I am a bit reluctant to pin the whole transmission chain on an obligatory intermediary of human consciousness.
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
ALways note our biasthat we are the apexandthat we are the center or fulcrum that we are important
He who drinks what flows from my mouth Will come to be like me And I will come to be like him So that all may be one.
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
I believe there are different realms or dimensions we are not equipped to see but are very much active and infkuencing of ours as we are of theirsquantum Physics maps out a scientific version of thiswe are limited by our senses but that limit should not preclude a belief in what we sense beyond this realmso what will i offer those other realms? How will i choose to be?
Maybe, as in that old children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit, “real” is not where you start out but where you wind up; you become real gradually when somebody loves you for a long, long time.
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
But there is yet one more step awaiting: the unitive or anagogical stage. At this level, one’s personal life story ceases to be a treasure house to be mined and is seen for what it is: simply a fractal of the one great heart of our Common Father,
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
Mirrorthe concrete (level one here)the subtle (leveles two and three - allegorical interpretation)and causal (level four unitive)
evil grows full-blown from the innocent soil of human hurt and pain,
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
some purification of the vehicle is necessary in order to ensure a greater reliability and consistency of connection. The Sufis call this work “polishing the mirror” or “cleansing the lens of perception.”
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
The prep and practice
faith (as in “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”).
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
Faith as perception rather than belief
Gurdjieff’s sweeping vision of a single, intricately interwoven cosmic “self-specifying system” in which everything has its unique role to play
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
This does mirror the complex interconnectedness of the earth as a system
Transforming our own minds is always the place where we can begin to work, and as we work, the outer effects will sooner or later make themselves known.
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
Important to remember the nature of the transformation matterswe could transform our inner worlds towards more shadow