Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness

The sacrifice was leaving the Father in the first place and becoming the Son.

Part of the process of awakening that we’re going through is the recognition that the realities that we thought were absolute are only relative.

At the moment of death, if we let go lightly, we go out into the light, toward the One, toward God. The only thing that died, after all, was another set of thoughts of who we were this time around.

Thus the “guides” must be at a certain stage of their own evolution in order to be environments for awakening through death. They must have a connection with planes of consciousness beyond time and space that lead them to have a philosophical foundation that allows them to be balanced and without panic in the face of death. They must view death not

During the late sixties and early seventies, there was a period of fanaticism in our spiritual involvement. We were importing models from the East at a great rate and trying very hard to convert ourselves but, consistent with our tradition of doing things from the outside in, although we were taking on a lot of the symbols and accoutrements and mig

We were freeing ourselves from a cultural model of a reality that had been considered absolute.

If we cling to anything in form, we’re going to suffer.

But to have what we seek, we have to go beyond knowing and become it. It is a peculiar predicament, that this knowledge can only be known by transforming ourselves into the knowledge itself.

In order to be open to this merging, many of us who have smoked pot or taken acid, or had other vehicles for overriding our programs, know that we can set aside our programs for a moment and enter into the higher channels; but after a while, we come down, and, as a result, we get very frustrated. What brings us down is our attachment to the models