Para reflexionar (VI)...

Cuando uno decide empezar a hacer el gran viaje hacia su interior se puede sentir como Alicia en el Pais de las Maravillas cayendo por la madriguera...

Al principio todo está oscuro y algunos puede que decidan regresar entonces y que es mejor quedarse como están, total, ya lo dice el refrán: "Más vale lo malo conocido, que lo bueno por conocer"... Otros siguen avanzando un poco, aunque muy lentamente y cada poco miran hacia atrás para ver aún algo de donde estaban que les de seguridad, a veces justo en el instante que van a quedarse totalmente a oscuras dentro de la madriguera el pánico les invade y deciden volver y aplicarse más intensamente que nunca al refrán mencionado anteriormente...

Y algunos aunque con miedo deciden con valentía soltar lo último que les ataba a lo que tenían y seguir avanzando aunque ahora todo esté oscuro en este nuevo mundo desconocido para ellos, aunque sepan que ya no hay vuelta atrás, al menos no ya del mismo modo que antes vivían, ya que van a descubrir un nuevo mundo que no es otro que uno mismo, sin engaños, ni distracciones, ni falsas ilusiones... Dentro de la madriguera todo se ve desde otra perspectiva a la que uno no está acostumbrado en esta sociedad, desde la perspectiva del ser y no del tener, desde la perspectiva del interior y no del exterior, desde la perspectiva de la unidad y no de la desunión... Y aunque es un largo y difícil viaje será como la gran Odisea de su vida y si confían y no se rinden, algún día encontraran el camino de retorno a casa, pero siendo ahora una persona diferente, siendo un ser humano auténtico y no sólo un animal racional...

¿Y tú, hasta donde estás dispuesto a adentrarte en la madriguera...?

 Sustainable Man.

"The derision of the cynic comes from a wound of crushed idealism and betrayed hopes. We received it on a cultural level when the Age of Aquarius morphed into the age of Ronald Reagan, and on an individual level as well when our youthful idealism that knew a more beautiful world is possible, that believed in our own individual destiny to contribute something meaningful to the world, that would never sell out under any circumstances and would never become like our parents gave way to an adulthood of deferred dreams and lowered expectations. Anything that exposes this wound will trigger us to protect it. One such protection is cynicism, which rejects and derides as foolish, naïve, or irrational all of the expressions of reunion.

The cynic mistakes his cynicism for realism. He wants us to discard the hopeful things that touch his wound, to settle for what is consistent with his lowered expectations. This, he says, is realistic. Ironically, it is in fact cynicism that is impractical. The naïve person attempts what the cynic says is impossible, and sometimes succeeds.

If you are thinking, “All this stuff about oneness is a lot of garbage,” if you feel disgust or contempt, I ask you to look honestly at where the rejection is coming from. Could it be that there is a lonely, timid part of you that wants to believe? Are you afraid of that part? I know I am. If I allow it to grow, if I allow it to guide my life, if I trust all those statements
of the new story I listed above, I open myself to the possibility of immense disappointment. It is an exquisitely vulnerable position to believe, to trust in purpose, guidance, and that I will be OK. Better stay cynical. Better stay safe.

If you respond to this talk of oneness not with cynicism but rather a feeling of vindication, that doesn't mean you do not bear the same wound as the cynic. Perhaps instead of exercising it like the cynic does, you are ignoring it. Could it be that whenever the doubt creeps in, you assuage its pain by picking up the latest book on angel healing or reincarnation? Are you committing spiritual bypass? One way to tell whether your belief in oneness and its associated paradigms conceals an unhealed wound is whether the derision of the skeptic provokes outrage or personal defensiveness. If so, then something beyond a mere belief is being threatened. Skeptic and believer are not so different, as both are using belief to shelter a wound. So, whether you feel indignant at my mention of UFOs, or feel indignant toward the skeptic's doctrinaire rejection of them, I encourage you to reflect on where this emotion comes from. We want to see what is hidden inside us, so that we won't blindly replicate it again and again in what we create." -- Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible