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I went on the YouTube channel after asking this and it seemed like the first video was about my question. It said that we each have a unique desire that is intrinsic, genuine and authentic. And that we are being lead to realize what it is. I imagine that must be the one that has the potential to be altruistic, and be the “button” to enter the spiritual world.
There are so many paradoxes in these spiritual concepts. What I am trying to understand is impossible. It’s like imagining a 5th dimensional object.
So, if that is true. The only way I can reach an intention to bestow is if I am led into a context, condition, or situation where it pops into my capacity to imagine it, comprehend it, and see that it’s something I want.
Is that what is happening here? We are spending as much time as we can following the breadcrumbs of these concepts that take us on some kind of a path to this epiphany?
I’m reading and re-reading Attaining the Worlds Beyond. And it reminds me of those lion dances they do in China, where they are on 20ft poles, and each step must land in the exact right spot. The thing about this book is that every time I take a step that it suggests (and seems clearly to be contradictory and impossible) there is no pole there… no place to step. But a step appears there all the sudden as soon as I commit my weight to the step.
The “screen” is deliberately not seeing the Creator because you have the strength in that moment, from His prior revelation, to proceed under your own effort! That’s what the screen is!
So you reach once when you’re weak, for the Creator’s help. And then you reach again, the opposite way, to apply your effort specifically without help. And you move, with the screen held between you and the Creator so that you’re not blinded by the Light. It’s like a machine.
*Mind blown*Thank God I stumbled across this section of Attaining the Worlds Beyond again today. Last time I read it it seemed interesting but meaningless. Today it is such a relief to see it, and it explains so much:
“if we realize that these states of darkness are necessary for spiritual advancement, and are even desirable, and sent to us by the Creator Himself, then we will welcome them. We will recognize that the Creator has offered us the gift of perceiving shadows, or the incomplete darkness, so that we may seek the source of the Light.”
