The Healers Journal Posted by Admin January 10, 2013
HJ: Our intuition — specifically our higher self — is attempting to guide us constantly. However, we have learned and been conditioned to quell this inner voice in favor of practicality and logic, the habit of which is instilled in us since birth. We are not taught to look within and kindle our inner guidance into a massive flame that lights our path no matter what the external reality presents. Instead, we are taught that the internal voice is one of emotion and passion and is not to be trusted. We are taught only to trust that which is scientific fact, thereby giving our power over to those who control such things. And so it is that we must begin the process of rekindling our connection with ourselves — with our intuition.
This is the essence of the mystical experience — turning within and learning to listen to and decode the constant guidance we are receiving. It requires great trust and faith that indeed the internal experience is even truer than that outer illusion, which is powerful and reinforced by society at every turn. In fact we are seeing this expressed in the throngs of those who are disillusioned with the Ascension experience. They look outside themselves and exclaim “See! Nothing has changed!”. Indeed nothing has changed for them, because they are not aware of the internal shift, or what’s more, they did not allow it.
I can hear the words of my mentor in my mind as I write this: “There is no out there ‘out there’ independent of the contents of our own mind.” Wise words indeed. Anyone who is confused about themselves or the world around them needs only understand this statement in its entirety. The more we accept and trust the internal reality as our true reality, the more the outer world changes to accomodate the power of our conviction. Beautiful.
- Truth
Mysticism Unlocked
By Emmanuel J. Karavousanos | Waking Times
The mystic gains knowledge, intuitive knowledge of consciousness through that flash of insight known as, the mystical experience. If the mystic had not gained this realization, he would not have gained that spiritual gift. Let us consider an explanation for this greatest of all enigmas.
It was historian James Harvey Robinson who said, “We do not think enough about thinking.” Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead wrote, “Familiar things happen and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” We know familiar things – thoughts — are taking place in the mind almost continuously if not continuously. Is it possible that we know this superficially and not as we should – intuitively! Not knowing why a mystical experience occurs, each of us naturally and understandably takes the thinking process for granted, accepts it as it is and quickly, understandably and naturally moves on in life ignoring any serious look at consciousness or the consciousness dilemma.
Below are quotes providing overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that we must look toward the analysis of familiar, obvious and known things and things we take for granted. Why are we encouraged to consider analyzing what is already so, so well known to us? Could it be it is because we could and would gain, intuitively gain, that which we know only on the surface – superficially? We know consciousness, but do not know our higher state — the mystical state! If we knew consciousness intuitively, we too would be mystics. Yes, we must analyze that which we superficially know — our ordinary state of mind! It is our individual thoughts that we must consider and ponder! It can be seen that with the quotes below the incentive is now there for all of us to reach for that treasured gift — the mystical experience!
Simply taking 2 or 3 moments once or twice a day and actually considering thoughts, thoughts that are there in the so-called present, it is then that insight — mystical insight – can and will be triggered! Our individual thoughts must be considered and looked upon as interferences, disturbances or even as “hang-ups.” In time, one will suddenly see - intuitively realize – all his/her thoughts as being intererences to peace of mind. This can only arrive from within through devotion to the analysis of what is already obvous and known to us. Yes, it is obvious we are aware of being conscious, but we must realize that this is known only on the surface — superficially.
With the above we may now understand that in order to gain the mystical state, it is necessary to analyze that which is already known or in reality, known only on the surface. Again, if we knew it fully, intuitively, we would already have attained the gift of the mystical state. Yes, we can gain that higher state of mind through the analysis of our incoming thoughts. Thoughts are always there in the present and though this is known, it can and must, must be intuitively realized. There is, here and now, more than adequate evidence for us to begin analyzing our incoming thoughts. “We do not think enough about thinking” is not to be dismissed. This coupled with the idea that Gustav Ichheiser put forth: ”Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which is taken for granted.” Early in life we take our thinking for granted and operate solely on our intellect. The evidence cannot but lead us to consider the analysis what is already obvious and seemingly known.
The evidence supporting analysis of familiar, obvious and known things, and things we take for granted:
Familiar things happen and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which is taken for granted. ~ Gustav Ichheiser
Because it’s familiar, a thing remains unknown. ~ Hegel
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it. ~ Kahlil Gibran
That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden! And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along. ~ Madeleine L’Engle
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The best place to hide a needle is in a stack of needles. ~ Robert Heinlein
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious — because the obvious is what people need to be told. ~ Dale Carnegie
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ~ Aldous Huxley
The unapparent connection is more powerful than the apparent one. ~ Heraclitus
