Day 089e: the Sustenance and the Sunrise … (July 12, 2019)
One of the great joys embedded within any conscious pilgrimage is the way in which symbolism, archetype, and metaphor wash continually over & around every step of the way; so much so that if one is attentive enough (and humble enough) it readily seems as though the world itself is carrying on a personalized conversation with each pilgrim based on what he or she happens to notice and attend to. In this moment, rebirth was the message – both its perpetual availability (behind me, the Sun’s next inevitable rising to warm my way) and its ever fulfilling nourishment (that same star’s golden rays dancing lightly upon freshly cut stalks of wheat in a nearby neighboring field) …
“On the one hand it is true that there can be no metaphysical truth that transcends or escapes human reason. On the other hand it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and filtered and recognized by the deepest a priori structures of human (often subconscious) cognition … And so it has been that on my never-ending journey from the fantastical to the practical, spirituality has gone from being a nebulous mystical experience to something very ordinary and even concrete. Most don’t want any part of such clarity, finding it to be too embarrassing or – more disturbingly – too accurate. Instead they prefer more grandiose (if not also innately indecipherable) encounters with spiritual grandeur. It is this selfish (and cowardly) choice that keeps enlightenment for so many at bay. People want big revelations of greatly entangled complexity; revelations that just so happen to validate their own personal perceptions of the Divine. What a let down it must have been to Moses when God spoke to him through a lowly smoldering bush! And yet that is exactly the simplicity (and indeed the ubiquitousness) of it all. Our spiritual life IS our ordinary life, with the former being ever fully grounded in the latter. And accessing the same is as simple as humbling one’s perceptions enough to see the way one’s surroundings are ‘speaking’, alongside the courage required to act accordingly – as an agent of that same Oneness; with moment-to-moment re-immersions into acts of kindness, attentiveness, generosity, and service.” ~ via Carl Jung & Alaric Hutchinson
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