THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE
All human activity is
a search for a balance between survival and
happiness. This is the same as saying that
all human activity is a search for a
balance between the logical mind and the
soul. To live in balance, to both survive
and be happy, you must have both logic and
soul. The problems is that it seems you can
have only one but not both. The world tells
us to reject the soul. Spirituality tells
us to reject the mind.
We condemn the world for ignoring the soul,
but conventional spirituality is equally
guilty when it tells us to ignore the
logical world. When you do this you are cut
off from your world of daily life.
The dirty secret of conventional
spirituality is that if an
”enlightened” person wants to
live in the ordinary world they must first
undertake a completely new journey to merge
with the logical mind they left behind in
their search for the soul. They need to
find some way for the logical mind to
co-exist with the intuitive soul that now
runs their lives. Until they achieve this
integration they are paralyzed and isolated
from the totality of what makes them human.
Such a handicap is why the spiritual path
has been confined to renunciants who do not
have to integrate with the world. It is why
the saints have not changed the world.