WELCOME TO THE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH MY EYES

I look up at the wilderness night sky — devoid of light pollution — and the stars are countless. A sense of oneness and awesome humility peacefully pervades my being. The ego’s chattering monkey-mind seeks control and meaning to reinforce our mistaken idea of separation. It begins analyzing, dissecting the wholeness until it has fashioned a myriad dualities — most with labels. Now at last, with so many labels, it can begin judging them good and evil, adequate and inadequate, useful and useless.

I’ve made constellations out of the wholeness and I can begin to tell stories. Heroes and heroines can be cast from the masses — false idols molded and torn as pieces from the One God. Now we can develop the full spectrum of the ego’s fantasy: separation, control, judgment, righteousness, complexity and fear. These spawn being special, being right, hate, anger and attack in all its ugliness. Suffering takes the form of attachment to these forms, labels and false idols.

And the Truth remains. Waiting quietly, not needing to be heard over the ego’s raucous din. Safe and secure in the Peace that passes understanding. As we encounter these ego-issues, we can simply offer them to the Holy Spirit for quiet disposal. Then, we continue our vigilant attention to Who We Really Are — Beloved, Sinless Children of God who have never left God’s Presence except in our delusional ego-dreaming.

As we meet others in the course of our day, we try to see them with Eyes of the Heart and see the Christ in each of them. We do this best by seeing the person “for the first time” without the filter of past history and grievances. With these practices, we can more nearly approach being “in the world, but not of the world.” This way, being happy remains an option.

If interested in the Sacred Geometry of the Maze…

Back in the 1970’s, I was intently exploring the world religions and their relationship to the sacred geometry in the Lesser Maze and Greater Maze.  I had the good fortune to enroll in The Johns Hopkins Evening College for an MLA (Masters of Liberal Arts) where I encountered a professor, Father Gouch, who encouraged my explorations.  This resulted in a Masters Project which I have included below.  Given the era, my terminology included “mankind” instead of “humankind” and references to God in a masculine gender.  Obviously these terms are too limiting.  Please excuse and ignore.

The religions included are Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Native American shamanism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam — in that order.  I enjoyed reading through most of the basic scriptures for each religion and exploring each of the alphabets: Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit and Chinese.  

For me, this was a journey of learning and discovery that has impacted my entire life.  The project involved many “aha’s” and spiritual moments of discovery and awe.  Some of that amazement is clear in the verbiage. 

Prior to writing this paper, I had spent several years immersing myself in the 3-dimensional geometry and building models of the Lesser Maze — with a balsa wood frame, eyelet screws, Elmer’s Glue, and thread strung exhaustively between all the vertices.  Then I used Day-Glow paint to color the shape outlined by the intersecting strings — thus bringing to “life” the various shapes within when seen under black light.  The largest model icosahedron was just small enough to fit through a door — and included the inner icosahedron which I hand knotted with long tweezers.   That model became too difficult to continue to transport through my life and was ritually destroyed.  The other two, a dodecahedron and smaller Icosahedron without the Inner Icosahedron, are still intact.  

The models seem to have taken on a life of their own.  I would have expected the thread, glue and eyelets to have dried up and broken long ago.  They hang in my office.

If you decide to read through any of this project, you will find an interesting survey of some of the esoteric similarities of the world religions.  I have included many hand-drawn diagrams to facilitate your mental imaging of the geometry.

A suggested approach would be to read the Overview Chapter 0 and the Intro Chapter 1 and then you could move to any religion of your choosing.