Synchronicity is existence snapping its fingers. Our attention is called to our interconnectedness. A curtain opens to wonder.
By opening your mind to nonduality you might live a more effective life
Synchronicity is existence snapping its fingers. Our attention is called to our interconnectedness. A curtain opens to wonder.
July 27, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Hi Jeff: I like your work and wanted to extend this awareness into aging. I am a clinical psychologist, interfaith minister, author and aging boomer and sense deeply that aging is itself an enlightenment process. It seems to me that the non-dual awareness arises naturally in aging, though folks often don’t recognize it. As we age, the contents of consciousness begin to dissolve (identity, time, story) and what’s left is this infinitely loving space that, when merged with being, is bliss and a new basis for living. I believe this is one of the greats gifts of age. I’d appreciate your reflections on this and a review of my work on this evolutionary development. Thanks, John Robinson (http://johnrobinson.org)
August 3, 2012 at 7:45 am
Thanks, John. Bernadette Roberts has spoken of aging in an interesting way. This is from my outline of her book, The Experience of No-Self, from http://www.nonduality.com/berna.htm
Roberts reveals that she had not taken her journey alone, but that her
friend and neighbor Lucille, who was 85 at the time, had also undergone
an experience of losing the self. Lucille understood it to be part of
the aging process, a preparation for death. And the stages Lucille went
through paralleled the experiences of Roberts.
The major differences were that Lucille’s loss of self occurred slowly
over a period of years, whereas Roberts’ changes were abrupt and within
a narrow time frame of two years; and that for Roberts the mystery lies
in what remains when the self is gone, and for Lucille the mystery lies
in how much of her self she could live without; and for Lucille, the
complete loss of self meant presence in God and the end of her life,
while for Roberts loss of self meant the beginning of life.