For
the valiant seeker on the path this Intent has nothing to do with
struggling to achieve objectives and desires in the physical reality, as
we humanly perceive it. Goals, purposes, manifestation, or
self-assertion, as they apply in everyday life, are merely pale shadows
of the Intention. This does not abide in our conditioned awareness of the
world and is entirely unrelated to our identification with the body, as
we see it. The Intention is a pure energy flame flowing through the empty
spaces left vacant by our ordinary sensory perception. It is far beyond
the world we purport to know, existing in an unseen realm, which is
completely alien to our cognition, and yet paradoxically it is the
matrix that produces every aspect of our life.
The
unveiling of this Intent requires an enormous investment of energy, an
unattainable task as long as we keep using energy to sustain our
conditioned perception of reality. When all our energy goes into
supporting our separate identity, and its sense of self-importance,
there is no space for anything else.
Self-importance was regarded by Don Juan Matus
as the supreme enemy of the shaman and the nemesis of mankind. This is
evident in the unceasing concern for the way we present ourselves to the
world, the focus on being liked by people, the desire to be
acknowledged, which also compels us to invest massive energy in the
acknowledgement of others, so that they can then acknowledge us.
Don
Juan argued that if we were capable of letting go of some of that
preoccupation with self-acknowledgment, “two extraordinary things would
happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the
illusory idea of our grandeur; and, two, we would provide ourselves with
enough energy to enter into the second attention to catch a glimpse of
the actual grandeur of the universe.” (Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, p.37).
This
grandeur of the universe becomes available when we tap into our core
Intent, aligning with a field of energy we all have in the matrix of our
being. This force can be identified by many names: Intent, Higher Self,
God, Core Multidimensional Identity, or whatever term you feel happy
about. Yet here this term has nothing to do with the torpid manner in
which our separate reality interprets God and the like. It describes a
vibrant, living and most liberating force, entirely unrelated to the
mummified deities of consensus worship. Developing awareness of this
force as the primary energy in the universe is the only chance for any
true human evolution.
A flaming blessing on your Spring!
Image: by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1870
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