But how do you acquire energy when you are feeling low without these tactics? “The Message of the Mystics” describes how the way we are used to competing for energy or power is unnecessary. There is a much more efficient and substantial abundance of energy available. And it's really no big secret how we connect to it. We access this when we love.
Some people describe love as being blind, but I think there is a way of thinking about love that will leave you feeling like it is only when we look with love, that we really see. “Love is not an intellectual concept or moral imperative… it is a background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available to the universe” - James Redfield. Love brings happiness which again is truly our responsibility to find. Even if you are a martyr, you’ll pass the Aristotalian check for virtue if you ask yourself are you truly happy doing whatever it is you are doing. If you’re not, you might consider whether your actions are working and therefore truly god-like.
In the story, the narrator is being chased by some enemy (the story is not where the real worth of the book is) and he finds himself on a cliff. This is where he has a profound mystical experience. A couple things come together here to shake him from his usual dramas. In one sense, he loses hope. His friend is shot, he’s in an unfamiliar place and he appears to have just run out of options. The other is that he’s in an extremely beautiful unfamiliar place. He gazes out from the cliff and sees the Andes. For a moment he is struck in awe and in that way he connects. The book describes a kind of connection with God where he somehow becomes virtually invisible to the enemy hunting him even as they walk right by.
Growing up, the closest connection I had to a kind of daily, mystical faith was when my grandma would watch “Little House of the Prairie.” God is personified in those stories and appears to take an active interest in the adventures of little Laura Ingalls and her family. That was a place where I saw people pray. I saw wisdom behind the ways those prayers were answered even when it resulted in some suffering of the characters. Many of those stories were somewhat based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s real memoirs so there might be a modicum of truth at least to the faithful culture. There is a sentiment amidst those stories that the faithful can be protected in a similar way to the way we see the narrator in Celestine escape this danger on the cliff. It is as if he had God’s cloak around him.
The book even goes farther describing this higher vibration as the one a kind of spiritual humanity is destined for. It’s a kind of halfway point between the living and the dead and it’s suggested that Jesus may have been the first to ascend this way on that third day after his death when he rose again. And I mean, in reality we are just mass times the speed of light squared, no?
In the story, the narrator is being chased by some enemy (the story is not where the real worth of the book is) and he finds himself on a cliff. This is where he has a profound mystical experience. A couple things come together here to shake him from his usual dramas. In one sense, he loses hope. His friend is shot, he’s in an unfamiliar place and he appears to have just run out of options. The other is that he’s in an extremely beautiful unfamiliar place. He gazes out from the cliff and sees the Andes. For a moment he is struck in awe and in that way he connects. The book describes a kind of connection with God where he somehow becomes virtually invisible to the enemy hunting him even as they walk right by.
Growing up, the closest connection I had to a kind of daily, mystical faith was when my grandma would watch “Little House of the Prairie.” God is personified in those stories and appears to take an active interest in the adventures of little Laura Ingalls and her family. That was a place where I saw people pray. I saw wisdom behind the ways those prayers were answered even when it resulted in some suffering of the characters. Many of those stories were somewhat based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s real memoirs so there might be a modicum of truth at least to the faithful culture. There is a sentiment amidst those stories that the faithful can be protected in a similar way to the way we see the narrator in Celestine escape this danger on the cliff. It is as if he had God’s cloak around him.
The book even goes farther describing this higher vibration as the one a kind of spiritual humanity is destined for. It’s a kind of halfway point between the living and the dead and it’s suggested that Jesus may have been the first to ascend this way on that third day after his death when he rose again. And I mean, in reality we are just mass times the speed of light squared, no?
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