The targeted practices of the Work, if implemented with method and motivation, can “pierce” (at least temporarily) the “mental shell”, letting glimpses of truth penetrate, and make us understand that the commonly accepted “Reality” (with its dogmas, values and social goals) is not at all the only possible one, nor the fruit of a choice or spontaneous evolution, but that in all probability it has been shaped by a small minority of “individuals”, an elite that has dominion over the masses, now reduced to simple cogs in a sick and increasingly soulless system. The way out? It is within!
The fundamental point that transpersonal psychology, mysticism and esoteric doctrines have in common is this: the more we identify with what we are not, the greater our suffering. Until we understand who we really are and how inappropriate our current position is, nothing can change, neither outside nor inside us.
We cannot change the external world without first breaking the mental chains that limit our vision and cloud our thoughts, without first breaking the bars formed by crystallized prejudices and automatic feelings of guilt that assail us emotionally, when we perceive that we are not adequate in carrying out our “duties”, or if we do not satisfy the expectations with which the world has programmed us and that, as long as we are unaware, we chase for exclusively predatory purposes.
We have a strong resistance to bringing motivation and method to our Inner Work. We hope to advance while remaining distracted, vague, lost in our personal beliefs that, only when investigated with method, reveal themselves to be the true cause of our illusions and of every possible “evil”.
Until we are able to formulate with sincerity what exactly is holding us back, we will be able to apply only generic and temporary solutions, but never decisive ones. The line of least resistance is that of the many; it must be remembered that “many are called but few are chosen”.
The Narrow Path is not for everyone, not because they are privileged or predestined, but because not everyone wants to “die alive”, not everyone wants to stop “appearing” in order to “Be”.
Every possible worldly experience, however noble and extraordinary, cannot but represent an ever-greater distancing from Essence, our authentic nature. Identified in perceptive prisons, every personalized experience is made from the shadow of the true Being, every exteriorization is nothing but a getting lost in something else, a demanding of something else, a depending on something else: in other words, a non- being. Here lies the importance of finding a luminous point of reference, a lover of Reality who walks and indicates the Way, since, once our true Light is discovered, it must be the only Reality in our Consxiousness.
As the antidote to a snake bite is contained in the poison itself, so the true Light is enclosed in the obstacles of Life.
