Shift Frequency June 3 2013

Original art by Jill Mattson (used with permission)

Knowing and Not Knowing are places of determination of existential consciousness. Friends share what they know and what they see. Anything I say is not intended to become your view. How dull if we did not each have our own precious perspective.

Perspectives are relative, not absolute. I know only one perspective which leads without fail to Wisdom Truth and is the ‘tester’ – compassionate love. Unconditional love and compassion are the essence of what we are, of who we are if we agree that the identity or our ‘we’ is not this body, but rather is in it… a transient occupant.

Man has always struggled with the edge of consciousness – the boundary of knowing and not knowing. This edge is the home of the poet, the essence of gifts brought back  from tastes and touches of the other side.

Joseph Campbell concluded that mythology is dead in the modern world – that each  is now cast loose from the confines of a predetermined cultural mythos. The poet now assumes the role of provoking awareness of that which is over the edge of what is known.

This was previously the function of mythology – to provide a sense of security among people that the unknown was ‘being handled’ by the role of priest and of the myth itself – to put the unknowable in terms of the known – to know the mystery was being caressed.

In an infinite and unknowable universe it is not a question of faith but rather a question of faith in what. We have only what is known. All the rest is mystery.

Have compassion for all. Have compassion for those who take comfort in the belief they understand despite the unsettled emotions that arise when they gaze upon a limitless firmament with countless stars.

Oftentimes arrogance possesses those who say they know. It is an arrogance driven by terror. Terror of the unknown. So it is the wise man who knows he does not know but has instead learned humility – the key that opens the door to wisdom.