Forgiveness as a Bridge
What is the Light Between?
Moving from the intellectual to the spiritual faculty of the human soul is an essential step in finding The Light Between.
The intellect often hosts a critique, a separation, focusing on what is done less than perfect or simply left undone. This prevents me from truly meeting my colleagues. Here is where the adversaries infiltrate human society, they inhabit the space in between us, when we cast each other away.
Inquiring beyond the intellect, a knowing beyond the mind, I find an activity which does justice to who I really am, it is in fact a liberation of the I am. In this field, perception and cognition are identical, experience has meaning again; it is radiant, ever flexible and alive. This level of attention is a birth of the true self, a baptism through the water mysteries of living thinking.
Here in this transition, we find an essential rite of passage from the intellect to the spiritual soul, the sacrament of forgiveness. I can no longer cast judgements onto others, informed by mere corpses of knowledge. I discover that self-knowledge is not self-interest, it is for service, not power, and it putrefies unless we give ourselves to others. To be clear we are not asked to give the knowledge, but ourselves, that which is enriched by the knowledge, to others. This is an act of love. To prepare ourselves to stand in front of another and be open to what I don’t know. Because the Logos inhabits the weakest part of the other human being, but the adversaries want us to mistake it as an inconvenience to our own motives.
Distracted by the betrayal, we say but this happened and it hurts me. So why do it? Why forgive? That is like asking why you should be you. You’re here, so why not do what you know to be true, to forgive. Not for outcome, but in freedom with the superconscious forces of light and love. If there was a why, then it would not be forgiveness.
How do we do it? I think that if the how could be given, it would have already been given. So we prepare and practice, which requires discipline, faith and a certain degree of improvisation.
It is time for a risk, to move from content and information to capacities and experience, from culture and all the other inheritances to cosmic wisdom. We could come together in such a way that it becomes a speaking, a speaking which sets the world free. Free for what? Free to host a beginning which resolves our separate realities.
The individualistic stream of intention must be cultivated, and then surrendered to host the other with receptivity. To truly become a human being, is to know love. And it is not the kind of love that we only give to those we like.