July 6, 2011
In this world today I hear a great deal expressed around the notion that at the centre of everything is love. How do people know this. Are they on the phone to The Great Mystery and recording it's every thought and notion. I have always been under the impression, have come to an understanding, that at the centre of everything is everything, if it were not so it would not be here in the manifest world. It may be true that we are in world short of love and in a great need to learn the art of love. And through the course of this step we need to make it the centre of all life. That I can accept. However to call God, Spirit, The Mystery love, is a childish notion based on that lack.
Love is something that we must choose to live from, to have as way of existence, yet to say that love is all there is may lead one down a blind street. None of us can really know what is at the centre of it all, that is why it is named The Mystery, that is why it is spoken of as the eternal night, the ever being darkness. As it is something we can never fully comprehend. What we can do is align ourselves and make the relationship with The Mystery a primary state of being. We can let that life force touch us and influence us, be guided and shaped by that relationship, yet to attribute love to the basis of all life is a narrow blind obsession.
In Hermetic teachings the divine is called The All. That is because it is all that there is. The All has no separation between good and bad, hate and love, up and down, in and out. It is The All so contains all. What remains for us, what our task then becomes is to embrace that All and live life in the dark. Love then becomes a choice, an active force that we embrace to live our lives by.
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
June 30, 2011
Whatever path you step on toward self awareness, make sure it is one where you can still be yourself. I do not ascribe to methodology and understanding being the end point, it is merely the way toward your own relationship with The Mystery. It is hopefully a path that will illuminate you to yourself and guide you toward a personal relationship with life. There are many formulas, many processes that assist in supporting this journey, however, a warning for young players, if the process beco... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
June 29, 2011
You can be guided and indeed guide others to a meeting with the Mystery. You may find tools that assist you to experience yourself connected deeply with consciousness. You may practice a set of principles that keeps you in touch with that experience. Yet to express the experience is beyond words. We as humans have a need to establish finite conclusions. Yet The Mystery remains that, beyond definition, beyond meaning. I have of late had several experiences which I have wanted to relate t... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
April 11, 2010
It has been a long pause between drinks. I have not felt the urge to pen on these pages. The reason being is that I have not had anything that I have wanted to share besides my mad ramblings, and for me that is not enough. I want the words here to be more than just my experience, for them to unfold into ideas that will make pith and potency for others to drink upon. We all have experience, that is never in question, the matter of it, the idea contained within that experience is the gem. ... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 10, 2010
A well-written poem uses words sparsely, paints an idea and invokes a feeling and mood often employing two words alone. Line after line the verse describes something that prose or dialogue is not able to capture. The relationship between words, not always obvious, imagines for us a world that transports the soul. Change the position of a single word and the poem takes on a different life. It is not only the arrangement that expresses meaning, the choice of one word over another, though th... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 9, 2010
I have listened to many speak of what it would take to live this life well, to transform oneself, to become more conscious and authentic. Some propagate the idea that learning is the path, some say action is the way, others to be, listen, and on and on. What amuses me is that all of these mentioned above are aspects of life that will assist you to come to yourself and live in harmony with all life. If it is action alone that leads you to transformation, who was it that told you that, who p... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 8, 2010
I noticed in an interaction with a friend last night that it is difficult for most people to sit in a pause. We tend to rush in and fill it, with anything. With chatter or activity. In those moments where there seems to be nothing going on, where the silence, or non-action is prevalent, we feel a great desire to make a noise or do something. Consider music for a moment, the rest, the pause, belongs to the music as much as the notes. The rest insists on a contribution to the melody, to th... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 2, 2010
I have been spending many years exploring one idea. Which is quite simply, what we are, is already what we need, all of it. What is required is to shift our relationship with it, rather than shift it. This life is not about becoming a different person from who we already are it is about inhabiting who you are completely. I am far from being masterful with this principle, I slosh around the planet loosing my way, falling over my own heals time and time again. Yet regardless of that, for t... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 1, 2010
If you do not take the time to stop and really consider what you care about, you will be at the command of your compulsions. The will is the natural capacity to organise ones self toward outcomes. The way you wish to be in life as well as what you want in your life. The will is interested in what you care about as its source of inspiration. Whether we are consciously caring about something or unconsciously being driven, the will engages and begins its task of organising you and life about... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
January 28, 2010
There is a wave through the world toward a new spiritual awareness. Many questions are being asked about living this life well; becoming whole, empowered, finding one’s passion, living from greatness. I think it would be true to say that one of the most prominent ideas that has been around for thousands of years is that we have a soul and an ego. That if we are living our lives from ego we will tend toward dysfunctional behaviour, and if we are living from our souls we will be living fre... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
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About Me
I am an Alchemist, falling into the fires of transformation over and over as I realise the gold that I am. I choose to serve all humanity to that end, to raise the consciousness of humanity, one by one if that be the case. I am a writer, a speaker, an actor and fool.
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July 6, 2011
In this world today I hear a great deal expressed around the notion that at the centre of everything is love. How do people know this. Are they on the phone to The Great Mystery and recording it's every thought and notion. I have always been under the impression, have come to an understanding, that at the centre of everything is everything, if it were not so it would not be here in the manifest world. It may be true that we are in world short of love and in a great need to learn the art of love. And through the course of this step we need to make it the centre of all life. That I can accept. However to call God, Spirit, The Mystery love, is a childish notion based on that lack.
Love is something that we must choose to live from, to have as way of existence, yet to say that love is all there is may lead one down a blind street. None of us can really know what is at the centre of it all, that is why it is named The Mystery, that is why it is spoken of as the eternal night, the ever being darkness. As it is something we can never fully comprehend. What we can do is align ourselves and make the relationship with The Mystery a primary state of being. We can let that life force touch us and influence us, be guided and shaped by that relationship, yet to attribute love to the basis of all life is a narrow blind obsession.
In Hermetic teachings the divine is called The All. That is because it is all that there is. The All has no separation between good and bad, hate and love, up and down, in and out. It is The All so contains all. What remains for us, what our task then becomes is to embrace that All and live life in the dark. Love then becomes a choice, an active force that we embrace to live our lives by.
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
June 30, 2011
Whatever path you step on toward self awareness, make sure it is one where you can still be yourself. I do not ascribe to methodology and understanding being the end point, it is merely the way toward your own relationship with The Mystery. It is hopefully a path that will illuminate you to yourself and guide you toward a personal relationship with life. There are many formulas, many processes that assist in supporting this journey, however, a warning for young players, if the process beco... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
June 29, 2011
You can be guided and indeed guide others to a meeting with the Mystery. You may find tools that assist you to experience yourself connected deeply with consciousness. You may practice a set of principles that keeps you in touch with that experience. Yet to express the experience is beyond words. We as humans have a need to establish finite conclusions. Yet The Mystery remains that, beyond definition, beyond meaning. I have of late had several experiences which I have wanted to relate t... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
April 11, 2010
It has been a long pause between drinks. I have not felt the urge to pen on these pages. The reason being is that I have not had anything that I have wanted to share besides my mad ramblings, and for me that is not enough. I want the words here to be more than just my experience, for them to unfold into ideas that will make pith and potency for others to drink upon. We all have experience, that is never in question, the matter of it, the idea contained within that experience is the gem. ... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 10, 2010
A well-written poem uses words sparsely, paints an idea and invokes a feeling and mood often employing two words alone. Line after line the verse describes something that prose or dialogue is not able to capture. The relationship between words, not always obvious, imagines for us a world that transports the soul. Change the position of a single word and the poem takes on a different life. It is not only the arrangement that expresses meaning, the choice of one word over another, though th... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 9, 2010
I have listened to many speak of what it would take to live this life well, to transform oneself, to become more conscious and authentic. Some propagate the idea that learning is the path, some say action is the way, others to be, listen, and on and on. What amuses me is that all of these mentioned above are aspects of life that will assist you to come to yourself and live in harmony with all life. If it is action alone that leads you to transformation, who was it that told you that, who p... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 8, 2010
I noticed in an interaction with a friend last night that it is difficult for most people to sit in a pause. We tend to rush in and fill it, with anything. With chatter or activity. In those moments where there seems to be nothing going on, where the silence, or non-action is prevalent, we feel a great desire to make a noise or do something. Consider music for a moment, the rest, the pause, belongs to the music as much as the notes. The rest insists on a contribution to the melody, to th... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 2, 2010
I have been spending many years exploring one idea. Which is quite simply, what we are, is already what we need, all of it. What is required is to shift our relationship with it, rather than shift it. This life is not about becoming a different person from who we already are it is about inhabiting who you are completely. I am far from being masterful with this principle, I slosh around the planet loosing my way, falling over my own heals time and time again. Yet regardless of that, for t... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
February 1, 2010
If you do not take the time to stop and really consider what you care about, you will be at the command of your compulsions. The will is the natural capacity to organise ones self toward outcomes. The way you wish to be in life as well as what you want in your life. The will is interested in what you care about as its source of inspiration. Whether we are consciously caring about something or unconsciously being driven, the will engages and begins its task of organising you and life about... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
January 28, 2010
There is a wave through the world toward a new spiritual awareness. Many questions are being asked about living this life well; becoming whole, empowered, finding one’s passion, living from greatness. I think it would be true to say that one of the most prominent ideas that has been around for thousands of years is that we have a soul and an ego. That if we are living our lives from ego we will tend toward dysfunctional behaviour, and if we are living from our souls we will be living fre... Continue reading...
Posted by Phillip Gordon.
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