The Power of Divine Eros by A. H. Almaas

Author:A. H. Almaas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala Publications

MIRACULOUS . . . OR SIMPLY REALITY?

We humans tend to believe in miracles instead of seeing that what we call a miracle is actually a glimpse into what is real. We distance ourselves from the miraculous by remaining in our conventional sense of who we are. We continue to be defined by our past experiences, so that what our parents believed and taught us and what we have learned about this world and the universe dominate and limit our experiences. Our minds pattern our world and keep it tightly circumscribed, limited to the most physical, sensate experiences. Parents, other family members, and teachers are forever present in our minds and always will be, as long as we relate to the world as they taught us to. They are part of a larger worldview and live on within it as part of us, limiting our freedom and restricting our perceptions from expanding. Even after these people have died, we are in constant relationship to them in our minds; they are still there, patterning our experience of ourselves.

Our images of them and our images of ourselves are mixed with feelings and sensations. This is all part of the patterned responses we come to know as relationship. Not only is our worldview patterned, our relationships are also patterned through the veils of past experiences and learning. We relate to others through this veil.

We also see and experience our body through the veils of the conventional. Our body defines our location, but we do not always experience it in the same way. When you have experiences of yourself in various conditions, you feel your body in different ways. Furthermore, your emotional or spiritual states often show you that something is happening that does not correspond with your physical body, but you do not always see the implications of your experience. For example, you can have experiences of being expansive—sometimes you even feel that your body is growing larger. You look down and say, “I feel like I’m out here beyond the physical boundaries . . . it’s not my body exactly . . . what is it?” You are having the perception that there is some kind of sensitive field that can expand beyond your body, that has experiences that aren’t the same shape as your body. Yet you continue to feel and act as though this body were all of what and who you are—even though you are having experiences to the contrary.

So you continue to define yourself by how you appear at the most superficial level, rather than taking those glimmers from beyond very personally and very seriously, in the sense that they mean something and are telling you something. The question is, what?

The sensitive field of the human being, which is a wave of the ocean of consciousness, is conscious beyond our physical body. We are a medium of aware and vibrant sensitivity, which is impressionable and usually patterned by our previous experiences. When we awaken to our nature, our experience changes.

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