Lazarus Rising

Renewal

The transformation that a man undergoes … in his perceptions of the self … is best illustrated by … the Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. Its an event that demonstrates … true living … rather than looking upon a reflection of life. Our reflections come and go …. and the habituation we create … in relying on the reflection … as sufficient representation of the dynamic nature of life … are the ropes that bind us … to the adoption of the mere reflection … as life. In its place … we substitute the soul … a word that may include the life force … and physical condition … that is surprisingly like the experience of the human content … expressed as child.

The natural and automated processes of the mind and heart … produces an experience of the leviathan … someone bigger than life … who views the human content as a … novice … a mere amateur to creation's processes. Even when the Levi hands over the processes … to the human content to manage … it is merely greeted with consternation and shock. For human understanding … bound to its birth … and the mother relation … clings to the constant claim … that it doesn't know.

Hence in the experience of life … the human is positioned as a child … an adolescent … or teen … who relates to the Levi … and draws from him … in a sub-conscious manner … his participation in the living activity. He does that … by the celt or mental imagery … that the life process … produces for him. The human creates an attitude about it … and defines that as a guide in life … the incredible love of progeny … and his special place in it. But does he also view his experiences as a preamble … a rehearsal … for him to take charge some day? The question would indeed … be a new one to the man. Nobody told me that!

Then the day arrives … when the man is broken away from the celt images … that has been spoonfeeding him all along. He's put in a position … of creating some initiatives for his recovery … and self realization of the issues. And right there … we record a list of responses … that explains his mere shock at the event. This would include … blaming his upbringing … Catholic influences … the fact that nobody believed him … and so forth. But will he eventually come around … to view himself … as tasked with taking responsibility for himself? Isn't that what we always said we wanted?

In rising to the occasion … we make contact with the child and teen experiences … a little dazed … and suggestive of the preposterous. The first thing it does … is to persuade us that we don't know … and we obviously can't. What? … take on the entire world of social natures … and cultivate the true experience … in ourselves … in defiance of the simple imperatives to survive? But where a man … has already gone through a denial … in his spoonfeeding attitudes … he is no doubt … encouraged to think .. he can't do worse … than the guides he has been receiving.

At WC … we have been witnessing … the persistent expression of … destroying that part of us … which no longer works … and the calls have been brave and determined. In taking to that … a person can only say … that they ought to … also show themselves capable of … reconstruction and reconsolidation of their living perceptions. That takes a lot of heart … faith … and the cultivation of a new life perception … under the sun. We do get a lot of help … doing just that.

The teen experience … was shaped in a light … that is as much sun … as it was the stars .. the mind and heart. We recall the experience as a bizarre … combination of possibilities … of work and achievement … and the curious ambitions of creation. It now forms … the stage … where the semblance of the man stands … to raise his human dignity. Long a beneficiary of the society's helping hand … and offering his devotion to the almighty … the man is henceforth … persuaded to enter the halls … of Valhalla … to take his place … in the company … of the giants … who created the universe … the earth … and birthed him … into manifestation. Yikes and double yikes! Will I still be allowed my favorite … Mars bar?

The man at this point is … inevitably … the whiny … moaning … quitter … who sees himself simply … as the product … of years of being put down. It was undertaken by a general attitude … that thrived on the celt images from within … that had raised themselves to supernatural proportions … while revealing himself … the man … as the pathetic fool of creation. A person who cannot do a single thing … without sucking up to the forces that be. To suggest that … he is the … gem of life … the co-creator … the one that life depends on … in its forward journey … may be a little much. But its true!

There's no doubt that he needs a lot of motivation to succeed … but that inspiration to motivate … his efforts must start from himself. Such inspiration … may be born from the denial of the fires of attachment within … or … from a vision of what is possible … as human achievement … and he has to find that in himself. The knowledge comes from all around him. Some men … groping a bunch of women … at the bus station … provides useful insight … into the nature of the passions … that appears to rely on a memory … of total nudity … like nymphs … living among the flowers and bees.

It paves the way for the man … to view an entire world of living experiences … as that which he is … as yet unrealized … in his expression … and communication of his own individual identity. Its supported by the man's thoughts … writings … journal of record … that adds to his own wakening to the issues. And in representing ourselves … in the physical relations … to another in the world … we communicate with the joint understanding of who we are. It affirms our relationship … and how … we have come to build the world together.