One of the most perplexing mysteries of our current state of perception is how we can live in a world so alive with possibilities, so deeply relational and connected, so absolutely NOT fixed but walk around with a perception the world is fixed, solid, stable and unchanging.
Jesus invited people to realize there was a wider envelop of existence available to them, a bigger reality, a hidden wholeness where they could live and move and have their being. When we grasp this fundamental shift, a shift in our identity occurs. In this world of possibilities and potentialities (you will do even greater things than I, said Jesus) another shift occurs as well.
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Awareness, awakeness and day dreaming.
So bone fishing was my entry’ into awareness and waking up. How about you? You might be
a follower of Jesus, bible reading maniac, bible quoting, memorizing machine. You might be a sermon, book and seminar junkie. But none of those imply awakeness. My life is an example. And the whole mystic and spirituality tradition of the church proves it.
My life in the last 6 years of this journey has had some of the most incredible spiritual depth and growth I have ever experienced. Much of it due to waking up, some of it due to great pain, some of it due to engaging new patterns and practices that have helped me come to grips with how our lives are storied.
All of us live in a constructed reality; personally and socially constructed. This has been and remains the most profound and powerful insight that waking up has brought. What do I mean?
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