Yet another idea of Jung’s – that, again, having experienced it, I really, really appreciate –also comes from the same book. “One never possesses a metaphysical belief but is possessed by it”, he says, with heavy emphasis.
How I got possessed by a metaphysical belief in the first place happened some years later, when – another defining moment! – the spiritual force of the latihan energy got into my head.
What, where and how this happened I have written about in detail elsewhere (in the book, ‘FourSight: Re-Envisioning Everything’). In short, the Subud experience of a far higher and greater consciousness showed me that everything, Everything, evolves according to a similar fourfold pattern of process.
The law of entropy we know about: but the law of evolution – the upward trend – we don’t. And it was this that I was given to see, one fine morning in the green hills of Vermont, due purely to the workings in me of the spiritual latihan, this divine Energy, found in Subud.
Later I realized that the fourfold pattern of process, as a traditional cosmology, runs right through plant, animal and human life, and also the old four elements. This, too, is described in FourSight.
If we could change our minds and, instead of seeing everything in material terms, begin to see things holistically (in other words spiritually as well as materially), then we would have the beginnings of a new and far more constructive paradigm.
Then the world we know, hovering today on the brink of disaster, might not only be brought back to safety but to a far more humane and ethically conscious paradigm.
As it is, I think we are in danger. All of us. Right now.
If we don’t alter our perceptions, and at the same time change ourselves inwardly, then I have little hope that human life – as we know it today – will survive much longer.
If, though, we can alter our thinking, and perceive things differently, holistically – according to this simple, ancient, fourfold, cosmological pattern of process – then I believe there is Hope.
So, for the sake of my children, and my ten grandchildren, no less than all other human beings alive in this world at this dangerous time, I pray that these ideas, which I was given in a vision (and have written up in detail in FourSight), be taken seriously.
Thank you, for reading this.
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