| Subject: An exploration of the Waking Down worldview |
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Cassandra
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Date Posted: 19:00:27 08/15/02 Thu
Everything is a continuum. The continuum extends all the way from the most esoteric spiritual realms to the rotting dung of the earth. If we exclude any part of this continuum from our experience, we are not fully alive, not fully here, not whole. The aspects of the continuum that we have most notably resisted are the painful and difficult shadow areas of our being. Therefore the thrust of the WD practice is to fully experience this painful aspect of the continuum. This seems to be done unto exhaustion or breakthrough, whichever occurs first (smile).
As a result of this practice and during the execution of it, the continuum appears to be split into "down" areas as opposed to "up" areas, embodiment vs. disembodiment, pain vs. pleasure. The impulse carried in the transmission of this work is to simply go down and experience everything. It is never explicitly stated that it is the case that only down work is acceptable, but it is implicit in the way this work is presented and unfolds.
As far as I know it is also never explicitly stated that the end result of this down work is the transformation of the painful areas of the continuum and a breakthrough into a more expansive experience of all that is. However that seems to be my experience. There comes a time when the down work exhausts itself, when it is no longer the dominant impulse of one's being. Perhaps it is simply a recognition that the genesis of the pain and difficulty found in the depths of the continuuim is our identification of ourselves as ONLY the limitations we find there. An opening up of identification takes place that changes everything. And then, everything being changed, the universe itself opens up and what once was painful and difficult no longer holds us in it's thrall. It may still be there and may show up in our lives, but when there is no resistence to it (is this ever totally possible?) one moves through it to the spaciousness which is now ever present.
At this point one's focus changes and the all consuming down work becomes something of an anachronism. The whole thrust and impulse of Being is no longer limited to that which might be called "down". Anything is now possible.
I realize that this may sound somewhat heretical to WD ears and hearts. The soul of this work is in going down and experiencing the depths fully. This is still my heart's work as long as those depths remain unexperienced. There is no dissociation here. However, it seems that at long last there is something more on the horizon than just this. And painfully, it also seems that in order to explore this something more, I am impelled to move on to other ways of exploration - other paths, other voices call.
It has been extraordinary being here with all of you and I don't feel as though I am taking my leave of all that has sustained me here for so long. I am just moving along to the next thing, the next impulse that Being presents. My heart remains.
Lovingly, Cassandra
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