 Dear Reader
The other day we were remembering those old Cowboy and Indian films we used to watch when we were kids, where the Indians always used to say, ‘White man - he speak with forked tongue.’
Yes, now there’s a thought....because how can we do anything else, when our whole culture, our whole upbringing, teaches us to ignore our intuition, and to bury the inner sense of connectedness we are born with, and to worship instead the intellect which, while it can judge, and criticize, and speculate, and compete, and calculate, and believe, and measure, and manoeuvre, and fabricate, and all those other (sometimes) ever so handy things, can never, ever ‘know’ a single thing, let alone the truth!
We tell our children, ‘You should always tell the truth’, but do we really realise what that means? How can anyone tell the truth, when they don’t ‘know’ what it is? Can we really say we know what motivates us, where our thoughts come from, or what forces are really at work in any given situation? And how can we really tell the truth when our whole perception rests on an un-truth: that we are separate from each other and from the rest of life?
The best we can tell is, well, the best we can tell, and no more! And even to develop that level of honesty takes the work and practice of a lifetime! We can’t do more unless and until we have a new way of knowing, and a new way of being.
Learning to understand and accept our so-called ‘negative’ and ‘painful’ emotions - which we often prefer to bury below the level of conscious awareness - can be very valuable in our quest to speak the truth, and we think you’ll find ‘Happiness’ and ‘Emotional Alchemy’ and ‘Your Dark Side’ helpful with that.
Books like ‘Trusting Your Intuition’ and ‘Divine Intuition’, can also be useful in moving towards making the intellect the servant, rather than the master in our inner world. However - even though our intuition may be firing on all cylinders - as long as our perceptions are still clogged with the attachments, fears and conditioning of the ego-mind there will still be a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
Which is why, in the long run, the most helpful route to truth may be the radical transformation of consciousness described in books like The Power of Now, The Open Secret, and ‘As it Is’. If we can move beyond the conditioned mind altogether, then at last, perhaps, our ‘eye will be single’ and the light in us will be able to shine through.
With much love from all of us,
Geoff, Ann, Jackie, Derek, Martyn, Jackie M, Sue,Samantha, Regina, Jon, Sam, Bertel, Sandra, Pat, Karena, Louisa, Mary, Emma, Em and Belinda.
Text & photographs © Cygnus Books 24-Mar-2001
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