Hey Shane, how’s tricks? I’m pondering things passed and deciding to finally do something I’ve been thinking about for years, which is write to people I was close to in ’99 when I was tripping around America and Mexico and having magical spiritual adventures during my initial year of soul searching. Thing that I muse on, I suppose, is what it meant to other people and where they went with it and that’s what I’m asking them. Obviously, unlike others, I’ve seen you not too long ago and so I kind of know where you at – the interesting thing about that was, of course, how much our paths had been alike and I’m wondering how it will be for others (acknowledging, too, there were great differences).
Anyways, even having said that, I figured it would be wrong not to include you in the loop, given what an important part you played in my journey. And would be interesting to hear of what you’ve been up to these past two years – is it two years already! my God how the time flies! – and what new realisations you’ve had. My time has been a mixture, really – but right now we’re in a good phase, back at uni studying writing, and feeling like I’m in the right place – which, if you read what follows below, you’ll gather is somewhat important to me. ;-)
So, question is, what think you of the days back then and where you’ve been since? And, question probably more interesting, which you’re in prime position to answer: was there anything special or is it just me that thinks it’s special ‘cos it was special for me? I mean, you’ve seen thousands upon thousands of young excited seekers come through your world in the years since – all having their special times, as I was having mine – and I guess you’ll know whether it’s really just a case of a fairly typical young person’s experience and the world and life goes on same as it ever did: which I think is one of the great fallacies of a certain segment of the New Age, back when I was in it: you wake up, you suddenly experience all these other people waking up, and you come to the conclusion that the whole world is waking up and it’s the age of universal enlightenment and everything you come into contact with supports that. Excitement ensues, delusions follow, and the poor little seeker gets carried away. Not sure if this is a common idea of not but I think it’s got potential to be a true one. Basically it’s mistaking one’s own mandala of existence for everyone else’s and forgetting that the attract what you are law is really what’s creating this sudden experience of blossoming and not any great explosion of consciousness among the masses, who carry on much the same as ever.
PS The first person I wrote to was a yoga-teacher friend from Charlottesville I haven’t had contact with in a long time and so I sort of went off on one and wrote long and mad in an effort to explain everything about where I was coming from. I’m thinking I would definitely go insane if I tried to write the same sort of thing to everyone – so instead I’m just sticking it here in case you want to see where I’m coming from: it’s basically a re-cap of my life since ’99 and a musing on what it meant and where I went wrong.
Hope all’s groovy where you are!
Best wishes,
Rory
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