THE SEEKER'S HANDBOOK : THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SPIRITUAL PATHFINDING
PREAMBLE
Into the Labyrinth Like you, I am a seeker. My quest began with dreams in early childhood, followed in my teens by some disturbing inner experiences that were inexplicable in the context of what I or anyone around me knew at the time. Quite soon, I was led to worldwide travels and other, purely spontaneous, mystical experiences, followed up by years of esoteric studies and various disciplines of self-work. It is a quest that still continues, a journey I have come to see as defined by no ultimate goal, but rather by the shifting horizons-sometimes close, sometimes distant-that appear and dissolve with every step along the way.
My analogy for the seeker's quest is the labyrinth, the maze of winding paths that intersect at unpredictable places. At each crossing of paths there is room for pause and contemplation, but the figure of the labyrinth is all movement, all change and exploration. The labyrinth has no single, fixed center-rather, a kind of magnetic center that shifts as the journey shifts Mysteriously and often elusively, each winding path leads toward the heart of the design, a movable center located wherever the seeker is exploring at any moment. At each crossing within the maze there is a kind of mandala, a point to rest the gaze and take bearings. But like the looking glass in Alice's adventure, each mandala is merely a membrane, and in going through it, the seeker plunges on again along the winding track of the labyrinth.
Like so many others, I set out into the labyrinth looking for the eternal principles, the time-tried formulations of ultimate truth. I did find them because they do exist. They are like pictures and hieroglyphs carved at certain turnings on the walls of the winding passageways. But I discovered that they cannot be taken as goals, as final end points of questioning.
They are helpful markings encountered again and again at different turn ings along the way. Because they are age-old and eternally recurrent,..… (más)
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THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SPIRITUAL PATHFINDING
PREAMBLE
Into the Labyrinth
Like you, I am a seeker. My quest began with dreams in early childhood,
followed in my teens by some disturbing inner experiences
that were inexplicable in the context of what I or anyone around me knew
at the time. Quite soon, I was led to worldwide travels and other, purely
spontaneous, mystical experiences, followed up by years of esoteric
studies and various disciplines of self-work. It is a quest that still continues,
a journey I have come to see as defined by no ultimate goal, but rather
by the shifting horizons-sometimes close, sometimes distant-that appear
and dissolve with every step along the way.
My analogy for the seeker's quest is the labyrinth, the maze of winding
paths that intersect at unpredictable places. At each crossing of paths there
is room for pause and contemplation, but the figure of the labyrinth is all
movement, all change and exploration. The labyrinth has no single, fixed
center-rather, a kind of magnetic center that shifts as the journey shifts
Mysteriously and often elusively, each winding path leads toward the
heart of the design, a movable center located wherever the seeker is
exploring at any moment. At each crossing within the maze there is a kind
of mandala, a point to rest the gaze and take bearings. But like the looking
glass in Alice's adventure, each mandala is merely a membrane, and in
going through it, the seeker plunges on again along the winding track of
the labyrinth.
Like so many others, I set out into the labyrinth looking for the eternal
principles, the time-tried formulations of ultimate truth. I did find them
because they do exist. They are like pictures and hieroglyphs carved at
certain turnings on the walls of the winding passageways. But I
discovered that they cannot be taken as goals, as final end points of
questioning.
They are helpful markings encountered again and again at different turn
ings along the way. Because they are age-old and eternally recurrent,..… (más)