the curing of paralysis

Take a look at Mark 2: 1-12. Read those 12 verses first.
Here is the Amplified version of the Bible I am using.

Of course, this is a story about Jesus, but I am going to view it for the moment as a parable.

Regard the house in these verses as the human body, your body. In the heart of the house resides Heartfelt Wisdom. At the roof of the house (the head) there is much consternation, even destruction.

The roof gives way and the paralysis of the head is lowered into the heart for healing. It has to allow itself to be lowered (humbled). It can get in no other way. The front door, the external entrance, is blocked. This is an internal matter.

Heartful Wisdom does not get upset, seems to regard this as a natural course of events. The open-hearted Wisdom says the exact right words to the head paralysis.

The closed minded suspicious aspect of ourselves, our resident cynic, mutters however: "This can't be happening! And anyway if it can, you used the wrong words, Wisdom! You should say it this way!"

The cynic cracks me up. What a clown. Won't do anything to help and when help comes, says the help should have been administered this way, not that way! What a bozo, trying to be so correct and proper while playing the utter fool.

In this story/parable, Heartfelt Wisdom says to the cynic, "Okay, I'll do it that way too." And does. No more is heard from the cynic.

The sick, confused, and  paralyzed head is released from all its junk, takes up its bed of paralysis (provides no room for it anymore), and goes out the front door, obeying Heartfelt Wisdom's instructions:"Be going on home."

I love it!

enthusiasm

enthusiasm : en-thus-iasm : en-theos-iasm : to be filled with the energies of the theos, of our source, of the wellspring

shifting to overdrive

The reading  of Ewert Cousins' "Global Spirituality" turned my awareness to the four senses of understanding that can and do occur when reading the writings and teachings of any sacred path. There is the literal sense, in which one takes the words at face value and does not attempt to go to deeper meaning. The eye scans a particular writing and it says what it says and that's that. "Don't bother my mind with further comprehension." Beyond that is the moral meaning, in which one takes the words to heart and attempts to live by them. Third is opening to the understanding of the writings as parable or allegory, as pointing to a deeper and more cosmic story. Fourth is the anagogic or transcendental experiencing of the words and writings as union with the Divine, with our Source.

For example, "Love your neighbor as yourself." The literalist says yeah, yeah, sure, of course and moves on, having successfully tefloned the words. The moralist looks to apply the words in the human interactions of daily life. The visionary senses, sees that all of life, human and nonhuman, physical and beyond, is neighbor, that all is interconnection and interconnecting, and love extends within and beyond all realms. The mystic drops away all distinction, all separation: the words transport beyond the beyond.

The scriptures of the world are called sacred because they have the power to transport, transform. But they won't do so unless one shifts gears from first, through second, into third, and then to overdrive.

transport

Vehicle -- transport device.   Jacob had his ladder of angels, Elijah had his chariot, Ezekiel his revolving wheels, Buddha his body of bliss, Muhammad his night journey to heaven, Jesus his resurrection body. We trundle around in the physical. This meat will drop back to the ground; and then we soar. No need to wait around. We develop our transport vehicle now. This is done in the realm called spiritual. We put our awareness there. We go wherever our awareness goes. Beyond the body, beyond the horizontal world, we are caught up in our chariot of fire and light, in the bliss body. Our eyes see the Eye that sees us. Mutual recognition. Transport. Happiness. Strength. Awe.