What moves me most in this episode is that pinpoint moment in Sagehood when Stace recognizes the soul-I and the human emotive body not as separate entities, but as fundamentally one. It’s a moment of enlightenment not in the transcendent sense, but in the deeply personal -where the emotional body is no longer something to transcend, but the very ground of our being. We are, at essence, emoto-soulful beings -And that realization is nothing short of astonishing. Thank you!
Thanks for that, Janae! I agree that is a powerful distinction that completely rebases enlightenment in a personal way, the experience of which is quite disorienting and befuddling to the mind, perhaps because it's new....
Thank you, Josef -yes, exactly. What strikes me is how I had, in some way, taken for granted the idea that we are emotional beings first -as if, once illuminated, it feels obvious. But only now am I beginning to truly feel the weight of just how astonishing that realization is.
I know what you mean. After 15 years of active EBE, and more than that passive, it still happens to me, too. The embodiment of the principles seem to have an infinite depth, especially when we're talking about hood integration stuff, but even something as simple as "being afraid to say something is usually a good reason to say it." The mind says, "Oh yeah, I knew that," but the soul explores these ideas layer after layer...
What moves me most in this episode is that pinpoint moment in Sagehood when Stace recognizes the soul-I and the human emotive body not as separate entities, but as fundamentally one. It’s a moment of enlightenment not in the transcendent sense, but in the deeply personal -where the emotional body is no longer something to transcend, but the very ground of our being. We are, at essence, emoto-soulful beings -And that realization is nothing short of astonishing. Thank you!
Thanks for that, Janae! I agree that is a powerful distinction that completely rebases enlightenment in a personal way, the experience of which is quite disorienting and befuddling to the mind, perhaps because it's new....
Thank you, Josef -yes, exactly. What strikes me is how I had, in some way, taken for granted the idea that we are emotional beings first -as if, once illuminated, it feels obvious. But only now am I beginning to truly feel the weight of just how astonishing that realization is.
I know what you mean. After 15 years of active EBE, and more than that passive, it still happens to me, too. The embodiment of the principles seem to have an infinite depth, especially when we're talking about hood integration stuff, but even something as simple as "being afraid to say something is usually a good reason to say it." The mind says, "Oh yeah, I knew that," but the soul explores these ideas layer after layer...