The Transcendental: The Church Project

The Lighthouse

March 27, 2024

The book of the way is like water that clears in the passing of time not with every re-reading but with every remembrance of things that stood out or left imprints in the mind of the reader either because he found it profound or confusing. It's like code that decodes itself, something that unfurls within the seeker's mind - a seed planted, left there for days and months till the gardener notices growth. I remember listening to this guy reading the book of the way and having an emotional reaction to this part where the master said: Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it.

Humanitarians share that vision of a better world, an improved world. And when I heard this, I was like: Does that mean humanitarians and community workers are just wasting their time investing it on the better world project? Is it a lost cause, is it something like this mirage that humanitarians have to rise above from to find this spiritual truth that the world is sacred and it can't be improved? This is a two-part reaction. At first, I remember there being a bit of dejection, kind of something that begs to differ and say that it can be done. And then came that sort of transcendental approach to questioning where you think about rising above or going beyond what's currently visible or seen to see the bigger picture and gain that transcendental knowledge.

This is a bit off tangent, but I was reminded of this post where this person said instead of saying you found the truth, say you found a truth, and I think that's a matter of absolutes where people think there's no such thing as an absolute truth, just truths, like versions or brands. But I'd go and say that there are truths, and you could definitely go and say you found a truth, as in you found the truth about something and that's a different truth from the truth about another thing. So when you say 'truths', that's like a collection of the truth about things and not as in there being two or more truths about something. And personally, I found transcendental knowledge to be a pool of spiritual truths. Transcendental information destroyed a lot of ingrained and existing - not truths but beliefs I held previously prior to initiation. And it's always a miraculous thing to me, it is a heavenly feeling everytime an embedded or existing knowledge gets destroyed by a transcendental truth. It's like finding God over and over again, finding the Source time and again. It's a liberating feeling. And once you get it, it's like a culmination, a congelation.

But I do get it, why it is suggested that we use 'a truth' instead of 'the truth'. It's something to do with intolerance and kind of getting people into this space where somebody could say: You don't need to argue 'cause you're both right. where the transcendental sits above the conflict or the chaos just waiting to be found, waiting for people's consciousness or spirits to rise and meet it and get that liberation.

Worlds are not terraformed or shaped by humanitarian or community work. But what I found from this growth in the ground, this unfurling, is that the world like man experiences a rebirth. Worlds get born out of old earth. Old earth or paradigm crumbles and dies and a new paradigm gets born in its death, and this is not man-made, it is something that happens in natural progression and rhythm, the process is one with nature - it's cyclical and you can't really mess with this - this is the core or the source, the beginning, and what holds everything in this divine balance.

The old dies and something new gets born and that's how the world gets its rebirth.

The key to this part in the book of the way, the key to the spiritual truth to be found in the verse is where the master said: The Master sees everything as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go on their way, and resides at the center of the circle.

The center of the circle is where humanitarians and community workers realize that there is a secret order in what appears to be a chaotic world. I was gonna say the 'challenge', but I'd just go for 'opportunity' or 'window' is for humanitarians to develop spirituality, to go within themselves and in the process release themselves from the bondage that keeps them from entering the center of the circle and experiencing the secret order.