Come to the edge
by Guillaume Apollinaire

Thy will be done of earth as it is in Heaven.

At a certain level of consciousness – the mythic level of consciousness – Heaven is still seen as somewhere that is beyond the physicality of the earth.  Heaven is not a place beyond the earth. It is an experience of deep interiority. Heaven  is the highest level of consciousness available to a human being within this time and space dimension. This is called Christ consciousness and it does not imply that in order to enter such a level of consciousness that you need to be a Christian.

It does mean that you are willing to practice being faithful to that Universal knowing that is within you and which wishes to express through you. When I use the word faith in this blog post or in any other article I am not writing about faith in a set of written words authorized by some outside religious hierarchy. The way in which I use the word faith here is faith in a process that is the process of the movement of Creation through you. This process is forever creating anew. This creative process is skewed to go ever higher. It knows creating because this is what it is and what it does. It doesn’t do this mechanically but holistically. It doesn’t learn creation through knowledge about  something but is the knowing of wholeness.

You are not apart from this knowing. You are in fact the knower within. This has been called the still small voice within. Most of your life you have been taught to trust in other people rather than trust the encounter with the still small voice within. The problem with the modern mind is that it is geared via cultural indoctrination to achieve instant results that can then be repeated. The cultivation of the knower within isn’t a time based phenomena. This knowing arises from the dimension of the timeless.  This is a dimension outside time and space.  While it is instantaneous your ability to receive that instantaneous transmission tends to be distorted by your ego desires. No one other than yourself can invite the knower within. It is a radical invitation because it invites you to claim your true power that is in alignment with Creation as that power designed you to be.   It means your being willing to go to the edge and fly.

This knowing within is radical in the sense that you begin to trust it more than any outside authority.  It is radical in that sense that it gives you an assurance and self confidence that is not dependant on outside circumstances.  it becomes central to the one wild and precious life that you are here to live.  The modern mind is a grasping mind.  It wants and is expected to be in a continual state of wanting.  This is a form of addiction.  Rather than being in alignment with Creation it is in polar opposition to Creation.  The result is that we as a collective destroy the planet because that satisfies the heart and gives joy in living is not acquired by getting more things.  It is revealed through living in the dimension of no thing and no time.

The knower within, the still small voice within, the silent witness within is not outside in the world but is within the deep interiority of who you are and is who you are.  It is the One who knows you by heart and knows your true heart’s desires.  It knows fulfilment through you and you know fulfilment through it.  In following the still small voice within you are following your bliss.  The greatest spiritual teaching that is paradoxical is the practice of some form of stillness.  This is the practice that is invited through meditation and prayer.  Prayer here means contemplative prayer and not prayer that is a list of demands.  This follows one of the greatest spiritual growth invitations ever given.

Be still and Know that I AM God.

The invitation to be the knower within goes against most everything you have been taught.  If you spend time during your day simply engaged with cultivating the still small voice within most people will ask your if you are OK or ask what is wrong or ask what it is you are doing.  The answer one might give is

I’m learning how to be.

To enter stillness and to cultivate the willingness to be available to the knower within runs counter to the energetic of this Western culture which is becoming the world culture.  However, this movement has never been part of mainstream culture and in all likelihood might never be.  The ability to come to the edge and fly is the real secret.  It is the secret of silent interiority that knows what is needed in each moment.  If you follow the culture of instant results or are impatient (as I am) then you are going to be challenged in developing this trust that this process demands.  This demand isn’t some form of punishment.  it is demanding rescues it opposes not only what is individual learning within you but the collective idea that the only way to advance anything in life is to do do do and do.  This attitude has now gotten us as a collective into deep do-do.

The knower within marries the two sides of the brain.  You open up that frequency of the brain that receives the knower and out of this knowing you are the action.  This is the experience that I refer to as Love in action.  This tends to be action that moves from a sense of calm.  The result is known not as a list of stepped actions but as a free flow of action within the moment.  This feels invigorating because there is no sense of resistance.  The will of Love is being done through matter.  Your will ,and the will of the stillness that knows how to create, are in full alignment.  The process is peaceful and fulfilling.  There is now a real sense of gratitude rather than a sense of achievement.

The Knower within is often represented by the dynamic of the Divine Feminine.  She knows in ways that the masculine knowledge does not know.  One is not better than the other.  Each is needed.  The knower within is the one who with a word can get what they came for because their power is not in words but in the Word.

There’s a lady who’s sure that all that glitters is gold and she’s buying a stairway to heaven.  She is following signs on the wall and sometimes words have two meanings.  Words always have two meanings.  One time she will learn that you cannot buy a stairway to Heaven because it is already who you are and that you could never pay anywhere enough for the view that you get from the top.  Does that not make you wonder?

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And she’s buying the stairway to heaven.

If you cross the gaps that are the various levels of consciousness then it won’t make you wonder anymore.  You will know and be that wonder.  If it is the real stairway to Heaven then you will come back down to earth to lead the rest of us.  That is the real grace of climbing a stairway to Heaven.