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These men have taken the time to truly and deeply ‘meet’ in spiritual friendship before making the attempt to bring together the content of their minds, traditions, and worldviews. From this grounding in Prior Unity, identified with the One Life, a deep synthesis naturally takes place and the result is a delightful dancing together of content and space, emptiness and form.
Spiritual traditions contain great jewels of wisdom, tumble polished to a rare beauty along the river beds of their lineages.
Informed and enriched by the traditions, but integrating and transcending them, they will ‘listen together’ to the waterfall of always already Spirit that is pouring from the eternal into each moment of time and space.
Radical contact with the Ground of Being is always available but the evolution of a civilization must be ripe to receive the lightning and transform itself into its next evolutionary potential. This requires integration, synthesis and embodiment.
In this book we follow the pre-modern traditional approach to spelling kosmos with a ‘k’, rather than a ‘c’. While the word spelled with a ‘c’ relates to the observable physical universe, when spelt with a ‘k’ it encompasses the entire realm of form, on all planes and realms, spiritual and material.
It is only detectable indirectly, owing to its gravitational effects upon visible matter. It provides the scaffolding, a dark backdrop of invisible structure that helps to frame anything that arises in its field. Although like dark matter it has mass, Integral as a system is virtually contentfree. The Trans-Himalayan teachings, and all spiritual traditions for that matter, Bruce explained, are therefore like galaxies. They are the content that arises in space.
Each tradition is a galaxy of light, dynamically accelerating in time through space, lighting up potentials for emergence, and orbiting a supermassive black hole of pure Reality transmission at its core.
This book holds two primary intentions. In service of the all-encompassing, ever-victorious and enthroned Absolute Reality, the primary intention behind this book is to contribute to the empowered revelation of the sacred Purpose of the Earth in the kosmos. This naturally calls forth the emergence of an awakened, kosmocentric culture and civilization of Reality on Earth.
A fully radically awake being has conscious awareness of the involutionary process of Absolute Reality into relative form twenty-four hours a day. In this sense, the practitioner has gained full access to the ever-present universal base of Infinite Wakefulness.
According to both Integral Theory and wisdom traditions such as Vedanta, the first three of these states (Gross, Subtle, and Causal) can be seen as basic variations on the human sleep cycle. In a twenty-four hour period we move through states of waking (Gross), to dreaming (Subtle), to deep sleep (Causal).
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Earth Is Eden by Jon Darrall-Rew, Dustin DiPerna, and Bruce Lyon presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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