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Elevator to Nirvana: The Path of Paradox
by Gary Z McGee
“Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” ~Adyashanti
Never doubt the awesome power of your imagination. When it comes to transcendence, there’s more than one way to skin Schrödinger’s cat. When it comes to experiencing a heightened state of awareness, there’s more than one way to summon the Kundalini snake from the depths of the collective unconscious.
When it comes to tapping the Philosopher’s stone of Truth, there’s more than one way to get a red-pill fix despite being surrounded by blue-pill-popping deception-junkies. Between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’ there is a third thing: imagination, metamorphosis, a mighty bridge of transubstantiation. As Anthony de Mello said, “You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.”
So allow me to pull you into a story. Imagine you are Ernest Becker’s Cosmic Hero, a new flavor of hero courageously and imaginatively spiraling out, using Infinite Player tactics despite the finite play of the status quo. Imagine you are Nietzsche’s Overman (Übermensch), the one who constantly overcomes the illusion of the Self. Imagine this, and then imagine a mysterious elevator appearing out of nowhere in front of you (think: rabbit hole, swallowing the red pill, call to adventure). Now dare yourself to step into it.
Philosophers stone – selected views from the boat http://philosophers-stone.co.uk
Source: http://www.phoenixisrisen.co.uk/?p=9849
