Multitasking anchors


Distractions from worship

I want to talk about something I touched on briefly yesterday.

I said that I didn't think you should be worshipping and multitasking.

My biggest issue with Pilgrims (Story People) is that their path starts passively. The Book is the Way. They wait for the wisdom and experience and ethics to be poured into their minds so they can think the Right Thoughts and perform the Right Action. Many never move beyond this passivity. The ones who do are worth talking to, the others just keep reciting the same dogma and doctrine.

For a Sojourner, their path IS experience ("Have you ever been experienced?"). It's about the Journey, that movement along the way that can't be predicted. It's juicy, it's messy, it's mind blowing and supremely passionate. It's ecstatic in a way that passivity never will approach. It's SUPPOSED to drag you out of your comfort zone and your expectations and your perceptions and understandings.

Your mind should be bent and turned inside out. It's the jazz. You can't walk between the worlds if you have both feet and nine fingers firmly anchored in one.

Or if you are Twittering when you "worship."

It's not about rational thought, any more than sex is. Or climbing a rock face. Or doing a bungee jump. Rational thought can help you get there, but it still comes down to you stepping into the chasm.

It's the thing that drop kicks your awareness into another reality.

Now I am not going to discuss the nature of deity and godmasks here. But I will say that what we call gods are aspects of a much greater reality, one that can only be dimly perceived through our senses.

It's the Journey.

Posted: Tue - March 30, 2010 at 01:13 PM
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