Transcript

So it’s about the liberation of the mind from the conclusions that the love of self and the love of the world have drawn from the appearance of the senses. Like you’ll see, whenever we engage in trying to control the process or look to rationalise things so that we don’t have to face what’s really arising within and those sorts of patterns of thought and what have you…. that’s really what we need to be liberated from. So truths like ‘the Lord is the only self, the only life’, that as a truth liberates us from the belief that we have life in ourselves, that we self generate our life.

So truths bring about liberation, but they have to be practiced. You can know that, but if it’s not something you’re really applying to what’s arising moment to moment in your work when you remember, then the knowledge kind of just sits there like, well, yeah, I know that. Like I’ve got that down. That’s fine. But more is required!

Everything in proprium will seek to diminish the need to work because working exposes it. And what are you dealing with? Well, proprium is a construct of many spiritual communities that have an investment in things staying the same. So whenever the Word is brought to bear on something within and that touches on our sense of selfhood, those spirits become agitated. And that’s what you might experience as anxiety or depression or a lot of sort of feeling state that you might not be able to put your finger on in terms of what the cause is. Like there’s nothing really happening that warrants this – but a lot is happening. A lot is happening below our conscious awareness. And it has to do with the reorganisation of spirits that we’re associated with because that is what forms the basis for our sense of self. And those are the hells we need to walk out of and we need truths in order to do that.

Now, there’s difficulty in that and there’s challenges in that for sure. And it’s not what we would normally call joy. But when we have an understanding of the process and what’s going on and why what’s going on has to happen the way that it does, then that brings a deep sense of …. would I call it joy? maybe, but certainly a sense of peace that the Lord has got it in hand. So we can have these really difficult states happening on a more external level, but we are held on a more interior level and we get to see that. We know that. We know that that is actually happening. We just have to remind ourselves of it. And in that reminding is a sense of the presence of the Lord. It’s like we look at the wonder of it, that the Word, the Text, so accurately describes the states that I’m experiencing. Like there’s a wonder in that, right? And that none of it can touch what is genuinely of the Lord within. The Lord’s not affected by it. He affects the changes that are needed so that we can come into the experience of that, which is heaven’s presence in earth. It’s the will of the Lord being done – as in heaven so upon the earth. And so the reason that there are those states where we kind of feel like that’s just not what’s happening is because the structures of the mind have to be transformed in order to hold that as a lived reality. And it’s possible. Otherwise, what’s the point? For it is actually possible – and that’s the wonder of and the miraculous nature of the Text to bring about that transformation.

Third Round posts are short audio clips taken from Round 3 comments in the online Logopraxis Life Group meetings. The aim is to maintain focus on understanding the Text’s application to the inner life while reinforcing key LP principles highlighted in the exchanges.