From Cave to Castle

The simple answer to our question of whether there be a God or Goddess, or Mystery, or whatever label we’d like to apply is this:

We cannot see beyond what we cannot perceive.

We cannot imagine beyond that we cannot dream.

We cannot distinguish beyond what we cannot feel, touch, or taste.

So, we’ve learned to “fill the gaps” in all those unknowable things to make them less mysterious/threatening and more familiar to our own minds, so that they each have their conclusive endings. Then we credential certain groups of our community with titles like, “distinguished and reverend” to further bolster our lack of true faith in our own individual intuitiveness to produce their own understandings, which usually brings more reinforced release and comfort to each of us about those uncertainties. 

For always, there is a relief in each of us when a puzzle or problem is shared and more so, when it is answered categorically, rightly, or wrongly, by a “group” or someone we respect.

For that surely is the constant mystery within most, that many of us spend a considerable time pondering. That, that unnamed uncertainty who lies waiting to bring the most horrifying harm upon us and to this fearful mystery if we happen to live within the boundaries of the Christian world, we have personified “It” as him and even given “him” the name Gabriel.

Then we named him for what he was, the Ex good Angel had now become the dark fallen One, the Devil!

And for balance, we have Light and the construction around that to ensure that that dark horror itself has a superior – an Eternal Being ensconced somewhere in the heavens – God, the Goddess, or Mystery, or whatever label one would like to apply. The answer to those, as yet unknowable’s that lie waiting in the shadows of our unknowing until one of our distinguished community or one of our humble elders – through their investigations, or inherited wisdom share with us their understandings that brings clarity from out of the depths of the fearful dark.

Measured in Epochal terms, we are still cave-dwellers frightened even by the shadow of ourselves cast out of ourselves and thrown upon the walls of our cave and comfort.

Metaphorically, this is our last level of clearing and cleaning house! Ridding ourselves of the ancestral fears of cave-dwelling and truly stepping forward – rather than leaping, and picking up all those diamond-studded threads of our historical record, as we tearfully stripped ourselves naked once and for all, from the baggage and all the false ideologies and rituals that at the time we thought was the unvarnished truth while clambering aboard the rocket-ship of evolving, science-based factual knowledge that would take us all into the space-age.     

RTR