" I experience pain, therefore, I am. I exist". The endless quest for survival is the source of the ultimate fear; the fear of total annihilation. This is the underlying fear that is always in background of our life, and driving our major and minor life decisions. It is out of the drive to survive that the perceptual field that we experience as the mind--the drunken monkey-- is born. The mind is only a perception, not a fact. It's a hallucinatory experience, a collection of loosely woven, emotionally charged, past moments that are both real and imagined constantly impressing their magnetic field on the flow of our consciousness in the here and now.
Modern spirituality is about de-mythologizing your life. The myths that have guided our lives are old, out moded, and have no relationship to our fast paced, ever changing, infinitely expanding universe. The world of old was a two layer cake that represented life in a circumference of 150 miles--as far as you could walk.We need a new mythology for life, that allows us to expand into infinite creative freedom. This is what I am working on.
A Course In Freedom - The Drunken Monkey Speaks
