Here is something to help me, and you too I hope, grow in mutual esteem in 2013 (actually, it HAS to include you, as I cannot grow in esteem mutually on my own). I read it a while back and it keeps coming back to me, demanding attention. I think this must mean that it is significant:
BRIDGE BUILDING
Somewhere on our journey we stop trying to explain reality and instead to deeply experience it. This puts us in touch with feelings that we would change our lives for, such as desire, compassion, anger, friendship, loyalty, and love. Such feelings come out of the great unconscious, but they are still largely hidden and confused, and often scary.
We can't risk invading this unconscious land until we've developed a clear sense of identity, an appropriate sense of our own and others' boundaries, and some sense of order and control. This is the task of the first half of life.
Like a bridge across the river between the unconscious and the conscious, our soul mediates and carries the images from one realm to the other. The soul also mediates between the body and the spirit, and builds a bridge to the other side so the conscious and the unconscious can walk back and forth. This is soul work. Opening up this bridge is the task of the second half of life. (On the Threshold of Transformation, Day 130, p. 136)
Yes – this is a good message to start growing in mutual esteem in 2013… I never finished reading “Falling Upwards”, by the way – I felt it was too late to be bothered with the theory ... Anyway. It’s all very nice saying “we can’t risk invading this land until we developed a clear sense of identity etc”, but that sounds to be about a tidy Good Pupil – the first of the class who does all his homework in time, never repeats a year and develops the sense of identity and control as naturally as a tree grows, and exactly in due time. What about the rest of the world -- all those dunces who screwed up this part of the job and, far from taking any kind of risks to invade the unconscious, are invaded by the said unconscious without declaration of war? Does Rohr provide us with emergency instructions – which rope to pull, what button to press? That’d be very helpful indeed…
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