12 Years Ago

Darin Stevenson updated his status.

Oct 27, 2013 4:16:18 am

It it is as if within each person and people… there is a sacred pool; and the pool is a vault in which a vast intelligence, unthinkably ancient and childlike… dwells and dreams… sacred… and miraculous. But within most of us, the pool is locked away in an isolated place. In many, it has never had even a single visitor, and thus, it has only been moved into living reflection in dreams. Or rare moments of reverie or crisis. Now, there are various ways to ‘liberate’ the pool and fertilize its potential so that it awakens and emerges into development and expression. This is what is supposed to happen in the gulf between adolescence and adulthood, but for most it never does. The process is cruelly inhibited and distorted by our experiences in culture and the stories about humans and nature, identity and value we are immersed in. We do not even have language about these matters in English. None. We cannot speak of it because there is no language, and the language we have… distorts everything. In many children the pool is floridly active and present. In most adults it has long been imprisoned. We hope for love, because love brings a ‘distant’ touch to the pools surface, and some of its (relatively minor) effects become apparent within us; we may feel secure, hopeful, joyful, comforted, elated, or even ecstatic. These are the results of modest activation of the pool’s nature and intelligence. Nature can ignite the pool’s powers and intelligence, but so, too, can one who knows this story and the way to speak to the pool. Anyone who learns this way, can, with permission, travel to the secret place and set a special flower there, or gently touch the water… reactivating, awakening, and recognizing the unthinkably ancient intelligence and wonder within us all. This is not a matter for science or religion. It is a matter for living human beings. When this is lost, we are lost. When it is recovered… we are recovered to our world, intelligence, relation and dreaming. To ourselves and each other. To a future that is, again, filled with the promise and wonder of our nature and potential. Touch the little shining pool, the secret hidden pool… …and it will -=move the world=- with its reflections.

A pool… within… the people…