What you’re looking for is what is looking
‘The human mind is the consummate and undisputed world champion of division, duality and separation’. Pathik Strand
As the tragedy of international events continues to show, the world’s madness will continue as long as we define ourselves as separate entities, as egos, belonging to a particular race, religion, nation, family, political or social group, or we think of ourselves in terms of career, accomplishments, personal talents or similar.
What we are, at the most fundamental level, has nothing to do with any of these things, writes Pathik Strand in his visionary work Flowering into Awareness: A spiritual manifesto for the 21st century (O-Books, UK £11.99 / US $18.95, January 2022): ‘Our true nature is that of pure, luminous, limitless, impersonal universal consciousness.’
Understanding this has the potential to change one’s life in profound and unexpected ways, and to transform life on Earth for the better, says Strand, a Norwegian but resident in the UK; the full flowering of our potential, in fact our ultimate destiny, depends precisely on the dawning of this realisation.
Enlightenment cannot be achieved by the person, the individual, the separate entity. It can flower only when the seeker, the meditator, the ego (the ‘makeshift identity’), realises that a strictly personal identity is a…
