The Automobile verses the Boat
Imagine this, a man owns an auto and over the years he learns how to be a safe and courteous driver. Learning all the driving laws and what to do and what not to do. He becomes very comfortable and a relaxed driver. Recalling, he could remember how nervous he was when first starting to drive. How he worked his way through all those unnecessary concerns that had flooded his mind. He now made no effort at driving and did not give it a second thought.
One day, He met a man at one of his social clubs who owned a boat. Noticing, a boat had completely different rules to operate. It would be absurd for him to think the rules/laws of driving his auto applied to driving a boat. Sure, there maybe a few laws that were the same, but he would have to start completely all over and learn boat rules.
Discovering Something Else!
Similary, this brings us to the title of this piece, “Discovering Something Else!” When we decide to investigate this subject, we instantly go to what we already know. This something else, has none of the limits of the life we presently live. Therefore we make a huge mistake in bringing those rules into our inquiry. We are sure, falsely sure, we are so intelligent that we already have all the answers. Spending years acquiring knowledge, we approach this subject with that same mind.
Let’s put it this way, one must toss out everything one knows to come to a new understanding to be with this “something else.” None of those old rules/laws apply. This means I become empty and now there is empty space for this new view to come to me. We all have long sensed that there must be more and there is.
Vernon gave a talk on 4-13-1979 AM, where he speaks of this something else, “Be in awe at something you can’t define or figuare out and yet you sense of the possibility to have it. Words can’t describe it.
How deep in the weeds are you in the fake solidness of what society tells you what life is all about? Great question to embrance!
True, Steve. In order for one’s intuitional spirit to be invited to become the major guide for that individual, that individual must first demonstrate their genuine commitment to “something else” by at first admitting that their present accumulation of lower knowledge has not yet produced lasting results in the pursuit of permanent peace contentment and fulfilment. This admission is an invitation for “something else,” something that is higher than intellectual knowledge, to find that for this individual intellectual knowledge has reached its limit, and that this individual now seeks “something else,” something not yet known, something higher. For example, if an individual presently somehow arrogantly believes that they seemingly have already seen all there is to see and understand, and that thus there couldn’t possibly be anything more to experience, then that state of arrogance would logically seemingly limit the experience of anything new for that individual. Luckily for us, what we actually are could not possibly be, the source of any limiting state of arrogance or conceit. The source of arrogance or conceit is a false sense of self that impersonates us, and if that false sense of self is somehow apparently validated, it then seems to be the only illusory impediment to our gaining access to a new higher perspective from our own benevolent divine spirit. One only needs to realize that for us access to a higher source of new wisdom comes simply by seeing that nothing, not a false sense of self with its deceptive state of arrogance, not the seeming limitations of lower knowledge, or not even a present temporary lack of new higher knowing, can ever ultimately separate us from what we know we actually are, an eternal higher nature with an ever benevolent influence.