The ladder in Jacob’s dream connects what is called “heaven” with what is called “earth” and allows for the ascending and descending movement of what are called “angels”. What this story offers us is an image of an unfolding psychological or spiritual process, for this is what dreams concern themselves with, of the connection between the higher and lower levels of our mind.
This video takes the viewer on an exploration of the Mandelbrot Set as an illustration of spiritual processes and experiences. “The finite cannot comprehend it because it cannot contain the infinite; and it can comprehend it … because there are abstract ideas by means of which the existence of things can be seen, if not the nature of them.” Divine Providence 46
“All are predestined to heaven and none to hell” (Divine Providence 330). However, there are externals that need to be removed in order to uncover the states that belong to the Lord and the states that don’t. And the Word instructs us regarding the process, and the devastation that follows. It points out the cycle of ownership – of the repeating spiral of merit and guilt as the internal and external man combat against each other, each fighting to be the one in the rule… or so it feels.
We all inevitably have states that are challenging and although it may not feel like the Lord has completely left us, it certainly becomes difficult to reconcile what our hearts know of the Lord and what we are understanding in regards to what is in front of us. Sometimes finding the connection … feels insurmountable.
Spiritual freedom revolves around the concept of opposites and the ability to make a choice between good and evil. And it is the Word that offers us this ability
The nature of what existence is, isn’t something that we are born into or is obvious for us. Instead, it is something we have to learn. We have to learn how existence is a ‘monitor street’, and of the Word’s role in this.
“Creation is constant coming into being”. The implications of this law for our sense of self is that it is continually being re-created from moment to moment. We explore the means provided by the Lord to bring about this rebirth as we look at an exchange between Jesus and Nicodemus.
“And I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. Amos 4:10 … Stop for a moment. What can you smell? What feelings does it evoke? What thoughts does that lead to? So which came first? What you smelt, or what you felt or thought when you smelt it?
This video weaves Rumi’s “The Merchant and the Parrot” story into the well known Biblical tale found in Genesis Chapter 40, of Joseph interpreting the dreams of his prison companions, the butler and the baker. We come to see the universal principles of self and the Divine, and what must be given up as the relationship between the two unfolds.
Exploring the dance that is created between the fluctuations of the self that is based in what is lower, and the self that is based in what is higher, that is based in the Logos.
And of how the idea of ‘quantum potential” might be included in this conversation: “….any particular element of space may have a field that unfolds into the whole, and the whole folds and enfolds it to it” – David Bohm (physicist).
