God's voice, and inner feeling: no mind, know God

To come to this point of cerebral detachment, and holistic attachment, is to break the chains which hold us to the ground, and to live from our own completeness, rather than from a partial centre or periphery.

This is the way to rapture- the way the mind eases into wise ignorance, and the heart opens up ecstatically its own living, infinite miracle of being.

In Neale Donald Walsch's book Conversations with God, even God proclaims the invalidity of the mind, as the pilot of our floundering ship. Says God, "...I suggest that it is your judgements which keep you from joy, and your expectations which make you unhappy."(p108)

That is, when we 'judge' life, we pass our own conditions of right and wrong onto an event which we have already admitted to not understanding- so in what position are we to judge it? When we live with expectations we exist with blinders on, limiting our vision to the reality which we have chosen to see for ourselves, thus excluding the 'vastness' of life from ever exposing itself to us. This makes us live pitiful, unworthy, shrinking lives.

As Henry Miller states in his aggressively rhapsodical Hamlet Letters, "Man was born not to create a pattern but to fulfill himself. In fulfillment the memory is lost, the image wiped out..."(p107).

We see that the fullness of life will not come to us if we put ourselves in boxes, and then expect to freedom and joy within those boxes. We fulfill ourselves by being ourselves, that is all. And yet to be ourselves is the hardest thing to be, because we have not yet been such. And that is because we have let the mind tell us who we are, and we have believed it, instead of simply 'being' who we are, without trying to fit into a pattern, role, career, interpretation, or persona.

A paraphrase from Maitreya Ishwara runs, "Your intuition is God's voice within you. Do what feels right to you. Feel the energy, follow the energy within you. Let it, and it alone guide you, and it will lead you through life and back to yourself. Get rid of the mind. ...Latihan means allowing the energy of the moment to move you, it is a sufi technique."

And Colin Wilson paraphrases Kierkegaard, stating: "Put me in a System and you negate me- I am not just a mathematical symbol- I am."(The Outsider, p20). Kierkegaard was saying that to limit the self to a pattern, or equation, is to destroy the fundamental nature of the Self, which is to be infinite and free.

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These excerpts on following the heart and aimless wandering are taken from unpublished chapters of

THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas