Learning to feel, and following your bliss

The Spirit, again, is freedom itself. It has neither bondage nor care. And we can only return to the Spirit ...by being the Spirit. And there is only one way to do that- to lose all sense of responsibility, of security, and of need. These are the mind's inventions. It is our task to 'have no thought of the morrow", for the heart lives only for the joy of the day.

Joseph Campbell's austere axiom to "Follow your bliss", is the quintessence of the message of this chapter. And what is bliss ...but ignorance. Ignorance is bliss.

To not-know, but to feel, this is how we return to Paradise. When it doesn't feel right- don't do it, that is the only rule of the heart; as Christ stated in the Gospel of Thomas, when asked by one of the disciples what guideline they should follow in order to find the Kingdom of Spirit, he said simply "...do not do what you hate.". This is a lesson far divorced from the dogma of the church- so thickly infused with confusion- which claims we must deny ourselves, living on pity, guilt, and self-sacrifice, in order to lead better lives. Only the confused and discursive mind can talk us into doing that which degrades the Spirit, and leads it away from our true nature. Only true sensitivity can find, and hold, and belong to the true pulse of life which flows in and through everything, and which we can all become masters of, if only we would, as the wisened Ben Kenobi counseled young Luke, "Feel the Force."^[17]

We must 'feel' the force, for it cannot be known by thought. The force is Life- the 'life-force', the supersonic, subvisual, and absolutely unmoving frequency of the spirit in the flesh- the frequency which cannot be 'known', but only felt. To feel is to live by the sense of the Spirit, to think is to close the eyes of the heart.

Joel Goldsmith concurs, "To receive the word of God, or spiritual sense, we need to feel rather than reason." (The Infinite Way, p29)

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These excerpts on following the heart and aimless wandering are taken from unpublished chapters of THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas