High Druidic Knowledge
Wishing to extend things learned with my Anam Cara (see Mentorship page), I invite you to enter the path of Unknowing and to explore it with the Longing Look. This is a practice path neither Buddhist nor Christian, but learning from both. It is an Order in the sense of the re-ordering of perception according to the green masculine lineage - in service to the Feminine - of the Venerable Columba (Colmcille) of Iona, wonderworker, sometimes referred to as 'the last Irish Druid'.
Longing itself is a bridge
The name the Order of Longing Look comes directly from a night-time vision I received as a Trappist monk and it seemed to clearly connect me to the spiritual line of Colmcille. It is said that the Druids trained for 21 years, the same period of time I spent in the monastery. High Druidic Knowledge is founded on (the rock of) self-knowledge.
Looking & Longing
• Longing is understood as the quickening of Love in the heart, igniting an inner fire. It is kindled in as many different ways as there are people. Without a measure of surrender, we will remain outsiders to the experience of it, because we always look upon what we feel within.
• Looking is the look within to find this fire but also a form Spiritual Sight, in a way the blindness of "overlooking" the world, while still working with it.
• The Order of the Longing Look awakens and extends Longing and the practice of Looking through lineage. The Right View practiced by priests of the Order is thinking of others in a wholly unconditional way.
Priests simply aid others in the discovery of their own longing and power.
Spiritual Sight
When people begin to wake up to the unreality of existence, they often begin to focus on the fact that life is an illusion, which is not the thing we want to be focusing on.
That's because if it's true that "as you see them, so you will see yourself", and it is true, then to go through life seeing people and the world as an illusion, we will eventually think of ourselves in our own unconscious mind as an illusion. We'll feel empty and meaningless, which will leave us depressed.
Glencolumbkille
Our unconscious mind will translate whatever we think about others to be a message about us. That's because even though we're not aware of it, our unconscious mind knows everything, including the fact that there's just one of us that thinks it's here. Everything we think about others is really a message from me, to me, about me. That's how our unconscious mind thinks of it.
Instead of limiting others to that tiny speck of time and space, we overlook the body and think of them as being unlimited. If we do that, it will take us away from the focus of being an illusion and result in a highly positive outcome. It works, and it saves lifetimes of effort.
Looking
If we look on others as being all of it, nothing less than the One, then that's how we'll eventually come to experience ourselves. The key is thinking of each one as being all of it.
The chalice: symbol of oneness
If we do that we'll be doing something that very few people in history have ever done, and it will hasten our enlightenment. Our unconscious will understand that if they are perfect oneness, then I must also be perfect oneness. That brings us to what spiritual sight really is.
The ego loves differences. How can you have judgment without differences? How can you have war and murder and violence without differences? So the ego wants us to think that all this separation we're seeing is true. Our belief in it is indeed what makes it real That's what gives it its power. That's what gives it power over us.
The ego craves contrasts and cons you into believing in others in the world, but the Spirit sees same-ness. Spirit will contrast its thought system with the thought system of the ego. That is the proper use of contrast, because one is true and the other is not.
Longing
In our natural state we one with the Source, for want of a better word, and it's not arrogance to think that. It's arrogance to think that somehow we could be separate from It. The truth is we can't be separate from the One, except in dreams, which is why we can say that the universe of time and space is a dream we will awaken from, and that awakening is the fruit of our longing.
Iona
The Spirit doesn't think in terms of separation. It sees wholeness everywhere. 'Sees' means the way the Spirit thinks. It's the way we think that constitutes spiritual sight. It doesn't have anything to do with the body's eyes, even though we can see symbols of Spirit in the world. They're still just symbols.
The Eye of Columba
If true reality cannot be seen with the body's eyes, it can be experienced by the mind. If we want to return to Spirit, to the 'mind of a child', we must learn to think like Spirit. Spirit overlooks the body, which is a false image, and thinks of the truth that is beyond it. The truth of perfect oneness and innocence, exactly the same as the One.
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