The purpose of my book, Vision of the Grail, and many other works, is to guide each of us into recognition of our true nature - Wholeness. We are all sparks of a greater Light Body, and in finding our particular portion, the purpose is not competition, but cooperation. We as elements of this greater body have a unique and particular function to portray, and as we allow ourselves to "lighten" up, we can move into a space of authenticity.
Authenticity to me signifies the willingness to confront our true nature; to recognize the personality, and the abiding spirit within. In this meeting ground we are aware of distance. We view the elements that cause us to feel distracted, disengaged, and disheartened. Like so much else in life, it is part of paradox.
The process of understanding takes time, and in this current time stream, the very nature of time is undergoing change. We are being compacted, so that what used to take 50 years can occur within a very brief span of 'time" as we know it. Issues within our own character that required recognition through a long period of repetition now are viewable and fixable in a much shorter period.
The key to awareness is WILLINGNESS. We've talked about this before, but there are so many ingredients that go into the quotient. We have to be willing first of all to recognize a certain imperfection within ourselves (as much as we need to see an underlying perfection), and to be willing to confront those areas of conflict WITHOUT JUDGMENT or BLAME. By willingness to confront self, we don't mean punitively. We are talking about confronting the whole picture. We are made of so many different things, so many variables. And as we view the parts that are unloving and unlovable, these are in truth the most in need of our love.
No growth can be effective if we leave any part of us out of the quotient. We need to be willing to accept all of ourselves. It's like having a family with a relative who is always the oddball or the one you have to work around. In some cases, that is a major part of the external family.
Our internal mechanism is much the same. We have our good points and our seemingly bad ones. But by moving further into confrontation, (confronting with openness, open-mindedness, acceptance, and love) we can, by questioning ourselves, find where those "unlovable" traits came from, and why they emerged in the first place. For the most part, the reason was self-protection.
As we come to terms with the details of our history that forged us into who we have become, we can begin to rewrite and re-script the way we choose to play our role in the future. In doing this, we are giving up attachment to the details of our history, making room for renewal, and moving from fragmentation into unity. By making room for loving self-assessment, we make room for healing, and this is partially what the journey towards wholeness is about.
From Seasons of the Soul, Autumn edition 1998
