The Kerf III

As our world continues to change drastically, the feeling of familiarity that maintains our perception of continuity will loosen our gross bindings. This blast to our mental continuity will either induce us to cling more to the collapsing conventions, or it will inspire us to break through our mental routine and stumble toward the Divine Kerf in the door to the First Plane to await its opening.

Below are more Meher Baba quotes from Bal Kalchuri's The Nothing and the Everything followed by my comments.

"In Alm-e-Vaktya subtle consciousness spans distances; the pilgrim can see over tremendous distances, even far off things and places in the gross world."

So not only does our gross awareness of time passing dissolve into subtle consciousness, but our awareness of space expands to encompass great (and minutely small) distances. In the gross world we occasionally try to remember to "Be here-now," but on the Subtle Planes we are always here-now — everywhere.  It is the "all-seeing eye" that the secret societies worship without understanding the process of achievement.

"In the first plane the pilgrim is also subject to great Inspiration which is completely unlike the ordinary inspiration of a gross conscious writer, poet, artist or musicians."

The inspiration of contemporary writers, poets, artists and musicians of the gross conscious world is limited by the constraints of cultural conventions. The creative composition itself is limited by the creator's point of reference which is largely limited by the five gross senses.

The First Plane pilgrim, however, is no longer limited by the gross senses. His inspiration comes from a spiritual sense which is much finer (more "subtle") and therefore not of this world. It is this divine inspiration that many of us who are waiting impatiently at the door to the First Plane anticipate with divine hunger.

Meher Baba goes on to describe the vision that pilgrims of involving consciousness experience:

"Physical eyes see the surface of things on a curve, whereas involving consciousness sees into or inside the person or object and once inside reads the person."

Since the pilgrim of the spiritual planes no longer lives from a culturally-dictated personality, his perception expands beyond appearances — beyond so-called 20/20 vision, beyond the capabilities of the retina/brain complex....

Beyond Beyond.

As the confound closes in, the internal pressure to escape the confines of convention will continue to increase thereby intensifying the impatience we feel as we gape at the Kerf cut into the door of the higher planes of consciousness. Like the restless child squirming in the back seat, we ask God in our prayers, "Are we there yet?"

And like a persevering parent God patiently answers...

"You'll know It when you SEE It."