It is also the twenty third in the open second group of
Experiences Of A Friend
(click
here
for the complete first group of thirty five
Experiences Of A Friend):
I am indebted to Nancy Scott who inspired this conversation.
The way
you get transformation ie
the way
you become transformed (which is to say
the way
you get
access
to
your own inherent power
to transform the quality of your life) is not via how-to's, tips, or
explanations etc. Transformation's not gotten that way. And if you're
offered how-to's, tips, and explanations purportedly to transform the
quality of your life, whatever they offer is likely a menu of changes
yet not transformation. How so? Because transformation's imparted
ontologically,
not through changing. He says you get it from being, not understanding.
You get it when it's spoken, not from what is spoken about.
When he speaks, that's transformation. That may not yet be
as-clear-as-daylight obvious in your first
meeting with him.
At that time, at least you're likely to recognize there's something
about him that you can't quite put
your finger
on, something perhaps you once had when you were young, mislaid it, and
then yearned to have again. But after you've
been around him
for a while and interacted with him, you'll likely recognize it for
what it is: it's transformation. He's speaking transformation, and
living it in a most getable way ie it's getable from him
ontologically,
not through changing your life or applying new strategies.
It's almost otherworldly. Where did he get it, that
extraordinary
gift? To impart it, he says he extrapolated back from
his own moment of being
transformed,
then presented the sequence of experiences leading up to it, with the
premise that if it worked that way for him, then it would work that way
for others. And it does. Yet it begs
the question:
how does one human being so unerringly map the genome of transformation
that it can be gotten directly from his being by osmosis? Is he from
another
planet?
Is he from another galaxy? For some, entertaining the
possibility that's he's from another galaxy looms large. Given that
what he brings forth and offers is so unique (you know exactly what it
is and how unique it is when
you're around him)
and so unlike what most human beings make available (even
enlightened masters),
it's really a fitting euphemism for his life to say he's from another
galaxy (I'll dip my toe in that pool too).
Given the
miracle
of what he generates (and yes it's OK to call it that - it is a
"miracle")
I could lend credence to the idea that he's from another galaxy. Yet
somehow I'm more inspired (blown away actually) by the other
possibility: that he's from this galaxy,
this planet,
and is just
a regular dude
like you, like me who lives
an ordinary life but with an
extraordinary commitment.
It says what he's got is
accessible
to us too. I was born in Southwark, a borough of London which, last
time I looked was still in this galaxy on
this planet.
If he's from another galaxy and another
planet,
I couldn't have what he has. Transformation would be over
there where he is, not
out-here
where I am. But this galaxy?
this planet?
I can live what he's being. I have what he has. It's a quality all we
human beings, all
we regular dudesshare.
You don't have to be an alien to have it. You just have to live
an ordinary life with an
extraordinary commitment.
It's what inspires me. It's
accessible
to me. And I'm not from another galaxy. I'm definitely just
a regular dude
from Southwark London. I'm from this one.
