Alice in Wonderland
What does "down the rabbit hole" refer to?
Posted by Andy on August 24th, 2010
Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, 1865, is a classic Victorian children’s story in the Romantic tradition. Carroll, a mathematician and a deacon, loved his little friend Alice and wrote down this story he had told her.
The story begins when Alice notices a rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear. I shall be too late,” consult a pocket watch, and pop down a rabbit hole. Instantly, Alice has a “burning curiosity” about it and runs right after it, jumping down the rabbit hole into the wonderland of the dream, into the unconscious mind.
As she is falling down this very deep hole, time slows. She wonders, “How many miles have I fallen by this time?” and is just dozing off when she lands on a heap of dry leaves. She sees the white rabbit hurrying down a long passage and takes off after it, but loses it. Wanting to fit through a small doorway, she drinks from a bottle marked “Drink me,” and shrinks to ten inches. Then she eats a cake marked “Eat me” and grows to nine feet tall.
She asks herself, “If I’m not the same, who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!”
She goes on to experience other chaotic changes in time and space. She also experiences being an alien in fantastical settings, menaced by strange beings; but all the while she maintains a fearless sense of propriety and good manners.
Tags: Self
Inception
For those who have seen the movie
Posted by Andy on August 15th, 2010
The movie, Inception, is a powerful allegory about the Son of God in three parts:
1. The Son of God, symbolized by Cobb, had the mad idea to join with the ego (symbolized by the ego’s most boasted gift, the special relationship) and hide in a dream world.
2. After a long time he becomes willing to open to the Holy Spirit and listen to guidance.
3. With the Holy Spirit’s help he forgives the illusion and returns to the Father.
A mad idea crept into Cobb’s mind—inception, or the creation of a separate, private dream world 
through the power of the mind. He tried it, joining with the ego, symbolized in the movie by his special relationship with Mal, his wife. Cobb “loved” her so much that he stayed with her in the dream for 50 years. He had begun to think the dream was real. But something wasn’t right; he felt a longing to see the faces of his children, his real creations. Mal was perfectly beautiful in form, but not real, not of God. (Mal means evil in French.) Yet in his confusion he wanted to stay with her. He had her (his own projection) refuse to return with him and plead with him to stay. He thought that he would be abandoning her if he went to the real world. He thought he was responsible for placing doubt about reality in her mind; he blamed himself for her state and felt such tremendous guilt that he couldn’t bear the thought of returning to his children and father. When he attempted to get her to return, she proved herself untrustworthy, then she jumped to her death. He believed he had effectively murdered her. Her memory plagued him constantly.
So he accepts a mission that will take him back into his subconscious mind, hoping to resolve the situation. He goes with trusted companions: Arthur, Eames, Saito and Yusuf. But he knows he needs power beyond theirs and beyond his own, so goes to his Father, Miles, for help. His father gives him the Holy Spirit, symbolized by Ariadne. Cobb agrees to take her with him. He tries to keep his secret from her, but she sees clearly and begins to open his mind.
Together they drop deeply and persistently into the mind, finally reaching the bottom. Cobb faces Mal, and with Ariadne at his side, tells Mal that he knows she is an illusion of his own making, thus forgiving her and himself. He has let go of the special relationship illusion, which was all that had kept him from re-joining with his Father and his creations. He has a happy home coming.
David Hoffmeister on Inception The full audio
Tags: Awakening
The Love of God
is everything I am
Posted by Andy on July 28th, 2010
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
I feel the love of God within me now.
The Love of God is what created me.
The Love of God is everything I am.
The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son.
The Love of God within me sets me free. W-209
Love is not learned because there never was a time
in which you knew it not. T-18.XI
We merely close our eyes, and then forget
all that we thought we knew and understood.
For thus is freedom given us from all
we did not know and failed to understand.
Tags: Love
Let Go and Trust God
David Hoffmeister
Posted by Andy on July 23rd, 2010
Follow your heart on a journey of discovery. Listen to the Voice within and do what It says, even if it sometimes doesn’t make sense according to what you believe are your “personal” best interests.
Your passion to discover the Truth will guide you on and draw others along with you. The journey is about forgiving the past and remembering the Love that is ever-present.
Innocence is unfettered by the laws and ways and thinking of the world. With faith to just take the next step, Life takes care of Life. Contentment and happiness come from simple nonjudgment, extending love, and letting go of the idea that you really know what anything of this world is for.
The journey is simply a yielding or surrender to What Is. When you give up trying to control the direction of the wind, the feather of Serenity will gently make its way to you. You are the Restful State of Divine Mind. Bask in What You Are Deep inside.
Tags: Trust
