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HUMANITY
LIVES ON in the middle of the road. The middle of the road type of
thinking seemingly makes everyone happy and no one unhappy.
When I try to do things that please everyone I find
that I please none. This mediocrity standard of normal living is
familiar to the vast majority of society. The reason it is so popular is
that it is in such good company, the majority of humanity like to walk
the middle of the road.
The genius of this life, the creative adventurers who
go out and do things, which go out and are at the forefront of the magic
of living are those who do not even know there is a middle of the road.
These successful beings live in their dream world where thoughts
overflow the floodgates of their consciousness in such abundance that
while the rest of the world is gingerly walking over the thoughts of
failure, the dreamers are swirling in the prodigious volume of
imagination and creativity.
Everyone who chooses to walk the standard pathway is in
great company. They make up the "students" in the class. The
run-of-the-mill, typical thinkers are the "teachers, mentors and
professors" of the students.
The creative dreamers are the genii who carelessly
challenge the students and teachers to prove their theories are
incorrect. They are too busy thinking up new thoughts and new dreams to
take time to prove or disprove their convictions. The classes prepare
through their train of thought only to find out the creative soul’s
convictions are valid. The illumined dreamer is on the ground floor of
even more exciting thinking which is in the process of evolving and
being revealed.
You and I can be this class of dreamers and irrational
thinkers whose very words, ideas and visions make those who would be
their closest friends say: I don’t know them. The normal average person
stays at arms-length from anyone who is walking the pathway of
imagination.
A British podcast internet program which has proved
itself quite successful is entitled www. thenakedscientists.com. It
draws attention to itself in that everything which it covers or speaks
about is a thing that the public is vitally interested in hearing. The
name draws attention in an amusing way to the provocative manner in
which they give their information. Anyone who tunes in to the program is
immediately taken by the sincerity, genius and quality of the
presentations.
If any of their mothers, the mothers of the presenters
all of whom are relatively young, knew before hand the name of the
program by which their sons and daughters were going public there would
have been quite a clamor. But this is the way of genius. This is the way
of the creative thinker. He is often considered a nerd, one of careless
grooming habits, more interested in thinking and dreaming than
appearances.
This has just touched the surface of the project of
middle of the road thinking. Middle of the roaders would not think of
challenging the status quo or the rules and code of society. For
dreamers there are no inhibiting rules or codes which limit their
stretch of imagination. These are the geeks that send rockets to the
moon before anyone ever dreamed of why we should go there.
Living within this focused environment the genius is
not troubled by the things which make the world go around. He is not
worried about appearances or whether he "eats" right or follows
procedure. He goes directly to the illusion which is sparkling brightly
in his consciousness and which MUST be dealt with to its completion.
Sometimes the conclusion requires using outrageous directions--but he
functions and brings completion to the dream.
You and I would love to be included in this "number".
To do so we leave behind all conditions which say to us
that we must walk in this way or do that procedure, we are as the
sculptor, the artist, the writer each of whom are unaware of time,
temperature, bodily needs basically anything in the outer. These
creative minds are so into their art, their craft, their presentation,
the only thing that matters is to reveal what is in their mind and bring
it forth now.
This principle applies to one who would walk the
spiritual path. The spiritual way differs from the human way in that the
human trek is filled with middle of the road techniques which will not
threaten us or another along life’s way.
We think of the guru and his going apart from society
to find his inner program to live it. The spiritual pundit steps away
from people and chooses to live in being untouched, unpossessed,
unlimited and unconditional (nonjudgmental) in all ways. He lives a
Spartan life using only the minimum of food, water, housing, clothing
and bodily care--not to go his way rather because it is not in his
awareness to need more. He is an expert in knowing that to walk his
spiritual awareness program the less in the outer that claims his
attention the more his attention is stayed on the inner from where his
intuitive conclusion flows.
He means serious business.
The artist, the sculptor, the writer, the dedicated
student in any discipline who demands perfection do not feel
disadvantaged, in fact they do not even know that they are deprived.
Their attention is on the intention of their "art", on the intention of
their "creativeness" their oneness with the driving force within them to
reveal the majesty of the world that lay unrevealed within.
For us who would like to utilize the spiritual
principles these same virtues apply. It is not intensive. To the middle
of the roader it is intensive. To the revealer nothing else matters
except revealing the magic which lay within. To us who need all that
society and the body has to offer, being without is one of the worst
things that could ever befall a human being.
As I measure the experience of being a middle of the
road human being or being a divinely revealed spiritual master--there is
little to compare.
My intuitive sensitivity tells me that a revealed being
lives in peace. A revealed master lives in harmony in himself and his
world. The ultimate guru thinks his thought and instantly that thought
is manifest, that thought is revealed, that thought represents its
living wholeness in every area. The goal of every human being, so
diminutively sought, is the every moment fare of the revealed ones. The
more I think about it all the more I realize that this is what I am
doing right now. This is what I am right now. This is all that matters.
To be or not to be, that is the question, and the
answer is "to be" for only as I am does my presence on planet Earth mean
anything at all.
-Dr Herbert L Beierle
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