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From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
I can't be certain, but I'm fairly sure the wish here was for worldly power, for more control. This is commonplace and disturbing as the wish for more always issues from a sense of lack. So the wish for more power really issues from a sense of powerlessness.
I think it's also symptomatic of a society in which so much personal power has been taken from us... sometimes in the name of medical science... sometimes in the name of politics and religion... and though I hate to say it, those two are seldom far from each other.
It's the difference between 'power over' and 'power with/power within' A difference between submitting to government and the self governance that used to exist within many, so called primative societies.
In this respect, if in no other, the 'developing world' has things much better than the 'developped world' at least on a spiritual basis, because there is nothing more soul destroying than knowing that you have no recourse to your own spiritual governance.
...one reason I have such trouble with 'organised religion.'
I could go on at great length of this subject, and may return to it at some point, but for now I fear the 'soap box' might rear its ugly head, (as if it hadn't already, right?), and that's not what this is about.
Originally, the word power meant able to be.
In time, it was contracted to mean to be able.
We suffer the difference.
I can't be certain, but I'm fairly sure the wish here was for worldly power, for more control. This is commonplace and disturbing as the wish for more always issues from a sense of lack. So the wish for more power really issues from a sense of powerlessness.
I think it's also symptomatic of a society in which so much personal power has been taken from us... sometimes in the name of medical science... sometimes in the name of politics and religion... and though I hate to say it, those two are seldom far from each other.
It's the difference between 'power over' and 'power with/power within' A difference between submitting to government and the self governance that used to exist within many, so called primative societies.
In this respect, if in no other, the 'developing world' has things much better than the 'developped world' at least on a spiritual basis, because there is nothing more soul destroying than knowing that you have no recourse to your own spiritual governance.
...one reason I have such trouble with 'organised religion.'
I could go on at great length of this subject, and may return to it at some point, but for now I fear the 'soap box' might rear its ugly head, (as if it hadn't already, right?), and that's not what this is about.
