More from “Into the Night”

 

The next thing I know, I was awakened by a gentle shake. I opened my eyes to see the Elder bent over me.

"Come along in a bit," he said.

I got up and doused my face with water, brushed my teeth and went to the kitchen. The Elder was in there with breakfast. He motioned me in and told the lady to bring me some coffee. Everything looked different and smelled wonderful.  The coffee was really bursting with flavor. It was good to be alive!

"You know," the Elder said, "Alvaro told me some good things about you. Even Tomas gives you respect." The Elder looked at me and continued, "have you had a chance to speak with Robert?"

I realized that the request had been sort of a priority. I told the Elder that I hadn't had the opportunity. I told him what had transpired last night. I told him that I had turned in early and the reason I did so. For a bit we both sat there as he appeared to be soaking in what I had said to him.

"Did you learn more while walking in this 'space?'

I told him I had. That some questions in me were looked at but, I didn't remember formulating them. In the 'looking at the wholeness of many things, there were aspects which tended to make more full the partial understandings I personally had schematized.

"For example," he said.

"Well, right after I understood that man's law governed the world right now and that Spiritual Laws govern our existence, I had another encounter. The interface of my knowledge and systemic knowledge allowed a sort of synthesis to occur."

"Can you put this into words?" the Elder asked.

I looked at him and I let that magnificent imagery tell the essence.

"Feelings and emotions often drain the energy field and introvert our personal Spirit. For example: aloneness isn't the same thing as being lonely. But the emotion of loneliness coupled with the feeling of aloneness, produce a major affect on all systems. So does anger, fear, jealousy, etc...Other feelings can trigger confidence, increase energy, have emotional fulfillment. If the binary effect of feelings and emotions can be transcended, then there is existential feelings and impingement upon the emotions which tell our personal Spirit the 'what-is' of the existential encounter. Here I had a reminder that our existential perception is either direct information or the existential perception is a filter.