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Working with Light - with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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The following video is from an event with Adyashanti and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.
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- Working with Light, November 19 & 20, 2005 talk with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
- I think we often underestimate the spiritual--or the potential of our real spiritual nature.
- And part of my work and part of the vision behind coming together
- is to explore or even activate the transformative potential
- of real spiritual energy, and the sense that it actually has a very vital role to play,
- not only in our own individual transformation
- and many people here have been on their own journey long enough
- to have experienced that potential within themselves
- and how it can completely transform one's life.
- Sufis would talk about "lifting the veil" between ego consciousness
- and one's higher consciousness, but that it really takes you out of a very small space
- into an infinitely expanding space, into this dimension of the Self that is within the heart.
- And then to take it the next step, is What is this transformative potential?
- What does this transformative potential mean for the Whole?
- Because we seem, as a culture, to have become fixated on the individual.
- As if the individual's transformation or our own transformation
- is what it's all about, and we don't realize
- how much our cultural conditioning has contextualized us into this focus on the individual.
- We don't realize this is just a very recent paradigm, if you like, a very recent focus.
- I remember somebody talking about shamanism
- and saying that the new age never had much meaning for the shaman,
- because for the shaman it was always about the Whole.
- That's all that ever mattered.
- So it is to try and liberate one's own spiritual potential from this focus on the individual
- and individual fulfillment. Because, of course, one of the things you realize
- when you -- I don't like to say "get somewhere" because there's nowhere to get --
- when you access something within yourself
- is there is no such thing as an individual.
- This is one of the great illusions that our own ego-consciousness presents to us.
- And once you step into the arena of Oneness, what the Sufis call the arena of the heart,
- or the arena of love, then you realize that everything is One
- and you are not part of that Oneness, you ARE that Oneness.
- And so then how can we use what is within us,
- what is behind the veil of appearances within us?
- The soul of the world is in need, is in dire need
- and it has called out. It has called out to all those who have been awakened to their light.
- And it has said, there is a need for a certain light to be given to the world.
- And it is no longer enough just for the -- however many completely illumined beings there are on the planet --
- and they're only ever a few in number --
- there is a need for more people to be involved in this work.
- For more people to use their light in service to the Whole.
- And this is for me where it gets very, very interesting.
- Because once you have been through all the stages of the path, you know your light is not your light.
- Traditionally, you know the individual Atma is the universal Atma.
- It's a very beautiful cosmic experience, in which you realize your self is not even your self
- it never was your self. It is the universal self.
- There is a way for people who come together with a spiritual awareness
- to allow their light to work together.
- To allow their light to communicate.
- It actually -- it works, because it is the divine light within you,
- and it is also part of the One.
- For example, you think that sitting wherever you are in this room,
- you think there are all these different people sitting in the room.
- That is a complete illusion!
- That is just the One, manifesting itself in different appearances --
- always remaining the One. It can never, ever be other than the One.
- The moment you say it is, you split the One into two.
- And the One is always the One.
- The light of the Whole -- the light of the world -- is always the light of the world.
- It manifests itself in different ways.
- To have all these unique experiences of the One -- yes!
- But you are not a separate person. You never were a separate person.
- You are a bit of light, flashing into existence for a moment,
- bringing a bit of color out of nonbeing,
- speaking -- then communicating -- to other bits of the One.
- And this is where it gets very, very beautiful.
- When the One begins to communicate with itself through the medium of the divine light of the human being.
- And that's what I really call working with light.
- And all one has to do, really, is to be open.


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