I thought I'm pretty open-minded. But when in a group of people you find yourself in a way 'least spiritual', or rather the most skeptic, is frustrating. Suddenly you question your life experience a lot.
How do you adopt a totally new way of thinking? (or feeling?) Day 2 and I feel I have to hammer my brain to stay open, to receive, to participate. Would be so easy to put my usual labels on what is happening, but I have no partner for that. Frustrating, but probably lucky.
This is why you got to jump into things out of the usual context. It feels like falling into a hole, and immediately you try to get hold on something familiar, hasting with your hand to find another. If you find that hand you may climb back to what you call 'normal'. But if you can give it time, you may eventually fall deeper and meet something new. Not that I say it's easy.
“Meanwhile the wild geese, high
in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whorever you are, no matter how
lonely,
The world offers itself to your
imagination,
calls to you like the wild
geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your
place
in the family of things.”
(Mary
Oliver – Wild geese)
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