The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
Let me put it crudely, as we might encounter this
principle on a day-to-day basis. When I was growing
up I was seemingly attracted and drawn into the
sphere of all kinds of local power merchants, wouldbe
“gurus” who ruled by their personal power and
attractiveness. I, who knew nothing then, lived in
terror of these powerful merchants of fear, and
struggled to keep from being drawn into an orbit
around them. I was foolish enough to think this was
what teachers were supposed to look and act like.
Later, when I met my first real teacher, all of this
changed, and I could see all of these phonies were no
different that I was, struggling to define and assert
themselves. What my teacher showed me was not a
powerful center around which I was to orbit, but,
instead, a kindness and interest in me that I had
never before experienced. In fact, my teacher knew
how to appreciate and care for me more than I know
how to care for myself. In his long-gone reflection I
saw myself, and learned something about who I was,
not how powerful he was. He had the power to reflect
me to myself.
From that day forward, I never was fooled by the
would-be guru, with their fierce looks and demands. I
knew that any real teacher would reflect me and help
me to better know myself.
This is what I am trying to say here, when I say that
higher centers mirror or reveal to us, reflect our own
self, and do not themselves exhibit a greater intrinsic
attractiveness or gravity than we (ourselves) already
have. In other words, inquiry into centers reveals to
us our own essential sense of attractiveness or
gravity, not of some “other.”
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