A simple seeker was meditating on the possible differences between the concepts of initiation and transformation, and if in fact ..
“If there were differences, then what would they be?”
“I’ve been asking myself that question.”
“Sometimes it helps when there’s an outside ..”
“You’re hardly an outside voice.”
“How do you know?”
“I can feel your thought.”
“Singular?”
“A single energy.”
“Perhaps we’re each and all part of a single energy.”
“Perhaps, but ..”
“Perhaps but what?”
“How does that relate, if it does, to the differences, if there are any, between initiation and transformation?”
“Even as you ask, I sense awareness developing within you.”
“You might have pulled back a curtain.”
“From within you? Or from within your mind?”
“Is there a difference?”
“None at all.”
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A simple seeker’s note to herself – re initiation and transformation
Initiation and transformation as being the same experience? How can that be if initiation is as a ceremony or celebration of a student’s successful graduation from one level of achievement to another?
“As a reward for effort?”
“Yes.”
“What about transformation?”
“That takes place within us, as our emotions and thoughts develop ever-higher levels of quality.”
“As a movement from within?”
“Yes, an inner growth, as similar to physical growth, as we mature and develop from childhood, through adolescence, to adulthood.”
“Yes. As within, so without.”
“What does that mean, concerning initiation and transformation?”
“It means that there is a certain correlation between whatever is within and its outward expression.”
“So, we transform, if we do, from within, and ..”
“Yes. The outward expression of that inner transformation is experienced as a celebration, or initiation, into a higher level.”
“Of what?”
“Awareness and understanding.”
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Simple Seekers 