Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

TRIP: Thank you.
Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: There's something so wholesome and pleasant about
the ordinary and letting the ordinary… the ordinary, the magic, is
still, and the ordinary is just so exquisite. As you say, it's
extraordinarily ordinary to relax into that ordinary.
TRIP: You write, I'm moving along here trying to pack as much as
we can into our hour.
PHILIP: It's the ego that always demands more than the ordinary,
the ego demands extraordinary ordinary in the unhealthy sense.
WIZARD: It's stealing the show.
PHILIP: Yes.
TRIP: You write, "Your freedom is not even in healing the past,
this concentration is a past fixation so you are not present for joy."
Healer in some form or fashion is one of the most prevalent
occupations in our local community of those who also describe
themselves as spiritual. Scarcely a gathering goes by that I attend
where there isn't some invocation to healing. What role does
healing play in spirituality?
KATIE DAVIS: In the book when you read that passage, I do not
remember the context of it, but I was referring to psychological
therapy. Before the awakening, therapy is common and it certainly
has its place. Yet, it deals with the story of “me,” whereas
awakening is waking up from the storyteller and it painful story,
instead of fixing it. You can not fix something that is not. Through
therapy, the ego may become relatively happier and that is
beautiful. However, what you end up with is a better false self. On
the other hand, therapy usually shifts attention from the life
situation (story) back to the person; me and my thoughts, me and
my emotions, me and my body. In this manner, it is a great
preparation for the awakening. Free of the ego, we realize that we
are happiness itself, not someone who is becoming happy. But the
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