The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
different manner. We are no longer inclined such that
we feel the way we used to. Our life now revolves
around a different center than before -- a wife or child,
for instance.
We not only revolve around a different center or point
to a different star, but that amounts to a change in
inclination and direction. That change in inclination is
what is hard to convey to someone looking to have
that experience. We call all grasp the idea that a
“greater" experience will embrace our previous
experience like a set of Russian nesting dolls. We all
get that.
What has not been properly presented is that along
with the expanded experience and the embracing of
what went before is a shift in inclination, a new
perspective. If we are studying with an enlightened
teacher (from our perspective), we tend to imagine an
expanded consciousness, but always in relation to our
current center. We don’t know, spiritually or
psychotically speaking, where a deeper or “greater”
center is located, and this by definition. If we did, we
would already be oriented.
What the teacher does is very clear in Asian religions,
where the teacher gives what are (interestingly
enough) called the “pointing out” instructions, after
which the student, with some practice in day-to-day
life experience, manages to get the “point,” and,
through an often slow and painful time, manages to
reorient themselves to point to the new center. To “get
the point” here means to get reoriented.
Everything shifts, and the previous center is no longer
considered “central,” and either dissolves or looses
interest or magnetism for the student. This is the idea
of centers we are presenting here, only through the
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