What happens when the beautiful and ancient mysteries that have been guarded and protected throughout time are placed in the hands of the masses? I find myself curious about how the world I live in will evolve now that what has been carefully guarded and handed down through the ages as the mystical truths becomes immersed in a society that limits its intake of information to what fits on the screen of an Iphone or gets woven into the plot of this years blockbuster movie.
There is a new book out, you might have heard of it…The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. The hero we loved to follow through the catacombs of the Vatican has come to question the Masons and the mysteries that were held within their walls. It is a book and entertaining…but it prompts me to ask the question…what does happen when the wisdom of quantum physics meets the sacred mysteries of old?
Unlike the fantasy of Hollywood, it doesn’t bring about world destruction. Buildings will not collapse into the oceans, planes will not fall from the sky. I know as a culture we are obsessed with this outcome but I doubt sincerely it is more than just a way to entertain ourselves on a Friday night at the movies.
Instead, it is sad to say, what appears to happen is the gradual devaluing, washed into a sea of apathy and disbelief. I opened my email this morning and I was offered a chance to quickly and easily become an Usui Reiki and Tibetan healer…and cheaply too! In fact, I could learn it all from an MP3. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen similar claims. I listen to what has happened since the production of “The Secret” and the immersion into society of the “law of attraction.” I saw just his weekend an evangelical preacher claiming New Agers “stole” this from the bible and proceeded to read scripture after scripture of how the law of attraction was spelled out in the bible. In another instance lately a woman was promoting a book she had written to dispute the theory that all you had to do to recover from cancer was think positive! She was quite pissed about that theory, about her cancer and wanted to put the squelch on cancer centers promoting this ridiculous concept of a law of attraction, she didn’t believe it and she got well anyway, And too….I have seen much misalignment to the beautiful ritual of the native american sweat lodge…I could go on, but I won’t…
I’ll try to bottom line this, since this is the world of micro blogging and 10 second sound bytes…when we dig up the secrets and rob the tombs and wash down the sacredness of life’s ancient mysteries we as a society do what we do to most things. We rape and pillage it until it no longer has meaning. We extract the core, throw out the ritual and then try to use it to our advantage. There will be those that will make great attempts to get more and more money using the law of attraction and continue to avoid the wealth of all of the spiritual laws. and while many might go about claiming the power to heal others because they took a weekend certification or listened to a CD and yet will never heal the shallowness in their own hearts. And the almighty dollar will continue to drive the motivation of many to find, use and exploit lifes’ beautiful secrets, I don’t doubt that.
Perhaps the irony here is that the secrets will remain still protected…as they will only be of true value and use to those that understand and appreciate them.
