Working with Light - with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Duration: 6 minutes and 27 seconds

Country: United States

Language: English

License: CC Attribution Non-Commercial

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Producer: Seana Quinn

Director: Seana Quinn

Posted by: oneness on Aug 21, 2007

The following video is from an event with Adyashanti and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.

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Working with Light, November 19 & 20, 2005 talk with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
I think we often underestimate the spiritual--or the potential of our real spiritual nature.
And part of my work and part of the vision behind coming together
is to explore or even activate the transformative potential
of real spiritual energy, and the sense that it actually has a very vital role to play,
not only in our own individual transformation
and many people here have been on their own journey long enough
to have experienced that potential within themselves
and how it can completely transform one's life.
Sufis would talk about "lifting the veil" between ego consciousness
and one's higher consciousness, but that it really takes you out of a very small space
into an infinitely expanding space, into this dimension of the Self that is within the heart.
And then to take it the next step, is What is this transformative potential?
What does this transformative potential mean for the Whole?
Because we seem, as a culture, to have become fixated on the individual.
As if the individual's transformation or our own transformation
is what it's all about, and we don't realize
how much our cultural conditioning has contextualized us into this focus on the individual.
We don't realize this is just a very recent paradigm, if you like, a very recent focus.
I remember somebody talking about shamanism
and saying that the new age never had much meaning for the shaman,
because for the shaman it was always about the Whole.
That's all that ever mattered.
So it is to try and liberate one's own spiritual potential from this focus on the individual
and individual fulfillment. Because, of course, one of the things you realize
when you -- I don't like to say "get somewhere" because there's nowhere to get --
when you access something within yourself
is there is no such thing as an individual.
This is one of the great illusions that our own ego-consciousness presents to us.
And once you step into the arena of Oneness, what the Sufis call the arena of the heart,
or the arena of love, then you realize that everything is One
and you are not part of that Oneness, you ARE that Oneness.
And so then how can we use what is within us,
what is behind the veil of appearances within us?
The soul of the world is in need, is in dire need
and it has called out. It has called out to all those who have been awakened to their light.
And it has said, there is a need for a certain light to be given to the world.
And it is no longer enough just for the -- however many completely illumined beings there are on the planet --
and they're only ever a few in number --
there is a need for more people to be involved in this work.
For more people to use their light in service to the Whole.
And this is for me where it gets very, very interesting.
Because once you have been through all the stages of the path, you know your light is not your light.
Traditionally, you know the individual Atma is the universal Atma.
It's a very beautiful cosmic experience, in which you realize your self is not even your self
it never was your self. It is the universal self.
There is a way for people who come together with a spiritual awareness
to allow their light to work together.
To allow their light to communicate.
It actually -- it works, because it is the divine light within you,
and it is also part of the One.
For example, you think that sitting wherever you are in this room,
you think there are all these different people sitting in the room.
That is a complete illusion!
That is just the One, manifesting itself in different appearances --
always remaining the One. It can never, ever be other than the One.
The moment you say it is, you split the One into two.
And the One is always the One.
The light of the Whole -- the light of the world -- is always the light of the world.
It manifests itself in different ways.
To have all these unique experiences of the One -- yes!
But you are not a separate person. You never were a separate person.
You are a bit of light, flashing into existence for a moment,
bringing a bit of color out of nonbeing,
speaking -- then communicating -- to other bits of the One.
And this is where it gets very, very beautiful.
When the One begins to communicate with itself through the medium of the divine light of the human being.
And that's what I really call working with light.
And all one has to do, really, is to be open.

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