The Future/Now

The blind need eyes, not additional light. The objective study of oneself within the Work is the unknown realization of a patient freely offering himself, symptoms and all, for the therapist's consideration.

To live a more objective life of sincerity, without induced seriousness, is to deal in necessary agreement without commitment (and by what name could this be called were it all taken internally?).

Ordinary maps direct one to a final, identifiable location, while Work maps only point to an infinite journey. Even though one may discover a System close to the Ultimate Map, it too does not end, but rather throws one continually into new uncertain places just beyond the lastly perceived point of the map. To be pushed toward the forever future/now…Oh my god, what next!?

The Three Forces can be considered as symbolic of the past, present and future, and with an ordinary man's consciousness the present moves so swiftly to the past as to be almost non-existent. Yet his sense-of-now is real enough for him, but it is wimpy in whatever he attempts to sustain through his mechanical memory. So consider that such memory is tied to the past, linked to destruction; the foundation of walking-sleep.

Real Work exists only in the future; only the future can be now creative. Even the apparent study of previously established teachings and systems are dangerous for the serious, in that what is actually being attempted is to:  Understand an understanding of the past which is no longer creative.  No matter what the natural mind may say, and no matter the apparent power of memory, that which is in and of the past is dead and dangerous to the living.  Only the “living/dead” can abide such horrific conditions. The living have no past.

J.