By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee PhD
A religious workforce kinds a sacred and guarded area the place power can circulate from the interior to the outer global. Weaving jointly desires and non secular tales, In the corporate of Friends explores the mental and non secular methods skilled inside of a gaggle, and the way the strength of the trail transforms the seeker.
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In the Company of Friends a collective alienation. When we are hurt or rejected we tend to retreat further into ourself. The same is true of aspects of our inner self. Our spiritual longing, feeling the pain of rejection, can bury itself even deeper into the unconscious, making it even more inaccessible to consciousness. The split between the conscious and the unconscious easily grows greater. But in the presence of a group of sincere seekers, this primal desire for Truth feels welcomed. When a person first comes to our group his psyche often rejoices at this acceptance and responds with a series of dreams or an unexpected feeling of joy.
Like the Arab after his encounter with the Qalanders we can be left stunned and poverty stricken, with all our values turned upside down. A friend once told me a moving story of how her confrontation with Truth left her inwardly shaken for years. She was married when she was eighteen, and her husband was in the army. They both wanted to go to England to visit a spiritual teacher, and very naively did not realize that you cannot just “walk out” of the army. They travelled to Europe and in Germany her husband was arrested by the military police for desertion.
In fact on her actual physical journey to the group her 16 Through a Glass Darkly car was broken into and her valuables were stolen, while her sister’s possessions which were also in the car were not touched! A man and a woman, a married couple, are visiting a community of people who are isolated from the outside world. They have been invited. Each becomes independently aware of a foreboding feeling regarding these people. There is something strange about them. Although for some reason they are unable to discuss their foreboding openly with one another, they each separately come to the decision that these people are evil and that they mean to kill the couple in some kind of ritual way and to drink their blood and eat their hearts.