3 of 5: Acknowledging the Challenge
The Resistance of the Logical Mind
To find the meaning and purpose that never-changes, we must first acknowledge a significant hurdle: the Western mind is conditioned to believe that security comes only from what we can calculate, predict, and control. We often feel that the "Mysterious" or "Spiritual" is too abstract to provide a solid foothold of sanity in our daily lives.
However, even the most noble scholars recognized that bridging our logical, factual understanding with this deeper Reality requires a "radically sane" shift in perspective.
"The thought of the East cannot be compared with the thought in the West; it is incommensurable."
—Carl Jung, Father of Analytical Psychology, 1949 Goethe Prize
The Logic of the Unknown
What Jung points to is a structural mismatch: Western thought is built on "separation" and "objects," while the "Eastern Knowledge" of the geniuses is built on the One-substance of the "Whole." This is where our engagement into Self-Knowledge requires courage.
If our current human-structured systems are failing to provide peace amidst systemic instability, we must be open to the possibility that our "logical" way of seeing the world is actually what is obscuring the One-substance of Reality.
The challenge is a vital decision regarding your well-being: to remain bound by the "ever-changing" systems that produce a restless mind, or to allow your mind to be unveiled to the "never-changing" One-substance of Reality. This crossing is the only way to re-establish the meaning that leads to unconditional love and acceptance.
Step 4 reveals the freeing knowledge...