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Wisdom Of The Heart
The ancient Greeks said that at the time of our birth we are each born with a daemon or a unique guiding spirit. And I can get that because sometimes I wonder if it was the daemon that was waking up and ‘çalling’ out to me, whilst sitting on that pylon in London, that I had to go on an adventure to India. And it felt like following a strange voice into an unknown land.
And going to India shifted me fundamentally in some ways. And when I went up to Rajasthan I found that there was a whole language for the inner world and the soul and the sacred that had been handed down through the centuries(and a language we don’t have in The West). And that felt like stumbling upon some kind of treasure. And Jung once said something like the sacred will show up in the most unusual places and where you would least expect, and that is what it felt like to me after going to India. — Jon Wilson
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. I remember at that time I was sitting next to him, and the room started to glow with ambaric [like amber] richness, as if the air itself, like butter, you can cut it. So dense, so sweet, so loving, as if it’s God’s heart embracing all of existence with the preciousness, with love. And I remember there was even a can of 7Up. I said, “What’s this can there doing in the room, the holy room?” It was as if the space around it was making it glow as a most precious object, without any of my…
