Entering the Mystery

The rational mind can bring us to the edge of the known world. With excellence and precision, it can build conditions, theorize about the unknown, and master outcomes. But it cannot enter the Mystery. In fact, it either blocks it out or falls apart when it does. The rational mind cannot navigate the invisible world from which the impossible comes. Genius, wisdom, meaning, reverence, and the organic arising of awe and gratitude all emerge from this realm.

We can set the table for intuition, but we cannot guarantee the guest will come. For this reason, the rational mind denies intuition’s existence. It often knows higher-order states only intellectually, not experientially. To maintain dominion by force rather than nature, it uses its powers to disprove or dismiss as frivolous the communications that come from the non-rational world. Because it does not have eyes to see, it presumes—and declares—that nothing is there.

If we want to extend our consciousness beyond the limited world, we must recognize that while the rational mind masquerades as the authority, it is actually better suited to be a servant. It must bow to the nobility of intuition. But to do so, we must learn an entirely new operating system—one that can only be understood through the acknowledgment and cultivation of the sixth sense.

As this sense develops, we begin to see how much of the external world is extraneous, built to accommodate a kind of blindness. Intuition is streamlined and direct. The rational mind can only make blind guesses; the intuitive mind can see. Until this faculty is turned on and cultivated, it will seem mysterious, vague, and unreal. The rational mind, at best, can build models of the world. The intuitive mind allows us to live inside reality itself—without interference, interpretation, or commentary.

We can enlist the rational mind to work for, rather than against, the intuitive mind—as a check, as a balance, and in service to the discovery. The intuitive mind can hear reality at a whisper. And this is where we want to operate—from the place where we can hear and move in seamless accord with life. Not at the point where life is happening to us.

Some call this the “two-foot drop from the head to the heart.” Some never take the leap. But those who do, know.