Opportunities are portals. For those with a spiritual perspective, the ability to open out the awareness of the personality is their defining quality. The form that they take is immaterial: they may be accompanied by very little outer change or by utter turmoil, because it is not scale that makes an opportunity, but the quality of the experience it embodies and the attention that that calls up from us. Situations, which look like significant doorways (or advertise themselves as such), may show themselves on closer inspection to be, not a way on, but a mirror in which our own reflections come out at us.
For many the Koruna Project has been just such a reflecting surface. So often, the fear of getting sucked into a cult and the rigidity of the assumptions that were being projected upon the Project acted like the unyielding surface of a mirror and we could not communicate through it. For others, Koruna was a doorway, but one that admitted them to an uncomfortable place, which brought up insecurity, disappointment, anger and resentment. When we do not get what we want on our own terms we are rarely gracious, and we will not get 2012 on our own terms. None of us.
I have worked for seven years telling people what they do not want to hear in answer to questions for which, often, they were not taking responsibility for having asked. On the other hand there have been those who have felt that because Koruna is a spiritual organisation we will automatically confer spiritual benefits and protection upon those who have joined us, like club membership. This kind of complacency is death to self-awareness and effort.
Yet these different meetings with self are as valid a part of the journey as any voyage out to Lapland; and quite as able to open out awareness, especially if they fail to deliver what was expected. So often, this is how grace enters our life.
Although the door on the project is closed, the opportunity, which is preparing ourselves for 2012, continues regardless of where we are located.
In Castenada’s A Separate Reality, Don Juan says this: I have learned that the countless paths one travels in one’s life are all equal. Oppressors and oppressed met at the end and the only thing that prevails is that life was altogether too short for both.
The fact is that we make opportunities from the quality of attention we give to experience, not from how many miles we travel nor the organisations we join. A spiritual path may not create any more opportunities than one that leaves us facing life without the aid of concepts and teachers; but what it may do is help to keep us awake, focused and with people of like mind. It is the journey on the path that counts, not the paths themselves. They are all equal.
The decision you have made or are making, whatever that is, is your opportunity. Use it in whatever way you can to open out the awareness of the personality. The point of human being in incarnation is the relationship we make with life. And we all embody possibility for as long as we live.
Suzanne Rough
DKF-Koruna
November 2011
Although we are no longer accepting applications for the Koruna Project, the resource that is the member’s area will remain available to all members of the Ark Scheme through the purchase of one Ark Fund Share.
