1. Tell us how
your project(s) were started.
The man's efforts in meditation have opened a door through which he can pass
at will (and eventually with facility), into a new world of phenomena, of directed
activity, and of different ideals. He has unlatched a window through which light
can pour in, revealing that which is, and always has been existent within the
consciousness of man, and throwing illumination into the dark places of his
life; into other lives; and into the environment in which he moves. He has released
within himself a world of sound and of impressions, which are at first so new
and so different, that he does not know what to make of them. His situation
becomes one requiring much care and balanced adjustment.
2. What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?
It will be obvious
to you that if there is a good mental equipment, and a sound education training,
that there will be a balancing sense of proportion, an interpretative capacity,
patience to wait until right understanding can be developed, and a happy sense
of humour. Where, however, these are not present, there will be (according to
the type and the sense of vision) bewilderment, a failure to comprehend what
is happening, undue emphasis upon personality reactions and phenomena, pride
in achievement, a tremendous sense of inferiority, too much speech, a running
hither and thither for explanation, comfort, assurance, and a sense of comradeship,
or perhaps a complete breakdown of the mental forces, or the disruption of the
brain cells, through the strain to which they have been subjected.
Exhilaration is also sometimes found as a result of the contact with a new world,
and strong mental stimulation. Depression is as frequently a result, based upon
a sensed incapacity to measure up to the realised opportunity.
3. What does art,
in its entirety, mean to you?
The man sees and knows too much. He can no longer be satisfied with the old
measure of living, with the old satisfactions, and with the old idealisms. He
has touched, and now longs for the larger measures, for the new and vibrant
ideas, and for the broader vision. The way of the life of the soul has gripped
and attracts him. But his nature, his environment, his equipment, and his opportunities,
appear somehow to frustrate him consistently, and he feels he cannot march forward
into this new and wonderful world. He feels the need to temporise, and to live
in the same state of mind as heretofore, or so he thinks, and so he decides.
4. Who is your favorite auther and why?
These expansions, which he has undergone as the result of successful meditation, need not be along the line of recognised religious effort, or produced by so-called occult revelation. They may come to him along the line of a man's chosen life activity, for there is no life activity, no vocational calling, no mental occupation, and no condition, which cannot provide the key to the unlocking of the door into the desired wider world, or serve to lead a man to the mountain top, from which the wider horizon can be seen, and the larger vision grasped.
5. As your best
friend, describe yourself.
A man must learn to recognise that his chosen school of thought, his peculiar
vocation, his particular calling in life, and his personal trend, are only part
of a greater whole, and his problem is to integrate consciously his small life
activity into the world activity
6. As your worst
enemy, describe yourself.
It is this we call illumination, for lack of a better word.
7. If your personna
were immortalized as a cartoon character, who would it be?
All knowledge is a form of light, for it throws light into area of awareness,
of which we have hitherto been unconscious. All wisdom is a form of light, for
it reveals to us the world of meaning which lies behind the outer form. All
understanding is an evocation of light, for it causes us to become aware of,
or conscious of, the causes which are producing the outer forms which surround
us (including our own), and which condition the world of meaning, of which they
are the expression. But when this fact is first seen, grasped, and when the
initial revelation has come, when the place of the part in relation to the whole
is sensed, and when the world, which includes our little world, is first contacted,
there is always a moment of crisis, and a period of danger. Then as familiarity
grows, and our feet have wandered in and out of the door we have opened, and
we have accustomed ourselves to the light which the unshuttered window has released
into our little world of daily living, other psychological dangers eventuate.
8. Do you think
there are conspiracies against the "everyday person"?
We are in danger of thinking that what we have seen is all there is to see,
and thus - on a higher turn of the spiral, and in a larger sense - we repeat
the dangers (earlier considered) of undue emphasis, of wrong focus, of narrow
minded belief, and idée fixe. We become obsessed with the idea of the
soul; we forget its need of a vehicle of expression; we begin to live in an
abstracted detached world of being and of feeling, and we fail to keep in contact
with the factual life of the physical plane expression.
9. What do you
do with your spare time?
We thus repeat - again on the higher turn of the spiral - the condition we considered
in which the soul or the ego was not present, reversing the condition, so that
there is no form life really present in the focussed consciousness of the man.
There is only the world of the souls, and a desire for creative activity.
10. Please give
us your interpretation of "the meaning of life".
The handling of daily living on the physical plane, drops below the threshold
of consciousness, and the man becomes a vague, impractical, visionary mystic.
These states of mind are dangerous, if they are permitted to exist.
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