The relativity of the written word

By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co

How many people will read this text? How many of those people who read this text will think more deeply about it? How many of those people who think more deeply about this text will actually do something with it in their lives?

Perhaps it is just as well that texts are little read, because to what extent are they true and contribute to essential awareness. When I examine myself, I can be very critical. What do I know about this world?

I do not understand anything about war, because the country where I live has not been involved in a war all my life, and except for a few vacations I have never been far from my country. And then I write about spirituality and conditioning as if I know what I’m talking about. The people in Gaza, the Donbas, Yemen and so many other hot spots have no use for my ramblings. They are busy surviving and I am safe behind my computer.

At least, safe for now, because for how long will I be allowed to write these kinds of texts. It looks like before long the thought police may be at my door to arrest me for having “wrong” fantasies.

Who will benefit from my text? Are they the people who are in the same bubble as me? Most likely, in fact, those are the people who may be interested in my text. And what good does that do us, because these people know the text anyway.

But then the Bible, the Koran and so many other sacred scriptures, surely they contribute to the evolution of man on Earth? Indeed, we have thousands of years of ancient wisdom recorded in various forms. How much have we advanced in that time? Are we better off because of it? Are they all truths? Can a sacred scripture be true if another sacred scripture posits a different truth? Why are there so many digressions in all this holiness?

The true prophets our world has known offered not to believe them but to go and seek the truth and thus enlightenment themselves. To search ourselves for the source from which we come and connect directly with it. To become more consciously aware. These prophets did not write anything down, they knew there was no point in doing that.

Because how do we actually become more conscious? How does the evolution of man proceed? Is it through the written word or does it happen some other way?

Stand back and just put this text away for a moment. Below I describe how I think about it, but what is that worth? I am certainly not a prophet. I just do whatever, everything within my own conditioning. It’s up to you to go deeper into it yourself and come back later to read my drivel. Or not even read it and leave it at that. What a challenge.

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Have you ever wondered how it is possible for very different people to come up with the same idea just about simultaneously? Could all inventions be made by the collective? And that different individuals depending on their circumstances can express the creation of the invention in one way or another.

You think of someone and then the person just calls you. Someone is in love with you and strangely enough you also get infatuated feelings toward that person. What is going on in that invisible field anyway? Aren’t we just constantly in communication with each other, as if we are one entity and have a common consciousness.

What is that “field? Is that God? Does it matter if we ‘know’ there is ‘something’? We are connected to each other and that is through ‘something’, maybe that is the Akasha. We can give it all kinds of names and hang hundreds of theories on it. Plenty of people have devoted books to it and words have been published to excess. But so there are two paths to be pointed out.

The way of the written word. And the way of “the field”. The road from inside to outside where we answer each other. And the road from outside to inside where we look for “the source”.

Which way does the prophet follow? Which way does man tend towards? Which way matters?

When I learn something essential on Earth, I transmit it in real time to “the field”. Everyone is connected to that and therefore has access to the same insight. Where the insight comes from does not matter so much, because it just as easily comes from ‘the field’ or from God Himself.

The power of this unseen way is many times greater and especially purer than the way of the written word. I am now describing what I “see”, but imagine seeing this for yourself. What you see for yourself is so much more real. You are filled with light. All you have to do is be open to it. Not to my words, because that is drivel. I already wrote, I am just doing something.

The essence is to believe the prophets when they say “connect with your Self”. From there, connect with the source, if you will, with God. This is what we have to do as humanity. Less written word and more connection.

I got rid of all my books a few years ago. There were beautiful books among them. For example, the Baghavad Gita, but also the Bible and the Koran. The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav. The books of Paulo Coelho and those of Hazrat Inayat Khan. The commentary on the Gospel of Thomas by Bram Moerland. I made someone else happy with it.

The emptiness is wonderful to dwell in. The silence. The light and the dark. A friend who says that at some point we may cross the big water. No, not leaving this planet, but becoming truly aware of what “is”. That ‘seeing’ and yet simultaneously standing with both feet in shit. Touching the ‘knowing’ and yet being caught in the air pollution, the plastic, the bombs and taxes.

I determine nothing. It is determined for me. Not on this Earth.