The Outer Spiral : Internal Conflicts of the Tarot Changing Past and Future Manifesting the Present These are Death and Temperance in the Tarot, numbers 13 and 14 After we have accepted that our choice to change our past and future is limited to the actual choice of change we then have an opportunity to manifest the Present with both the freedom of our conscious mind and the caviat of the unconscious will. This is a balancing act and entails that the ego is working for the will, and not sabotaging it. Its the same as being relaxed whilst moving and letting the right things happen as they should in order to control the flow of energy in time. The internal conflict is to bring the extremes of the initial internal conflict (existence/non-existence) and all its manifestations in the physical and emotional worlds (choice/non-choice, changing past/future, learning to keep balance/ not learning to keep balance etc) together in harmony. Because there is really only one conflict (existence/non-existence) which, in fact, is an illusionary conflict anyway, its actually monumentally simple. Life just is, and because we observe it, it isnt as well, but if we were not observing it it would just be as it was, empty and full at the same time. This internal conflict teaches us that we create the conflicts through consciousness and by relaxing the mind that creates them we allow nature to just be, (having two minds, the ego mind and no-mind, is what Osho called schizophrenia). Not being of two minds means not being in conflict and so places the observer in the Present. From here internal conflicts are a lot more subtle and affect the internal observers relationship with the observed much more concretely. In fact they are no longer conflicts and should be called harmonic processes. Changing the Past and Future changes how we act in the Present Manifesting the Present determines how the Present acts on us.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:06:18 +0000
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