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29 May 2006 @ 13:51 by Istvan @68.105.165.151 : zenplanet@fastmail.us
Yes is the answer to your qoestion. The way i surmise it, this natural process is a way of gowth, of coming home after the many adwentures into denialland. That too is natural, but ewetually one must arrive at the gate of one's real home, the integrated self, that which no longer have to remain in confusion.
Mabel Collins describes it ths way:
"21- Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then.
It shall grow, it will shoot up, it will make branches, and leaves and form buds, while the storm continues, while the battle lasts. But not till the whole personality of the man is dissolved and melted- not until it is held by the divine fragment which has created it, as a mere subject for grave experiment and experience- not until the whole nature has yielded and become subject unto its Higher Self, can the bloom open. Then will come a calm such as comes in a tropical county after the heavy rain, when Nature works so swiftly that one may see her action. Such a calm will come to the harassed spirit. And in the deep silence the mysterious event will occur which will prove that the way has been found. Call it by what name you will, it is a voice that speaks where there is none to speak - it is a messenger that comes, a messenger without form or substance; or it is the flower of the soul that has opened. It cannot be described by any metaphor. But it can be felt after, looked for, and desired, even amid the raging of the storm. The silence may last a moment of time or it may last a thousand years. But it will end. Yet you will carry its strength with you. Again and again the battle must be fought and won. It is only for an interval that nature can be still. (5)
These written above are the first of the rules which are written on the walls of the Hall of Learning. Those that ask shall have. Those that desire to read shall read. Those that desire to learn shall learn."
