The Open Secret [antikvár]

Introduction Whilst we remain locked within the apparent experience of being separate individuals living in an existence with which we have to negotiate, we live in a state of dreaming. In that dream state, all that we do is apparently governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite. Therefore all of our individual attempts to make our lives work, to reach perfection or to attain personal liberation, are neutralised. We discover, through deep reflection and understanding, that as long as we continue in this dream we are, in reality, living in a circle. We are on a wheel on which everything is continually repeating itself over and over again in differing images. It is wholeness delighting in a creation that is both constrained and liberated. And despite what we believe about our individuality and free will, we come to see that we are only dreamed characters reacting and responding from a set of conditioned belief systems. All of classic religion, art and science, in a world that we see as progressive, comes within the parameters of this perfectly balanced and exactly neutral state which serves only to reflect another