A teacher cautions gains in consciousness can be lost. Initially puzzled, my thoughts turn to Alcoholics Anonymous and what its members realize: sobriety can be lost.
I think of sobriety as a personally cultivated relationship with Life. One that aspires to deeper and more satisfying experience than is possible under the influence of addiction. Working the program not only minimizes back-sliding but maximizes what may be realized.
Reflecting on similarities between consciousness and sobriety helps me think in fresh ways. Both require attention and intention. Neither can be kept on a shelf. Each flows through the ‘now’ of every moment, supported or diminished by the choices I make.
I choose to ‘work the program … just for today’ by writing.
Inspired by Jung’s statement God has fallen from the heavens into the human psyche, my spirituality begins with turning inward. Inner work is my portal to a new intelligence, a new consciousness and experience of Spirit. I undertake problems and suffering as necessary birth pains that slowly deliver this new intelligence into my metaphoric heart. I work to be not apart from Spirit, but home to Spirit, a carrier of divine consciousness. My 'spiritual sobriety’ depends on this work.