EXCERPT: Pages: 186 - 187 (Chapter 15, Box Mentality)

I was sitting in my favorite rocking chair upstairs in our bedroom reading a book when Walt brought in the mail and called to me. “You’ve got a letter from Winged Wolf here. Do you want me to bring it up?”

As always, when receiving a communication from her, my heartbeat accelerated and I felt both eager and anxious simultaneously. Anything she might say would alter my life in some way. It always did.

This letter was a response from my Teacher to that lengthy letter I had sent her. In addition to challenging her on policy issues, it was filled with my struggles to understand life from the perspective of the divine consciousness. There was something I wasn’t seeing clearly, and I knew it because I was feeling angry and frustrated. In the letter, I had cited several instances that left me feeling confused and critical of her.

Her response sent me reeling. I read it over again. She began with a reference to my seeing everything dualistically, as either this or that, hot or cold, up or down. She used the example of a coin. “On the one side there is ‘this,’ the other ‘that’ and yet they are both the whole. As divine consciousness, while one is aware of the opposite sides of coin, the sides exist only in relation to the whole.”

She went on to say, “One’s consciousness has to win freedom from paradoxical natures, which are mental interpretations of the whole. Once this freedom is won, one relates to the rules of human life without restriction, and employs the natural ability of being here and there, omnipresent, at the same time.