the truth shall make you free

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," says Jesus. What is the truth? The truth is that we are Awareness. Awareness is grounded in the continuous Unknown, is a continuous unfolding. The Unknown longs to be known. The extent of its known-ness depends upon my and your Awareness. Or rather, the realm of our Awareness with which we identify.

For example, thoughts arise. When I identify, make myself identical with the thoughts, I restrict Awareness. With no clinging to thoughts, Awareness opens.

Awareness is composed of the dark and the light. Light arises out of the dark. Known arises out of the Unknown. We are the Unknown knowing, becoming known.

We are the light of Awareness arising out of the dark Unknown. The Unknown is closer to us than our very breath. We are the Unknown knowing. We are this Mystery endlessly repeating itself yet never the same. Jesus embodied this and told us this: "You are the light of the world."

We are the light of Awareness. The ways to dim it are well known. So are the ways to let it shine. "Deep calls to deep."

the monastic order of the cosmos seeing itself

Going by various names (scientists, seers, diviners, mystics, gnostics, shaman, priests), we are members of the Monastic Order of the Cosmos Seeing Itself. Why monastic? Because seeing requires a stepping aside from the usual preoccupations of humankind, a stepping outside of ordinary consciousness into vaster realms.