Rapture. The very word immediately prompts images. Rapture. Along with the images come feelings. Tears of joy, scoffing, indifference. Those indifferent are caught up in images of greater import (to them). Those who scoff are touched by rapture images but due to wounds of the heart protect themselves through disdain. Those with tears of joy are perhaps looking for the event known as rapture to take place out there in the sky and descend to the earth.
All three overlook the understanding that the rapture occurs within. When one withdraws from the hurtling burbling of the world into quietness, one can and does become enrapt. What is rapture but full delight, ecstasy, radiant awareness?
The site of rapture is the location just above one's crown chakra (the top of one's head). One's awareness is focused there. (Focusing awareness in one's butt or feet or stomach will not do it.)
Paintings of holy (enraptured) people often show a radiant light around their heads. One climbs the chakra ladder and takes the leap. One is still in the body while out of the body. Just as in the story of Jacob's ladder, angels (light energy) descend and ascend upon the ladder that you are. This is rapture.
For followers of Jesus (those who follow the path he took), this is a meeting place with the radiance and loving powers of Jesus. One is raptured -- taken out of the body. The heavens split open and the Son of Man descends. One rises to meet him and a merge occurs. This is rapture.
I write of delicate and sensitive things here. Those who scoff can stomp them with their boots. But those who hear can hear.
All three overlook the understanding that the rapture occurs within. When one withdraws from the hurtling burbling of the world into quietness, one can and does become enrapt. What is rapture but full delight, ecstasy, radiant awareness?
The site of rapture is the location just above one's crown chakra (the top of one's head). One's awareness is focused there. (Focusing awareness in one's butt or feet or stomach will not do it.)
Paintings of holy (enraptured) people often show a radiant light around their heads. One climbs the chakra ladder and takes the leap. One is still in the body while out of the body. Just as in the story of Jacob's ladder, angels (light energy) descend and ascend upon the ladder that you are. This is rapture.
For followers of Jesus (those who follow the path he took), this is a meeting place with the radiance and loving powers of Jesus. One is raptured -- taken out of the body. The heavens split open and the Son of Man descends. One rises to meet him and a merge occurs. This is rapture.
I write of delicate and sensitive things here. Those who scoff can stomp them with their boots. But those who hear can hear.
Wonderfully spoken and explained, George. It went well with my coffee. 8-)
ReplyDeleteI was blind and NOW I see... Rapture happens in THIS moment. Not some far off distant time and place. A quickening unto Life giving life...
ReplyDeleteI am amazed by how I fail to connect the dots sometimes. Thanks for lighting me up this morning. Rapture indeed!
ReplyDeleteThis is a very intriguing and profound concept, George, but it's going to make it a heck of a lot harder to know who's been 'left behind.' ;-)
ReplyDeleteAdding to thoughts about rapture...
ReplyDeleteOur reality helmet has cracked—destabilized (rapture is ecstatical; "ecstatic" etymologically means "unstable") by the germinating force of our inner harmonic chord sympathetically resonating with the Music of the Spheres. A rapid (cognate of "rapture") shift in consciousness ensues from within the reality helmet (the seed's husk) to "the location just above one's crown chakra."
The reality helmet splits open and the spirit of man ascends.
"The heavens split open and the Son of Man descends."
The two meet, interwhirl, and are One.
That thou art.
--Gary
The site of rapture is the location just above one's crown chakra (the top of one's head). One's awareness is focused there. (Focusing awareness in one's butt or feet or stomach will not do it.)
ReplyDeletethanks for the map. :)
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