Deep Spirit (part 1)

There is something deeper than what you see on the surface of your relationships. The ones you have joined with in love are more than their behavior and even more than their thoughts and feelings.

You know this simply because you have always sensed there is something more within you and you are correct. But since you chose to experience this fact alone, you have yet to experience it.

If only we could see this ‘something more,’ this deeper aspect of the ‘self’ that has nothing to do with the body or even an outside world. The problem is that the world we live in has exiled this interior Deep Spirit experience, while appearances and forms have become much more important. "What you see is what you get" is the chief paradigm of modern engagement.

Our actions and behaviors take priority based on the world's (society's) teaching as to how we should act and what must be done. This is called social conditioning. However, it goes much deeper than mere socialization and this conditioned, scripted response to others has stifled our need to authentically relate to others from Deep Spirit. As time rolls on, we feel the distance growing and our interactions take on a displaced and scripted surface quality that leaves us feeling that life is devoid of meaning. This is because, make no mistake, your meaning comes from engagement with others. Meaning is available only in the space between two individuals, and this is why they came together in the first place. Yet, they must consciously choose to seek Deep Spirit together, since alone, it cannot be found.

If we engaged the world directly from this Deep Spirit experience, everything we say and do would be correct, because Deep Spirit informs from the level of Being and in that sense it is primordial and underlying all appearances. Unfortunately, the world is absent this Deep Spirit and, therefore, cannot teach it. There may have been a time when it could be learned from the world, but those days have long since passed and we now move farther and farther from this natural impulse to joyfully relate to the world in direct engagement with others. In the modern world, our lives become increasingly more bereft of meaning and we feel more lost and alone in an absurd world that makes no sense.

Deep Spirit makes sense and, upon mutual encounter, wipes away all confusion as to our purpose and function and causes us to see others and the world in a new light. In fact, it is this deeper aspect that indelibly connects us and unifies us. From Deep Spirit, you will know me and I, you, though we had been strangers before.

Unfortunately, you cannot encounter Deep Spirit alone or in solitude (although solitude can provide a preparation) nor can anyone else “seek within” and find this essence by him or herself. This is because it requires two or more through which to create the foundation, or 'grounding,' from which it can be directly experienced. It will start with two, because two is a condition that the world has not yet negated, although it has been reduced to mere appearance. We still seek to join with another, although even this natural predisposition is beginning to wane and dissolve.

Some have called it the “Tao,” “Awakening, “Enlightenment” or the “One.” Yet, if they experienced it alone then they were mistaken and merely relied on concepts instead of direct experience. There is nothing conceptual about Deep Spirit. It does not conform to words and need not be expressed. But it does require another through which to realize the experience. Together they will simply know, since the experience is unmistakable.

We could call it “love” and many have briefly touched this experience when bonding with another. Yet, the problem with this concept is that it is defined differently by every individual mind that considers it. In addition, experiencing love with another eventually conforms to the world’s rituals and expectations, thereby, losing contact with this deeper, more primordial, essence. This is why we call it "Deep Spirit" because it must be defined by two minds for it to be experienced by either one. It is not available to an individual apart from others and the world.

However, it is absolute and unconditional by nature and this makes it available to all of us.