About: Seeing life’s deeper meaning
In the first lecture, the Guide compares life to the sea, with each individual soul traveling in its own small boat. This symbolism captures the stormy aspects of life as well as the calm waters that allow us to regroup between storms.
The storms are always followed by sunshine, and the sun in fact is always present behind the clouds. The journey alternates between storms and calm until our boat arrives at its destination.
What is our destination? The firm land of the Spirit World—our true home.
If we are skilled captains and not afraid of danger, we will direct our boat wisely through the elements. Then we’ll gather strength during the smooth periods to be ready for the next storm.
Another of us might get nervous and lose inner control whenever a storm is brewing. Yet another may be so scared that, in their extreme fear, no effort is made to steer the boat at all. They drift through storms, not gaining anything.
The sea is more than a beautiful metaphor. It reminds us that life itself speaks in symbols. Storms, clouds, changing tides and calm waters all mirror movements within our own souls.
Such symbols are gifts that help us navigate the journey home.
If we reach out to God and ask for help, we can be given more strength to steer our little boat well—even through storms.
The journey all depends on how well we direct our life.
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Learn more in Get a Better Boat, Essay 33: So, how’s your little boat doing?
Finding our unique rhythm
In the final lecture, the Guide once again spoke of the beautiful symbolism of the sea, pointing out how it reveals that nothing is ever lost. We can observe this in the ebb and flow of the water.
When it recedes, it seems to disappear and no longer exist. Of course, it continues to exist in the greater pool, and it will return.
Individual consciousness is the same.
In the ebb and the flow, we also see a certain rhythm. In life, we too often allow our disruptive minds to become insensitive to our own unique rhythm patterns. In our work, we want to learn to move in harmony with them.
When we seek connections between our outer world and our inner landscape, but the answers fail to come, we may be out of rhythm. The waiting time can then be used to find qualities within ourselves that can only be seen during times of ebb, never during flow.
It’s like having a chance to look closely at the whalebones and seashells lying on the seafloor, which you can’t see once the tide comes back in.
Lastly, in the same way that the time span between high tide and low tide is never exactly the same, we need to learn to sense our own rhythm in all things.
One day, we will no longer need the light. Because we will become what we have always been—the
illuminating urge itself.
Becoming illumination itself
The Guide tells us that we will recognize this type of symbolism more as we awaken. Then we will come to view the universe in a whole new way.
We will begin to recognize purpose where we once saw randomness. To see that there is a magnificent plan at work to bring us all to Oneness.
This journey began with learning how consciousness creates our world. It ends with learning how the world speaks back to consciousness. Eventually, we come to recognize that everything in life is pointing us toward the same destination:
the rediscovery of who we have always been.
“The world then goes about its business. Its business is light that no darkness opposes because it does not illuminate something, but is the illuminating urge itself.”
– Two steps in the Magi Process, by Jason Shulman
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