When we agree to connect to the unknown and the invisible, we find out that our life experience enables something new to be created and realized. This is a life of ceaseless creation, somewhat like sitting on the edge of an active volcano's crater.
In the following article I will be looking at how important creativity is in a conversation and how, through a creative or transformative process, it is possible to arrive at a place of heightened awareness.
Shaike Levi of the "Hagashash Ha'chiver" legendary trio said once that the difference between a monologue and a dialogue is that a monologue is one person talking to himself, while a dialogue is 2 people talking to themselves…
Indeed sometimes it seems that the ego, that shadow of separation and selfishness, appears at its mightiest exactly at the meeting point of two human beings.
How does it appear? What shape does it assume in the conversation of two people?
The ego appears in the idea, sometimes spoken, that 'I already know.' The one knows already, more or less, what the other is going to say, knows already whether he opposes or supports, while the other one knows already everything from his own experience, and so there is nothing new under the sun.
Often we communicate in a mechanical manner, nodding yes or instantly opposing someone's opinion because we already know what we believe or think.
Ideally, a conversation is not an exchange of words and ideas, and is not summed up by a temporary friction of one private world against another private world.
A conversation is the breaking of the barrier between two people, which brings about (even if only temporarily) the awakening of a new mind.
Welcome to Conversations of Transformation.
According to this method, when people gather in a circle and hold on to a question together, they may find themselves, relatively easily 'parachuting' into a field of an alert intelligence, where they may find an answer which stems from the known boundaries of the human mind.
The only tools of those taking part in the conversation are one good question, and minds eager to know the truth, and at the same time doing so out of a brave and honest quest, which dares to pave the way in unknown territories of experiencing.
The participants choose a basic spiritual question.
Questions such as: What is love? What is truth? What is death? Who am I? etc., can be a good start, for they are questions which the human being goes on asking, even though they have been given so many nice and good answers. (We have to ask ourselves why is it that we continue to ask those questions, even though they have been given already so many answers.)
Questions of another kind deal with our relationship with the spiritual change and the process of development. For example: What will happen if we enter the unknown together? What is real meditation? etc.
The guide of the circle raises the question, while the participants sit with their eyes closed (it is recommended to sit for meditation prior to that).
We must listen to the question as if we are hearing it for the first time in our lives, and let it enter to that innermost and deepest place within us. We must listen to all the answers which come to mind instantly, and understand that none of them will do, since they already stem from a known source.
During the first phase of the technique we must negate all the possible answers which are automatically brought to mind. We must realize that in order for us to discover something new, we have to reject the old. We have to reject altogether quotes of books or mentors and give up our previous experiences.
We must remember, at this stage, that the nature of a question is to always discover something new, to reveal an unknown territory. The question always pushes us from all that is already known towards what has not yet been revealed.
Therefore try to see the beauty of the question itself. Don't rush to answer it.
The victory here is not in finding the absolute answer, but rather the process of tracking, which exposes us slowly to a new dimension of an experience, which is both inner and collective.
A considerable part of this technique's objective is to cause a structural and cellular change of the brain (transformation). In order to achieve this, you must be discontented and unsatisfied with the answers arriving from the world of thoughts.
These answers are not carriers of frequencies of freedom and new revelations. Therefore, the more you push your brains to cope with a question it is not at all capable of coping with, you will find out that such a transformation is actually taking place in the brain itself. The brain ceases to be a tool which supplies partial answers, and turns to be a tool of silent, total and passionate attentiveness.
When, at some point, you enter the mysterious field of trial and wisdom, which exists outside the boundaries of the brain, you may experience unknown vibrations which will flow through your body, your brain and the whole room.
Try to listen, within that field as well, and to see how you can proceed. Is there anything it wishes to show you, or a certain dimension of revelation it wishes to lead you to?
Conversations of Transformation have an unmistakable collective dimension.
We must understand that together, we penetrate an intelligence that we would not have been able, necessarily, to penetrate on our own, and that we need each other for that joint creation.
Out of the collective interest of creating, we must learn to listen to each other, to try and think together, feel together, and identify, out of the insights which arise, the most liberating ones. And so you may come to realize that experiencing collective awakening is even more exciting and wonderful than your own personal awakening.