Victim or Co-Creator

I am currently reading a fantastic book called The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra. 

The chapter I am reading currently talks about our journey from victim to co-creator, and how this journey helps us realize that there really aren't multiple realities, but one.  The one reality isn't something that we can see as victims as we are creating our perceptions through our fears of losing love, and the conditions for love we grow up with.

From The Book of Secrets:

"Imagine a passenger on an airplane who doesn't know that flight exists.  As the plane takes off he panics, thinking such words as "What's holding us up? What if this plane is too heavy? Air weighs nothing, and this whole plane is made of steel!"  Thrown back on his own perceptions, the panicked passenger loses all sense of being in control; he is trapped in an experience that could be leading to disaster.

In the cockpit the pilot feels more in control because he's been trained to fly.  He knows the aircraft; he understands the plane's controls that he works.  Therefore he has no reason to panic, even though in the back of his mind the danger of the mechanical failure is always present.  Disaster could occur, but that is out of his control.

Now move on to the designer of jet planes, who can build any craft he wants based on the principle of flight.  He occupies a position of greater control than the pilot because if he kept on experimenting with various designs, he could come up with a plane that is incapable of crashing (perhaps some kind of glider with an airfoil that never stalls, no matter what angle of dive the plane goes into).

This progression from passenger to pilot to designer is symbolic of a spiritual journey.  The passenger is trapped in the world of the five senses.  He can perceive flight only as impossible because when steel is compared to air, it only seems capable of falling through it.   The pilot knows the principles of flight, which transcend the five senses by going to a deeper law of nature (the Bernoulli principle), which dictates that air flowing over a curved surface creates lift.  The designer transcends even further by coaxing the laws of nature to arrive at an intended effect.  In other words, he is closest to the source of reality, acting not as a victim of the five senses or a passive participant in natural law but as a co-creator with nature."

I will stop there, but there is so much more deliciousness for the soul in this book.  I highly recommend it and I am only on page 43.  BOOM!

Love to all.  Brudda Zen!