Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas

by A.H. Almaas

If we see the whole spectrum of what exists, we see things as they are; but if part of our vision is blocked, if we have this blindness, we see only one part of what is but assume that what we see is all that there is. So when we are essence-blind, the world is only physical to us, and we assume that if there is a spiritual reality, it is somewhere else. This belief is supported by our God representation since, with rare exceptions, God is seen as separate from the world. This is one of the things that disturbs our basic trust and in some sense destroys it: How can you have basic trust when you don’t see the true reality of the world, when what you see is a physical world of random or meaningless events, when you don’t see its spiritual nature, when you don’t see what gives it goodness, what gives it perfection, what gives it meaning?