I can only be in deep gratitude to have lived in times when so much has been given, offered to the human race, to help clear path ways littered or clogged by centuries of trauma many of us have experienced through our family, and or, our countries historical warring or victim heritage. I came to see there are no winners in war, psychological or otherwise, everyone looses, looses their birth rite to live fuller lives, the victor is also the looser. Jean-Paul Sartre said “Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.” Being a young woman during the 60s and 70s like many, I saw a world that had lost meaning. Nothing new in that revelation except something new had been added to the mix, something global, something awakening. Tools of learning appeared to enable us become more conscious, break from the past, looked like old ways could crash down. How could I not smell the coffee, see the line of a new moon and a new dawn rising. Some great people appeared on horizons, came to work with the evolution of human consciousness. I am beyond grateful to have been guided to Osho from where I came to be in my heart with Irena Tweedie and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. At different stages of my adult life I entered the world of psychological therapy, sometimes reaching cornerstones marked by cultural deficits, difficulties in the child parent bonding or sibling relationship. Sometimes I was rendered totally speechless when only by writing a poem could light enter, a picture emerge, understanding take place. The call within the heart, the longing for wholeness, connecting with something beyond what I saw around me, the beyond profound, is worth more than I can say. I often heard Irena Tweedie say, 'God enters through a wound'. What a world we inhabit that allows us to be here, to mirror our pain, our joys, to open us to something beyond and to where we stand. Deborah O'Brien |
If you wanted to trace back the cause of any event,
you would have to go back all the way
to the beginning of creation.
Eckhart Tolle.
A New Earth p197
Once on the spiritual path,
one can never go back:
not because there are such secrets
which can not be revealed,
but simply because there remains
nothing to go back to.
Irena Tweedie
Daughter of Fire p117