{"id":3250,"date":"2014-05-06T10:44:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T10:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2014-05-21T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T08:01:41","slug":"the-flying-carpets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"The Flying Carpets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/090410_flying_carpet_sofa_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3251\" alt=\"090410_flying_carpet_sofa_1\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/090410_flying_carpet_sofa_1-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/090410_flying_carpet_sofa_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/090410_flying_carpet_sofa_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/090410_flying_carpet_sofa_1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you might have noticed, I am a regular co traveller on the route that Isaac Shapiro travels.<br \/>\nI love to settle with him during his retreats.<br \/>\nHe said last night in the Muiderkerk during the meeting there (my summary):<br \/>\nPeople want to get enlightened. With the expectation that it will be fun. And it is.<br \/>\nBut what we were\/are not fully aware of is this: realizing that we are Consciousness is the easy part.<br \/>\nAfter that moment each and everything that has been suppressed will come up. And it has to. For me that is a love affair. And it is a challenge. Over and over again, in fact constantly being fully willing to lovingly be with life, in life, as it is.<\/p>\n<p>Going through old papers I just found an old picture from Isaac doing his being.<br \/>\nIt was the time, probably just before the turn of the century, where everyone got enlightened, meaning &#8216;they\/we saw who we are&#8217; and then the fading away of it started to happen, basicly because there was a clinging to the euforia of the first seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, slowly, the\u00a0awareness unfolded and is still unfolding that the realisation that we are Consciousness necessarily is followed by a dance on the sometimes sleeping, sometimes hot and wild volcano of the personal, familial, national and collective unconscious. (I wrote more about the developments in Isaac&#8217;s retreat&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=2918\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Here is the ol&#8217;pic:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3256\" alt=\"moz-screenshot-91\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91.png\" width=\"841\" height=\"1210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91.png 841w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91-711x1024.png 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3256\" alt=\"moz-screenshot-91\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91-208x300.png\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91-711x1024.png 711w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91.png 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3256\" alt=\"moz-screenshot-91\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moz-screenshot-91-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; As you might have noticed, I am a regular co traveller on the route that Isaac Shapiro travels. I love to settle with him during his retreats. He said last night in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=3250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/090410_flying_carpet_sofa_1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tD9I-Qq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}