Final Approach
An aircraft needs to be fully stabilised in its final approach to ensure a smooth landing. Similarly, the psychic body which operates as the intermediate level of an individual’s reality system needs to be adjusted accordingly for touchdown with a deeper resonance of being. The pilot must be aware of both inner and outer realms and follow the path of lights to the location of the runway. Sometimes on the final approach something unexpected occurs and it’s not possible to land where originally intended. The pilot must then instigate a ‘go around’ which entails another circuit of time. It’s to remain calm and focused so as to establish a holding pattern until there’s another opportunity to land.
During the flight, which is symbolic of the journey through existence, the personal drives and ambitions reduce in frequency and any emotional baggage is distributed throughout the fuselage or personal space of the body. The direction of the life vehicle levels out at a cruising speed comparable to the weight of past being carried in the cargo bay. An emergency sometimes arises triggering a rapid descent into the pain and unhappiness of past experiences. The person fears the unknown and clings to their most treasured possessions (which represent their deepest attachments), keeping love and the fulfilment of life at a distance.
The journey between birth and death is a gathering of the necessary experience to provide the practical skills to survive and function in the world. However, it’s the attachment to our past emotional experience which can make us fly either too low or too high. In extremes this can be fatal, so the pilot must become fully acclimatised to the altitude they are flying at present. Out speeding the moment is a downgrading of consciousness which strengthens the herd mentality to find security among the masses. True individuality is discovered in travelling light or, put another way, in the light of self-knowledge.
The world exists to perpetuate itself as a global spinning wheel, driven by its own momentum to preserve some measure of equilibrium. The final approach is the virtue of participating on the long haul of life. It’s to touch down and be joyous in returning home after being away for so long.
So good….
Thank you Gloria.
Thank you Lance, this offering speaks clearly to me. I have awareness of this in a recent relationship which recently ended. Having much awareness of my patterns and fear of “flying” into the inevitable storms which erupt within intimate relationships, I knew we were headed into storms, which we navigated fairly well until the final storm as we co-piloted the turbulence, my partner let go of the flight controls and left me flying the plane alone. He explained he could no longer navigate and would be signing off and he did. So I continue the flight on my own, learning to read the multitude of dials, buttons, and levers. I hope to set down for a while on a large island, refuel and take off again. All this said, I’ve found it tremendously difficult to find the auto-pilot switch and place the flight of my life into the Source of All Love and Goodness in the All and All. Perhaps, I’ve been looking in all the wrong places. Perhaps help is closer than I believe, perhaps it is right here, right now awating me to fly above the thought, “I’ll never be able to fly solo.” Love to you dear Lance.
Thank you Patricia.
Hi Lance,
Intriguing post, thank you. I was wondering if you could elaborate on the idea of the final approach – is there more than one that we experience or is the final approach singular (ex. the ultimate touch down) and the goal is to do so with a deeper resonance of being; which life experience, higher consciousness and humility can help us with? And when you speak of returning home after being away for so long – you mean the home of the soul? What is home?
The final approach begins when the call of the spirit is registered at the conscious level of mind. This fixes the light of intelligence on the source of original love within the being and is the home whence I come in each body. What strengthens the resolve to unite with this resonance of divinity is being willing to serve a greater love than the demands of the personal self.
Humility is dying to existence every moment and relinquishing the past as any feelings and memorable impressions. In truth, I have never left home. It’s the panic flight into existence which appears to have created the gap in time. The task of love is to unite the man or woman as their undivided self through being disabused of their former ignorance of the purpose of life and love.
Beautiful!!