Analysis & Revelation in Inquiry
Two elements or dynamics that seem to have engaged my attention for sometime now are analysis and revelation, particularly in regards to their role or functioning in the process of inquiry. (Inquiry is a powerful methodology for removing the blinders of the ego-self.) Both of these dynamics, analysis and revelation, play a significant role in what I refer to these days as non-verbal inquiry.
Let’s begin with analysis or the analytical functioning of the mind and how it serves the process of inquiry and supports revelation. For most of my life, people have been telling me I am too much in my head – I even tell myself this at times! People often say I think too much, but many of those people do not understand that what is happening in me is not what is happening in them.
Often, when I am describing my experience or insights to someone, they think that I am engaged in what I call mechanical thinking – the mind is chewing its way through something, examining the details, looking in every nook and cranny. But these days, that is often not the case.
These days what is happening, more and more, is an analysis that is more synthesis than thinking. That is to say that I see more than think. The various elements , details and components of a situation or thread of inquiry just appear. The articulation of them can often appear to others like I am thinking about them, when in fact I am merely trying to express the relationships I am seeing between them and the various roles they play.
So, these days, telling me to stop thinking so much is wasted breath. It would be more on point to tell me to quit seeing so much which seems impossible because mostly what I see is not dependent on my eyes. Isn’t this part of your experience, too?
It is beyond me to explain or articulate revelation. Things are revealed – seems simple enough. What amazes me is the power and simplicity of revelation. Seeing and experiencing the affect of revelation on my mind, consciousness and experience is always surprising, amazing and fresh. “Seeing is Believing” seems to apply here.
These days I find myself engaged in a form of inquiry that is not so much a Sherlockean (I made that word up) experience, that is deductive or inductive reasoning. In fact, this form of inquiry bypasses articulation or my need to language or verbally interpret my experience. This experience of inquiry seems to be happening in an arena beyond the conceptual mind. It is more like free-falling into the depth. It feels more like open-ended revelation that is more a felt sense than seeing, hearing or conceptually understanding.
In this process, I feel the dynamism of the soul revealing itself in subtle ways. So far, my experience is that, it does me little good to think about things after returning to my normal sense and way of thinking and understanding. My mind seems unable to grasp the experience, but there is knowing and understanding – I can feel it in myself.
The result of this non-verbal inquiry is that as I live my life, I see the results of the process showing up as revelation or analysis/synthesis. My life reveals my understanding as I live it – there is nothing to apply, no burden to produce.
And that is about as much as I can say about non-verbal inquiry at the moment. What say you?
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