Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2019 Aspire Mag FINAL | Page 62

THE EVENTS THAT OCCUR TO US ARE
NOTHING BUT DREAMS, PROJECTIONS,
IMAGES OF SOUL, OF OUR INSTINCT. WE
PROJECT WHAT WE HAVE INSIDE AND LIVE
WITHIN OUR IMAGES.
gods or spirits. The term in Greek, especially
in Greek philosophy, used to indicate
happiness as a state of personal satisfaction
as well as a fortunate relationship with
the rest of the world. For the Greeks, and
especially for Aristotle, eudaemonia was the
ultimate end of human existence, because
happiness was the sign of an accomplished,
well-lived life.
The problem with our culture is that, having
moved away from instinct and severed
its ties with nature, it has lost its ability to
recognize spirits, gods, deities. For the
Greeks gods weren’t ideas one had to
believe in: gods had to be recognized.
Recognizing is different from believing. We
believe in things we have no contact with.
Instead, we recognize things we come into
contact with.
In order to live in the company of gods and
ideas, spirits and deities we have to first of all
re-establish a connection with the invisible,
with the soul. We require a relationship such
as to be able to perceive the invisible and
have trust in it, love it and be loved by it.
But we inhabit a profoundly materialistic and
patriarch society, where male, solar values,
the voice of logic and rationality are dominant
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and precede the matriarch, lunar, emotional
side. We have lost the ability to perceive the
invisible, and thus we need help, we need a
tool. The Mother Mantra is such a tool.
The Mother Mantra is also known as
tradition of the “reabsorption of reality” or
“withdrawal of projections.” The practices of
the Mother Mantra tradition, in fact, have the
great ability of allowing their practitioners
to engage in “soul-making.” With this term
I wish to indicate the ability to realize that
the events that occur to us are nothing but
dreams, projections, images of soul, of our
instinct. We project what we have inside and
live within our images. The soul is the very
act of imagining. Reabsorbing reality means
taking every person, thing, place and event
with which we’ve come into contact during
our life and bring it back to its true nature:
image, dream, vision. In turn, this means
realizing that we are the dreamers of this
very dream and that we can cease being
victims of events.
In the Mother Mantra tradition all of this is
done in an almost completely automatic way.
The great yogin Sri Aurobindo used the term
“automatic power” to define mantras—which
are nothing but names, phrases, or even
just words or syllables with particular mystic
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