February 22: Finding a book written long ago is like finding a buried treasure. It is as if you went into an old abandoned house and opened a hidden box found in the attic. You dust it off , open the lid, see this book and find answers, secrets revealed and thoughts preserved by a person you never even knew existed until that very moment. The ideas come back to life. The author is reborn.
And so it was with A Hermit in the Himalayas by Paul Brunton written in 1937.
The travels, the months in the mountains, the spiritual thoughtfulness. the Overself.
Maybe it is experiences like that that caused me to think about the ageless experiment.
It is as if we find a new friend to discuss issues with. We enter their lives anew. We walk where they walked and reflect on their journey which becomes our journey. There is a timelessness to such an adventure.
Maybe it was sharing with him the journey we just came back from although it was more than half a century apart from each other.
The shared experience.
The same is true about our parents and grandparents. The shared experiences although separated by half a century or more. There is a treasure waiting for you. It could be simply sitting down with your loved one and dusting off the relationship, opening the lid, finding the buried treasure that has been right in front of you all these years. Walking the path they walked and thereby learning how better to walk the path you are now walking. Learning about the Overself
Revisit your life. Reintroduce yourself to your fellow travelers. There is a treaure waiting for you.