Between-ness
As far as I know, the late US spiritual coach, Richard Rose, coined the word between-ness, and if there is one word that can revolutionize our life-experience today, that would be it. Between-ness. But just how do I mean that? How did Rose mean it?
Between-ness is an elusive concept not easily explained, but once you relax into it and feel it, you know everything about it. Rose sometimes called it ‘white magic.’ If you place yourself, in consciousness, between thought and no-thought,” he would affirm, “everything will work together for your good in an extraordinary way.”
In the field of electro-dynamics, as we know, there must be an unbroken connection between the positive and negative poles before energy can flow and produce useful outcomes. In spirituality, you could say the the positive and negative poles represent the infinite and finite dimensions of our present manifestation.
If we are totally identified with either of these ‘polarities’, if there is no recognzied connection or inseparability between these two aspects of the One Reality, then there can be no ‘creative’ energy flow in and through our life-experience.
As long as we feel outselves to be a particular form only, sepaate and distict from all other forms, and especially, from the Formless or divine dimension, there can be no inate power to create or renew, no sense of our being in harmony with the Universe. or, as Rose put it … no ‘white magic’.
When, at last, we ‘let go’ our attachment to a particular form, and move out, in consciosness, into that space between all forms, and any concept of the Formless, we will find ourselves in that no-place where all things are possible because now everything is allowed to be.
Between-ness can be used to manifest anything that is required, from the most mundane to the most exalted. As an experiment, Rose even used it when playing poker to get the cards he wanted dealt to him. But most importantly, he also taught that between-ness could and should be employed as a means to Self-realization. Used in this way, he called it ultimate between-ness.
Of course, in ultimate between-ness, no longer any ‘person’ trying to get something, but simply an unconfined sense of “Thy will be done.” and the need of the moment is invariably met. Jesus of Nazareth knew the presence and power of ultimate between-ness, but so can we if we make the ’shift’ in consciousness that he lived. Only in this way can we move mountains — or, better yet, open a door to and from the Absolute.
~ by Pete Sumner
