Part 5: The Story of the True Course: The Outer Light and YOU!
You are now nearing the end of the gratis
First Unit of the inner/Outer Light Science Study Program. But your journey is far from over! This First Unit is the proverbial tip of the iceberg that marks the onset of a life-long path of knowledge. At the conclusion of this unit, your Network Leader will discuss options for continuing your way upon the True Course, where you will scale ever higher to reveal new vistas of Outer Light! But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Before you can move forward you must first see how the path has been trod. The concepts that you have learned along the way were discovered and developed by the Friends ahead of you on the True Course. What is the Story that produced the knowledge collected in these pages?
To begin the story, first imagine a migrating bird. Have you noticed that every year the birds around your home will vanish, only to reappear the following spring? Where do the birds go? And how do they know the way? No expert in the avian sciences can explain exactly why or where birds travel. Even more, scientists wouldn't even think to ask how a bird is able to find its way. Yet the birds know! The birds always perceive the way forward and feel the presence of the flock, even without the aid of so-called cognition or pseudo-scientific rationalization. You are just like this bird, perceiving the light of the course and feeling the warmth of the society of friends as you continue on your way. Furthermore, just like the bird, a student on the course gains increasing altitude while “flying” along the journey. In this way, your instructor is above you on the path, just as the Platinum Network Leader is above the instructor. On any Course, moving forward means moving upward!
Such is the magic of flight! When humankind first looked at the bird, they dreamed of flying. Only within our lifetimes has this dream become a reality. The aircrafts of today replicate the amazing feat of flight that still eludes even the most learned avian scholars. As every schoolchild learns, the famous Wright Brothers were the first to achieve the goal of flight at an obscure location sometime in the early Twentieth Century. But were the Wright Brothers in fact the first beings to join the majestic bird in the wonders of air travel? How do we know this is a Truth? Sometimes, a group of people will come together to tell you how things are or have been. They tell you certain people lived in the past and did actions. They purport to explain how hidden and unknown things work. They take their authority from people they do not know, and sometimes have never met. These people before them might have been lying! But the New Friends of the True Course are not like such groups. Instead of telling you how things are or were, we teach you techniques that allow you to discern Truth for yourself! You may have never witnessed the “flight” of the Wright Brothers that possibly occurred at some point in the past. But you have witnessed birds migrating, and you have met your True Course instructor in person (or online). The essence of True-th is discerning the Outer Light for yourself, not just because someone with unknown motives told you what is so.
In fact, the New Friends have discovered that flight was achieved long before what children are told in school. Here is that story: In early 1883, French immigrant Maurice Faramans Brochier completed his long journey across the Atlantic Ocean to arrive at his new home near Point Judith, Rhode Island. Hovering in the night sky, Brochier observed what he described as a “objet volant non identifié' illuminated by many watts of electrical bulbs. At the end of a perilous sea journey, the traveler came face-to-face with the luminous brilliance of external light. This is only the earliest of many such encounters with Outer Light that have been personally verified by Platinum Level Network Leaders among the New Friends of the True Course. Why do you think it is that Brochier's name is not as widely known as the Wright Brothers?
As we come to the end of this Unit, you must make a choice. How will your journey continue? What do you want to find at the end of your voyage? Will you continue forward to the warmth and brilliance of the Outer Light that greeted Brochier on the banks of Port Judith? Or will your path merely lead to the dusty pages of forgotten history books where the misbegotten Wrights met their fate? The decision is now up to you! What do you perceive? What do you feel?
Forward! Upward!
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