“It is the experience and inner experience of flying” Then perhaps it would have been wiser in this day and age to have evolved the terminology to “Inner Flying” from its very introduction. Perhaps the term “Inner Flying” would not then mislead the non-participator who is but a witness to the "hopping". The term “Inner Flying” would then perhaps be more appropriate to the experiencer as it does not directly refer to the “flying” of the physical body. Rather the physical body which does not “fly” in any likeness of the commonly perceived notion of flying such as that of the action of a bird or butterfly or maybug, is merely the shell, as the husk of a chestnut is not the chestnut, while the inner experience is, for some, one of a feeling of flying whether it be from carpet to column, from earth to sky, from cloud to cloud, from star to star, or from physical condition to a more refined atmosphere. To perhaps generalise a little on a certain perspective of the nature of spiritual evolution and the nature of the revelation of truth, it could be said that at one given time truth is revealed to a certain group or a people at a particular time for a specific purpose. Yet when that truth has played its part then new springs of life appear out of the old, and by definition, the old is superseded.
The old form, venerated and sacred as it might be, having played its part for humanity as a whole – generally without that 'whole' being conscious of its existence - is ready to be displaced, as it were. The old life, once brimming with liquefied revelation, has been taken, crystallised, cemented - and in so doing the life has been stifled, suffocated, no longer supplying the required sustenance for the spiritual needs and inner desires of the being yearning for that spiritual impetus it senses yet misses. Always there will be a place for the old casket thrown off by the new life because always there will be those not witnessing the new life due to being transfixed on the old, fired in the kiln of age, not willing or able to climb the hill to which the old path has led, so the living must let the dead bury the dead, as it were. The old vehicle of truth, now like a shroud, cannot contain the new life which has lately arisen and which is displayed to view for the eyes that look upward and onward over the perceived horizon. New life may spring up in the form of new truths yet they are aspects of Truth – in Reality there is no new Truth because there is only One Truth which is, and has always been, and will always be – but a newer atmosphere for a further comprehension of Truth is made possible, and this spiritual evolution, rightly understood, is a process that is continued ad infinitum. The glorious future is guaranteed…surely a simple motivating thought which is a cause for continual celebration...
