I often talk about organized dysfunction and the symptoms of re-organizing as it applies to the physical body. The below excerpt from A Pilgrim in Your Body talks about the spiritual process, however is a great explanation that also applies to the physical process.
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"Signs of the Spiritual Process
Marilyn Ferguson, founder of the Brain/Mind Bulletin, articulated a principle from quantum theory that gets to the heart of emerging spiritual process. She says, "Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order." What this says about the constant organization, break down, and reorganization of the stuff of the universe also applies to our work with energy and consciousness and the way our inner and outer lives change and grow. Here are some hallmarks of that process:
Disruption.
In big and small ways, something interrupts the continuity of a person's life. In some people, it can be the breaking in of external events, such as a sudden loss, or input from other dimensions of consciousness, perhaps in the form of a profound insight, dream, or inner awakening. In other people, it's not a case of something breaking in, but rather it is the person who breaks out of the status quo.
Reshuffling.
This is a fluid phase, marked in many people by uncertainty, disorientation, and vulnerability. A person might feel lost and directionless without their old orientation, but these are also times of new opportunities to shape the world they live in.
Reorganization.
Sooner or later, new patterns crystallize out of the chaos. Remember Ferguson's statement that things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order. That new, higher level of order will, in its turn, fall apart and give rise to what comes next. That's the way things progress in nature and in us. Our spiritual process is no different."
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