A Mason's Work

At a sort of philosophical or systemic level of the Master Masons degree, you really begin

to approach the act of creation as a non-duel experience.

It is no longer workmen working on the object or the subject.

It is an integrated cooperation and collaboration with the entire universe, essentially playing

part of which you are an instrument as well as the material being worked.

When we look at this meaningfully as an individual, you oftentimes will hear people use phrases

like non-duel or unitive awareness or unitive consciousness.

In a comprehensive and profound flow state, you are, again, both the material being worked

and the workmen themselves.

It is a very interesting perspective to kind of fall into.

You become aware in a lot of ways that none of the things that have led you to the moment

in which you are working have ever happened in isolation.

The millions of generations of organisms before you that led to you and the millions of organisms

that led to your teachers or your colleagues or the people that have crafted the material

that you are working or the people that have written the treaties upon which you are trying

to innovate or improve, all of that is of the same stuff.

When it is of the same stuff, you can really adopt this kind of almost a left hand right hand

experience where you are both of the things being worked, you are the workmen and the work.

It is difficult to encapsulate what that genuinely feels like because it is so profound

when it happens, when you have these moments where this sort of reality comes to the fore,

it really is kind of an amazing experience.

The hard thing to do to get to those experiences is again, when you get so deeply ammeshed

in the work that you forget yourself, that is the beginning of this sort of non-dual philosophical

mastermasons awareness.

There is no eye in that process, if that makes sense.

There is no sense of self when you are in the work at that level.

We talk about flow state and it is useful to imagine that there is almost different levels

of the flow state.

Something that is visual that is called the mind to me is the part in Fantasia, if you

have never seen Fantasia, it is an animated film set to music.

There is a part in Fantasia where Mickey Mouse, the main character in the movie, has

a magic wand and he is a magic hat and he is at the ocean and he is able to command these

waves.

If you look, it is almost impossible to tell at certain parts of that whether the waves

come first or his actions do and whether he is causing the waves to happen or the waves

are causing him to happen.

That is really the kind of sensation of that non-dual mastermasons experience.

Encourage you to look to those kinds of experiences, try and find them in places where you may

already be used to that and then extend that outward in a lateral to other domains where

you have not had that experience yet.

This mastermasons perspective at a philosophical level can happen across all of the domains

of work, all of the domains of human experience.

Try and expand again from the places you know to those lateral places where that experience

may not get be common to you.

If you do that, you will find again your ability to stay centered and in the moment and understand

the full scope and complexity of what it means to be co-creative in the universe really

is encapsulated quite well in that mastermasons apron perspective.