The Three Knocks Series – Part III: Knocking, Integration & Awakening
Download MP3In the final episode of the series, we arrive at “knock and it shall be opened unto you.” Here, the focus shifts from external searching and relational asking to an internalized integration—where effort, practice, and commitment solidify into identity. We explore the irreversible nature of certain choices, the opening of heart and mind, and how the three knocks form a repeatable pattern for integrating any deep learning into who we are.
🔑 Key Takeaways
- Knocking is a distinct, irreversible act: once you knock, you cannot “unknock.”
- “Opened unto you” describes an integrative state where a domain becomes part of who you are, not just what you know.
- Seeking, asking, and knocking together form a reusable pattern for skill and knowledge acquisition across a lifetime.
💬 Featured Quotes
- 0:00:41 — “When you knock, you can't un-knock, if that makes sense.”
- 0:01:03 — “When you've made the effort, when you've practiced or when you have committed, that is a real movement from the seeking process, which is external, to the asking process, which is relatedness and interactivity, and into this internalized integration model where you've knocked and it's become a part of you.”
- 0:01:26 — “This opened unto you, this in the phrasing, the biblical phrasing, that opened unto you is really, it's an integrative kind of understanding that the entire domain is now a part of who you are and what you are.”
- 0:01:47 — “When it is opened unto you, it is an opening of your heart, it's an opening of your mind, it's an opening of your consciousness, and it builds to this deep and meaningful, integrative understanding of a subject or a concept or what have you.”
- 0:03:21 — “When you look through this kind of overall process, you can very easily look back through some of your own skill acquisition or some of your own knowledge acquisition and understand that it follows this process at some level.”
🔗 Explore Related Episodes
- The Entered Apprentice Mason Series – Part III: The Cultivation of Wonder
Explores how wonder widens perception and anchors the systemic dimension of the Entered Apprentice—resonating with the opened, integrative state described in “knock and it shall be opened unto you.” - The Ashlar and the Question of Growth
Uses the Rough and Perfect Ashlar to frame transformation as a choice, paralleling how the act of knocking marks a committed movement into integrated growth. - The Master Mason Series – Part I: The Work of Flow
Looks at mastery as a state where action and actor merge, echoing the identity-level integration that follows from knocking and having a domain “opened unto you.”
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Brian Mattocks
Host and Founder of A Mason's Work - a podcast designed to help you use symbolism to grow. He's been working in the craft for over a decade and served as WM, trustee, and sat in every appointed chair in a lodge - at least once :D
