To return to the consideration of the many glamours which beset each and every one of us, I have given a small list of the many types of glamour which cause so much psychological difficulty in our collective living. To develop an intuitive sense of what glamour is and the actual effect it has on our hold on reality is the first necessary step towards dissipation of these most ancient and potent fogs.
If we look closely at each of the glamours mentioned below we will note the essential element of selfishness running through all of them:
“The glamour of self-centredness and personal potency
The glamour of selfish personal ambition
The glamour of the superimposed will – upon others and upon groups
The glamour of popularity
The glamour of personal wisdom
The glamour of self-pity
The glamour of self-satisfaction
The glamour of being busy
The glamour of creative work – without true motive
The glamour of self-importance, from the standpoint of knowing, of efficiency
The glamour of harmony, aiming at personal comfort and satisfaction
The glamour of war
The glamour of psychic perception instead of intuition
The glamour of materiality, or over-emphasis of form.
The glamour of intellect
The glamour of the outer, which hides the inner
The glamour of adherence to forms and persons
The glamour of sentimentality
The glamour of emotional response
The glamour of fanaticism
The glamour of magical work
The glamour of the physical body
The glamour of sex
The glamour of the mysterious and the secret”
We are all prone to these forces of glamour – some more than others – and there are many more operating clandestinely in our collective lives; their name is legion and for a very long time we remain victims of their glamorous potency without ever realising it. To awaken to the existence of these fogs is a disturbing experience as it forces us to confront our innate selfishness in regard to others. We all have a lethargic tendency to let sleeping dogs lie so long as it maintains the habitual comfort zones in which we have carelessly settled, and it is so much easier to ignore those inner promptings from the true Self, which ever seek to expose the emotional and mental fogs that keep us in ignorance of truth. Yet, until we wake up to the devitalising effect of these pernicious glamours we will never come to know who we are as a collective Whole and what we are truly capable of.
Waking up from psychological sleep is a process requiring insight, understanding, persistence and INTELLIGENT daring. Can we wake up? Do we want to wake up? I think many of us do!
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