"God's greatest work wasn't creating
the universe:
it was disappearing into it afterwards."
...
"Stop waiting for God. She ain't coming."
...
A predictable result (if one can call it that) of being transformed is
that people begin to discontiguously and enthusiastically embrace and
settle for nothing less than being their authentic
Self
ie who they might really be - as distinct from their concepts of who
they really are, and as distinct from who they would like to be, and as
distinct from who they're afraid they might really be, and even as
distinct from who they may hold themselves out to be for other people.
When Werner distinguished transformation for the first time nearly
fifty five years ago, being transformed became (for some people in his
large audiences) synonymous with "being like Werner". A good friend of
mine (let's call him "Mark") developed the uncanny ability for
leading
people to generate their own transformation while participating in
Werner's work.
Mark was exceptional in this regard - among the best I've ever heard in
fact, and I've heard a lot. But the thing is Mark wasn't anything like
Werner. Mark was nothing at all like Werner. No, Mark was like
Mark, and that's what made him so much like Werner.
When Werner fleshed out and distinguished the abstracts and contexts
for transformation (in much the same way as Professor Albert Einstein
fleshed out and distinguished the Theory of Relativity, in much the
same way as Sir Isaac Newton distinguished gravity, in much the same
way as Nicolaus Copernicus distinguished the heliocentric solar
system), he was actually fleshing out and distinguishing the abstracts
of Werner ie of who he really is. Indeed, when the
breakthrough that is transformation occurred on
the planet
on the
Golden Gate Bridge
in 1971 for the first time, it wasn't so much transformation that
occurred on
the planet
on the
Golden Gate Bridge
in 1971 for the first time: it was Werner who occurred on
the planet
on the
Golden Gate Bridge
in 1971 for the first time - by that I mean Werner as who he really is.
Here's something which can in all likelihood not be said about any
other human being ever: Werner is transformation, and transformation
is Werner. Pause for a moment to let that sink in (it's not an easy
get). His hejira is absolutely
extraordinary.
We'll all age (indeed, we are all aging - even as we
speak) and exit the stage. No one gets out of this alive. But
Werner's work
will go on. Its programs will go on. Its methods and processes are
transcribed in the manuals, and well documented so they're preserved
and will outlast all of us. That said, there will never be another
Werner. So if you're holding out for
the world
to produce another Werner, you can fuhgeddaboudit, it ain't happening.
Although Werner's methods, processes, and distinctions will be talked
about forever (and that's apt, eloquent testimony to their
brilliance),
there will never be another Werner.
In certain conversations, indeed in certain cultures, a great deal of
emphasis has been placed on the notion of aspiring to and attaining
"life everlasting". Now ... is there really such a thing life
everlasting? or is it just a concept we cherish which we inherited and
then passed along as folklore? To tell you the truth, I don't
know (and if you tell me the truth, you don't know
either, yes?) but I'm open to finding out. Until then, the
conversations that inspire me ie the conversations that drive me are by
and for
ordinary people
ie by and for
ordinary human beings
who are just like me, and who I'm just like. They're the ones I want to
be like. When Laurence is being like Laurence, it's when I'm
most being like Werner. There won't be another Werner. But there'll be
another occasion for Laurence to be like Laurence. That'll be me ie as
who I really am, the
discovery
of and
access
to which is Werner's priceless
gift
to
the world.
