by jacob glass


NO PLACE LIKE HOME


spirituality THERE’S


THE WORLD YOU SEEM TO LIVE IN IS NOT HOME TO YOU. AND SOMEWHERE IN YOUR MIND YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS TRUE. A MEMORY OF HOME KEEPS HAUNTING YOU, AS IF THERE WERE A PLACE THAT CALLED YOU TO


RETURN, ALTHOUGH YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE VOICE, NOR WHAT IT IS THE VOICE REMINDS YOU OF.


YET STILL YOU FEEL AN ALIEN HERE, FROM SOMEWHERE ALL UNKNOWN. NOTHING SO DEFINITE THAT YOU COULD SAY WITH


CERTAINTY YOU ARE AN EXILE HERE. JUST A PERSISTENT FEELING, SOMETIMES NOT MORE THAN A TINY THROB, AT OTHER TIMES HARDLY REMEMBERED, ACTIVELY DISMISSED, BUT SURELY TO RETURN TO MIND AGAIN.” -A Course in Miracles


I like to remind my readers and listenersthat


as eternal spiritual beings, our life here on earth is simply a “temp job.”We are beings made literally of stardust and somewhere inside we know this is not our real home. Many of us feel at times like aliens here: weird and odd and not quite fitting in. I certainly have felt that way frequently over the years when I get distracted from truth. This does not mean that our home is some celestial


place that we go to when our bodies die. Our home is an internal place, right here, right now. When we are feeling separate and alien, it’s because we have left our center within. We’ve separated ourselves from our sense of home and connection and tend to go fruitlessly searching for that connection “out there” in the world in all the people, places, things and products that the world of form holds out as valuable. Even after we achieve or get them, the feeling of separation returns soon enough, and we are led to continue thinking that the next “thing” will feed us and bring some satisfaction. It is an endless hopeless cycle... It’s what creates hoarding.


This is the metaphysical meaning of Dorothy Gale’s


journey to “return home” after all the useless external searching she did on that yellow brick road. Let’s face it, even the great and powerful Oz was nothing more than a false leader, cowering behind a curtain and barking out orders for her to go on yet another meaningless, useless search. In the end, Dorothy was 1,000 time more powerful than the wizard. Even the wicked witch was so powerless, that just a bucket of water made her dissolve into nothing. Dorothy jumped through hoop after hoop, trying


to prove herself and earn her way through, seeking someone or something she thought more powerful than herself to “save her” and return her to the safety of her home. The true purpose of the journey? To show her that the powers of the world had nothing to offer her and that she could save herself. Glinda, the good witch, summed it up very nicely


for her at the end: “You don’t need to be helped any longer. You’ve always had the power... You had to learn it for yourself.” If Dorothy had known how powerful she was, she would’ve told the wizard to


make an appointment to see her, instead of running all over creation trying to prove herself worthy! You are already worthy and your real sense of


home and connection is found when you stop searching endlessly “out there” for princes, palaces and parking spaces and begin to turn within. The more we do this, the more we begin to feel at home no matter where we are. I live in a small one-bedroom apartment, so I don’t


have the space for anything that isn’t important to me. I have an extremely “homey” place because everything is carefully chosen to remind me that my real home is the magical kingdom within me. It is not a place created to impress others, but simply to keep me centered in the remembrance that the power and love and guidance and wisdom is in me, not in the things of the world.


Jacob Glass is a respected spiritual teacher and author. For more information on him, his books and regular speaking engagements, go to jacobglass.com.


SEPTEMBER 2018 | RAGE monthly 41


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