Coming Home to the Soul

Why are we often afraid to “come home” (as in go within ourselves) when love awaits us?

We often fear the unknown.

We can also imagine being away from home for so long that upon returning, it feels like foreign land, utterly unknown.

So it is for the self (according to Vedānta) that we’ve been (psychologically) alienated from our own true nature for so long, that it has become foreign land, unknown, and therefore a trigger of suspicion, ridicule, and phobia (just think of how most speak about and resist spiritual people & spaces).

And so coming home is the great call to adventure which “is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known [ego] into the unknown [self].” —-Joseph Campbell

And why fear the adventure of “coming home?” Why fear the connection with one’s true heritage and inheritance?

Well, because of the implications for the ego-self we’ve spent our whole existence (hitherto the call from “home”) constructing and defending.

As Shakespeare through the mouth of Hamlet has given voice to “To be or not to be? That is the question!”

To “return” to the homeland of the self (to be) we must cross beyond the provincial confines of the ego (not to be) which in affect is ego-cide! And where is that wo/man who is prepared to lose a (ego) self to gain the self, even if God Himself is calling?