Cairns have been used across times and across cultures to mark places of deep significance. Places of veneration, signs on a path, food stores, mountain summits and hunting grounds. Cairns can be as small as a few feet high and as tall and as wide as hills.
I once saw a man building a inuksuk/cairn at the riverbank. Living in the city I know he did not build it to mark a point on a path or to remember secret cache of food. He built it for its profound and obvious spiritual significance.
In the same way that we once journeyed through the land to find water, make pilgrimage or flee danger we must also navigate the shifting terrain of our innerworlds. At times wide and clear, at other times rocky and treacherous. The hero’s journey is the journey within and the journey beyond. And there are signs that guide way, that signal to us that the times to rest, to pray, to feast, to mourn, the gather and to remember.
How often to do we ask God for a sign? The problem is not absence of signs but our refusal to see. To see not with the sight of the eyes, but with inner vision. The inner vision is known by all the great spiritual traditions; baseerah, the third eye. It is the ability to see beyond the physical and temporal and to understand signs, symbols and messages that God has laid out for us.
“We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth.” (Quran, 41:53)
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