IAAP Newsletter: The Unified Field
Diana Durham
Finding the Grail
(Editor's Note: Diana Durham is the author of The Return of King Arthur: Completing the Quest for Wholeness, Tarcher/Penguin. More information at www.KingArthursReturn.com)
Whom does the Grail serve? This is the question that lies at the core of the Grail quest myth. The Grail (a cup or chalice) is a symbol of our heart or feeling capacity, and of our body. So the question means: whom does our heart/body system serve? Whom do we serve? What is our purpose? What are we here for?
In one story, the Grail turns out to serve the Grail King, who lives in an inner room of the Grail Castle. The Grail King represents our inner radiant being. This means that our feeling and emotional nature (which is indivisible from the body) is supposed to serve, i.e. be the medium of connection, with this core aspect of ourselves.
The promise of the Grail myth is that if the Grail can be found, and a question asked about whom it serves, then a wounded king will be healed and his wasteland kingdom restored. The wounded king represents the fragmented partial sense of identity which we experience when we are separated from the flow of inner presence.
We experience this sense of separation because most of the time instead of our heart realm 'serving' or knowing connection with that inner flow, it is connected instead to the world around us.
The wasteland in all its guises—from personal trauma to a polluted planet—is the result of living in this way. It is the reflection of the wound.
The wound of separation makes us feel vulnerable and spiritually hungry. We attempt to cover up and fill this emptiness by deepening our connection to the outer world, seeking food, relationship, status, etc., to feed the wound. But the more we do this, the more we entrench the wound, which is the polarity in the outer world.
The only way to heal the wound and restore the wasteland is to find the Grail and ask whom it serves: let our heart realm release its addiction to the outer world and begin to connect again with our inner presence.
This shift in attention is the core meaning of living in attunement with life itself. The symbolism of the Grail myth goes to the root of all spiritual teachings, which are not about developing beliefs but about understanding how we are designed to function.
—DD
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