Disconnecting before connecting?

Some spiritual practices try to moderate our level of involvement with the world of form - attempting to reduce our degree of identification with it - before ensuring our connection with the totality.

This has led some of us into a state where neither the world interests us, and there is no connection to the totality either - leaving us in a limbo like state.

This often occurs because the sequence of events is in a reverse order.

A shloka in the Bhagwad Gita is relevant here:

"An embodied being, by restricting the senses may refrain from the objects of sense enjoyment; but the taste for enjoyment remains; however, this desire for sense enjoyment ceases once the Ultimate consciousness is realized"

While there are many interpretations for this shloka, the outstanding aspect is the importance of realization - until then it is just more games, more maaya.

As Tolle puts it, "Don't act like the Buddha, be the Buddha".

This connection to the infinite and eternal is the first, the prime.

The rest simply follows.