I received an email yesterday morning from a man named Hanns Oskar Porr, asking if strands upon strands and communities wrap around “like in a hologram, where each point contains all else and at the same time feeds into the others?” He had an experience of cosmic unity, “maybe best described as an analogy … like being part of a ‘cosmic hologram’ where the part contains the whole and the whole contains that part.”
I think I understand. “Does it wrap around,” meaning, is “higher” and “lower” only a spatial analogy, somewhat misleading? Here is what I think it means: Everything is all one thing not only in being all-connected, but in being non-hierarchical. If this is the meaning of his question, I’d say yes, although not intuitively obvious, that’s true. Reality isn’t divided into enlightened and unenlightened, king and pawn, superior and inferior, advanced and retarded – except in relation to any given point of view. Is this right, and am I reading the question right?
Yes and yes. This clarification may be important for some, and obvious for others. Reality, All That Is, isn’t divided into first class and cheap seats. It’s all one thing, as we keep saying. Reality is neither unorganized nor hierarchical. Instead, it is self-organizing and fluid; it is all one thing and at the same time it is segmented, or compartmentalized, or segregated, or organized in many ways at once, so that different ways of seeing it result in perception of different structures.
You once gave us the analogy of the interior of a crystal, looking one way when a laser shines through it from one direction, and different when shined through differently. Each angle of vision illumines different relationships that exist always but are not necessarily always evident.
You see the limitations of analogy. Words are more fluid than objects, but nonetheless far more static and unresponsive than are the realities they are used to try to capture. Images are somewhat more supple than words alone, but are also too static, too defined, to capture the quicksilver-like nature of the reality they attempt to reflect. Even the simultaneous overlapping of images cannot do it justice. If you were not intuitive beings, in touch with your non-3D natures, you would have no hope of grasping any of it.
Think perhaps of the ongoing process represented by kneading dough. The outside becomes the inside. Neighboring particles become separated; unmixed portions become part of other previously separate pieces. Not the dough, but the process of kneading, is the analogy. A change of angle of viewing will show entirely different relationships that are no less and no more true. There is no one way of seeing things; there is only every way, and this of course no one in 3D can ever stretch to encompass.