Wednesday, September 4, 2019
As you experience your community nature, you may find it invigorating and liberating, or scary and in fact terrifying.
So let’s spell it out once more, for the benefit of those who came in halfway through the movie.
The key to everything is “As above, so below,” for reality is made up of repeating fractal patterns, most particularly the 3D part of it. “Man is the measure of all things” means, not “Mankind is the only thing that’s important,” but, “Everything at every level may be understood in relation to the human scale, hence in understanding who and what you are, you can understand the shape and pattern and dynamics of all things, by extrapolation and analogy,” – only, the longer sentence is not a very snappy slogan, while the shorter one is easily remembered.
Thus, humans are communities, seen one way, and individual constituent parts of communities, seen the other. Like everything else in reality, it is a matter of scale. Atoms form molecules, molecules form elements, elements form compounds, compounds form larger shapes and units. Or, structures are composed of parts, each of which is composed of units, of elements, of molecules, of atoms, ultimately of bound energy. The thing you see depends upon the glass you see it through.
A human personality, far from being a simple unit, is a community of units functioning as one. The cells in your body may be considered either as communities of cells or as constituent parts of whatever unit they belong to. They are what they are, but what that is depends upon how you define it at the moment. You can’t say that a cell in your liver is “only” a cell rather than part of your liver; you can’t say that it is “only” part of the liver and not a cell. It is both, and cannot be only either. So with personalities. You are communities of other lives; you are individual elements in other lives. Both, not one or the other. Reality has no absolute divisions.
I see how strange and incomprehensible it will seem to any who have not gone through our long run-up to a different understanding. Can it possibly be made clear or even plausible?
Fortunately, that isn’t up to you. Each person’s inner self will guide them to what they need.
I sure hope so! I don’t see how we could bridge the gap otherwise.
Remember, we bridged the gap. No one needs to nor could follow your particular path. Everybody gets their own, makes their own. Serving as nudge, as reminder, as encouragement, is quite enough. Your understanding, like your experience, like your assumed self-definition, is going to wander. So what? Nothing lost and potentially something gained, for anything that gives you a more accurate experience of what you really are is potentially useful. There is always more to be learned, and how much you learn depends partly upon “circumstances” (the “externals” that represent your hidden springs and condition), but partly upon your interest and industry. Ask, and you shall receive. Knock, and it shall be opened.”