When I was young, The universe is unfolding as it should was a sort of mantra that became integral to my awareness. The angst and drama that seemed to plague many of those around me was rendered, for me, slightly paler for it. Slightly less able to command my attention. I saw the need for and understood that there was a rainbow, in fact, welcomed and honored it, before the iconic "rainbow" of today was even an inspiration to the human rights campaigners. The Rainbow Coalition was something that I felt, before it even had a name. I have now heard of the Legendary Hopi tale, regarding the Rainbow Warrior, Peace Warrior, Guide for the Ages, whatever you call it, the traditional view claims to be a prophesy. I think it is just the understanding that eventually two trends would converge. One trend is the scientific proof that we are all one. As the hippies used to say, we are all one big family, a tribe if you will and the other is the steady increase in awareness that we are really nothing more than billions of years old carbon, only taking the shape that we perceive today for the briefest of lifetimes. As a charmaster, this carbon is a major source of fascination for me. The older I get, the less like a mantra those words become, but the more real they seem to be. I no longer have to think about it, I just know it to be true.
This is not always the case. In the unfolding, there are always going to be deeper and deeper understandings. This requires fractile awareness of scale. The Universe is unfolding...end of story. Universes can only be perceived as a multi-dimensional broadening of awareness taking place. Roughly at the speed of light, photons make their way across nearly inconceiveable (to the human mind) distances. Our awareness grows as time elapses because more distant (than we had been able to see) parts of the whole enter our awareness each moment. At the great distance (from our points of reference/awareness), the very amount of information we are able to perceive anew each second, is more than the average brain can comprehend. Imagine for a moment that there is a rushing wave of awareness, pouring out across vast, empty space, at the speed of light in all directions. There will always and forever be, more unknown than known and we mortals need to come to grips with that.
The concept of "as it should", although in some aspects can be liberating, it also super-imposes a grid of perception that this vastness could not have done so in any other way. The unfolding universe reveals more when we see the fractile pattern of uncertainty superimposed upon that which is. There are no questions in the Universe. It is, nothing else. There is no kinda-sorta, now but not later dichotomy. It only is. That is the powerful release point for all perception. When people are "groovy" or had "good vibes", people you feel good around, you know the kind, it is typically that we are reacting to their soul. They seem to resonate with the universal. I have heard people describe their personalities as infectious or magnetic. Interestingly these are elemental forces in the Universe as well. Often, soul mates speak of being drawn to one another, part of a soul family or they will say that before meeting their partner, they were friends that had not met yet. This is actually more than fate, more than mere chance, but an un-testable force in nature. Our own perceptions of good, bad, beautiful and ugly are all just subjective attempts to make sense of it all. Values which humans have come to accept and that are used to guide our thinking, our language and many of our actions are not as real or universal as we lead ourselves to believe.
I have heard many times in the recent past that most of the rules that religions give us are universal, but just one, scratch into that concept and we find that love one another seems to be predicated upon the fact that we only want to feel that way about some of the people we share the world with. Otherwise there would be no war.
Perhaps there is a reason for war...to teach us what not to do. In spite of all the horrors of war and the death of millions of innocent lives, perhaps war will teach us one day, what not to do.
This is not always the case. In the unfolding, there are always going to be deeper and deeper understandings. This requires fractile awareness of scale. The Universe is unfolding...end of story. Universes can only be perceived as a multi-dimensional broadening of awareness taking place. Roughly at the speed of light, photons make their way across nearly inconceiveable (to the human mind) distances. Our awareness grows as time elapses because more distant (than we had been able to see) parts of the whole enter our awareness each moment. At the great distance (from our points of reference/awareness), the very amount of information we are able to perceive anew each second, is more than the average brain can comprehend. Imagine for a moment that there is a rushing wave of awareness, pouring out across vast, empty space, at the speed of light in all directions. There will always and forever be, more unknown than known and we mortals need to come to grips with that.
The concept of "as it should", although in some aspects can be liberating, it also super-imposes a grid of perception that this vastness could not have done so in any other way. The unfolding universe reveals more when we see the fractile pattern of uncertainty superimposed upon that which is. There are no questions in the Universe. It is, nothing else. There is no kinda-sorta, now but not later dichotomy. It only is. That is the powerful release point for all perception. When people are "groovy" or had "good vibes", people you feel good around, you know the kind, it is typically that we are reacting to their soul. They seem to resonate with the universal. I have heard people describe their personalities as infectious or magnetic. Interestingly these are elemental forces in the Universe as well. Often, soul mates speak of being drawn to one another, part of a soul family or they will say that before meeting their partner, they were friends that had not met yet. This is actually more than fate, more than mere chance, but an un-testable force in nature. Our own perceptions of good, bad, beautiful and ugly are all just subjective attempts to make sense of it all. Values which humans have come to accept and that are used to guide our thinking, our language and many of our actions are not as real or universal as we lead ourselves to believe.
I have heard many times in the recent past that most of the rules that religions give us are universal, but just one, scratch into that concept and we find that love one another seems to be predicated upon the fact that we only want to feel that way about some of the people we share the world with. Otherwise there would be no war.
Perhaps there is a reason for war...to teach us what not to do. In spite of all the horrors of war and the death of millions of innocent lives, perhaps war will teach us one day, what not to do.
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