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The surface above the water which becomes wetted -- physical reality in time, the four dimensions for us in this life; also, the observations of physical reality from which the various authorities build and maintain belief systems about all reality; the authorities also claim and strengthen the concept of their being the sole providers of blessings or curses, fellowship with or excommunication from God (the entire ocean), and even legitimacy of individual personal experience based upon selective literal interpretation of various writings held to be direct or inspired communication from God/Nature to them. Small air-to-surface edge of a bubble -- the operating Ego, actually a series of small lenses which the inner self uses to perceive and manipulate physical reality; a group of characteristics used to solve various problems, the ego changes with times and situations relating to survival in physical reality; includes the aspects or senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and balance; can be thought of as a flashlight which can be controlled in order to turn one's attention or look in various directions before returning to one's comfortable "home" state; when overly developed and overly specialized, it often believes it is all that is or at least is narrowly focused upon a certain set of beliefs provided by one or more sets of authorities; includes the concept of death (which is sustained only by the energy of resistance it can generate), but not the reality of death, as well as its expression as the fear of loss, which is the basis of possession; also includes the acculturation process with its chronic threat of failure to predict and control, the consequences of that failure being the web which holds human society together, particularly manifested as religion, politics, science, medicine, education, marketing, military, history, and other forms of authority; culture is the verbal/semantic mediant acting as proxy-for-reality interaction; a small part of culture's purpose is to freely explore concepts of what reality isn't, including being isolated/apart from, non-cooperative with, fearful of, and limited within one's true nature; various mutations, dis-eases, disabilities, and "accidents" are experiments to explore and represent some lines of probability for physical existence; nonbelief in reincarnation allows one to freely explore the possibilities of one-time existence and authority over others -- which most known religious and political systems are based upon. Body of the bubble -- an incarnated Personality, that which we think of as an individual human being; a valid but temporary differentiated ("birth-to-death") fragment of the ocean; includes the aspects or senses of inner vibrational touch, psychological time, perception of past, present and future, the conceptual sense, cognition of knowledgeable essence, innate knowledge of basic reality, expansion or contraction of the tissue capsule, disentanglement from camouflage, and diffusion of the energy personality; the large water-to-surface edge of the bubble is where dreams are generated for the purposes of daily debriefing and review, tieing up of loose ends, role playing and "dress rehearsal," expressing the state of the unified mind-body, perceptions and communications from elsewheres, and incarnational memories; includes that which Carlos Castenada's character Don Juan labelled as the nagual; that which weaves in and out of probabilities constantly, picking and choosing as it goes along, that which straddles probabilities and triggers responses; reincarnation simply represents probabilities in a time context, portions of the self that are materialized in historical contexts; each incarnation has certain strengths and weaknesses which are often manifested in particular health/dis-ease conditions; the physical bodies are much more resilient than some authors would acknowledge: health is not just about what is put in or not put in the body; to various individual extents, one's life purpose -- including "karmic" lessons from other lives, will to live, belief systems, genetics, etc. -- also modifies health/disease; it is not that helpful or harmful ingestions or exposures are not having their effects: it is that sometimes the use or avoidance of these substances is part of the larger plan for a life's experience, despite the pronouncements of experts; our bodies are "space-time suits" which our spirits create in order to be able to experience and manipulate within these particular dimensions; these "suits" are based upon the genetic patterns of the parental units chosen to propogate the incarnation, and might include echoes of previous/other incarnations. A wave which generates many bubbles -- an identity or Inner Self, a spiritual and psychological triumph, ever choosing its own clear unassailable focus from a myriad of probable realities which it is aware of; that which includes what we think of as a soul or spirit; it generates many incarnations (so-called past, present, future, and parallel lives), and is aware of the probable events in and constant interactions of their existences; while each is independent and materialized into an entirely different background, they each embark upon the same kind of creative challenge and all reflect qualities of the identity which is, so to speak, their raw material; probable selves are grown as a flower grows petals; the personalities are born from the joy, vitality and creativity of the identity; there are so many aspects of the identity that we create physical lives in which we can focus on particular abilities, and fulfill and enjoy them; in doing so, we help ourselves and others, too, and add to the richness of being; the self is a multidimensional, infinite creative act, each minute probability of which being brought somewhere into actuality, existence, and fulfillment in its own reality, experiencing to the fullest those dimensions inherent to it. A current which generates waves -- an Oversoul, that from which many souls arise; that which forms organizations of identities which grow in their own ways and learn to handle alternate moments of experience as they "mature" until they are Oversouls themselves. The entire vast ocean -- God; the Supreme Being; All That Is; the Dao; an energy gestalt or pyramid consciousness made up of and straddling all probable worlds and all probable variations on the most minute aspect in any reality, all of which exist now; that which surprises itself constantly through freely granting itself its own freedom -- or else be forever repeating, stagnating and self-defeating itself; this basic unpredictability, only out of which can an infinite number of orders or ordered systems arise, then follows through on all levels of consciousness; the eternal yet ever-new emergence and growth of all possible consciousness. The surface of the bubble is a portion of the ocean, but it is not the entire ocean. That bubble/surface cannot exist and was never separate from the ocean as it is always in contact with the ocean. Even if it ever considers itself a spun-off creation or the sum total of existence, the bubble is always part of the ocean. There are different levels and types of currents and the mysterious ocean, the existence and characteristics of which the bubbles, literally, cannot fathom. Temperature, pressure, salinity and bioelectrochemical gradations are the carriers and aspects of communications (telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, teleportation, etc.) between all levels of the ocean. The bubbles cannot deliberately cause one of these gradations to occur, but can reflect them when the gradations happen by themselves. That which we point towards with the multi-colored term "God" ultimately is neither the Biblical Jehovah nor the Roman Jupiter nor Greek Zeus nor the Christian Father-Son-Holy Spirit nor the Islamic Allah nor the Hindu Rama-Shiva-Vishnu, nor any of the many other personalized deities humans have tried to relate to, a supreme being said to exist enthroned within or above creation. Each of these is still a very limited attempt by humans to portray the highest and most future development of which we can conceive -- and then much. The emotional and psychological beings are of such vast richness that our concepts of selfhood have always forced us to dilute them down to a degree that we can understand. God is that out of which existence arose and arises, that of which each and every thing is a part. God is not "complete" or "finished" in the usual sense but is an ongoing experience of all dimensions and forms of consciousness, learning every possible aspect of existence. The universe is the body of God's soul, so to speak. God is hidden in ourselves; so much a part of us and everything else. God is not a bland, generic blend of everything. Rather, God is immediately and continually aware of the lives of each and every single element and being within all of creation -- whether we agree with that concept or not. God as the external causation of the universe is a false concept, because God IS all existence -- although more so than we as humans can ever comprehend. The so-called "Big Bang" is a part of God's very nature. ("God as the universe" has always been extremely difficult for most to comprehend; "God as maker of the universe" has always been a much easier concept to grasp and build upon.) Our "turning away" from God is part of the learning experience of what is possible: the creative illusion of being "lost or separated from," or "unforgiven" or "damned" by God. As a long-time reality, this simply does not exist. At the end of each incarnation we, so to speak, take a rest from focused experience to reflect back upon our learnings and wishes. Only in such an existence of all possibilities can there be the exploration of the various and myriad belief systems which humans, for example, are so subject to. And all other life forms have their own versions of incarnations within this God as well. The concepts of "good" and "evil" are learning tools derived from certain particular points-of-view adopted in order to specifically experience existence in various ways. From the standpoint of a particular incarnation, yes, there can be such a very real thing as "evil" -- and its companion generator or focus, the "devil" -- but to a deeper/wider/non-physical existence [that is, outside of this, our present and very real life or world], "evil" and "divine punishment" are non-absolute tools. Where everything is sacred, including one's life and self, nothing needs to be permanent, for there can be nothing not sacred. The sacred is all one thing, all one Flow. The Flow is the river which can't be stepped in twice. In the Flow all forms are transient, since consciousness is an act, a movement, a verb. God of creation is never the same, is different each time, yet consistent. There is no "essence" abstracted out of being. There is only being. The eternal now is God's realm -- all of creation and existence to God happening in a given moment and place. To all the rest of creation, individual existence takes place in each of our own measures of "time" and "space." The above is a metaphor, an analogy, a parable, a game, a mental construct in order to better understand that which cannot be understood. Does this hypothesis encompass all examples one might come across or might there be surprises which this does not explain? |