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I was invited to submit something to Profound Word Magazine on the topic "Make Love, Not War" and as I am beginning to explore writing more, I figured I might give it a shot. So here it is:
In order for Consciousness to experience itself, it needed to restrict
itself into lower and lower levels of probability, and finally into a
consciousness that would be separate, so that a self-referrential,
self-conditioning system could come to be that could then collapse
probability into actuality.
As such, our human consciousness is separate from the whole. Although
we are at all times part of the whole, we forget that and consequently
suffer. The separation is upheld by fear of otherness, and by desire.
Desire results from the misunderstanding that one is separate from
other separate entities, and that one needs to conquer them to be
whole again. Within the limitations of the ego the path to wholeness
leads to the attempt to conquer all. That has given us war: War is the
attempt to subjugate everything, consume and destroy if necessary. War
is the attempt to blow up the ego to the size of the whole.
This cannot be done. The ego is by definition separate from the whole
and can not become the whole. Thus, war is pointless and idiotic.
Surrendering the ego, understanding that one belongs to a whole and
that the separation is artificial, one can open up the path to
connecting to everything again through love. Love is the act of
consciously relating, connecting and uniting with the whole. Surrendering the ego, realizing that every living creature, every
plant, and even every pebble is as important as oneself, one can begin
to develop one's love.
First through overcoming dualism, through
realizing that there is not black and white, friend or foe, male and
female, light and dark, but that everything is light, and that
darkness is simply the failure to see it. Then, one can expand one's
love, can let it grow and flow to everything that is. If one succeeds
in willfully relating to all that is, love all purely, one reunites
with the whole in blissful harmony.
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. John 1:1
It has been said that all that is, is vibration. Vision brought forth the will
to create, and through vibration, through sound, will created the world. Then
came things and at some point the I, the consciousness that we
claim and with it the perception of reality.
It is further claimed that we were created in the image of the creator, and
indeed, sound is the primary instrument of humans. Using our voice is the one
creative act that requires no additional materials or instruments. The sound
of the human voice is the most pure expression we have available. Every sound
we utter, every word we speak, and even every thought we speak silently with
our inner voice or repress in dark corners of our consciousness, is a creative
act.
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 An essay inspired by a class I took on the Physics of the Soul by Amit Goswami (highly recommend it). Had some major synchronicities around this class, e.g. I saw "What the Bleep?" shortly after starting to take the class and realized that Dr. Goswami was one of the people interviewed in the movie. Then, my friend Kate interviewed Wiliam Arntz who was the original driver behind the movie. And before I knew it, out of the blue I ended up meeting Mark Vicente, the director shortly thereafter (a most delightful man).
Among others it inspired me to go on Sabbatical in Switzerland. Celebrated day of the dead and engaged in some death yoga as I left my life in LA for a few months.
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 Read "Atlas Shrugged" while on sabbatical in Switzerland. The luxury of sabbaticals is that one actually gets to read books with 1000 pages without taking weeks to do so...
Loved the book. Was rather unsettling, but at the same time incredibly inspiring. It for the most part reminded me of a quote from my friend Barry: "You can either be a producer or a consumer."
Being a producer is embracing life, being aware of our existence and through creative expression, through creating living in the image of our creator. Being a consumer is embracing death, living in fear of our the departure of this ego consciousness, wanting to destroy all that is alive out of revenge for one's own demise. Consume, eat up, kill. Pretty tough, Ms Rand....
One of my other favorite quotes giving my continued battle with my nicotine habit:
"I like Cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of the fire held in a man's
hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the
hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder
what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot
of fire alive in his mind - and it is proper that he should have the burning point
of a cigarette as his one expression."
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Another UPRS essay on art as a transformative experience. Am still gnawing on that concept a bit, but am starting to find a definition of art around the concept of transformation. If one considers art as a function, one could examine the derivatives and examine art forms, beauty, and other elements. On the other hand, one could consider the integral and ask: "What does it accomplish?"
Using that, one could define art as follows:
"Art is a two-fold process of transformation facilitated through symbolism"
In the first instance, art transforms the artists as he connects to his higher self and turns archetypal symbols into manifest art. In the second instance, in the encounter of the beholder with the artifact, another transformation takes place, as the beholder connects to his higher self through the perception of manifest symbols.
This direction in defining art might help to get away from information poor concepts such as beauty, and might facilitate a new appreciation of art as a means of active transformation, which can be valued more easily.
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Here are some things I have made over time... Love working with metal for some reason. Welding in particular. Maybe it's the powerful electricity, the sparks, the shaping and molding.... hmmm....
These pieces range back all the way to 1987, the last one is probably about three/four years old by now...
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