Clear, Partly Cloudy And A Chance Of Eternal Sunshine
I have a new thought on Bi-Polarness and Schitzophrenia. I feel qualified to share my findings as I am sure I frequent both of these conditions.
What if, the aforementioned were manifestations of the phenomenon of, for want of the real term, ego/oneness coordination. Not unlike eye/hand coordination that we can all understand as a baby's hand reaches for something and then has trouble getting those fingers to open and close at the right time to grasp the thing.
If, in the universe, everything is connected as quantum physics suggests, and we persist in perceiving everything as separate, as our difficulties with our fellow human beings suggest (i.e. the root of our not being able to let people be who they are, or reluctance to give up judgmental behaviors), then it makes sense that our difficulties lie in the infancy of the development of our faculties of perception especially the ones that reconnect us and everything else through the kind of forgiveness that sees what is as just that, not something good or bad or threatening or...whatever.
Now I realize that my personal problem with the whole notion of this kind of forgiveness, aside from it not being part of my skill set is that the implications as I understand them from the metaphysical point of view is that if we master this and become One we will not need to reincarnate and heck I love this earthly life with all its drawbacks because I still think it is like a great and wonderful non-competitive game where you get to try things and see how they turn out -not unlike experimenting with the amount of rutile I put in my last batch of glaze, and then try again at something else. So, here's the dilemma: to perfect life and achieve eternal bliss, or skip the instructions and try to figure it out yourself because it makes the project last longer.
The beauty of it all is, either way, it's not over tomorrow, and going for the apparent progressive path will still garner me plenty of re-dos. What would it hurt if every now and then I had a one-ness glimpse, there'd still be plenty of practice time. Here's another one. Practice time: when I play the recorder for fun or "practice" it doesn't invoke the trauma that would arise if I were about to go on stage. This go-on-stage thing is the epitome of the experience of separateness and the fun of just playing is the epitome of being in the moment and that is the experience of One-ness.
Oh how dumb! We already DO have lots of One-ness time -the game is to reduce the alone time. Alone time has two aspects: not in the physical company of others, and perceiving the outer world as being the stage.
If anyone reading this shakes their head to give the page a chance to untangle, it might make me sad that I'm not being cheered on in the comfort of my own language but heck, I speak a lot of languages and so does everybody else -surely my connection isn't dependent on something as trivial as the identical experience even though One-ness actually IS identical experience (on a metaphysical level)
To round out this picture. I failed philosophy in college, I don't like using a ruler, King often glazes over and says ("HELP") "they are just words, I don't really know what you are talking about", and I've had friends who wander off in search of fresh air, permanently. It's me who interprets those things as disqualifying events.
Oh Yay! Am I getting more co-ordinated? 'Feels like it. The good news is I'm only encouraged, not manic, and closer to being in tune rather than insisting I'm the real Jesus. But you can see, can't you where it could go in the extreme?
What if, the aforementioned were manifestations of the phenomenon of, for want of the real term, ego/oneness coordination. Not unlike eye/hand coordination that we can all understand as a baby's hand reaches for something and then has trouble getting those fingers to open and close at the right time to grasp the thing.
If, in the universe, everything is connected as quantum physics suggests, and we persist in perceiving everything as separate, as our difficulties with our fellow human beings suggest (i.e. the root of our not being able to let people be who they are, or reluctance to give up judgmental behaviors), then it makes sense that our difficulties lie in the infancy of the development of our faculties of perception especially the ones that reconnect us and everything else through the kind of forgiveness that sees what is as just that, not something good or bad or threatening or...whatever.
Now I realize that my personal problem with the whole notion of this kind of forgiveness, aside from it not being part of my skill set is that the implications as I understand them from the metaphysical point of view is that if we master this and become One we will not need to reincarnate and heck I love this earthly life with all its drawbacks because I still think it is like a great and wonderful non-competitive game where you get to try things and see how they turn out -not unlike experimenting with the amount of rutile I put in my last batch of glaze, and then try again at something else. So, here's the dilemma: to perfect life and achieve eternal bliss, or skip the instructions and try to figure it out yourself because it makes the project last longer.
The beauty of it all is, either way, it's not over tomorrow, and going for the apparent progressive path will still garner me plenty of re-dos. What would it hurt if every now and then I had a one-ness glimpse, there'd still be plenty of practice time. Here's another one. Practice time: when I play the recorder for fun or "practice" it doesn't invoke the trauma that would arise if I were about to go on stage. This go-on-stage thing is the epitome of the experience of separateness and the fun of just playing is the epitome of being in the moment and that is the experience of One-ness.
Oh how dumb! We already DO have lots of One-ness time -the game is to reduce the alone time. Alone time has two aspects: not in the physical company of others, and perceiving the outer world as being the stage.
If anyone reading this shakes their head to give the page a chance to untangle, it might make me sad that I'm not being cheered on in the comfort of my own language but heck, I speak a lot of languages and so does everybody else -surely my connection isn't dependent on something as trivial as the identical experience even though One-ness actually IS identical experience (on a metaphysical level)
To round out this picture. I failed philosophy in college, I don't like using a ruler, King often glazes over and says ("HELP") "they are just words, I don't really know what you are talking about", and I've had friends who wander off in search of fresh air, permanently. It's me who interprets those things as disqualifying events.
Oh Yay! Am I getting more co-ordinated? 'Feels like it. The good news is I'm only encouraged, not manic, and closer to being in tune rather than insisting I'm the real Jesus. But you can see, can't you where it could go in the extreme?
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