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(Another dip into some metaphysical/neo-spiritual theory here, so if you're not into it, you'll want to skip it.)
Although I know that there are no real divisions in the eternal infinity, there must be individual identity. This is again a difficulty with the semantics and 'ego' has become a hard concept to see objectively, because of all the connotations and presumptions we've heaped upon it. I'd give anything to be able to come up with an unequivocal explanation of how the differentiated Oneness works. It's something I feel beyond this flesh but I can't explain it successfully. I just know that I am one of the 'countless One' and I am fully within my rights (and duty) to be unique and independent, even when fully connected throughout the One (God, whatever). I feel I am not all there is, alone. I am not playing with myself by having invented all of you and all of the universe. WE are just all here together and each is equal to and has connection with All That Is, if we each choose to recognize it. grrr So frustrating that I can't make the words fit this. If we were not individuals in a connecting 'matrix' it would not be important to learn anything or do anything. If I am one and all, alone, then what difference does it make whether I'm cooperative or not? Why not take everyone for everything I can get? Everything and everyone belongs to me, yes? I created them. I can destroy them if I want to, but before I do, why not suck the life out of them one by one? Why not make myself sinfully rich and powerful and just use up the whole world, the whole universe, for my own benefit? Well, the world I personally live in has been doing a whole lot of that and it royally chaps my arse and soul. I don't want a world like that. I would never allow a world like that... if it was mine completely. So that alone is proof to me that I am not all there is. I am in a cluster of spirits, energy sparks, like me and not like me. We have to find a way to connect and I think we're finally doing that. However, throughout this whole process, I need to keep track of 'me' and that would be ego, in the purest sense, but I'm going with the word 'identity' because the word 'ego' has indeed been tainted. 06.14.2001 |