Life
The Purest Human Race
The Australian Aborigines are probably the most pure human beings on the planet, in that they are the closest to their natural raw state and thereby, the most relative to the Divine. While most of the rest of the world, especially the west, have been persistently enhancing and embellishing human existence from day one, the Australian Aborigines have been existing in almost total acceptance of the status quo. Basically, the only impact they have had on the manifest world dream, is commensurate with the way they have maintained their existence, as in their own survival and perpetuation. In this regard they are almost completely synchronous to animals, with the only difference being, that animals are fulfilling their objectives intuitively, while the Aborigines are fulfilling theirs similarly, but with a cognitive overlay, whereby they are able to discern their presence and context in the dream while animals cannot. Considering the power and application of imagination on the shaping of the world, it seems incredulous that the Aborigines have failed to take advantage of this in almost any way. They have not utilised their imagination at all. I mean, the basic requisites for survival, food, shelter and maybe some clothing, can be effected instinctively, which is perfectly demonstrated by animals. In fact, there is virtually no difference between an animal and an Aborigine other than the fact that an Aborigine can discern and think, which is actually an incredibly big difference, but not one which they ??? exemplify. The incredible thing is, an Aborigine, just like all other human beings, has this incredible power and aptitude inherent in their beingness, but they have no inclination whatsoever to make use of it. So why is this? I mean, why does a human being emanating from the northern hemisphere, feel so obligated to exploit their imagination faculty to the extremities, while these Australian Aborigines feel no inclination to use their imagination at all? How can such an incredible potential just remain dormant for so many thousands of years? Could it be because these aborigines have kept such a close affiliation to the Divine, enabling them to maintain a grasp of its immensity, and thereby, not inclining them to distance themselves from it, by embellishing their world through imagination? But how would they know this? I mean, how would they know that the potential of imagination would cause them to lose touch with the Divine? Moreover, how would they understand the deceptive nature that is inherent in imagination’s unfoldment and know they didn’t want any part of it? Personally, I don’t think these conditions are really the issue because it’s impossible to suppose that the Aborigines could have made such a calculated decision. I sort of get a sense that they didn’t have the “key”, as in the wherewithal to unlock it, so they never knew it was there. But if this is the case, then where did the Jews and the Mongols, and every other race get the wherewithal to use theirs? This is probably the greatest conundrum I have ever entertained. And the consequence of it could even unlock the implication of human existence as a whole. But having said that, it may be simpler (relatively of course) to figure out the meaning of human existence first, because I am getting no illumination about the Australian Aborigine condition. In fact, just thinking about it puts a greater strain on my fatigued brain than thinking about the nature of human existence overall. Being a cognitive entity, I have to consider the Aborigine situation in terms of reason, as in why. But to the Aborigines themselves, if they are not consciously savvy their own cognitive awareness, then reasoning doesn’t come into it. So what does? You see, I’m trying to find a reason for something that the people who I’m try to reason about, have not reasoned themselves. So how can I understand what they are about in trying to reason the unreasonable? Sorry about that slight mental excursion. Okay, so where were we? The great thing about the Aborigines in contrast to the imaginative world, is that there is no rabbit hole involved. Just like the rest of humanity, they were in Divine awareness one minute and in human awareness the next, but with them, it’s as if it happened yesterday. They haven’t moved from the spot where they first appeared and their world has not evolved to any conceptual iota. In contrast, it seems an impossibility to dig our way back to anywhere near the beginning of the civilised part of the world, and how their imagination began to flourish. Sure, there are prehistoric cave people and all that jazz, but these are mostly all hypotheses based on scientific data like carbon dating. The Aborigines are right here with us now exemplifying human existence at its very inception. What’s the point in digging up old bones when there are living examples fully fleshed out? And what’s more, they are in a perfectly unaffected state. We don’t know what state of progression the cavemen were in when they are dug up but they couldn’t be less affected than the Aborigines. As I said, Aborigines are the closest human entities to animals. They live like animals, they are instinctive like animals, they have a sense of oneness like animals, but unlike animals they are rationally self-aware. They are animals which can rationally discern and interpret the world, including themselves and their relation to it, but for some reason, they just don’t seem to be covetous. Why, or rather, why not? And I have a hunch that this absence of covetousness is the key to their indifference to a more embellished and excessive existence and accordingly, the reason for their “lack” of imagination. It shouldn’t take much gumption to realise, that the prime stimulator of imagination is covetousness. And it follows on, that the more imaginative we become the more covetous we become, because there is increasingly more to covet, but this did not apply to pre-colonial Aborigine culture, because there was virtually nothing to covet. Even such a small detail as their not wearing any clothing, would diminish any imaginative impulse. Nowadays, clothing is everything when it comes to covetousness and lust, and probably the ringleader when it comes to stirring the imagination. So if you think of the northern hemisphere in terms of being fully clothed, in contrast to the Aborigines, it doesn’t take much to extrapolate out how imagination became such an consummate and powerful faculty, and which we have honed to the utmost covetous perfection. I know this clothing thing is a seemingly minor matter, but its implications are enormous and undeniable. The thing is, sensuality, as in everything to do with sex and salaciousness, combined with our “sense” of ourselves, is the backbone of human existence. It is the anchor which keeps us locked into this carnal realm. So if nothing else, the fact that the human form brought no eroticism into the minds and imagination of the Aborigines, indicates that their imagination was not covetously stimulated by the foremost agency of manifestation. And if it wasn’t stimulated by that, then it is unlikely to raise its ugly head anywhere else. In other words, I’m implying that imagination got its quintessential call-to-action through sensuousness, in the form of conceptualised eroticism, which in turn opened the door to our awareness of its potential for very other aspect of covetous desire. So if the Aborigine’s imagination was not incepted by lust, the chances would be almost nil of it being “unlocked” by anything else, as there WAS nothing else for them to covet, because their imagination was never used for conceptualisation, as it remained dormant. Put it this way, when the world downunder was first formed, there was only the landscape, nature, a sky full of stars and the Aborigines themselves. Nothing in this scenario really lends itself to covetousness. EXCEPT, the sensuality inherent in human interactivity. But if the source of covetousness was removed through negating imagination’s inclination to “look” underneath someone’s clothing, then all that’s left is to covet the stars or the trees or the fields. It’s not going to happen. By the way, if you’re thinking that imagination might want to lust after the activity of sex with someone else, even if they are unclothed, think again. You can’t covet activity but only an image, because imagination only works with images not activities. And also, we only covet that which is subliminally desirable, not something?Fulfillment
Growth is where fulfillment lies. Not in achievement. Don’t get me wrong, achievement is a wonderful and fulfilling thing but it’s only temporary. You can live in your achievement if you care to, but you will be much happier if you move on to new growth after a short while in the glow of your achievement. Just like a flower. And the flower doesn’t bathe in its achievement, for long anyway, it just yearns to get back to growing again.
Human beings, though, are rational creatures and are always figuring things out. Naturally, they figure, if they have grown to one achievement, why not grow to a new and even greater achievement next time? No point in just re-starting from scratch and growing back to where they already are. And, rationally, this makes good sense. BUT - they are deceiving themselves just because they think the sky’s the limit. God is the limit and God is happier if you grow with Him. All He wants is for you to have life so that he can immerse Himself in you, but if you’re busy making a statement about your life, instead of making a statement about needing God, you’re pretty much on your own.
The thing is, you might well get greater superficial satisfaction in your quest for carnal aggrandisement, but nowhere near as much as the inner satisfaction you can get from God. God doesn’t deal in the superficial so He won’t bestow upon you a sensation of fun and excitement, just an intrinsic awareness of integrity and well-being.
This is how the flower would feel if it were rational. I mean, it feels like this anyway, but not in terms that we can quantify. The flower just exists in the essence of God and does nothing more than it’s innate role to facilitate that existence. It doesn’t need to be different to be fulfilled.
The reason a human wants to be different than anyone else, is because it wants to feel better than anyone else. If a person is not as successful as someone else, they can be justifiably happy, anyway, because they are different and successful in different ways. After all, success has many forms, it’s only in the minds of the mentally challenged that it specifically takes the form of money.
God resides in a different consciousness to human consciousness so there is no way that he can manipulate our lives in any way. All He is able to do, in relation to human beings, is make his presence known through the veil that separates human consciousness from Divine consciousness. This doesn’t mean we can avail ourselves of Him to help us have a better life, it only means that we can come to know how we can live our lives in a harmonious manner. He can incline us but He cannot coerce or require us. And His inclination for us is not in accordance with our ego’s inclination for us. This means we have to come to terms with our ego, which in fact, really means that our ego has to come to terms with us. God’s only possible contribution to a human life is to guide us away from our focus on the ego and He inclines this to develop by letting us know there is something else far more compelling. But the ego is a sly and deceitful reality, and we must remember, that it has the upper hand in the carnal world. It is closest to us and controls our senses and carnal desires but it does not control our whole mind, although, it does control our thinking in concert with our senses. But our thinking is only the part of our mind that interacts with our human dimension. On the other side of our thinking is our soul-mind, which interacts with our soul, which in turn, has it’s ear to God. So this all means that our thinking can be influenced by our soul or by our ego, but as the ego has control of our senses and this makes it nearly impossible for our soul to have any effect in our thoughts.
The main activity of the senses is our eyesight, and there is no way that the soul can compete with this. But eyesight alone is not overly persuasive, it’s just that it points us away from the soul to all things manifest. However, it has enormous power when it’s in collaboration with the other senses, hearing, smelling, taste and touch, and especially, appetite. Unless our senses can be shut down, our thoughts will be continually saturated with every sight and sound and taste and smell imaginable, which leaves no quarter, whatsoever, in our thoughts for the soul’s input, although, we do sometimes get the odd flash into our thinking about the existence of the soul. But this is so insignificant that it doesn’t really count.
So, you might say, “Well, it must be an impossibility for the soul to come into our consciousness”, and with most people, you would be right.
There is a way though, and as I mentioned, it can only happen when the carnal senses are shut down, (which is impossible) or dimmed (which is very possible). And this can be facilitated through meditation, half-sleep and prayer, and in the natural environment of nature.
The thing about nature, is that, although the senses are all fully awake and working full bore, they are not overtly attuned to nature. In other words, their service is predicated on gratifying the ego and the ego is most avaricious when it comes to the flesh that embodies it. So the senses are not as keyed in as they would be in a more “human”, urbanlike environment. Also, everything in nature operates instinctively, not rationally, and because humans are also, instinctive, albeit dormantly, they can often pick up on this and tune in. This is when they begin to get a “sense” of awareness about the back side of their thought process which is the doorway for the soul.
Overcoming The World
This is not a matter of overcoming the world in terms of one’s present lifetime, but of overcoming the cycle of incarnation, where you are no longer bound by it when you die, as you hook up with God in His world. The reincarnation cycle is like a hamster wheel, where the hamster only gets off to feed itself. This is akin to a human dying, where one gets off the cycle of incarnation temporally, in order to replenish their vehicle. Then they get back on it. Overcoming the world is akin to the opening of the hamster cage door, so that when the hamster gets off the wheel to eat, they see the door open and exit the cage to freedom. Jesus is planning to return, in order to open the “door” to the Kingdom of Heaven and freedom.
The Veil Of Rationale
Jesus will open the way to the Kingdom of Heaven and stand outside the “door” ready to lead his followers through the veil of rationale. You see, the hamster cage is symbolic of human rational awareness, where humanity is confined within the bounds of its own rationale. Rationale is the limiting factor of all human potentiality, and it can never be overcome through human endeavour alone, because the more we try to overcome it, the more boundaries we run up against.
The thing is, our world of human existence is an illusory macrocosm, created from within out, as an evolutionary process of rational, self-determination. Rationale by its very nature requires boundaries, where a thing can only be a thing in its own right, if it is bounded by its own composition, which can only be discerned rationally. Our world is no different. Just the fact that we can consider it as our world or the world of human existence, implies that it is an entity in its own right, separate from anything else, which in turn implies, it is bounded within its own entirety, as a rational determination.
So here’s the cruncher. As long as we are human beings, we will be imprisoned with the walls of our own rationale, where everything needs to relate to everything else, including a beginning and end, or within a beginning and an end. We might not be definitively aware of the beginning or of the end, but we cannot conceive of their not existing at all.
So if we consider this world as a self-sustaining entirety within a greater whole, as a consequence of rationally self-imposed boundaries, then how do we overcome our rational awareness to get beyond those boundaries, in order to experience the greater whole. This is the basis to overcoming the world.
Well the first step would be to try and understand the nature of rationale as to the role it plays in human existence, distinct from existence as a whole. Why are we fated to live in an illusory macrocosm, in preference to the actuality of existence as a consummate wholeness, requires coming to terms with.
In the case of the hamster, which is forced to live within the bounds of its cage, we have chosen to live within the rational bounds of ours. Now it could be that the hamster is just as resigned to stay in its cage as we seemingly are to stay in ours. Maybe one day its keeper might want to let it go, so they open the door and leave it open. But the hamster might be so conditioned to its ferris wheel and timely meal breaks, the door being opened may not be noticed, nor be of any interest even if it was. It might even unnerve the hamster. Just saying.
In our case, there is no tangible keeper forcing us to stay in this cage of human existence, only a psychological one, underpinned by our innate rational disposition. So the question is, what if our psychological "keeper" could open the door of our cage and leave it open? Would we actually notice it, and would we want to "walk" through it if we did? We’re reasonably content the way we are, aren’t we? I mean, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of hoo haa about wanting to escape. Sure, there might be a little, but in a very real sense we are no different to the hamster, in that, for all we know the door might already be open, and we just don’t see it because we don’t want to. As Jesus often commented, “you are all blind leading the blind”. Open your eyes. Or it could be that we are deluded by the adage, “better the devil you know than the devil you don’t”, which is pretty rich considering there is no other or worse devil than the one we are presently in bed with.
Where the hamster is caged within a tangible framework, human being’s are not. We are caged within our own rationale. It’s pretty dumb when you think of it. Here we are, caged within the bounds of something we are not even aware of, where we think the world is our oyster, as big and vast as we care to imagine. We think we are living in an unlimited milieu, where the only thing stopping us from experiencing its vastness is lack of ambition, fostered through our bent for carnal expedience. So it could be said, that the ultimate extent of our human potential, is commensurate to our degree of resilience to carnal indulgence. Which is nothing but a reassuring copout. In reality we are limited, or more pertinently, encaged within our own rational ignorance.
The hamster is basically better off than we are, because it can “see” the tangible bounds of its limitation, so that, if the door of the cage was left open, it could easily take advantage of it and clear out. But in our case, where we aren’t even aware we are in a cage, the chances of making it to freedom are dismal. The only possibility for us, is to somehow acknowledge our incarceration, and then try to figure out what is blinding us from “seeing” it.
Let’s look back at the hamster. In a sense, they are faced with the opposite dilemma to ours, whereby, the walls of their cage are physically obvious. Well, from our point-of-view only, because we are rational creatures and understand their predicament only too well. But hamsters are not rational, and even though they have an awareness of the “cage” walls, they don’t relate to them in the same context as we do. Their whole frame-of-reference is predicated instinctually, and they take their cues from that. They cannot rationalise their situation as incarceration, everything is just how their higher power, nature, intended. So where we are able to discern our predicament when it comes to tangible boundaries, hamsters care not. The fact that they have tangible boundaries but don’t regard them as boundaries, is the opposite to us, where we know exactly the significance of tangible boundaries, but our boundaries are NOT tangible, they are imaginary but just as real.
It’s quite a paradox really. If things were the other way round, we would easily see our dilemma are find some way to get out. And hamsters wouldn’t be incarcerated by rationale, because they wouldn’t be able to create rational boundaries. But that’s just a fantasy.
Overcoming The Walls Of Rationale
Okay, so assuming we acknowdge that we are actuallty incaretated, and that the walls keeping us captive are only imaginary, how do we get ourselves out of this imaginary cage? The only straight answer is to stop imagining these walls, which doesn’t actually solve anything, because imagination is part-and-parcel of rationale, and without rationale we couldn’t exist, at least as human beings anyway.
Another component of our incarceration is our belief system, which is actually the component that creates the walls, and determines their perimeters. Our belief system is also a prerequisite for human existence, because it creates and maintains the illusion as a reality. It determines who we are and what we are about. Imagination’s part in our incarceration, is turning our beliefs into discernible reality. It is what facilitates manifestation.
Rationale is instrumental in consolidating our belief system, which in turn formulates the constitution of our imagination, which in turn transforms our belief’s into manifest reality.