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 Evan_1107 Stranger  Registered: 06/08/06 Posts: 129 Last seen: 13 years, 5 months |
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I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
Ev EQ Wrote: Scriabin - Madness or Prophecy? His Philosophies As Seen Through His Words and Works Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin may have lived and died in an era roughly 100 years ago, but his legacy will come to fruition in our own day in a way many of us would never have guessed. There are many books written about all aspects of the life of Scriabin, but only one is of sufficient quality to reinforce the assertations made here, which could have otherwise seemed highly incredible and rather controversial. This was, to my knowledge, the only text written about Scriabin by someone who actually knew him, his friend and confidante, Boris de Schloezer. The rest, written by musicologists who never met him once, cannot hope to make sense of the complexity of the philosophical and mystical side of Scriabin, and it is no wonder - the substance this side of him imparted may very well only be revealed to us all in the years to come. The book, "Scriabin: Artist and Mystic", reveals about the inner nature of Scriabin something that some of us are already familiar with but would never have attributed to an artist from 100 years ago, and the rest of us will come to recognize - as everything he aspired towards in the final years of his life comes to be in what may very well be the final years of our own. This to say that afterwards, although our lives will continue as always, we might stand a good chance of considering them to be new lives altogether. Although occasional references might be made to other texts concerning the life of Scriabin, here we will seek to expand from the contents of the one book aformentionned as it is the only to contain any information of true worth for our concern. First it must be revealed what exactly Scriabin was getting at, keeping clear of the misconceptions so many scholars too easily had and conclusions too easily jumped to, in an effort to paint the most accurate picture of his final vision as possible. Next, this vision described must be supported by a substantial portion of his musical works, if perhaps concentrating on his late period, since the works cited should come from the same period that saw the final refinement of his philosophical beliefs. It is crucial, especially in considering the way Scriabin planned to implement his final vision, that one be able to hear in his musical works the same quality his vision possessed. Finally, the portent of how his innermost essence revealed itself in his communique, whether through words or music, must come to light so that the purpose of this essay be revealed in full - to show that all Scriabin stood for in the final years of his life represents what is perhaps the greatest instance of prophecy in the entire history of mankind; and to show that, to mistake it for madness, would in turn be the greatest mistake of the history of mankind. Scriabin believed that he would be able to conjure a cataclysmic event he called "The Mysterium", through a synthesis of sensations that "would reunite mankind in the Unique". To further quote the most climactic section of de Schloezer's biography, "They (mankind) would actually be transfigured: exaltation, as immeasurable and deep as the ocean, would reach its greatest imaginable intensity; the spirit and matter, liberated from their chains, would approach nothingness, and the polarity of the masculine and feminine principles would fall to the vanishing point. The cosmos would be hurled into the sunlit abyss of ecstacy. At that instant the universal consciousness would burst into comprehension of the Unique. Mankind would experience filial freedom and become aware of its divine essence, its sacrificial nature." Over 325 pages of reading can be said to ultimately revolve around this above quote, which immediately begs the questions - assuming something so unbelievable could even be considered as possible, how is one to convince others to believe in anything this intangible, yet inevitable? And how can they themselves come to be so assured of its inevitibility? The answer is the same for both - an experience for the individual so powerful that all doubt of its possibility is instantly removed. Whether this experience be shared by many at once, as Scriabin envisioned, or between an individual and his "higher self" (the little voice within) alone, it makes no difference - Scriabin had doubtlessly had this experience many years before he attained the final status with which he would approach it the most closely, having spent his life trying to reach it as best he could. This was a process of paring away the elements of himself that did not match this vision, while at the same time unfurling the true self hidden within himself all along, the facet of himself that matched his vision most closely. It is interesting to note that any negative descriptions regarding the nature of Scriabin were always corresponding to earlier in his life, thus falling subject to this process of purification, no longer holding validity when considering who the pen-ultimate Scriabin really was. From a chronological point of view, one can always assert that another possessed certain traits at certain points in their lives, but when it comes to declaring who another actually was, one must look only to the end of their lives, a period after which they have altered their core beliefs for the last time and are thus representing themselves most accurately. To say Scriabin was egotistical, a megalomaniac, or a madman - any of these qualities may have been accurate to him at a point in his life, but these claims will be shown to be invalid for the last period of his life, when in fact, just the opposite that is true. Scriabin transcended his egoticism and megalomaniacism to arrive at a point that was completely free of ego and tendency towards domination altogether - he simply believed that he had a mission (regardless of whether it be self-chosen or proclaimed for him by an external entity), and that it was his duty to fulfill it. This evolution of his consciousness can be said to be the reciprocal of his claim that simplicity can be found through complexity - here, the simplicity of egoticism gives way to the insurmountable complexity of the task of the unification of mankind. And surely the appearance of a man trying to do something noone could understand would lead to the labelling of him as a madman - but if what he believed in was actually possible, it would have been much more mad of him to know of it and do nothing. Scriabin first conceived the Mysterium around 1902, the same period when he was planning his opera, and the conceptions of both hold many similarities that have led to most of the false accusations of what kind of person he was. In how he imagined both - whether metaphorically in the opera, or in actuality in the Mysterium, he would play a central role in both of the performances. The hero of the opera shared the same solipsistic qualities he possessed at the time of its conception, and it is no wonder he abandoned completion of the opera around the same time his views began to change. Although the basic essence of the Mysterium remained unchanged through this period of transition, his role within it changed immensely. He saw himself, in the final period of his life, as the only one who knew of the need to carry out its creation, and said himself he would gladly turn over the task to another who also saw the need and was more capable than he. Some interpreted quotations of his journal writings shall serve to reveal the nature of his vision more closely: "Individuality exists only in relation to other individualities; it represents a coloration, an epiphany of the Spirit in the framework of time and space. The will to live is one and the same in all humanity; variations represent but a passing phenomenon.... Longing creates the instrument of its own fulfillment. The highest synthesis is revealed in man and human society; its goal is the preservation of life and the furtherance of individual progress. But there is a higher synthesis that is of a divine nature, and which at the supreme moment of existence is bound to engulf the entire universe and impart to it a harmonious flowering, that is, ecstasy, returning it to a primordial state of repose that is nonbeing. Such a synthesis can be consummated only by human consciousness, elevated to a superior consciousness of the world, freeing the spirit from the chains of the past and carrying all living souls away in its divine creative light. This will be the last ecstasy, but it is already close at hand". In the above statement, it is revealed that the transition Scriabin had made over the years of the 1900s. He saw that the task of individual progress is superseded by the divine task of the creation of a work of art that will consummate the nature of singular individualities into a synthesis of collective unity that represents all individualities bound together by a common experience that triggers this ecstasy. "Individual consciousnesses differ only in their contents, but the bearers of these contents, are identical. They are beyond space and time. We are faced here not with a multiplicity of conscious states, but with a universal consciousness that experiences a multitude of states of consciousness vertically (in time) and horizontally (in space). We should not be surprised by a world in which the same consciousness reveals itself in different individuals. Much more mysterious is that the universal consciousness reveals itself in different individuals (the exact same words of truth are spoken from the mouths of many different individuals), containing the consiousness of Ivan (X) in one place and of Peter (Y) in another place... Therefore the concept of individual consciousness is relative. There exists only one universal consciousness, in which an individual finds himself, according to the content that this consciousness experiences at a certain moment of time at a certain point in space. As a creative entity, an individual consciousness is nothing but potentially everything; ut individualities exist only in the categories of space and time... .By individually sensing something, I create not an imaginary but a true multiplicity of centers which is equally conscious of all the separate individualities it contains. At the present moment, at a given point in space, I am an individual conscious of myself, but I am also an act defined by my relationship to the external world. But in the absolute, I am the One; I am a consciousness simultaneously experiencing all other consciousnesses at once. I am you. I am all. I have unconsciously created the world as many times as there are living creatures. Now I have elevated myself to the level of conscious creation". Above, Scriabin recognizes that the notion of individuality derives from the remainder of all other possible ways of perceiving reality as shared between all individuals. The idea that we have much more in common with each other than we have differences gives rise to this notion. If this collective energy can be said to represent a pure white light, then individuality can be said to represent the process of filtering this white light through "signature" filters that represent our few differences from each other. The fewer our "defended" differences, as we make progress towards the point Scriabin envisioned, the less we are filtering out elements of the white light, and the closer we come to embodying this white light many have reported to have seen in near- death experiences. Scriabin's vision could be said to represent the triggering of the symptoms of a near'death experience "artificially", although the way he saw it, it would be the fore-creation of a natural event mankind would have to achieve sooner or later anyways. "The true center of the universe is all-embracing consciousness. Our past, which had not yet reached the level of consciousness, and our future are parts of this consciousness. The past and the future emanate from it, as does the infinity of space. They exist only as attributes of creation. The universe is identical with the One's will and is created by the One. The One is an all-embracing consciousness, a free creative impulse. Insofar as I am conscious of the world as my creation, everything must be the product of my free will, and nothing can exist outside of me. I am an absolute being (unlike Finite Reality, which is composed entirely of non-absolute material, nothing can be said to be 100% anything, it would instead be 99.99999...% what it was at best). All the rest are phenomena born in the rays of my consciousness." Above, Scriabin identifies himself as a representative of the divine will only insofar as his own intentions mirror the creative impulse of the divine. This is why he saw himself as the one for whom the task of carrying out the Mysterium had been appointed - he was aware of this divine impulse to return to the point of origin, the source, and knew that it marked the ultimate desire - what all of humankind should and would one day be striving towards at once. If only he was aware of this need, in his mind, then it must be his duty to carry out what only he knew was needed. It is important to note at this point that the "I" Scriabin refers to is not his own, ordinary, finite self, but the universal "I" he saw within himself. Below, not his own words, but those he studied, are quite crucial to understanding the feeling he was working towards having everyone experience: From Delacroix's "Etudes d'Histoire et de Psychologie du Mysticisme": "In the state of possession we witness a radical transformation of the soul and of life itself, imbued by a continuous, permanent, and conscious element of divinity. The soul partakes of the divine spirit not only during a brief moment of intuition, but through the entire life of the individual; thus, intuition assumes a lifelike form. The soul, illuminated by the One, experiences its divinity in its actions; the individual feels that all spiritual states are born in the Deity, that his entire life and mode of thinking spring from a divine source... An individual then is indentical with divine action... Hence the consciousness of a superior control that is excerzised throughout one's life, a sensation of automaticism and of freedom combined, created by the conversion of individual consciousness into divine guidance. Here the soul is in a state of continuous possession by divinity, a species of theopathy analogeous to demonopathy. The Deity is perceived by the inner soul of man, becoming flesh of the flesh and consciousness of the consciousness, an integral part of the will. It is an operation that finds its natural expression in action... True spiritual life demands utilization of the divine force that penetrates the body and brings about the conquest of the outside world and of human souls... Contemplation and action exist in the soul, which is at once divine and human. It is only in this theopathic state that ones life assumes the meaning of a divine act, so that vital activities actually express the divine element and exhaust it by an infinite, creative action". Above, the goal of Mysterium is outlined perhaps even better than the quote near the start of this paper. This feeling of "possession" would be triggered when those involved have had a sensory experience so powerful that they feel from then on a closer relationship and kinship to the One than they would ever have felt without a near-death (or real death, for that matter) experience. It can be said that after one has had this experience, their actions would from then on reflect divine will and they would become co-creators just as their actions were previously contained to reflections of their personal dreams and desires (although they would still be that too). Their individual consciousnesses would still exist, but a continuous link to a higher divine force would from then on exist within them at all times. It is shocking to think that a man could conceive such thoughts in the midst of a world that would soon allow itself to carry out a World War, and then another, but even this tendency in the world is reflected in Scriabin's vision: "I need you, O dark depths of the past. For my infinite exaltation I need an infinite development, an infinite growth of the past. To achieve a state of bliss I need a world that would languish in pain. I had to pass through an infinitude of centuries in order to awaken to my present state. I had to undergo brutality and savagery in order to achieve the refinement of today. I need the strife of the past". Above, Scriabin reasserts that a passage through the opposite of what one is striving towards is first necessary in order to attain it, to pass through the heart of darkness in order to be able to achieve the highest light. This is because we are always bound by a reality we have created for ourselves until we can free ourselves from it - at some point in human history, we have conceived the notion of the necessity to set things, many things, in opposition to each other - it is in fact so deeply engrained into our belief systems that to consider the possibility of not doing so appear absurd. And yet it is not. Scriabin believed in the possibility of a reality in which this dark, oppositional force has no place - to him it simply did not make sense. We would ourselves (and not with the hand of the One appearing as an external entity to us) pass through this darkness and arrive at a pont where we would understand that we could abandon it forever, recognize it as the illusion it really was all along, created in our minds many thousands of years ago, an evolution of fear, passed from generation to generation as something that "must" be a part of our lives, the "balance" between "good" and "bad" being so omnipresent to us that few ever realized there could be another way to understand things around us. We never seemed to realize that this notion never actually existed before humankind, that it made no sense to any of the animals, who could only love, or fear purely out of instinct. Humankind derived hatred from fear, through a process of resenting the external entities that preyed on them, creating the need for instinctive fear (which evolved into hatred as our minds began to evolve). And so it is not a mistake for this illusion to have ever existed, it was a perfectly logical development within the evolution of mankind. But what this paper seeks to provie is that it is just as logical a development within the evolution of mankind to now rid ourselves of it, as we are beginning to evolve beyond the point where it should even make sense to us anymore. Scriabin knew this, and one can hear this notion of such transcendance in many of his late works, including the 10th Sonata Op. 70, and the Poème "Vers La Flamme" Op. 72. We can see the darkness celebrated not as something to fear, but to recognize for what it actually is, in works such as the 6th Sonata, Op. 62, the 9th Sonata, Op. 68, and the Poème Satanique, Op. 36. Although he only left fragments, sketches of the "Acte Préalable" for his Mysterium at his death, an attempt at the completion of the work was exacted by fellow Russian composer Alexander Nemtin, a sign of admirable faith in Scriabin's final efforts. Unfortunately the realization is much in the language of Nemtin, not Scriabin, and so the work takes on a quality not unlike modern film music. Fortunately here and there we can hear elements that might be able to partially represent the feeling Scriabin was trying to instill in others, likely the result of his sketches appearing in various places within the larger structure of Nemtin's own style of composition. And now, most importantly, how is it that something as inconceivable as the Mysterium be possible now, almost a hundred years later. There are several ways to answer this question. One, the world has gone through the dark places of the World Wars and many other wars, and is finally starting to rebel against the nature of war altogether. Although wars are still happening there is greater and greater resistance by the general public to such measures and we can see a time ahead when war will be the solution to nothing. Next, technological advances are now permitting the ability for composers to instill synesthetic experiences in others to a far greater degree than was previously imaginable to Scriabin, with his designs of the colour organ for his "Prometheus" Tone Poem. So far we could actually break the barrier between the audio and the visual, and technologies to further collapse borders between other senses as well are inevitably soon coming. It is left for the composers to awaken and begin to do so. Surround sound will allow the listener total immersion in the realm of sonic experience, and surround video could have the same effect, or perhaps a unique type of video glasses for the individual. The integration of acoustic and electronic music could yield interesting possibilities, especially if the composer at hand is to recognize the effects various audio frequencies, and combinations of frequencies (binaural frequencies) have on the human brain. The M.I.D.I. protocol developped for electronic musical instruments in the 1980s allows for the synchronization of audio and visual art completely. A description of a room fitted with incredible surround sound, video panels on all floors, walls, and ceiling might conjure an idea of the kinds of possibilities that are now at our disposal, we have only left to gather needed materials to construct such a church of artistic experience. Soon nanotechnology might allow integration of stimulation of the other senses in conjunction with these two. The experience of the Mysterium will be sooner possible for the individual alone than a group of individuals, but the result would be the same regardless. Just to conceive, and fully believe in the notion of it being possible for a group is to have already experienced it individually. This makes the individual become instrumental in the design of the experience for groups of individuals. They will begin to start to discover their role within this endeavour, either by hearing the music, incessantly until they compose it and set it free to the world, and then again, and again, as it becomes closer and closer to the light, or in the same way by seeing the graphic artwork, or imagining the tastes, smells, feelings, and most importantly the 6th sense expression of this feeling. One could assume multiple roles when having more than one kind of sensory experience relating to this - and that is exactly the point, the experience, even in a small dose, of what I could only call the "7th Sense", defeats distinctions of even the basic senses and creates a unanimous feeling within the individual in many or all ways at once. All this culminating in the creation of an experience for groups of individuals where no one could possibly walk out afterwards with any shadow of a doubt remaining within them. Perhaps nothing will change after everyone undergoes this experience and has no lingering element of the old perception of reality within any longer, at least so radically as Scriabin envisioned, or perhaps it will. Regardless, the impact this change in perception will have on us could very well make it seem as though a completely new world was around us, even if we somehow recognized it from before. To me the idea presented here can no longer possibly appear absurd, especially after reading this entire, high quality book on the life of Scriabin, and the experiencing of many kinds of events over the last 7 or so years that are too varied and themselves too incredible-sounding to get into here. The notion of a reality where all individuals simply base their differences on top of their similarities, rather than the other way around, is all that it really is. But how this new notion would manifest itself is perhaps more incredible than anyone would ever be permitted to fully envision until it was actually the case. For this we will have to continue to work towards this anticipated event in several more years time. All things, if you look for them, point to this as being inevitable. The world is still a dark place, but look for the signs of a tidal wave of briliiant white light engulfing the darkness and erradicating it forever. They are there, and when you see them, you will no longer be able to doubt ever again. One person at a time will come to this conclusion, and then everyone will. Bibliography: Boris De Schloezer, Translated from the Russion by Nicolas Slominsky. Scriabin: Artist and Mystic. University of California Press, (1923, 1987) Faubion Bowers. Scriabin. Dover Publications, New York (1996) Faubion Bowers. The New Scriabin, Enigma and Answers. St. Martins Press, New York (1973) Alfred J. Swan. Scriabin. Da Capo Press, New York (1969) Hugh McDonald. Skryabin. Oxford University Press, London (1978) James M. Baker. The Music of Alexander Scriabin. Yale University Press (1986)
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ck10n3 Imagine   Registered: 10/04/05 Posts: 348 Loc: Here, now. Last seen: 18 years, 21 days |
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Thanks for sharing this (a good start for the effect, eh? hah). I recommend people read it even if it is quite long. It echoes goodness.
Soully tantalizing. Did you write? It is a funny mirror reflection of the trip in my signature. They have exact correlations and are set up in the same way. I have seen it, and my goal is now as Scriabin's. Did he ever mention how he came into the state of being? I know mine was through shrooms. I know there are other doors into the same. I just need to find them. Music - I have considered this as well. It seemed very plausible for bringing out the state. Although, I have no idea how. I am just starting to learn the bass guitar and playing with people. I have yet to be able to spill myself as I would like. It does make sense though. Once for all and all for once and always. The synergistic effect would take place when one sees. If anyone ever figures out how to share it. That is the day that we all speak of. When one can share it. Synergy takes hold after that. My quest and purpose in life is now focused to this. cilosyb will like this read. -------------------- "You must be the change you want to see in the world." - The trip of a Life Time. Indra's Net - There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe. The horizontal threads are in space. The vertical threads in time. At every crossing of threads there is an individual. And every individual is a crystal bead. The great light of absolute being illuminates and penetrates every crystal being, And every crystal being reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the net, But also every reflection of every reflection throughout the universe. -cK Edited by ck10n3 (02/23/07 03:06 PM)
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 Icelander The Minstrel in the Gallery  Registered: 03/15/05 Posts: 95,368 Loc: underbelly |
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Skimmed it, like I do most things. Liked what I saw.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Evan_1107 Stranger Registered: 06/08/06 Posts: 129 Last seen: 13 years, 5 months |
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Thanks for reading and I am glad you enjoyed it. A friend of mine wrote the essay however I felt compelled to share it for others to read. There is also another equally good text that is very powerful @ www.nonduality.info/awareness.ht
There are certain types of meditations (Infinity breathing Technique) where you link your breath to infinity and other techniques to help you reach this state of mind. Below is his interpretation of the above mentioned website: Peace Ev EQ Wrote: PS - The thing I LOVE about this text is how it clearly differentiates between Truth and Illusion. Because there has been TONS of illusion rampant in the midst of the nearly-established "field of discovering truth", all the holistic stuff, new age stuff, etc, etc, and we need to pare it all away. Factor everything down to the most basic elements so that finding the truth is clear and simple, not this huge tutorial with all these supposed steps and obstacles. We need to be very clear that we can have two choices - to walk through these steps and obstacles one by one, or have a revelation-type experience that washes them all away in one go. I suppose the important factor here is the ability to be honest about ourselves, to ourselves, and to forgive ourselves. We might have all these things "wrong" with us, if we are able to be honest to ourselves about them, but are they really our fault? And even if they were, would that really matter? Isn't what matters getting rid of them? It's so easy to just choose to not care about them, and live day in day out aware of them but only at the back of our minds, but will we ever be able to be happy then? Are those "successful" people who's motives were at the expense of others, or the world, really very happy? Surface happy? Is that the kind of happiness we want too? We can't get a good start towards true happiness, not the kind of happiness that just seems "happy" because you just came from a state of unhappiness, so this state seems high relative to that how, but the real kind of happiness, that's not opposed to anything, unless we are first willing to be honest about ourselves, to ourselves, and to forgive ourselves for all these things. Next is a good reason why: People rarely dig their own holes very deeply, oftentimes, most of the hole is dug for them by others, and they might dig a little further or not. When we realize that we have not actually dug our own holes, but been brought up into a society that dug a huge hole for itself over the course of many-a-generation, then it becomes much easier to forgive ourselves and concentrate on what's important. We have to also realize we can't and don't really need to blame anyone else for the hole-digging, it was a long, and believe-it-or-not, perfectly natural process that passed through the hands of many people before time got to us. There's noone to blame, but everything to do! Once we have achieved a state where we can perpetually forgive ourselves, guilt will not impedge progress any longer. Worry will also begin to subside, as the nonduality page, and Gerald in AT LEAST one of his sessions suggests, when we live life in the Now, and only the Now. It is especially easy to worry when you take on big things, have huge ambitions, but those are the same things that really get you somewhere in life... does aiming high really mean one should be more worried than aiming low? If anything, i'd be worried about aiming too low! So just as one person's signature suggests, you can only discover your limits if you aim as high as you can imagine. Pair it up with all this other stuff and you're well on your way. When we distinguish the only parts of ourselves we can really call our own - anything we were taught and really honestly agree with, anything we learned ourselves, etc., from the parts we could either consider ourselves as well (not advisable), or better yet debris that has attached itself to us along the way, most of it coming from our youth when we had increasingly less control over what got attached to us as you go further back in time, then we have a great start. Shaking off all the debris really lightens the load on your shoulders - you literally feel lighter! It leaves you with the feeling - well then, what's left to add to myself with all this freed up hard drive space and memory? Well, what are we passionate about? Anything? If nothing, think there's anything out there we could grow to feel passionately about? And pursue, in happiness? We either discover, or activate, our passions, and it gives a path for us ahead in life, the blue inside the flame. If our passions are contained entirely to personal gain, alas, we are on our own, but we can still do it! And there's n othing really wrong with this when we harm nothing along the way. But if our passions in any way help others around us, or the world itself to maintain it's state of naturalness or balance, we get helped, and more than we could ever help ourselves. Coincidences start happening for us, often surprising us, and things pick up steam in an almost eerily quick way. Now if something reflecting personal gain would help us work towards something else that helps others, or the world, then that's a different story. Alot of people need a few things to feel really comfortable and ready to really pursue things in life: loving relationship(s), good sleep, good enough diet to get all the nutrients needed to not have deficiencies, comfortable standard of living, hobbies, etc. These are all things that can also be more easily obtained when we see them as preliminary steps to being able to pursue passions that would help others or the world, rather than things we want entirely on their own, for their own sake. I am dead sure about this! And finally we have what we need, we have our direction in life, we have our awareness, and life is both automation and dreamtime... we just do it! And it is a constant love of life, we know our limits, we remind ourselves of the things we need to maintain our own state of natural balance... we both sit back and enjoy the ride, and are the drivers of the fastest moving vehicle in existence both at once. We are the driver and the passenger all at once. This is nonduality - saying ITS OK FOR THINGS TO BE TWO WAYS AT ONCE, AND THE OBSERVABLE STATE PERPETUALLY FLUXUATES AS A RATIO BETWEEN THEM! This is quantum reality - The passenger is the particle, and the driver is the wave. Duality says that things have to be one way or the other, one absolute or the other. Nonduality says that things are both ways at once, and exist as a ratio between the two, both superimposed upon the other, at once. Boy hehe it's really getting to the "wanting to scream out from atop a mountain" point lately, time to make a phone call and then start that summary! ________________________________ A: EXACTLY. THE 'THINKER' LIVES AND DIES WITH EACH THOUGHT. WITH EACH THOUGHT THERE IS AN ASSUMPTION THAT IT IS THE 'THINKER'. But this assumption is INCORRECT. THINKING JUST HAPPENS. There is NO INDIVIDUAL who is thinking. This is a MAJOR point... THERE IS NO INDIVIDUAL WHO IS THINKING. Thinking is just a normal bodily function which just happens of its own accord. But because Awareness is going unrecognised the identification is being made with the thoughts. And the MISIDENTIFICATION with the continuous flow of these thoughts further consolidates the illusion that there is a 'Thinker'. But THINKING JUST HAPPENS, just like the heartbeat just happens. It's just a natural function of the body which happens of its own accord. There is NO INDIVIDUAL who is thinking. Above is the key to making all of the RV and RI meditation sessions work. Anyone still identifying with their thoughts cannot "let go". Anyone telling themselves to let go of their thoughts, as thought they are something that can be held or not held, still cannot truly let go. Someone who has truly detached themselves from their thoughts, not seeing the thoughts as THEM, but as a tool, as a body function like an arm or a mouth, can then succeed completely. wow i see exactly how to perfectly explain the linking of "individual" and source now. it won't be so hard to explain now why people can have the earth speak through them, if they can see why individual awareness and universal awareness are really the same thing. this also explains why we can be granted eternal permission to tap into the universal stream of consciousness... because we are no longer "tapping" into it, we ARE it. Edited by Evan_1107 (02/23/07 10:07 PM)
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Evan_1107 Stranger Registered: 06/08/06 Posts: 129 Last seen: 13 years, 5 months |
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EQ Wrote:
another attempt to decode it to words - One (1) IS Infinity. It is source/awareness. For reality to exist, God/One/Infinity divides itself Finitely. Perpetual growth of reality means that Finity is always going closer to approaching Infinity again, but can never reach it entirely on it's own. At the same time, a borderless Finity was really Infinity all along. How God/One/Infinity was clever was by limiting awareness of the Finite facets of Infinity to a limited range, permitting them to perpetually extend this range, but never having it re-enter Infinite awareness without "individual" realization of common source. In a sense, we were forced to make this step in achieving non-conceptual realization of awareness before celebration of the miracle of "infinite-finity within infinity" could occur. to entertain the notion of all being one before the celebration of the *appearance* of all not being one could really get going. because one/One has no motives to destroy itself... this is the ultimate lesson. one would destroy something external to itself, but if everyone recognizes oneself as all other life at the same time, it could not destroy anything except out of TRUE necessity. we need to eat to live, but hey, so does all other life. it being advantageous to not destroy other life in order to continue our own, we would discover ways to sustain our own lives without having to destroy other life, because in essence it is really other parts of ourselves we are then able to keep alive. to synthesize our own sustenance, to produce only reusable material, to use only the fuel that does not upset the chemical balance of the ecosystem, this is the future of a world that sees itself entirely as being one. the future of a world that has finally reached the conclusion that will allow it to communicate with life from other worlds that have been patiently waiting for us to do so. (except of course life from other worlds looking here for ways to sustain its own life).
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Evan_1107 Stranger Registered: 06/08/06 Posts: 129 Last seen: 13 years, 5 months |
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I have finished reading it. I really needed this last push I got from the text. Everything seems to be very clear now. I feel to have gone full circle as the author suggests at the end, to be aware of being Source, but to entertain Projection because it is indeed the only way Source has to appreciate itself. If Source was a macroscopic sphere, endlessly encasing all, then Projection returns to Source in the very opposite direction it came from - microscopically. If the Big Bang started the universe, an event starting on a very macroscopic scale, then we can begin to fathom how the "small bang" of the creation or destruction of an atom is really a macroscopic event happening on a whole other scale. When the notion of our universe representing the creation of an atom one universe "above" our own mirrors the notion of our creation of atoms representing the creation of a universe "below" our own, we unlock the Infinity Breathing Technique completely. As the author suggests, it really is incredible just how hard it is to communicate nondualistically with our current language. But we have to try! (It represents the very decision to entertain Projection from within Source). So if macroscopy extends infinitely "outwards" and microscopy extends infinitely "inwards", then the need for Source to appreciate itself by limiting it's "participants" becomes clear. At the same time, the gift of the ability to recognize all these things makes it clear how we were from the very beginning provided a window with which to "exit" limited modes of perception when we felt ourselves "ready" to begin to experience an extended mode of perception one level "wider". And so all along the timeline, people here and there always found the window, sometimes entire civilizations did, but as far as we can tell, never has a global civilization on Planet "Earth", in particular, managed to do it, until now it seems. Even still, the division between people interested in detaching themselves from the projection, and those who aren't, is increasingly clear. The ones who are have stopped contributing to the worlds problems as much as they can, at least until more people do so we can tackle larger problems that involve more people, and those who aren't, are still fueling the problems and allowing them to grow out of managable proportion in the usual manner. More evident than ever is the need for those interested in detaching from the projection to work together to make a clear, loud, logical, illusion-free, loving message out to everyone else that although nothing is really their fault, it sure is time to set aside priorities like maintaining an ultra-stable economy, and perpetual commercial growth, and focus instead on re-balancing all of the systems essential for our continued existence on earth. if only there was a way to rally all of those interested in this cause by sweeping across all the good places of community on the internet, and in the real world, and picking a central place, at least on the internet, and perhaps several physical centres on earth to converge and generate various teamworking projects to help fuel this kind of a movement. the sad part is always that, as alluded to in the text by the author, more people who have absorbed part of the lesson but not all of it seek then to go on and be spokespeople to influence others, than do the people who have absorbed it entirely who very often remain quiet on the sidelines. why? the answer reveals that it is really not their fault for doing so. being a spokesperson to influence other defies completely the dissolution of ego. it *feels* egotistical to try and influence others in anyway, because it is very fundamentally egotistical to try and assert that the way one is (ie: you) is the way another should be (ie: the people one is trying to speak to). what have these people most crucially not realized? that it might be very possible to convince others that it is not US who are speaking to them, but the earth, through our mouths, and fingers, and artwork. when we gain awareness of Source, in this capacity, we are really no longer speaking on our own behalves, but then again, people who perhaps have the false belief that they are doing so when they have not gone full circle and completed the full lesson plan, contribute to the illusion that makes the average person very skeptical towards allowing themselves to be influenced by another - it is so easy to have a bad or at best empty experience with a false teacher. and then it puts you off wanting to get taught by anyone else. false teachers are what have give this whole world of information, spiritual information, a very bad reputation in the "real", average world. this is very unfortunate but we must find a workaround rather than give up. what is the workaround? that people can still *feel* truth, and distinguish it from "maybe-truth". especially when experiencing it in person. if you are a person who believes they have gone full circle and learned the entire lesson, and you really have (i mean heck, i used to when i didn't, and sure enough, many of my well-intentionned words were mixed with bits that didn't feel right, even to me, and that's why i don't blame the false-teachers either, they really just want to be true-teachers too... well, except those who have gained awareness of the illusion of ego and purposefully decided not to dissolve them, because they have fallen in love with their individual ego-structure)... ... then unlike the tangent above, your words will be clean cut and will feel right to everyone, except of course those who have completely closed themselves off to outside influence of any kind... who need to be given time at any rate. but for those with a little bit of open-mindedness, your communication will feel very different than those of false-teachers because you are, and have been, for however long, radiating with this kind of energy that they can't quite describe but are incredibly attracted to. even if you got pretty close, but something kept you stuck a little short, you were probably still radiating with this energy more often than not. but i guess, hey, we have to be "sure" of ourselves sooner or later, we can't perpetually test ourselves to see if we'll fall back into the trap of giving creedance to the Projection, and how can we be sure of ourselves? only one way - we will feel right to ourselves, through and through. when we have the self-knowingness, i guess it kind of becomes our obligation to share the light in one way or another. given how hard it is to use our extremely dualistically-biased languages (i think there are a few exceptions out there though, perhaps some eastern languages i very much want to learn), it is probably best not to try and shine the light using traditional communication unless one was a very good grip on the language of choice, and how to manipulate it so as not to appear dualistic. otherwise, there is action, and art. for those without a whole ton of intiative or leadership skills, that's not your fault either, this is exactly why we want to set up some teamworking projects so that people who want to help but can't manage to get something going that might really make a real difference on their own, can still participate within a project that very hopefully will. and as mentionned elsewhere, the entry points are not going to be the front lines, far from it, but to expand the light by solidifying it, reducing impurities (those bits of false-teachings rampant), and celebrating it, so that the places of darkness will start to become the minorities instead of the other way around. art is an amazing medium because the accuracy of the intention of textual communication can be enhanced with it. words can appear many ways to many people with many pre-determined biases, but with visual or auditory art to support it, the possible ways to interpret a textual message become drastically reduced. basically, a multi-faceted project involving all possible types of art, all possible languages of textual/verbal communication, and many kinds of action and influence, could lend tremendous weight towards the cause of complete life fulfillment for the many silent ones out there who have gone full circle, learned the full lesson, but don't know what to do with their knowledge. it must be the role of those who have gone full circle and learned the full lesson who do possess skills of initiative and leadership to first organize things amongst themselves, and next to seek the involvement of more "passive" individuals who are skilled at the various tasks needed for completion of a given light-project. all of this calculation again is simply the earth doing its best to turn the tide in its own favor. especially after reading that text, i now simply cannot ever again see myself as only "my"self... i am One (the source), and %50.00000000000...1 myself/%49.9999999999.. all other representations of Source (the Projection), all at once. there must be a slight weighing towards self over all-else in the projection because that is the nature of our reality, but when i realize that the REAL difference between all other life and my life is Infinitessimally small, along the string of all lifeforms in existence sorted and aligned in terms of relative similarity, making up all the current hues of colors as divisions of infinite white light, the weighing of the ratio must still exist but is of a very trivial nature. and so i have to thank wizard again, because it has once and for all re-enforced for me that i need to be involved no longer in any kind of research, nor do many others out there... just as the author of the text describes, there is the potential of a trap for *eternal* spiritual questing that leads to nothing in the end if we never apply it to anything.... we all need to apply what we have learned because the earth is screaming as us that the time is now... not in awhile, or even a little bit, but right right now, as soon as is possible in a naturally balanced sort of way. to try and move on things too quickly would be to not put care into designing an effective course of action, but to move on things too slowly would see our efforts go to, at best, partial waste. i would love to see a best case scenario and have everyone in the world cease from misidentifying with the projection, see all of the pain that doing so has caused to themselves, others around them, other life forms, the world itself, and have everyone working towards achieving for the first time a true natural balance (for human beings living on earth, not for the earth itself, which already had it before us, and perhaps will again after us, if we ever all leave it for good). i would much less like to see a division, in any ratio, of people having gone full circle, and having any kind of fate, and people not doing so, and having any kind of fate. a worst-case scenario, which i could envision only possibly occuring if for whatever reason everyone currently remembering all forgot it again, or could not manage to hold on to the remembering, would be to have those not going full circle represent a majority all the way to a fate that would apply to everyone, regardless of how much anyone of us learned the lesson. (and the reason that we would all deserve the same fate would be that it would be just as wrong, if not more so, to learn the lesson and do nothing with it, than it would be to not have learned the lesson)... the destruction of all or most human life, and quite likely quite a bit of other types of life along with it. One can only aim for the best case scenario with the full circle, full lesson learned, and an earth-driven desire to put the lesson to good use. Nothing less as an ambition is imaginable. I would love to start with absolute art, or programmatic art (text/speech driven by art), with anyone else who might be interested on collaborating on a considerably large scale project I would work on alone if forced to (i guess that's unlikely). I don't like the vibes coming off the text above anymore than you do! It is a daunting "summary" of what the entire world faces right now... it feels big and big feels menacing. I am menaced by it too... but the earth demands to speak (it sounds egotistical to say that too doesn't it!) But these artworks will not represent what the earth currently faces, at least not in their entirety. These artworks will either use earth's current situation as a starting point, and evolve through to an artistic depiction of the best-case scenario. Or they will alternate between the two feelings with a a purpose. Or, (ideally in my mind, but maybe not as effective a way to communicate) they will represent only the best-case scenario.... which is the only kind of art I really felt I was ever here to create... But who can advise whether the other two kinds of art would be more effective? Maybe people can use the feeling of the earth right now, without artistic representation, as a contrasting element to juxtapose against this best-case-scenario art, and that would be what would really have the greatest effect? I am nearly done working on one of the former, like Scriabin's "Vers La Flamme" it uses the evolving-from-darkness-to-light form, and see how it feels. Then it will be a matter of getting to work on a test piece of art for the all-best-case-scenario model, and see how that feels. The large scale project will be taken up when it is perfectly clear which of these two forms is more effective for communicating this common message. eq
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Clean the lense  Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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interesting, thank you!
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