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Small World
Copyright 2016 - 2020 Don Ray
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The world looks small this morning, the thinness of the atmosphere somehow evident, the rippling geology only a thin crust, the burgeoning population compressed into an acutely finite area.
Big earth or small earth, like everything the difference lies only in our mind, qualia of terminology fooling us into imagining relative scales of our own creation have some actual meaning.
If the perceived largeness and smallness of entire planets and galaxies are merely a whim of our momentary fancy, speaking not of the object we declare to be large or small but actually just reflecting our perception of our own scale of relative influence or subservience to the object in question, how much credence should we give to all our other judgments, beliefs, and paradigms? Are they not all ultimately just expressions of our subjective relationship to the subject under discussion? Remove us and our relationship from the consideration, and do not all our declarations of rights and wrongs and absolutes and explanations evaporate?
A world small this morning is so because of my particular mental perspective. A political or social or religious or business judgement this morning is likewise so because of momentary experiential perspective.
Held in such arbitrary and capricious esteem perhaps we should temper the seriousness with which we take our judgments and dogma. Discerning the vaporous nature of our solidly held foundations perhaps we should give more attention to the state of our inner selves that gives rise to those mercurial foundations. There in our soul we decide if worlds are big or small, if policies are good or bad, if beliefs are right or wrong. Look to foundations and discover they arise within you. Look to foundations and realize you create them. Look past foundations and reveal the Source and Spirit and Christos that from the beginning set in motion your freedom to pursue this creation of yourself in chosen relationship with all around you.
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Enduring Consciousness (excerpt)
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There is an inarguable and profound fact we trenchantly deny. All physical forms and existence disappear. The only thing that has endured throughout our entire lives is our individual consciousness. If we are to rely on anything, if we are to plan on anything, if we are to invest in anything, shouldn’t it be this one thing we know that actually endures?
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Stream of Consciousness
There is of course only consciousness. Our individual consciousness, this ensemble of experiences and choices, seamlessly flows through the temporal reality that provides the opportunities for contact and interaction with other individual elements of consciousness. For an alternative take on Reality, read on...Stream of Consciousness