| PRACTICAL NOTES
We as three dimensional bio mechanical organisms can
only have a limited understanding of the nature of existence. We should always allow that
there must be more to the picture than can be comprehended with our sophisticatedly
cunning animal mentation. That part of us which we prize so highly is that part of us
which helps to keep our biological existence going. It is the part that makes us clever
hunters, builders, and cultivators, the part that impulsively works to ensure our own
longevity and the perpetuation of our species. This part of ourselves assumes its own
importance. It categorizes all incoming stimuli according to a rather limiting, binary
mode of perception in which things are either beneficial to our continued existence, or
harmful, or irrelevant. It will automatically be against those things which may appear to
pose a possible threat to the comfort and safety of the bio mechanical organism. It will
simply edit out anything which seems to be neither harmful nor helpful, not excluding
other less dominant aspects of self. In this way, we as three dimensional biomechanical
organisms are subject to a very skewed picture of reality and our role in the scheme of
things. It is usually assumed in our religious and political and social systems that we
are inherently important, and it is implied subtly and not so subtly that we are and
should be the center of the cosmos. It is important to realize that we are operating from
a limited perception and interpretation of what is. We are literally prisoners of this
overdeveloped aspect of self. We see what it wants us to see, we hear what it wants us to
hear, we act according to its calculations and commands, and yet it considers only one
factor, the survival of the organism. It hasn’t the capabilities to comprehend for
what purpose the organism ought to survive. Due to this fact it will take the easiest most
direct route to the cheese. It will bend it’s experience of the maze to justify this
single aim. It sees no need for embellishment, for running the rat race with flare. It
takes what it can, while it can, without objective consideration. The end justifies the
means. There is an entire world of subtleties to which this aspect of self is completely
blind. There are many shades of the mysterious, the irrelevant, and the incomprehensible
which will be filed deftly into a category marked "0". As long as we function
under the dominion of this aspect of self we will be automatically restrained from
perceiving the hidden face of the real. Doors will be closed to us before we can even
acknowledge that there are doors. We will misinterpret so mush of the stimuli that comes
our way. Things will be classified and treated as sinister without a fair trial. We will
make mistakes. We can only aspire to realize and recognize our limits, our boundaries. We
can aim to acquire an ability to hold things suspended in the air so that they will not
suffer the injustice of being misfiled under "black" or "white". As
they say, Pride cometh before the fall. If we are not so sure of things then we can let
them be "up in the air", undecided. We can be cosmic fools and let logic and
reason sit in the back seat whilst we engage with the meaningless, the miraculous, and the
untamable.
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