Thursday, April 06, 2006

 

relative realm

There is a holographic interconnectedness to the process of functional and visionary growth.  As we grow functionally, we open up angles by which we can influence the world.  We come to a functional understanding of ways to interact with others and ourselves.  We learn about boundaries and self esteem and active listening and mathematics and management and techniques and strategies and ways of thinking about relationships and career and lifestyle and physical health and goal setting and the like.  We learn how to become effective, efficient, and smart, in a relative way, in relation to our specific culture, gender, economic class, personality, intelligence, and such.  It is this growth that allows us the ability to effectively interact with other people, institutions, and structural hierarchies of all types.  We learn the rules of the game.  We learn strategies for how to win the game of life.  We increase our chances at survival.  We become financially independent.  We provide something valuable to the community.  We are functional and productive members of a free market economy.  But there is another game happening at the same time.  It cannot be neglected.  It is the game of interacting with the source.  The purpose of this game is not to gain relative and applicable knowledge but to learn to look past that game to the irreducible experience of living and existing in their broadest and deepest sense.  

We can and must do both.  As we refine our understanding of our relative and functional selves, to avoid the hollowness of success alone, we must simultaneously look at the ontological ramifications of all this functionality.  When our physical and social needs are met, we can free our energy to look at the depth of existence.  We can take a look at ego from another angle.  There is no doubt that ego is useful and functional.  The new question is, what else does it do?  If we are focusing on the relative merits of survival, what are we missing?  What depth are we avoiding for the sake of lateral movement in the world of the obvious and apparent (comfort, intellect, survival)?  


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