An article by Sha'Tara; a local writer and friend.
Conundrum: To be in the World but not of the World
[thoughts from ~burning woman~ by Sha'Tara]
There is a necessary realization all those who aspire to rise above the common tick-tock life must make, and that is, in order to rise above, one must first be 'of' it, or at least of a part of it. You cannot [spiritually, mentally or even physically] rise above, or for that matter plunge below, something you are not a part of.
In Buddhist philosophy, the Earthian being is made up of countless fragments of different souls. Having determined that 'soul' is not the proper term to use (a 'soul' is nothing more than an implant used by the Time Lords' bureaucracy to program and re-program the Earthian at will) we1 simplify the philosophy by using the more correct term: mind. Our mind is who we are as individuals, not spirit and not the body. This mind is a complex entity indeed, but to return to the original thought, it is in the mind that an individual sees its reality, observes and analyzes, and decides which thought to follow through, either in spirit or in body. For clarity only, not in disparagement, think of spirit as "up" and body as "down".
This mind is all the more complex because in it exist, in part, many other entities, attracted there through our endless thirst for self-awareness. The 'fragment of souls' of Buddhist thought in our understanding becomes, more simply, 'partials' of the individual. Our mind contains many thoughts, or parts of thoughts, not our own. When we enter into a belief system, for example, we allow something 'alien' to enter in, and take control of, our own mind. Often that alien entity is permitted to take over completely and the individual is changed, becomes something other than it was known to be. This is seen regularly in those who become religious, or plunge into destructive addictions. In Christian parlance the 'down' aspect is often referred to as demon possession. Interestingly, the 'up' aspect is not referred to as the God possession, yet that is exactly what it is. When an alien 'partial' takes over the individual, for a time, or for the duration of its life, it loses its free will.
As difficult as the subject of 'partials' appears to be—not because it is new but because it uses different and a more accurate terminology than previously used in organized religion—it is not so onerous a concept. It can be simplified simply by ignoring the more temporary aspects of it and concentrating on those that appear to have more permanence in the mind. Basically then, we are not the sum total of what our minds contain, but more accurately those aspects that have permanence there.
I think this is where my original idea of the conundrum can be 'explained'.
First I eliminate all "partials" (thinking patterns and ideas not yet absorbed, not yet become 'me') and decide who I am, not in relation to, but in comparison to, basically everything else. I must separate myself from my reality, or realities to give myself an identity. An identifiable identity other than, separate from, any other identity. I must 'dispossess' myself entirely of everything that isn't the 'me' that exists in that moment. I must, in that moment, taste the dregs of emptiness and aloneness, face the great and frightening void as the only 'thing' extant in the cosmos. Obviously, this is done in a state of complete clarity: no outside influence (including and especially that of God or any other spirit entity), no crutch (such as a meditative state brought on by chanting, or music) and no drugs.
Only when I see myself thus I can know who I am. Only thus can I understand the concept of free will. Only from this exercise can self-empowerment mean anything at all and ultimately all these discussions are aimed at explaining and understanding self-empowerment because at our stage of development only through self-empowerment can we hope to finally overcome the terror, the dreadful meaninglessness, the emptiness, the fear and attendant foolishness that accompanies Earthian life, admitted or denied. No one can be truly said to be 'born again' until they individually, willingly, and alone, pass this test.
Fine, and let's say you pass this test—you'll know if you did, no worries—what next? Well, you're still here. You have changed, but nothing else has, nor is it going to. Now you look at your world from a heightened clarity of vision. You know you are spirit, that you are a mind which possesses a physical body and you live on a physical world with which you must interact, for better or worse. You become aware of your place in it, as well as your non-place outside of it. You reconnect with your temporarily banned partial aspects. You reconnect with your body and its needs and desires.
Resultant conundrum: now you realize you are in the world but not of the world. The common needs, the common desires, the hopes, the faith, the dreams as well as the despair and emptiness of the common body politic are no longer yours simply because they are totally yours. Nothing matters 'here' or even 'there' because you created your own reality, your own universe, your own cosmos and if in wisdom you created these from/of compassion, you have empowered yourself to enter into the world or worlds to serve, and having no great needs of your own, no driving desires to be fulfilled, you can abandon yourself to the task of, at best, helping others make the same leap to their own realization, or at least, helping them die peacefully.
1. Note: I use 'we' in this instance to remind readers that some of the ideas expressed are from a world of empaths where I also exist. In that place, we share all things and any idea or thought, however original it appears, is credited to all. 'We' think, speak and act as one—by nature, and volitionally, never by force. The wisdom of the Altarians comes from their willingness to work as one Mind. 'I' always changes to mean 'we'. One's breakthrough is everyone's. One's mistake or sin is everyone's.
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