Finding the Flow
[Voice from the Other Side - Sha'Tara]
If we engage life across realities (I won't speak for dimensional barriers - I'm not there yet) we discover intelligence. Not a static kind of "eternal" intelligence, but an endless series of permutations, calculations, changes; chaos molded into order and order falling prey to the pressure of change and swallowed into chaos to reappear as order somewhere else in totally different form.
The intelligence encountered "out there" that appears to feed and support reality (realities?) and in our case, what we term "nature" is nothing like our intelligence. It is not spiritual nor material nor organic. It appears to be based on mathematical formulae or rules, yet able to discard its rules and replace them with new ones at will. Why? It's not an arbitrary choice. It knows when its rules no longer work in a particular paradigm and it changes the rules, even by allowing that paradigm to "die" by withdrawing support for it.
I was thinking about Murphy's "Law" again today. It's so enigmatic. Perverse and utterly unpredictable. Is it something evil? A game? Faulty programming? Or is it something essential to the Cosmic Mind's way of re-arranging the patterns of life it engenders? I began to see this annoying "law" as something quite amazing. What it does is break our complacency about 'the way things are' and 'the way things should be' and 'the way things must be." There is no such 'way' unless it is artificially pushed upon nature.
Earthians are more comfortable with a state of non-change than with change. Generally, the terms "statist" or supporter of the status quo fits the Earthian. Establishment. Organization. Community. Institution. People will fight for these things, will die and kill for them. Yet they are all based on attachment. Attachment, when properly understood, is based on fear. Fear of losing; fear of being alone; fear of being unprotected or unloved. Fear of not belonging.
So what does Murphy's Law do? It shatters our belief systems. It makes the bread fall butter side down -- unless we expect it to do this - and then it likely will not. It tangles ropes and extension cords with great ease. Traps that end knot in a crack. The same thing, if it could be duplicated, could save lives; could simplify countless tasks. Imagine if you could throw screws down and they would all fall right-side up in the pre-drilled holes intended for them? I've seen that happen when I did NOT want it to happen. Who hasn't seen little useless "miracles" done by Murphy with his silly law?
Murphy is a teacher in a way. Probably he's too humble to accept that term but we are so quick to call anyone with a trick a teacher (or leader of some sort). He keeps us aware that life is endless fields of possibilities. The little things that Murphy does constantly, so annoying, are a reminder that even the greatest movements in the universe are subject to permutations; to unexpected change. We have to be willing to accept that; to push the "sample" out into the Cosmos. As below, so above. We must move from the intellectual information that our sun will burn out in some billions of years (I forget the number - I didn't think that even being vegan I'd outlive it anyway) and move that information into understanding; awareness; into some kind of cosmic empathy for those worlds that are currently faced with the catastrophe of their sun going super-nova when "it" wasn't supposed to happen.
Basically, change demands that we become empaths. That's what Murphy's Law is supposed to do: make us into empaths. Make us ask the tough questions and work out the answers. That in itself is good. But we can do more. We are intelligent and self-aware also. That means we can, by force of mind, link our developing empathy with compassion. Compassionate empathy. Knowing what it feels like to feel like... another. Anywhere.
To be self-aware is to be aware of all other "selves" - from a photon to a universe. It means to experience life, not as bits of information but in its entire reality. And the vehicles that are powered by this "compassionate empathy"? Joy and Sorrow. Front and back door of life, known only by those who are utterly detached.
"When none of it matters, it will all be yours" [YLea - many years ago!]
As much as I resented being faced with that challenge then, I have no argument with it today. I now know that having it all means exactly that: to experience heaven and hell together, separate, or in bits and pieces as they cross my awareness and to not reject one in favour of the other. Curse if you must; pray if you have to, but there is no hiding from any of it.
Is that freedom or what?
Enjoyed your thoughts here, very much.
judith
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Splendid treatise on the mystery and enigma of the Universe
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Felix
Certainly agree that people want to maintain the status quo and seek homostatias(sp?). This is a basic vehicle of self-protection but if carried to extreme, especially in times where change is called for, resistance to reality(as you explained because of fear) only creates conditions where our personal "hell" is intensified. I accept your basic premise, Sha', and you're a good writer. Just am coming to the realization that some "new age" concepts create dependency and apathy
where strength of will and individual effort is required...
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