Life Matters - E.C.Nemeth (most inspirational books of all time .txt) 📗

even victimized, we are told that life is sometimes unfair. And when we fail or we fall prey to an addiction or we get violent we are told we are flawed. We may live in one universe, we soon come to realize, but there is no denying that God helps those that help themselves so that means looking out for number one in this dog eat dog world. That sure seems to be a description of a lonely world and a bleak existence. No, the world view does not covertly advocate the belief in separate ego-centric realities but the basic, common lesson we learn from our teachers is: best keep some things secret. And secrets always lead to separate realities and a split mind.
Thought, word, deed, were introduced as the progression of truth. If the thought is incorrect, word and deed will also be in error. It is absolutely essential to grasp this because it is the key to tangible results. If the thought is anything but loving it is incorrect. If it is incorrect then it will lead to symbols and idols and the deeds done in its name will be unnatural and unhealthy. Conflicting thoughts lead to conflict as surely as peaceful thoughts lead to equanimity. The first Thought is God’s. In that Thought we exist still and from there we extend God’s Thought to our creations.
The only true relationship is with God or with yourself. If you wish to experience either you must be given the means to undo the original mistake. It is not enough to point out your error and then leave it at that. The means is here given: to change your false beliefs you must reorder your thoughts. There is no other way forward because it is only this that holds you back. Your thoughts determine whose words influence your deeds.
Me and you
Relationships are considered linear. This means that relationships are viewed as both cause and effect. A relationship with another person is based on our opinion of its cause and on its consequent effect, which then causes another opinion, and so on. Our relationship with, say, solid ground is based on its observed causative actions and their effects upon us. In other words, all relationships always have one thing in common: the observer. This is common sense but it seems kind of strange stated in this way. It is the same as saying we each inhabit an ego-centric world. Relationships are completely personal; they rely entirely on the observer’s opinion. Two rocks can not have a relationship, unless we decide they do. Yet two people can not have a relationship either. They can only hold conflicting personal opinions that both believe to be the definitive and obvious conclusions. This conflict is due to thinking relationships are linear in the first place.
Although hard to believe at first, relationships are not linear, they are triangular. The truth of any relationship is a third position that serves to triangulate the perspective of the two primaries. In fact, the third position is the Primary Causative Agent while the so-called two primaries are merely its secondary effects. But for now, let us consider this third position as the truth of any relationship, a blending of the opinions of both ‘primaries’, a mid-point of sanity that mediates between two opposing viewpoints. Although this is simply the truth about the other as seen from the perspective of the separated, for the time being let’s keep it personal. Let’s humor our belief in our ego-centric universes and try to make sense of what we actually seem to encounter in real life.
Relationships form to fulfill needs. Let’s take three examples. A young man and woman form a relationship, the relationship formed between opposite sex siblings and the relationship of the individual with the sun.
Each of these forms of relationship are bipolar, that is, they have two separate focuses. Let us call these two loci me and you. Who is the me and who the you depends on the chosen focus. Therefore me and you can and does fluctuate and are ultimately interchangeable.
The third position is the midpoint between any and all bipolar relationships. Taken from the perspective of me and you, the midpoint is a triangulated position based upon the two primaries. From the viewpoint of truth, however, the midpoint is all that exists. Me and you are spawned because of the incorrect assessment of reality by reality itself. Me and you are equally unreal. This third position is the mystery of life.
Now let us look at the three specific examples we have chosen. It is a well known fact that women spy out men they are attracted to first, so let us suppose that is the case here. The young woman notices an attractive man and triangulates a median position based on behavioral and biological vectors that differ among individuals. This triangulated position is a reference point based on the woman's viewpoint. When the young man first notices the woman he triangulates his own reference point. As the two become aware of each other an interesting thing occurs: the median position of each primary triangulates a new position based on the forming relationship. If events unfold favorably, and the pair begin bonding at a deeper level, the median positions of each primary close in on the position of the relationship's focal point. If events unfold so that the two find each other unacceptable, their median positions will veer from the focal point of the relationship. It can be seen that this method of forming relationships relies not on the ego-centric universe of either primary but on a median position that, while cocooning the individuals, allows their two conflicting worldviews to temporarily include the other.
The case of siblings is far more complicated in terms of triangulation. There are many binary relationships that form in a family unit. The first is the bond between mother and father. That relationship forms the foundation of all the other relationships in the family. Each child triangulates a median position with each parent and with each of its siblings. The opposite-sex siblings, like same-sex siblings, form a relationship based on their median positions for each parent and only secondarily include their personal positions. In this way the natural inclination to bond sexually is transferred to the parents who then act out that repression in their own natural bonding. The complications in a family unit are many and defy explanation using this method at this level of understanding. Further sources should be consulted for those who wish a more in depth understanding of this fascinating dynamic.
The third example of each organism and their relationship to the sun is also interesting. As we all know, without the sun there would be no life, so this relationship is extremely important. In our contemporary worldview the sun is the central mass that holds our solar system together. The sun also warms our planet and feeds our plants. The plants convert the energy of the sun into usable energy in order to grow and propagate. All other forms of life feed on plant life or rely on species that feed on plant life. In terms of our example’s criteria, that of a human being with the sun, the individual would have to account for virtually every relationship with every other life form and with inanimate matter both on the earth and hurtling in space both near and far. Only after a triangulated position between all those relationships were formulated could the individual at last have a median position to compare with the sun. And it is the contention of this theory that that is exactly what results. Each human has a comprehensive compilation of every relationship with everything under the sun - and beyond. It is only in those terms that the relationship with the sun can be appreciated for its enormously significant contribution.
In our human terms, our relationship with the sun is like our relationship with God, but in reverse. We see the sun and are aware of its immediate effects - we cannot see God nor can we usually say we are aware of God’s immediate effects. We know the sun’s importance to life on earth - we do not know God’s true importance in our lives. We understand the sun protects us and nurtures us - we do not know God’s beneficence. There is only one sun but there are many sun-like structures - we do not understand how there can be more than one God. That final conclusion is not an attack on monotheism but a vindication of myths and legends from long ago. In our world, truths are scattered far and wide in our histories and liberally embellished with falsehoods. This is true not only for our ancient past but is equally applicable to our modern worldview.
This brief study of relationships was merely meant to point out a simple fact: our relationships are but a means to deny our only true relationship. The true relationship is with ourselves or with God, and they are both one and the same. The denial can take many forms but is always a perceived lack that needs fulfillment. In the case of the young man and woman it could be sexual or emotional needs. For opposite sex siblings it could be emotional or physical needs or the need to practice for future, more complicated relationships. In the case of the individual and the sun the need is sustenance and support and the denial of the need for God's love.
There is a conspiracy afoot. It has always been so. Yet the conspiracy is the attempt to hide the truth of love's comprehensive nature. The conspiracy is not of love but of fear. We all search for love, for truth, for God and meaning. We cannot know that we have no need to search for these things because they are in us. Instead, we search for the reason why fear is so pervasive and totally miss the obvious. It is the belief in fear in the first place that blinds us to the truth of our very nature.
In the next chapter we shall finally encounter the reason for fear and find the answer to our complicated understandings. Our relationship to knowledge will be examined and a definition of understanding will be given. It is our belief in concepts that block comprehension. Concepts are nothing more than our willful usurpation of God's one true will. That is how our worlds become divergent and confusing. Our relationship to truth is maintained by our belief in concepts. Concepts are merely forms without context.
It is the first and final lie to believe we can redefine God's reality to suit our own biases. Concepts must be analyzed and redefined to include all possible realities. Only then can they lead the way back to truth. Only then can they show us who we really are.


Eleven
CONCEPT
Fear, the wave of creation, heaven and hell, true logic

The sixth instant of creation manifests the concepts of good and evil. This set completes the necessary ingredients to the universe we reside in today. Good and evil spawn further manifestations beginning with mass, then law, limits, reason and ending with logic. To our method of understanding, the line of concepts is the heaviest. Such heavy concepts these seven: good, evil, mass, law, limits, reason, logic. Still, the line of concepts is represented by the ether or the void. It is in fact the most tenuous of all the six lines or platforms of reality. Only the wispiest, the vaguest hint of obfuscation bars the way to truth. Yet that is precisely its greatest strength. At this level of reality the individual must cooperate fully and freely by denying the obvious, thus conspiring willingly against the self. It is not the heaviest line of reality but it