--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, spacetime and growth *are* a big joke, and while we are > laughing at them, they are laughing right back at us, watching our > every move, evaluating, seeing if we are slave or master, with neck, > hand and leg-irons at the ready! Ha-Ha! You are bringing out the > mirth and giggles in me again...could we call the Peck stages, 1- > sleepwalking, 2-awakened point value, 3-awakened multi-point value, > 4-awakened infinite point value, which then transcends its point > value altogether? > > A beautiful model. It certainly explains the dynamics here on FFL > sometimes where the eclectics (you know who you are! hehe) will > mistake a state of unconditional love for that of fundamentalism > and/or chaos. > > And I can totally relate to that moment of recognition when > unconditional Love was recognized clearly and unmistakably by me as > the goal and being simultaneously completely terrified! HA-HA! Seems > gently silly now, but at the time and whenever I would think of it > afterwards, I'd have a visceral reaction like I knew I could no > longer hide in my skin. Unnerving to say the least. Like the joke > about the General watching the opposing army advance on him, and he > turns to his aide, and barks, "Bring me my brown pants!". > > In any case, yes, all that is left after that is the steady and > exciting journey towards death and dissolution (!), all resistance > is futile. Once bitten by the Supreme Love Bug we all succumb > eventually. :-)
*lol* Yes; I like all this! I think too for me the deepest lesson from M. Scott Peck is, if the model helps me understand another, see myself in the other and the other in myself, then it's useful. If I am tempted to use it to pigeonhole another, to exalt myself over another or place myself ahead of another, then I can remember the deeper implication -- that I cannot ever really judge where another lies on this scale. After all, all we can see is where we are -- and where we've been. And if another looks to be *behind* us, how can we know that they're not really *ahead* of us, on another turn of the spiral entirely? In truth, on several levels, all I ever really know is myself! And appreciate the Other :-) *L*L*L*
