--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, thats along the lines of my connotation and use of the term. And > for me, it can also mean a willing aplogist for odd cultish behavior > of ther organization and its members. And may imply cliquishness -- > interacting only with those of like mind. Having ones number one > priority in life being the organization --above family, kids, > education, savings, career, etc. > > TMO is not unique in having some TBS. Any number of oganizations do. > Even administrations.
Yes; it appears to be a legitimate, even necessary, turn of the spiral of Life, embracing the transition from one's first experience of identification with particular-consciousness ( POV-1; self- aggrandizement; id-chaos) to one's first experience of identification with field-consciousness (POV-2; self-abnegation or id-submersion; other-aggrandizement, superego), wherein the Structure or packaging of the Field becomes of primary importance: a whole list of dos and don'ts to supress the antisocial chaos of stage-one, wherein those who follow our rules are like-Us and saved, and those who don't follow our rules are unlike-Us and damned. Without full immersion in and appreciation of this POV-2 Fundamentalism, we probably cannot move into the second harmonic of particular-consciousness -- POV-3 Eclecticism: understanding the relativism of the rules, of the religions, of all the structures: appreciating the good in all of them *for those who need them;* taking the best and leaving the rest. And without a full immersion in POV-3 Eclecticism, we probably cannot fully Understand the second harmonic of POV-4 field-consciousness, and open the Heart to embrace the utter paradoxical Perfection of All That Is. And without Understanding the emptifulness of field-THAT, how can we truly comprehend its *collapse* into the particular POV-5 Body of vibrating Bliss as something yet more enriching, the Physical Speech of Ecstacy? And without grasping the identity and continual oscillation of Large- I and small-I, how can we begin to play with POV-6, which comprehends that in our ordinary-self we are the cause of *every* effect of consciousness; that our ordinary-self is Immense to our "particular" Selves, the devic-body that incarnates and structures every thought of our ordinary- self as divine mandate to form our paradise- playground? And so on ... ? *L*L*L*
