--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@>
> 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*
>
Wonderful elucidation, Rory! "The Man" said it very well, "The world
is as you are, live unbounded awareness". (took me decades to get
over and embrace that first part - a crash course in Unity if there
ever was one!) tee-hee. :-)
