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Date: November 13, 2016 at 08:18:08
From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Everything is connected to everything…an illusion |
URL: https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com |
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"This notion is increasingly hailed as a positive marvel. For example, in
quantum entanglement, pared particles, even at great distances from each
other, both react to an impact on either particle.
“Everything/connected” produces a sensation of Weave&All Inclusiveness.
It’s ultimately designed for long-term rental. The occupant is there, and
there he will stay.
Feeling this Oneness is Matrix religion, and it is meant to instill a sense of
the sacred. Holy, holy. The mind completes the equation: sacred=forever.
It’s a ruse. “Sacred” is no more forever than listening to a Bach concerto is
forever. It’s one thing to bathe in a majestic feeling. It’s quite another thing to
infer it means eternal occupancy.
There are many people ready to shake your hand and embrace you and
welcome you into the labyrinth, the weave, the connection of everything to
everything.
People aspire to be wired into the “everything/connected” apparatus as
their highest ambition—which is their primary substitute for imagination.
That they don’t realize this doesn’t make it any less true.
“I’m one atom in an infinity of atoms all connected throughout the universe,
and this is what I want to feel. This is illumination and enlightenment. This is
the grand essence, the final stop on the train ride.”
Well, let me put it to you in this way. Let’s say you’re an actor. You work in a
repertory theater that stages 100000000000000000 plays. In each play,
you have a role, a different role. You’re “connected” to each one of those
roles. BUT YOU’RE AN ACTOR. That means you can inhabit a role and then
take it off like a coat. It doesn’t mean you’re forever chained up to every role
you play.
However, this distinction is lost on most people.
The idea of everything/connected is quite old. You can find it enunciated in
ancient Egypt and China, and traces of it exist in Aristotle. It’s often
arranged as a hierarchy. The “great chain of being.”
So are we talking about an architecture of the universe or a notion in the
mind?
Both.
Think of everything/connected as a style of building among various possible
styles.
And religion is its goal—the inducement of religious awe. That is the stage
play.
People join the “everything/connected” church of the universe. They want to
be in that congregation singing a song, melting down into butter.
Oh, look. There at the altar is a priest. He’s delivering a sermon. Let’s listen
in:
“If you know that everything is connected to everything, could you possibly
kill a whale? Of course not.”
Remember two things, though. One, you don’t need to embrace everything-
is-everything to know you don’t want to kill a whale.
And two, the priest, as he’s delivering his sermon, is thinking to himself: “If I
want to kill a whale, I damn well will.”
You see, when you really unpack the “everything is everything” wow, it’s not
as sensational as it first seemed.. Any more than, say, the fact that every
national newscast covers the same stories from the same point of view.
“I can’t believe it. ABC just did a piece on the Supreme Court, and now CBS
is highlighting it, too. Let’s light a candle and kneel.”
“Everything/connected” is supposed to signal that the universe is
conscious, and to boil the argument down, since universe is also so much
larger than a human being walking around on a street in a city on planet
Earth, he is obligated to defer to universe.
He is programmed from a young age to defer. He learns how politically
incorrect it is to reject this church…
Matrix.
You have a choice. You can go along for the ride in Matrix, or you can
imagine imagination and embark on the journey of journeys.
Artists create worlds and universes. Therefore, the idea that “The Universe”
is somehow our greatest guide and mentor and gift-giver is a joke of the
highest magnitude.
Most people are not up to contemplating the idea of consciously creating,
much less spontaneously improvising, which involves a kind of merging with
what they would create.
But for those who can grasp such an idea, the world and the universe aren’t
any longer arbiters and rule makers and guides. They are inventions that are
already here."
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Date: November 13, 2016 at 19:22:06
From: Lynn, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Everything is connected to everything…an illusion |
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Thanks for sharing this Akira.
If I might add a couple of things to the discussion.
A room of clocks. All tic, tic, tic, all out of synch.
Within a short bit of time they will all be ticking together in perfect unison. How is that done?
Same thing with humans. And, to add to this mix, it is a smorgashborg. Lots and lots and lots, and lots, and incalculable amounts of choices to be chosen. However, the kicker is that we have consciousness, however a tad different than clocks, but all the more good reason to be aware of unison, and oneness.
When we cut ourselves, we bleed. Except for adepts who have mastered the body mechanics.
So, like clocks, and yet not. Sameness and yet individual. The wave and the particle.
I still think one of the best and most simple teachings is the tiny book, Johnathan Livingston Seagull. Allegories usually say it best. Truth hides in stories, and bark on large trees covers a huge workings going on silently underneath the bark, below ground. Diamonds are found in the dark.
And, the darkness around us now, is providing a marvelous backdrop to revealing truths that have long slumbered, waiting for the moment to be stirred.
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Date: November 16, 2016 at 09:28:39
From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Everything is connected to everything…an illusion |
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"Within a short bit of time they will all be ticking together in perfect unison.
How is that done?"
That's interesting. Is it something empirically tested repeatedly and proven
true?
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Date: November 14, 2016 at 19:07:34
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Everything is connected to everything…an illusion |
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Date: November 13, 2016 at 20:54:54
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Everything is connected to everything…an illusion |
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this world clocks are a worldly hand made illusion so in that the article
itself is contradictory.
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Date: November 13, 2016 at 16:38:38
From: Petra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Everything is connected to everything…an illusion |
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Hi Akira,
The author of the work took on to much material in but one short statement and thus it lost it's relevance as it carried forward.
Regarding actors as an example, do we not recall that when an actor dies they'll tell us in the news what they worked on in life. They are connected and for what may be a brief moment in time 1 to 3 years as an example, that actor may have had to become the person of interest in the role and virtually by cloak live that life for whatever period of time it took to make the movie or show.
We might think about David Suchet who gave 25 years of his life playing the role of Hercule Poirot, to those of us who have been long term followers, he is Hercule Poirot first and David Suchet secondarily.
And the same might be said of anyone who has a long term occupation; so using the cloak of being a scientist we think of them by their occupation first and know little about their personal life.
Life is so complex in so many ways and in fact to complex for any of us to understand, so we may know about some things, but not the whole of anything.
And that's what makes life interesting, the complexity of it so that we only get bored if we chose to and for rest it is a marvelous thing to never lose one's curiosity.
Thanks for the share,
Petra
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Date: November 16, 2016 at 09:24:50
From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Everything is connected to everything…an illusion |
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I understand that you’re dismissing his pov, but I’m not clear how you
interpreted what he said, judging by your remarks.
My interpretation is that to the extent that we as individuals revere and form
attachments to such ideas as connectedness and oneness, our
consciousness shuts down in the present. The attachment is a misdirection
of creative energy and we loose full access to our innate capacity to
respond as creatively and authentically in the present moment as we might
otherwise.
Rappaport is a big advocate of the development and use of imagination. He
believes it’s a source of power, aliveness and novel thought processes and
experience.
I see this happening when I do healing work with others. I see the best
results when I’m ‘doing’ very little - just being focused, receptive to
who/whatever is in front of me and present is plenty. No expectations, no
woo woo, no chanting, praying - just being as fully present and open as
possible at any given moment. That’s when the unexpected and the
occasional ‘miracles’ happen. Same’s true when I’m making artwork.
In his example using the actor, he's talking about the actor's experience and
perception of himself, while your example of an actor focuses on how others
experience him. So honestly, I didn't fully understand your point. But thanks
for the reply.
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Date: November 27, 2016 at 06:05:23
From: Dan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Everything is connected to everything…an illusion |
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I think you have a tendecy to overthink. I am of tge
opposite mind. Understanding oness, enhances creativity.
Understanding oness embraces the idea that there are no
boundries. All things are possible.
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Date: November 16, 2016 at 12:08:43
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Everything is connected to everything…an illusion |
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect |
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all this sorta remind me of the "butterfly effect"...seems related but
maybe not...
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