Fluid, Spherical Being

Although our minds seem not to be extended in space, apparently having no dimension, and although we experience time as one-dimensional, we should never fall into the mind trap of believing that anything within being is simply linear or restricted to a single point, least of all consciousness. 

We are dropped into being which is fluid, free-floating and spherical like a drop of water in empty space.  It is inherent in the structure of a sphere that on its surface the nature of things is symmetrical in all directions.  The ripples made by our splashdown radiate outward and converge on the opposite side of spherical being.  Of course, after they converge they continue to propagate, and because they are on the surface of a sphere they converge again back where they began.  That is, where we splashed down.  Any movement creates more ripples and waves that propagate, converge on the opposite side, grow as they add to one another, and return to us where we are.  The more we move, the more we create the disturbances that return to us, but we may not identify ourselves as the source of the disturbances because they come to us from elsewhere.  If we panic or thrash the agitations can escalate rapidly.

Time is multidimensional, and so is consciousness.  Believe it, and do not thrash.  If you realise the spherical nature of being, then there is freedom.  We may yet experience this freedom as euphoria internally and personally within our isolated consciousness where we may know bliss accompanied by a sense of accomplishment and personal responsibility that defies the confining biopsychosocial truths and lies that shackle us to to this dying way of life. 

In general, the human way of life rapes and murders the soul of freedom for the sake of what is taken to be a worthwhile life.  Mostly, our souls live in threadbare survival and in slavery to our ego-ridden social selves.  In short, we build our own cages and live in zoological parks where we are treated like captive chattel and where we will be trapped, unable to avoid the mass extinction brought about by our own unsurpassed intelligence and stupidity.   It is easy to believe, and understandable if the reader feels this is hyperbole. 

http://www.well.com/user/davidu/sixthextinction.html

It is interesting to note the apathy with which the recent tsunami in Asia was greeted by humans who encountered it.  It was so far outside their experience they could not see it for what it was.  Even though they saw something approaching they generally did nothing to evade it because they could not understand that it meant impending disaster for them.  The nonhuman animals who sensed it coming, though they never saw it, did what was reasonable.  They went inland to higher ground where they generally survived.

Perhaps, there is a blessing in having a mind that is silent of language, which often confounds direct experience and deceives its users.  Language may serve us, but we do not always serve ourselves if we rely on it to understand anything.  Ultimately, its usefulness is to facilitate enlightened self-interest which benefits the whole sphere of being.  That cannot be achieved with language or without it.  Our way of error can only be uprooted when we see that we have been deceived by our teachers into believing that if we are to understand anything it must be named and described, and that if you have not named and described it you have not understood it. 

This error may be inherent in teaching with language.  This truth may be exemplified by the oft repeated idea that the best way to understand anything is to try to teach it to someone.  Anyone who understands learning knows that there is no such thing as teaching.  Learning is all, and many conditions may make learning more or less likely.  Now, if you have learned anything by reading this verbiage, forget it so we may both live free of it!