A Plank Lodged Within Our Third Eye.

So it was announced that Osama Bin Laden is dead. This announcement was met with many people celebrating murder as an answer to murder. This celebration in the U.S. and other countries is understood by me to be some sense of joy and support of the bloodshed in the Middle East. We should not be so quick to scream about a speck of saw dust in the eyes of others when we have a plank within our own.

I can see how people blind with rage that have not noticed several things about the attack on the U.S. could believe there is some sense justice in this announcement. However, this is missing the point in the bigger picture that if ignored ...will continue to unwind in a spiral of bloodlust and destruction of human life.

Look at the civilian casualties in the Middle East in the past 10 years alone, the U.S. military has killed hundreds of thousands civilians who have families that begin to feel the same human emotions that families of 3,000 victims here felt at the end of 2001. That's far more than 30 times more people with less to lose that would very likely feel the same blind rage against the U.S. because of the U.S. military's boots stomping out human life across the Middle East.

There is no sense of justice in the blind slaughter of life. I repeat myself too often when I say that I view all life on Earth and across the universe as one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. If someone kills or harms another, it is only causing harm to their self, and to cause harm to those that caused harm is just doing the same exact thing. To be blind with rage and bloodlust is no justification for murder, because it will always feed itself and the loop will never close. We will learn to forsake violence if we are to evolve. We will learn to read deeper into events if we are to evolve.

"I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

-Mahatma Gandhi

Are We Content?

There is a question that speaks to us from our soul. From the depths of our psyche with a voice that booms known as the self. We all wander through a process of individuation, to discover who we are and what we are attempting to do. This booming source resonates with us in moments of joy, suffering, humor, anger, confusion, and clarity. It is the deepest wellspring of wisdom we could ever discover, and it requires almost no search whatsoever.

It is within each individual to have all the knowledge they could ever need. There is no need to seek outside one's self for guidance. No teacher, preacher, politician, police, scientist, doctor or any supposed authority could ever guide us in any proper direction. This right is exclusively reserved for the individual. To seek out individual perspective is the duty of consciousness to form a most complete picture of the universe. Without a complete picture, we are ignorant. Within ignorance, we are in danger. In danger, we are deluded to believe we are seperate from our circumstance and therefore limited in power. The picture is very simple and massive. All is one and one is all.

My life has led me through many personal experiences of painful trauma and joyful ecstacy. I used to despise and resent the traumatic experiences forming seemingly external judgements based on these experiences. Through casting judgement from these emotions onto others, I have come to learn I was only casting judgement on myself through a delusion that anyone and anything could ever be seperate from me. Understanding that on a deeply subconscious level I required these traumas to learn from, I am beginning to view these events under a healing light.

I very much enjoy using metaphor to grasp the meaning of events I encounter, and I enjoy sharing these metaphors in the hope that others may acquire their own wisdom from them. I see forces that appear to work against us as encouragement to grow from the Universe. Gravity resists the upward growth of plants, and tells the roots where to take hold. Wind, whips the plants and makes them twist and bend. This twisting and bending tears tiny fibers in the plant which grow back in greater abundance. This greater abundance then provides a foundation for greater growth and creates a strength in the plant which helps to ensure its survival. Throughout the countless milennia, there has been our sun, providing unconditional warmth and nourishment for all life on Earth.

There are many of us who have begun to watch, with increasing fascination, the events unfolding on our planet. At first this fascination may have been fueled by an immense cloud of fear. Gradually, this fear began to fade as our spirit was bombarded with resistance, tearing the fibers of our souls and showing our roots where to find stability and take hold. Eventually, our awareness broke through the surface and discovered the unconditional illumination that shines lovingly on everything.

Are we then content to stand still, and fall before the forces that appear to work against us? Or are we instead, joyful for the apparent challenges before us that encourage and guide us to greater heights of strength and illumination?

"As below so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend."

-Lateralus, a song composed by the band Tool.

We Are More Than We Know.

There is no lie in humanity more repugnant and insidious than the claim of being seperate from the Universal Forces which empower us to exist. Every photon congeals into atomic relationships that bond and structure themselves into what we percieve as matter and they do so under the guidance of Universal Laws. Everything exists within these Universal Laws, and these Universal Laws exist within everything. All interaction is a symbiotic relationship of harmony.

It should be noted that for such a symbiotic relationship to exist in such harmony, it must be that these relationships are all from one Source. This Source must then be percieved as Creative as it configures itself into an infinite array of possible outcomes, with nothing excluded. Nothing excluded. That includes you. You, being a potential of Creativity and Consciousness, are Infinite just as the Source is.

The Infinite excludes nothing as it is all things and all things are Infinite. No part leaves out the whole and the whole contains all parts. This is the basis of Fractal Geometry. Geometry is a form of mathematics that observes and attempts to quantify relationships of Universal interactions in the arrangement of shapes.

This blog will serve as the depository of my own understandings which are very relevant and powerful to me. I hope those of you who read this blog in the coming days will find your own relevance and power that inspires you to share and explore the Infinite Universal Symbiosis in which we all reside.

"And you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable."

-Reflection, a song composed by the band Tool.