Hi Apollonius,

I think it extremely constructive to see anything that's manifest externally as a reflection, I agree, yes, and thereby to deal with the reaction/response internally, as an effect in you. Yes I totally agree. I believe that is an enormous step to empowerment and definitely can remove any victim mentality.

For me, following that realisation, it also went a step further. I became engaged in a natural yearning for the fullest expression of my soul. And that caused me to embrace the relativity. I realised that for there to be experience at all, there has to be "this" and "that". And I experienced the natural equilibrium between the unmanifest absolute and the manifest relative. I believe that full enlightenment means to be able to hold the paradox of both apparently conflicting truths simultaneously. It's the necessary dynamic equilibrium between being, and not-being, which must exist for the condition to arise that something manifests from nothing.

Consider it as a mathematical equation. You begin with 0 (nothing/absolute), and there's a spread out of +1, but simultaneously there's a flow back of -1. There must be, because you can't create +1 from nothing without its equal and opposite. Now you have the existence of +1 and -1, the relativity of quantum theory. These flows are equally balanced and at any moment in the flow, cancel each other out into zero. Thus you always have the dynamic equilibrium between being and not-being. Without that, you'd need a creator, something that is already manifest, from which it is all created, then you're left with the problem of what preceded the creator. The dynamic equilibrium answers the question, and the paradox, well - I feel.

I observe that many experience the journey first toward the absolute. And the pull of that oneness draws you to the acceptance of everything being you - but crucially, only at the condition of absolute, where everything merges into the One, and there is no relativistic experience at all - not even "you". On that journey, seeing everything as you leading into the absolute, is I believe, an essential vehicle to fully realising the Void of Presence - the One, the absolute. But then in the condition of the absolute, there is nothing to stop the manifest from arising again. And as they say... "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood carry water!" The point being, that from the absolute, arises the relative - it just happens. And then the journey of the soul takes on another 'dimension'...being, that if there arises any denial of one's uniqueness as a soul, then immediately you pop out of the Void of Presence. The soul has to be fully embodied and experienced to remain in the place of the Void - the two must exist together.

And so that brought me back to "this" and "that", to "you and me", to those supporting the shift, and those retarding it.

Much love - awesome enquiry

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