Martin Ball said:
what is "true humility?" Is it misleading people through being entertaining while dangling incoherent theories of reality before people, or it is asserting the truth passionately and clearly in the face of popular opposition?
When somebody gets to the point in life where all this spiritual stuff we are talking about becomes an experienced, permanent reality, it may be very difficult to stay in the usual "everyone has their own point of view, we have to be PC with each other" mode of thinking. The perceived reality is too strong, too convincing, too self-reaffirming to do that. It's in your face, 100%.
Now it's understandable that if only 1 of 100 people does that (comes out with a conviction that he/she's right), it's quite uncomfortable for the remaining 99 people. We all remember our human history, the same story over and over again: ego gains power, power disrupts ego, world goes down in annihilation. With all of that in our past, we are rightfully cautious with any form of such authority.
But there is also Nietzsche. Probably not the greatest example, but he brought forth the idea quite well. I think we should try. I think our culture now has the necessary safety mechanisms to experiment again with the idea of the Übermensch. Which is what Martin Ball is destined to be, if my intuition is correct.
Please don't let yourself led astray by the connotations of Nietzsche and the Übermensch idea. Try to separate the wheat from the chaff. Try to imagine a pure human being, who is living 100% with the force. Imagine a being who finally learned how to transmute the energy into loving kindness and compassion, so instead of war, it becomes flowers. The same energy we are so much afraid of can also nurture us, if it is alchemically transformed via the human mind. The wrath of God may become the love of God, through us.
Now, what happens if not only one person walks this path but several? Let's imagine for a moment that not only Martin Ball speaks "from the heart" but also burnt learns how to do this, how to live like this.
There will be two (three, four, ...) people who all do their own thing, express their own truth as Absolute Truth. And they all feel that their truth is 100% reality. What happens then?
By logic, one could say that if several views are stated as 100% truth then only one of these views may be correct. But if one would inspect the structure of the various truths, it would be found that all of the truths are internally consistent. They are all proper, 100% descriptions of the same reality. The discrepancies appear only when these truths meet each other.
What do we do then? One solution is to draw demarcation lines: building countries, nations, sects, subcultures. This is the current state of the world. But I feel there is a better way. And it has to do with what fractal enchantment referred to in post #27 as "true transcendentalism" (great post btw).
The idea is that there is a way to reconcile the basic duality of 0-1, of God-Ego. The slices of the cake can become conscious that they are separate slices in the same cake. And then they can also see - and this is what is important - that each slice has its own function in the tapestry of the whole.
Therefore when Martin Ball says something with 100% authority, and then burnt says something completely different, also with 100% authority, then the question of who is right is actually meaningless. Both are right, in their own world, in their own slice of the cake.
But there is something here that is still missing. The ego wants to win. It wants to be better than the other slices. And there is no problem with that. We can still do that. But for this, we need a different measurement of goodness. And that measurement may be our distance to God.
What I mean by this is that if you have 100 people, all of them living their own ways, then the only way to determine who is better than the other is to see how well each of them does their own thing. And the way to determine that is to see into his/her life and see how well he/she could express, manifest, actualize those particular values, that particular slice of life that he was called here to expose and hold up.
If all the 100 people are expressing their own world, their own slice, their own planet (green, blue, red, ...) in the possible most effective way, then the world may turn into a Garden of Eden.
In the sincere hope that you can do something with all of this:
clx
(And thank you folks, I love you all.)
