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Originally Posted by YourHumbleNarrator  1. Is true unity the goal of enlightenment? I'm not inquiring to play devil's advocate, I'm simply asking. Do we actually know what enlightenment looks like or feels like? Do we know what it would be like to attain it while alive? We have people we can look to as examples, we have ancient texts that describe it, but it's also noted that the truth is indescribable. I will plainly admit that despite all my theories, I have no idea what it will be like to emerge on the other end of this. My experience is a pittance, and no amount of intellectual rigor will get me there alone. |
If you want to get down to it, we don't know ANYTHING for sure, because, currently, we aren't EVERYTHING. Well, at least, not consciously in any case.
For example, I KNOW I exist, without a doubt. I can't
doubt that because the definition of existence hinges simply on my awareness of my awareness which I'm intrinsically conscious of in this moment. I think, therefore I am. Everything else, though, is kind of a leap of faith, and perception.
Having said that, I (personally) see the world in terms of absolute reality and relative reality. Relativity is grounded in illusion, or mis-perception, and absolute is the base reality -- the reality that remains when illusion is gone.
I believe that absolute reality is unity. I feel it in my being that the heart of existence is a kind of oneness in consciousness. I don't have
physical proof for that, just my intuitive hunches.
Furthermore, I want you to know I am not for or against your perspective, really. I'm not saying that oneness is great, and illusion is not. As an example: I like the color white (which the union of all the light spectrum) but I ALSO like it when you pass that same white light through a prism, which
separates that unity into different and distinct colors.
One is not better than the other you see, they are merely different states of being.
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Originally Posted by YourHumbleNarrator 2. Control doesn't necessarily mean manipulation, in the way you're using the word. Nor does the drive to change things necessarily come from a feeling of wrongness. If everything is permitted, how can anything be wrong? It seems, by this logic, the very act of creation is aberrant since to create means that you have to think something is missing or that something is skewed in the world around you. Wouldn't the ultimate conclusion be that existence itself was an error? How can that be so if God was driven to create and God is perfect? |
You asked the question of questions, and I admire your logic.
Nothing is wrong, this is true. Because unity contains ALL, it cannot abhor ANY. It is not wrong to separate oneself -- it is just another experience to be had. Creation is an act of separation. Everything exists from my perspective, but you have to divide and subdivide (or in other words,
separate) in order to create DISTINCTIONS. These distinctions, which can also be seen as limitations (not in a negative sense, but simply as guiding factors) are how realities are
patternized.
Now, these "realities" only APPEAR to exist. From the absolute frame, they DO NOT exist. When one achieves what I am calling enlightenment, relative worlds no longer
appear to exist. They are like the light bent by the prism, they only appear separated while the prism (structure) is there. This structure I am referencing is the psychological structure we call the "ego", which provides a very convincing perception that we have a separate identity unto ourselves.
This ego is not evil as I said before, simply another vantage point in infinity. A dark worker, from my perspective, is not even
attempting to get rid of this structure, but rather, to make it larger, and more powerful.
The light worker also has an ego, but they do not glorify it, they try to let the illusion go to become more empathic, more One with others -- to see the reality behind the illusion. And they also often go about it in a completely backwards and unbalanced way, resulting in even more illusion than they had before. From my perspective the pathway to dissolving illusion lies not in the annihilation of self or ego, but rather, the
acceptance or
integration of all AS self.
This involves harmonizing one's ego with the Absolute self. This is golden rule you find in many religions -- treat others as you, yourself, would like to be treated, because, ultimately, they ARE you.
Mr. Darkworker Pants, on the other hand, is NOT trying to harmonize his ego with existence, but rather trying to get existence to harmonize
with his ego. He is trying to make everything conform to his self, rather than looking for any "greater good" as we might call it. Again, there is nothing wrong with this, unless you are seeking the absolute, in which case this would not be an effective means of getting there.
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Originally Posted by YourHumbleNarrator I have created much as an expression of myself, "in my own image", without feeling like something was wrong. It was just something I wanted to do. When I want to change the world in accordance with my vision, again it's not necessarily because something is wrong, it is merely because I want to express myself. |
And that's fine. Everything is some kind of expression of something. I wish I could articulate my ideas of oneness more clearly to you. Oneness is HARMONY. When you feel good, that is a vibrational indicator (from my perspective) that you are in
alignment with what your desire, whatever that is. Alignment is oneness or harmonizing with the objects of experience.
All creation begins with separation (a big bang if you will), and then from those points of separation creation naturally evolves, and it ALWAYS evolves BACK to unity. It is inevitable. It's the only place to go from separation. Just like the only place to go from unity is separation. But there is no "time". Time is a word we use for "change". If there was no change, you could not measure time.
From my vantage point, when you achieve "enlightenment" you realize this world was simply a probable reality in the infinitude of probable realities, that temporarily appeared to exist as a result of illusory perceptual separation.
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Originally Posted by YourHumbleNarrator Do I get angry? Do I feel an urge to right unjust actions? Do I feel a need to assert myself when I've been walked upon? Yes. But I see those are also perceptions. I am choosing that experience. I'm creating it just to see what it's like. Lightworkers also do this, no? The reason they struggle so much with power stems from the fact that their commitment to positivity often blinds them to reality. On a fundamental level, everything is perfect. In the here and now, we're in a world full of ups and downs, ideals and imperfections, and the goal is to overcome these obstacles without being ruled by "fate". (Read: an untrained unconscious) If there is ultimately only one way up the mountain, why are there so many roads? They have one destination, but that does not make them entirely the same, nor must all but one lead to a dead end. (Although I know in spiritual terms there are no dead ends.) |
It's all about where you are trying to go. What do you desire most as a darkworker? Ask yourself that. What is your motivation? What is your end game?
Perhaps you don't desire peace and harmony. Perhaps you enjoy emotions such as revenge. Perhaps you enjoy inflicting pain on others, or being competitive and crushing your opponent and glorifying your self as "elite" and others as beings to be conquered, rather than beings to integrate with for the common good. If that is your path, go in peace, for that is your destiny.
Light workers turn their love upon all, and dark workers turn their love only on themselves. Or that is how I see them, and I must confess my views on light and dark are heavily influenced by the Ra channelings which I have studied deeply. I highly recommend them to you. They explain things far more eloquently than I am able.
Some love light, and some love darkness. Unity is light, and separation is darkness.