WHEN HISTORIES COLLIDE
WHEN HISTORIES COLLIDE WITH MY RACING MIND:
Fluid Thoughts on the Relationships among Parallel Lives, Expression, and REALIZATION.
Brother, bestill my racing mind! On a level above logic, I have just experienced a brief moment of insight that was startlingly poignant—totally transcending intellectual understanding. These are the “glimpses” that occur from “time to time” that are, once again, well beyond verbal description and intellectualism. The best I can do to express the phenomenon is to say that, as I was reading Richard Bach’s Running from Safety, I saw you as an alternate me, and I “imagined” everything occurring as if in a drama on a screen. The entire drama is centered on the notion of parallel lives and the ongoing quest for self-knowledge—the transcendence of the barriers of time and space with the power of ideas. Of course this is inexplicably difficult to convey via words, but my hope is that you will grasp some thread of my basic experience. Brother, we appear different in marked ways, of which you are well aware. And yet, as is the case with all of humanity, we share a common aim. The point here is, if indeed I can express it at all, that the apparent “you” is apparently living a responsible traditional “Westernized” lifestyle (for example, you have a wife who is expecting a child, you have a family-run business, you care for your elderly and disabled father, etc.), and yet you are seeking a path “back to your roots” as an Indian spiritualist. On the other hand, those around you all appear to be directing you towards material pursuits and egotism. Here, apparently across the world, in a country that appears to be the all mighty “land of opportunity”, I am in a similar situation with the exception that I have abandoned my “responsibilities” (as is commonly believed), and I desire to live the “simple” life of an “Indian seeker”. These two lives do indeed appear to be distinct in important respects—that is, in regards to their defining memories and histories—but they have met and merged via the pipeline of the internet across time and space. It’s very esoteric VB. And believe me, I am extremely aware of how many people depict me, but I honestly feel as though I have ancient Indian blood coursing through my veins. I yearn to live out in the wilderness and “become one with nature”…living off the land and developing the acuity of my senses. It is like I “have been there before”. And VB, it is like YOU are a “contemporary model” of that Indian past with which I relate. YOU are like a representation of what I was, mingled with the modern Westernized version of the person I could have been. Hence, I feel as though I am corresponding with an aspect of myself, which is being expressed and experienced as YOU. And so it is with ALL things…all transaction, all communication is the ONE which continually expresses itself as “me”, and as “you”… and each of us possesses the power of the “whole” within, thereby express that ONE by yearning to express it… the expression, creativity, the purpose all ties in the effort! BUT, when we REALIZE this, the EFFORT CEASES, and ALL IS ONE. Thus, ULTIMATE expression and creativity is effortless.
Brother, I must bring this to a head, for ideas run and change infinitely faster than does the pen or keystroke. Not to mention, that ideas emerge, expand, and explode much faster than I can attach words to them. But before signing off, I feel compelled to reiterate that things are not as they seem and that, metaphorically speaking, for every “certain” grain of sand, there lies a desert of uncertainty just waiting to present itself. Nevertheless, we must continue to seek in earnest, by all means possible, through trial-and-error-- lest we fall into an abyss of boredom and subsequent misery…which may just be the equivalent of the “fiery pits of hell”. Journey forth my friend. Every idea paves the way to new and exciting frontiers--to different places, times, acquaintances, and dramas. Infinite expansion and expression—that is your inevitable essence, power, and responsibility. Imagine, if you will, each and every cell of your body possessing a brain of its own….for what is the brain but the physical manifestation of the abstract idea of “mind”? THAT VB is complexity! The mission: SIMPLIFY! We have a long way to go in order to discover that we have never left…Namaste.
Fluid Thoughts on the Relationships among Parallel Lives, Expression, and REALIZATION.
Brother, bestill my racing mind! On a level above logic, I have just experienced a brief moment of insight that was startlingly poignant—totally transcending intellectual understanding. These are the “glimpses” that occur from “time to time” that are, once again, well beyond verbal description and intellectualism. The best I can do to express the phenomenon is to say that, as I was reading Richard Bach’s Running from Safety, I saw you as an alternate me, and I “imagined” everything occurring as if in a drama on a screen. The entire drama is centered on the notion of parallel lives and the ongoing quest for self-knowledge—the transcendence of the barriers of time and space with the power of ideas. Of course this is inexplicably difficult to convey via words, but my hope is that you will grasp some thread of my basic experience. Brother, we appear different in marked ways, of which you are well aware. And yet, as is the case with all of humanity, we share a common aim. The point here is, if indeed I can express it at all, that the apparent “you” is apparently living a responsible traditional “Westernized” lifestyle (for example, you have a wife who is expecting a child, you have a family-run business, you care for your elderly and disabled father, etc.), and yet you are seeking a path “back to your roots” as an Indian spiritualist. On the other hand, those around you all appear to be directing you towards material pursuits and egotism. Here, apparently across the world, in a country that appears to be the all mighty “land of opportunity”, I am in a similar situation with the exception that I have abandoned my “responsibilities” (as is commonly believed), and I desire to live the “simple” life of an “Indian seeker”. These two lives do indeed appear to be distinct in important respects—that is, in regards to their defining memories and histories—but they have met and merged via the pipeline of the internet across time and space. It’s very esoteric VB. And believe me, I am extremely aware of how many people depict me, but I honestly feel as though I have ancient Indian blood coursing through my veins. I yearn to live out in the wilderness and “become one with nature”…living off the land and developing the acuity of my senses. It is like I “have been there before”. And VB, it is like YOU are a “contemporary model” of that Indian past with which I relate. YOU are like a representation of what I was, mingled with the modern Westernized version of the person I could have been. Hence, I feel as though I am corresponding with an aspect of myself, which is being expressed and experienced as YOU. And so it is with ALL things…all transaction, all communication is the ONE which continually expresses itself as “me”, and as “you”… and each of us possesses the power of the “whole” within, thereby express that ONE by yearning to express it… the expression, creativity, the purpose all ties in the effort! BUT, when we REALIZE this, the EFFORT CEASES, and ALL IS ONE. Thus, ULTIMATE expression and creativity is effortless.
Brother, I must bring this to a head, for ideas run and change infinitely faster than does the pen or keystroke. Not to mention, that ideas emerge, expand, and explode much faster than I can attach words to them. But before signing off, I feel compelled to reiterate that things are not as they seem and that, metaphorically speaking, for every “certain” grain of sand, there lies a desert of uncertainty just waiting to present itself. Nevertheless, we must continue to seek in earnest, by all means possible, through trial-and-error-- lest we fall into an abyss of boredom and subsequent misery…which may just be the equivalent of the “fiery pits of hell”. Journey forth my friend. Every idea paves the way to new and exciting frontiers--to different places, times, acquaintances, and dramas. Infinite expansion and expression—that is your inevitable essence, power, and responsibility. Imagine, if you will, each and every cell of your body possessing a brain of its own….for what is the brain but the physical manifestation of the abstract idea of “mind”? THAT VB is complexity! The mission: SIMPLIFY! We have a long way to go in order to discover that we have never left…Namaste.
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