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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
IgnoranceI'm busy this spring and summer, interviewing throughout New England in hopes
of publishing a new regional book of ghost stories before Halloween of 2010, so I blog even less now than in wintertime.
In keeping up with the daily news via television, I notice human beings struggling, often violently, with one
another. Our world is infused with an "other psychology," where we are accustomed to see people, events and objects
as something other than as a part of our own whole Cosmic Self. The simplest of minds can understand that what they see (I
am here, you are there) is "true." This is why the concept of cosmic brotherhood and sisterhood cannot be
realized any time soon. We need a higher knowing, but don't look to this world's institutions (which are, after all, self-serving)
to clarify the matter, because that requires the individual to go deep inside him or herself, and to do so alone,
usually unsupported by other "authorities." Almost nobody teaches those arts in the West, and as the East becomes
more and more materialistic, as we have become, they may lose most of that practice or knowledge.
If we could sit
a person down and speak to them about oxygen, x-rays, air pressure, plasma, gravity, dreams, and other non-visible realities,
they probably would concede that yes, things can be real, though unseen. Then speak to them of infrared energy and ultraviolet
energy, radio waves and television signals, and they could agree that their knowledge or perception is severely limited.
Why, then, do they scream at the presence of a ghost or spirit, the remnants of somebody's physical life experience?
Maybe because we humans have a lot invested in doing what pleases our ego (which includes having the approbation of the significant
people in our lives--a "herd instinct"), which is a false self that we have constructed since birth, in order to
ensure that "we" survive. We thus have a vested interest in remaining "just a bit educated." Yet, our
body and its personality die.
If you're with me thus far, check out this link: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/10/28/the-triumph-of-ignorance/
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