(I wrote this mostly for myself, it will take 20 minutes to digest properly; no need to read it, but if you do, I would naturally enjoy your thoughts; but yeah...) Concerning the Metaphoric Nature of Deities: Are deities real? Or are they just metaphors for our cultural contexts and biases?? Or could it be that both of these perspectives are simultaneously true?? That perhaps out of this material and objective universe flowers another?? Through the seed of our collective human mind?? Let us consider the following -- The universe has no morals, it has no concern for what is true and what is not, it simply is everything that can be... and is composed of energy, which is the thing that is always trying to be where it is not. Always exploring new possible avenues, for all eternity = synthesis. Perhaps since unicorns couldnt make the cut in the material universe, the universe seeks to bring them alive through our own inner one?? Satisfying its cosmic curiosity through our own?? The imaginary creatures that live in our head, I have always thought were comprised of nothing more than our own shared collective theories and dreams of what may or may not be; in essence, I still believe this. They help us to communicate. But what else do they do? Do they not, on some level, regulate what we believe to be real or not?? When we see or feel the unfathomable pain, beauty, and compassion that emanates from the other souls that we live with, here in this place -- do we always believe what we have seen?? or is it not without asking sub-consciously, of our cultural contextual/ ancestorial spirits, for permission to believe what we have seen?? Im not talking about fully anthropomorphic forms here, but of the very archetypal energies, which our mythological images conjure and are called upon only to represent -- Unicorns, Jesus, (our cultural concept of) Einstein, Mohammad, ect... yes all of these but they are only faces on the tip of the iceberg, agreed upon vantage points of the greater phenomenon to which I speak. If the deities are real, they do not take upon names, books, nor teachings; but rather, they live through these, through these as humans live through their cloths, and buildings, but are not them -- that they live in the very substrate of the sub-conscious, un-fettered by our concepts of them, yet made out of, at the most base level, the very energy of expectation itself. Certainly, if they exist, they (in the greater sense of the term) tell us what is and is not real, but they do not necessarily negate themselves!!! Just as the P.R. team of a company will not likely spin themselves as unimportant or a mythological story, likely, confess in full to the seasonal origins of its narrative. But what if we are to take over this regulatory power, take it away from them, so to say -- do they not protest? Perhaps, I think some may and should not, and others do not but should; we might tell ourselves we dont need them, and loose the valuable lessons that they have come to teach; either way, I think these Creatures ultimately are training us, (whether we have relationships with them that are good, bad; existent or non-existent -- certainly someone who doesnt believe in something can still be effected by its presence, as it has affect on others around them), for the all important task at hand, of standing on the brink of existence itself, and bearing witness to the whole of this material place. We the vanguards of this universe, the collective crystal-cave of human consciousness atop some great mountain of time -- if we are so unique and wondrous a creation in such a vast and empty space, would it be un-likely that we have inhabitants that live in here with us, that are not, entirely, of our own sentient substance??? I believe that the balance between the psychological materialist perspective and the spiritual/theoretical one, is in realizing that they are not likely in conflict... for if the world is a material void how bizarre that we exist!! This oddity is not proof of anything except for the curiosity of the universe to experience and be everything that it can and will always continue trying to be = be more and more and more... And in this Bonnaza of numinous self-hood comes forth the wonders of what we have only imagined that we only imagined... a fleeting surreal parallelism... atop a vast mountain of objectively measurable material/un-conscious phenomenon... still exists and like all things exists for a reason -- never worthy of scorn, nor praise, but always worthy of understanding. I resign, from saying anything definitely; but I believe that our cultural expectation, norms, and contexts are the metaphoric deities, that they did not create this universe, but rather inhabit us like symbiotic (macro/micro??)-organisms. The metaphorical psychological elephants in the room that perhaps do all good or perhaps do all bad, perhaps know all or perhaps not, perhaps our ourselves or perhaps not, perhaps have magical power or perhaps not -- I think these are what Siddhartha spoke to when he spoke of being free on to oneself and not to rely on Deities for your Enlightenment, nor try to re-incarnate as one, or consort with them as they come to you under your Bodhi Tree, but rather to realize that they are products of ones own mind -- projections we have learned to make that reflect perhaps only our cultural up-bringing, perhaps great cosmic dramas!!! it matters not. That in this materialistic universe, we (along with the other sentient animals) are the highest authorities over our inner-selves and dare I say, the very existence of consciousness itself. And, that any power that our imagination has over us, is only what we have given to it, or have been forced by cultural dogma, to do so; perhaps, as the eyes of the universe, we are the highest form of consciousness!!! ... and that the weight of this load causes us to imagine other-wise... perhaps not... Probably both.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 04:33:20 +0000
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