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I see it in the megalomaniacal presidency of a man who has unleashed forces, such as AI with the attitude it can be controlled with a super-IQ world leader, such as himself, and who is rolling back all things put into place to save the planet environmentally, but he has a following dedicated to hearing the same national ego-boosting speeches that lifted Adolph Hitler to fanatical power in the 1930’s, and because the opposing party is becoming something akin to individual-loving communists.
I wonder how far down we are going to have to go, before (as my mother would have said) we wake up and die right.
I’m honestly left with a feeling of “now what?” I mean to say that there are so many things and places in the world where one can involve themselves to try to demonstrate an annulment of their ego and a bestowal of doing what the Creator would want that it seems impossible to start.
I wonder if one is supposed to take a breath and wait patiently for the Creator to put the person or situation in their path, when the cosmos is ready for them? I think we’ve learned a very important lesson here, but it is a little difficult to digest and bring to the fore to begin. Yes, it is altruism, and it is a demonstration that there is no greater force in existence than love, but where does one start?
As Jesus said, to love thy neighbor as thyself, and then used the parable of the Good Samaritan to show the extreme of what this could entail.
I see now that we, the human species, are not the creature at all. The creature began with the big bang of physical creation, and the Creator patiently allowed evolution and quantum physics to do the work of putting together a living planet around a working star that could support life, and then the right minerals were brought together into an organism to produce life and intelligence.
However, what I see now is that just because all other minerals, molecules, and energies are not within my skin doesn’t mean in the least that I am not one with them. As one with the creature, I am one with the creation, ergo I am one with the universe which came from the big bang of the Creator’s desire to fill the creature with His ultimate light.
After review of the first four desires and the ultimate and pointless end, I am left with a view of the wisdom with which the writer in the Bible writes, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity,” and continues on with the ultimate pointlessness of any accomplishment to which we can achieve.
It becomes obvious that all along it is the intention of the Creator to bring us to the fifth desire, the one that we cannot reach without His direct intervention that He put the other four into our path that we may have the experience of climbing them and the knowledge of their pointlessness, once we have fallen from them and left them behind. As St Paul wrote in the end of his life when he writes out his many accolades and then writes that he counts them all as “shit” (that is the actual word he used, not mine) compared to what lies before him.
Most of us won’t reach the pinnacle of all four desires. In my case, I’ll lack wealth, power, and ultimate knowledge, but unless a person is willfully blind and ignorant, we still know from the biographies of many who have been there of the fruitlessness that can follow reaching the highest material achievement.
Rabbi Jacobson once compared existence to the computer screen. He asked if we were really seeing an “a” or some picture on the screen? No. We are looking at series of 1’s and 0’s going across in an infinite number of patterns. I’m convinced that reality is relative to my spiritual sense of it. If I am spiritually dead, I would just accept that this is it, and this is what everyone else sees and feels also. But at times, I feel what Augustine called “the veil,” and I feel what we see is like a thin curtain put around us to hide the reality of what really is and what we can really do and be. All we have to do to pierce the veil is to have the key. I believe the key is love for the other and the will to do good for another, and then the Creator will not only supply with all of our needs, but He will also allow us to bend the perceived reality to fit the needs of others, as we need it to.
