That Thou Art

That Thou Art

in response to the themes in:

https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/13/art-equals-human-not-anymore/

 

 

The word art is 'to be' - though now archaic as in Thou art.

Hence 'humans' is now current as an alien and alienating perspective from a dissociated thinking for human specimens rather than any felt appreciation of connection with human being (which hasn't really a plural as it is already relational).

The thought and world we co-create via dissociated thinking is set in a mind of predictive control. Our very definitions are attempts to grasp or possess so as to control or fit to our will and desire. But the will and desire of dissociated thinking is set in substitution for the qualities of being that are filtered, ruled out, distorted and denied by masked or distanced self-conflict. So it cannot actually create, but only gain function from the subversion of the creative, as a parasitic denial of the very life it feeds on.

Artifice operates as a virtual or augmented representation of being in replicate or copy that mimics forms but no longer embodies the same context - so providing a lens or matrix by which to 'miscreate' in terms of fear & control given power in the mind to run on false currency of thought with self-reinforcing emotional and physical expression and reflection.

For our mind can be phished by image and form or self-fixate in fantasy set in idols - acted out upon the body or bodies of others and world. This 'Narcissus' is prior to the thinking that then operates self-justifying narrative backstories before and after actions running covert - as in a sense of subjection or coercion to frameworks of perceived & believed necessity.

So the art of science is in the questions that reveal an already answer in a new light of meaning that extends or unfolds meaning rather than the 'revolutions' of shifting gods set in mutual struggle for dominance. Creation extends the Timeless - as the qualities inherent to Existence as Self-Aware. But the 'miscreative' or segregative identification set in opposition or conflict operates a limiting filtering focus by which mind - or Mind is compartmentalised in effect to a split-levelled experience of reality as -for example mind and body or thought & feeling, conscious and unconscious.

Freedom to engage experience is limited by workability that includes tolerability, for conflict dissonance as pain becomes a toxic burden to any thought system or civilisation. If reintegration to a grounded reference point is persistently evaded, the pain is masked over not least by limiting the faculty and function of thought, while also projecting out as a world of irrevocable unresolvable conflict - that invokes war, destruction and death to 'save it' from full Disclosure - as the wish to self-create locked into its own 'defences' that DO the very thing it thinks and lives to avoid!

Cognitive dissonance is not obvious to a mind-set of survival.

Even those who loved Jesus in Spirit saw only from within the mindset of loss, disconnection and threat, as a basis for the 'self-protective reflex' that was suddenly recognised amidst the cock craw at the approach of dawn - and then by the gift of prophesy for such an event as had seemed inconceivable when given.

The grace of noticing is a Gift already given, yet revealed anew from beneath the capacity to see what fear and guilt made of dissonance and disconnection - within the heart of a love that needed no word for the life it both has and is - without apology or justification.

Gain of Function runs from the idea of harnessing nature - and then by extension the minds of targeted enemies, rivals or threats. So the Trojan ruse uses the sympathy of the enemy for the horse as a divine symbol (as the horse was so across many cultures) that provided a 'back door' for a destructive agenda that could not otherwise break the siege.

The artifice of seduction, manipulation, marketing or entrapment to disempowerment, loss and death is 'war by any and all means' - and to those so given is it self-honesty in thought set over denied and stamped out feeling. For they are at war with their own being while attacking ever shifting targets of their own projective denials - and also meeting reinforcements by reaction.

But Jesus said 'even as you do unto the least among you, you do unto Me'. Not ONLY the least or especially to the least, but as you do without exception. Nor did he teach guilt, blame and moral superiority as a salvation for the 'select' but shared in any tongue to the revealing of a love, a law and a light that was recognisably shared - NOT specialness conferred.

Why invoke Jesus?

The heart of any matter is in the heart and mind to which it matters. We have collectively assigned Cause to externalised physical determinants such as germs and genes to the exclusion of the psychic act of giving meaning as a form of self-definitions that then frame our adaptive experience. Without invoking the gaslight of blame - there is a basis for recognising where we do unto ourselves - or in some way set ourselves up' - and this is the opportunity for a simple curiosity of noticing to both see and choose differently to patterns of a past made in conflict and confusion.

True presence does not 'wait' while we dissociate into past and future imaginations, but is the Call to joy or wholeness of being - even if we perceive that contagious, weakening or threat to our defences. True Perspective aligns truly felt and truly shared outcomes - one willingness at a time.