The ego of self, imaged

The ego of social masking can be observed as a way of seeming to join without really meeting.
Its characteristic function runs evasion & fear of intimacy of being. Thus it offers a realm of substitution in which bodies are used as masks and distancing - so as to permit reducing aspects of masking or distance subject to terms and conditions of avoidance. Can you see the pattern?

This can be represented (eg: Plato’s Cave) as a screen projection of dissociation from unowned, unhealed conflict. Conflict is then used as the lens for the projection of a virtual model of invested ‘reality-adjustment’ or control. Guilt operates as the basis for exclusion or withdrawal of support, as a covert identity of agreement to separate - or rather NOT to extend or accept intimacy of true presence.
So isolation and lack are drivers of a realm set for ‘getting’ life from ‘others’.

But “I am come that ye might have life more abundant” signifies the re-cognition of love in place of ‘self-justified hatreds’ rationalised as all the valid, provable reasons to be suspicious, withholding, and thus seek & find ‘what’s ‘wrong’ with everything as a pre-emptive denial of an Innocence of being that is thus masked over and distanced by layers of nested defences that set ‘rabbit-holes’ of infinite diversion - and thus serve as defence against knowing our Self or another in truth - with nothing added nor taken away. Such is an Innocence of being that stands prior to the generation of guilted conflicts of a house divided against itself.
“Before Abraham was I Am” is not a personal claim to specialness, but an undoing of self-specialness to the wellspring of Infinite Potentials of which everything is a unique expression - but unrecognised as such through a glass darkly.

 

 

(These reflections came up in context of an interview with Mattias Desmett)

@DesmetMattias

about truth & honesty as ethical principles, at the transhumanism panel.

Participance is felt, known and shared as qualities of being

 in response to the themes in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQta2Io77c

Participation renewed. Discussing The Riddle of the Sphinx, new essays from Owen Barfield

(Barfield held that the evolution or unfolding of consciousness underlies the 'world' we then experience and believe real as its result or fruit) 

Participance in God's Mind is not optional!

Consciousness of integral inherence is - or rather can be framed and masked over - by a shared focus in accepted definitions of meaning as significance. Such is a symbol or image of the Word going forth, which is one with its fruits be-lived.

The Word of God is Creation - but not in the sense of our own object-thinking of self set over and apart from it fruits.

To have (knowing as being) give all to all - can be also pointed to in the phrase 'judge not'.

The lines of an alloyed human framework of mis-creation are through imaged idea constructs as the lens through which we think to know, to live under the terms & conditions of a split mind that knows not what it does, as a means to 'become' in its own image. This operates a counterpoint for developing consciousness in bounded & bonded terms, as if the meanings we gave are locked down and lockstepping as a masking reality that 'wont come off - nor can be escaped from within its own predicates.

The developing consciousness has a segregative movement as a 'self-will' operating blind ("I Want It Thus!") to the re integrative movement of healing, undoing and releasing as acceptance & appreciation for being.

True resonance is to breathe as one with and within the breath that moves over the waters enlivening all that is. We behold it is very Good! as revealing love of which we are uniquely 'signatured' as all that we are, given & received as one.

The Prodigal does not receive punishment for the mis-taking of a false inheritance, but its own conflicts serve the re-Cognition of Father as a basis for living service without terms and conditions of assumed 'entitlement'. So as to be repurposed from the ego of a driven self-image to a willingness of receiving wholeness into conscious awareness such as to serve the re-integrative inclusion of a segregative 'lost sheep' that can not but follow a mind set of masking defences raised against fear of pain of loss, to make a world set over and against reliving Separation trauma by casting out to Get Rid of - rather than to sow & reap.

Girard identified the sacrificial nature of a masking social order predicated upon attack on God (& thus His Son). A Course in Miracles identifies this can only occur in concept or symbol acted out on the mind's use of bodies (image & form) as substitute for real or indeed holy relationships.

To become lost in or phished by our own image is Narcissus. Are we by default consenting to becoming an in-silico 'flower' as the logical outcome of ancient hates set in overriding defences against 'loss of a self' set by grievance?

If unconsciousness needs war to maintain conflicts by which to boost defences can it ever deliver more than a temporary illusion of escape in solutions that compound the problem in terms that cannot then be addressed where it is - in our heart?