Ego Separates

In order to be perceive something, there has to be something “still” enough to be separated from that which is around it. It can be recognised by the fact that it is “static”, which can only be seen because of that which “moves” around it. What differentiates it is its separation from things that are similar—meaning comparible in measurement—to it. In order for there to be any measurement, there has to be movement.

Ego seeks a static vision of itself. It wants to “know thy self”, as one can perhaps “know” mathematics—not as one might “know” a women.

It seeks to reproduce itself. In its madness, it would like its world to be a reflection of itself—a god-like vision. Just as the true G-d made man in His Image, so man would like to make himself a god, his world an image of himself.

G-d made man in his image, He did not make the world in his image. We “create” children who are in G-d’s image, but we fashion the world in our own image.

Spirit seeks union

Spirit knows that all is One, and seeks union, seeks harmony, seeks to find that increase through resonance. Just as the ego is full of arrogance and pride, proud to be separate and “individualised”, so the Spirit knows that it is just a part of the Great Spirit. It seeks to return home to the peace and harmony of the great Union with Spirit. When Ego is guided by Spirit, we call it the Upper Ego, then it seeks balance and union with all around it. It finds the harmony by resonating with the energy and vibration that surrounds it. When ego dominates, we find the seven sins open their gates, and soon we are in the outer courtyards of ego—where the merchants are selling their wares.

Ego is static

The only way ego can succeed in creating the world it desires, surrounding itself in a world that reflects it, is to have a world of form, of static elements. Change is an anathema to it, for its view can only be unchanging. Once you “know” something, you wish it to be static, for any change means to learn anew.

In any finite search, once you reach the goal, you will want to hold your position, and all your resources will be used to maintain the place you desired. Thus it becomes static, fixed—a loop, repeated ad infinitum, like all finite games.

Spirit is dynamic

Because it is not seeking itself, but seeking to resonate, and harmonise with the ever changing mystery of Creation, the search is dynamic, expressive of life itself. It is what keeps the living in motion. For once you stop moving, you die.

Once you stop moving towards G-d, your spirit will languish, and you will become spiritually dormant—a spiritual death.

Hive Mind

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”The dream is of being able to share one another’s thoughts. To communicate on deeper, more authentic levels. It is a dream of unity, of being together on a soul-ful level. Most of us want that, often spurred by the alienation that we feel towards the society we were soon to engage in as adults.

“Ultimately the expression of that desire for intimate union—a connected whole, one mind, a single overriding purpose—is the ‘Hive Mind’.”

As soon as I heard the words Hive Mind, a shiver went down my spine. It reminded me of the strange buzzing I had been hearing lately, almost like a bubbling lake of sounds and noise.

“This hive mind has been a part of our recorded history, continued through the language we use. When we speak of the Romans, we speak of them as a single unit, which they never were. When we speak of the Jews, we speak of Jews as a group of people who were all the “same” – whatever that might mean – ignoring the individuals who were living and experiencing their lives in their particular context. With all its vicissitudes and victories, heartache and love, sadness and joy – just as was a Roman citizen (whether “Roman” or not). What we are doing is projecting a hive mind onto others.

What is a hive mind? It is one in which each member is wholly dedicated to the survival of its hive—whether a community, tribe, culture or religion.

Could one refer to a forest as a hive mind? It has all the characteristics thereof. Yet it has no choice but to be the tree it is. Perhaps the distinguishing feature of humankind is the ability to choose ‘not to be a tree’, so to speak.

Yet this is questionably in the most obvious form that we see it appearing in today, in modern Param.

This is an inevitable step into the next phase of humanity. If enough people become entrained and connected, one will have an energy and thought collective of immense power—both to nourish human (and many others’) lives, or to completely eradicate it.

Is this desire for intimate union not derived from our deepest fear of aloneness, of the anguish of sinking quietly into the darkness to be extinguished for eternity? To whomever, or whatever you tether your faith in your future, is a choice of the lineage you choose to be a part of, whether that is through the denial of the lineage you were born into, or through embracing it.

In a world of death, of underlying entropy, of the natural impetus to chaos, the realities of which one cannot deny, what rock can you stand on that will enable you to cross the River Styx to come before the angels and plead your case? Who is with you in the darkness and dark nights of the soul that is part of the journey of our existence? That is the one you truly worship.

Can something that is made from the similar material, and will also eventually decay and die be that rock? Can money comfort you in your darkness? Or silk sheets? Perhaps some music? Kind words? Yes, but what do all these things that bring you comfort have in common? They all lift your spirit—if you allow it.

Our mystics, our spiritual warriors, who venture into uncharted spaces, all tell us, that this impetus is derived from our existential desire to meet our Father, the Source of Creation — just as a child seeks his absent father.

In addition, our soul desire is for union with the Divine Creator, as impossible as that might seem. This impetus is manifested on the plain of Assiyah as a desire for union with, essentially, an other, but the more “mature” version of this is desire for union with others, being part of a tightly knit community focusing on supporting, nourishing and protecting a family of brothers and sisters in spirit.