Other Selfs (**WARNING, some graphic detail which may be disturbing for some**)

 

It is not just me; humanity is slowly beginning to rediscover The Force. The Force is the creative quality of the human imagination. This creative period will develop more and more, whether you consciously decide to participate or not. If you do not make the shift with humanity, you’ll find yourself feeling more and more out of place as things begin to develop in contrast to your limited involvement. It is best to find the current of collective imagination and go with it. Art will change. Music will change. Styles will change. You will get along physically without accepting changes, but if you want to be a participant in collective awakening, allow yourself to feel what humanity is feeling and see if this allows you to create more Joy. I do believe you will find this experiment pleasurable.

We become what we imagine. This is true for Oneness, as in All, and it is true for oneness, as in separate-selves. If you stubbornly decide to identify as the separate-self, you will only create as much as you can think or imagine as a body-bound-computer. It really only takes a slight shift of awareness to identify as All. There is only one way to participate with the collective imagination and that is to become aware, by way of Love, that there are no others; only other-selfs.

As Neville used to say, “Others are just myself, pushed out.”

This idea does not come naturally, because it is rather Supernatural. It is not religious; but The Truth just the same.

You can get this intellectually, but intellectualism is not in the same format as the collective imagination, so the documents of reason will not yield The Force; it only discusses it.

One clue, which is not easy to overlook and even harder to dismiss is the persistent contrasts you will discover between yourself and your perceived opposites. If you make an intellectual choice to point to these obvious differences and bring them to court as evidence of your individualism, you will win the case if your jury happens to be as stubbornly egoic as you are. However, the defense will take this same evidence as proof of Oneness. The defense will carefully detail the characteristics you abhor in others and it will reveal everything you do not like about yourself. When you begin to see others as characteristically revealing your good and bad qualities, and when you finally say, “Indeed, I am like that on some level,” you will begin to participate with the “good” others as well as the “bad” others and this may never be as much a meeting of minds as it is a meeting of the beating hearts.

Two physical hearts, once entangled by a physical touch, will beat in rhythm. This is not a sexual reference. In fact, I learned it while slaughtering chickens for market. As graphic as this memory is, it changed my life in a good way. By pure coincidence, my friend, Kenny and I happened upon Kenny’s father and uncle on the day they were killing chickens for some event where the meat was to be cooked and enjoyed by people who were fortunate enough not to see what I saw. The men had set up a chopping block where they were doing the unthinkable; at least from my point of view. However, they also made a lesson out of this dreadful moment. Kenny’s uncle said, “Watch this.” And off went the head of an unfortunate foul.

The headless body of the big bird managed to run around in undefined circles without falling down. I was appalled and probably disturbed, but I still watched the next killing to see if this phenomenon repeated; it did.

Taking advantage of my youthful curiosity, Kenny’s father said, “Let me show you something even stranger.”

He removed the physical, beating hearts from two of the birds he’d executed and placed them in one can, on either side. “Now,” he said, “Watch what happens when the hearts touch.”

Circling the can in a way that brought the hearts together, Kenny’s father instructed me to wait for the result. I saw two hearts that were beating out of sync and then, as they “recognized” the shared touch, they began beating in sync, and did so until they both ceased simultaneously.

One way or another, by some miracle or another, we will see that we are all One.