06 May 2012
Admittedly, this took a longer time to absorb then the first of this
series firstly because I did not understand the point of this to my
journey and secondly because I knew there was one. There are a few
things which I would like to discuss in turn.
Religions get stuck on the Metaphors
Instead of accepting God, or the Force, or Allah as they are, we
constantly ask “who are they?” By doing this we tunicate their very
essence, their very being. We stifle them. We place them in a box. By
doing this we also tunicate ourselves, our very being, our very life.
As we place these entities in a box, we also only allow for the
admission of others into the same box if they subscribe to the rules
place on the box and the entity inside. They are who they are, they are
what they are. Our feeble minds cannot hope to grasp their nature,
therefore we must think with our hearts.
The Best Things Cannot be Told
Campbell explains a saying of his friend “ The best things cannot be
told, the second best (those we use to talk about what cannot be told)
are misunderstood, and the third best are the things we talk about.”
Well, the best things to strive for cannot be told, peace, serenity,
love, knowledge etc. These are difficult things to define with good
reason, because each individual discovers for him or herself what each
of these things will mean for them.
The Mask of Eternity and Eternity itself
The mask of eternity intrigued me because it was surrounded by the
two opposites. We could say that the two opposites sprang from it, the
catalyst for this being different in every myth. In Abrahamic stories,
it is the eating of the forbidden fruit which causes the creation of
opposites. Having heard this lecture I am sure that Adam and Eve’s “sin”
made life worth living. The risk they took enabled them to live fully
and freely on their own path. But we as human beings have to find our
way back to the Center of All, eternity which lies in each of us.
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