Life Matters by E.C.Nemeth (read aloud TXT) 📕

to meet a foreign objective other than the truth but again that will be discussed in slightly different terms in later chapters.
Concepts, therefore, reflect our partial ignorance by implying the absence of all other unrelated data. Is it not evident that if there is something to know, it is known? If there is a question there is an answer. The answer is part of the question, as the question is part of the answer. Just so, there is the known and the, what? - the unknown? Either the unknown is also known or it is not real and does not exist. The unknown, if it is real, can only be the part ignorant of itself. Yet can the reality of what is real be in question? And if it is in question, is that not patently insane? And can or should the insane heed their own counsel or the counsel of others seemingly equally afflicted with the blight of ignorance? But what is there to turn to? Who can be trusted?
What and Who indeed.
A question of authority
In the modern world contexts are employed as pseudo-concepts. That is, a context is considered a limit on the types of concepts allowed under its particular umbrella of inclusion. Therefore, they are a means of separation and a testament to disunity. They also proclaim the underlying reality of the individual bent upon this pursuit as ignorant. And the modern world shows its allegiance to this made up reality by giving the universe the authority to clarify the truth. The modern world has made the universe its idol and subsequently doomed the individual to mediocrity at best and to insignificance at worst. Pseudo-concepts are a form of attack upon the self, one that comes pre-packaged in a mind-set and world-view that guarantees the failure or at least the short-circuiting of any logical sequence. The belief in pseudo-concepts as a logical means to uncover or discover the truth ensures the success of the ego’s foremost rule: “Seek, but do not find.”
It is for this reason, that it is the ego’s device we are serving, that the answer God supplied as correction can be viewed as a fundamental impulse. We are moved and slowly but surely guided toward corrective experiences specifically designed to the individual‘s perceived needs. In our delusion this corrective procedure takes time, involves the movement through space and requires feelings and their interpretations as emotions.
Notice that time, energy and mass are all motion dependant. These three concepts are the building blocks of reality as we understand it. Yet they are effects and not cause. Time, energy and mass are effects of our decision to believe in separation. They are caused by our choice to give authority to the universe instead of to God. It is the denial of our Source that caused the need for the impulse to lead us back to the remembrance of truth.
The fundamental impulse is the response to the gap we imposed between ourselves and the Creator. The Creator bridged the seeming gap by ensuring change would keep us searching for truth. What is subject to cause and effect must succumb to continual change. And only when all knowings no longer conflict will change cease and the fundamental impulse be abated.
This fundamental impulse, what in the previous book was called the fundamental momentum or its short form, the funmoment, is a direct effect of our decision to be small and insignificant. In this seeming reduced capacity it is possible to imagine moving through the Mind of God. By fragmenting The One Mind, The One made it seem as though there were yet vast areas to discover, numerous new territories to explore, untold numbers of incredible secrets to uncover. For if The One Mind is many there must forever be knowledge left unknown and that is the goal of the ego mind: to search but never to find.
To not know is a very scary state. It immediately highlights the individual’s limits, re-enforcing the personal belief in insignificance. It also facilitates the confusion that allows the individual to give away its authority to the ego. To not know is to deny The Source, which is the individual's reality. It is this denial itself that is the giving of authority to the self-made ego. It is equivalent to freely becoming a slave. To choose to be exploited by the ego is a choice to be self-abused. To not know means authority has been given away. If the individual does not know, has no authority, then the individual is not free. And not to be free is scary indeed.
I see
To give personal authority to the ego allows the ego to expand its domain and because it believes in separation there is always more territory to conquer and control. Expansion is an extremely effective means to keep the truth at bay. Instead of delving into the meaning of a thing, once discovered, it is tossed aside in favor of the next, as yet, unknown thing. In this way, content is disregarded as meaningless while form is exalted. If a thing is considered interesting it may be scrutinized, disassembled and its parts analyzed in order to learn the function of the parts in relation to the whole. Yet the parts have no function outside the whole. And the whole is not whole without the parts. In other words, the stated goal of expansion is to categorize all encountered phenomena while the unstated goal is to substitute form for content. This is not logical. Content begets form but form does not beget content.
To expand is to increase volume. Point to point expansion changes nothing except the space between. Expansion, then, increases All There Is Not. In relation to this seeming increase of All There Is Not, All There Is must decrease. Expansion, then, is a method to keep unreal what is real. It is the attempt to replace content with form. But content is truth, and form but represents the current limits of rational thought.
Expansion is the method employed by the identity to hide the truth from itself. It offers a direction or an option or a choice counter to the truth. It is the manifestation of the gap imposed between the Creator and the Created. It is the space made for something other than the truth. In fact, expansion is the turning away from truth. Expansion, then, is denial clothed in form; expansion is the form of denial.
That there is something to observe is a mistake but it is not the first one. The first mistake is the observer itself. Since there is an observer there must be something to observe. The observer is the thing we made in an effort to create ourselves and deny the Creator’s role. It is the usurpation of authority, it is the wish to take over the role of Creator. It is the fantasy where the Created dreams it created itself. But authority comes from knowledge and we obviously do not know. So what we made must remain un-understandable. It must be illogical because it is an illogical premise.
The insistence of the individual on identifying with a limited, small self manifests as the universe of multiple forms. By assuming an identity, the individual gives up content in favor of form. It is the same as saying we are examining the outside of things in order to learn of their insides. Content is contextual; it is inclusive. Form is conceptual; it is exclusive. To conceptualize requires the exclusion of everything not part of the present conceptual focus. If it were possible to contextualize, which it isn't because that stance assumes multiple contexts and there is only one context, it would require the inclusion of everything. Herein lies the paradox.
The doorway to comprehension in this regard is to keep in mind that the sentences above employed the viewpoint of the conceptualizer, the observer. If there is an observer there must be the observed. That is, the belief in observation comes complete with a plethora of observable phenomena.
The first concept is the observer. It is the original mistake given form. Lost in a sea of forms, the observer can no longer find the way home. If the observer were the truth about the individual then the observer would be doomed indeed.
Again, forms are concepts and there is an infinity of them but there is only one context and it unifies all concepts. Unification of all concepts renders them obsolete. Concepts are the attempt to unify forms, which is not possible by definition. Forms are isolated and unique, alone and solitary. They cannot be unified or they would loose their distinctiveness. To unify all forms is to eradicate them from existence altogether. Context eliminates the seeming need to conceptualize by reuniting the whole universe with the individual. There is no separation when taken in true context because created and creator are one.
Back to the first moment of creation. Expansion is already fact even though it has not yet been acted out because of the individual’s identification with the observer. Belief in the observer, in a separate and isolated little me, requires the manifestation of phenomena. It is the birth of an impulse that runs directly counter to the impulse of correction. These two impulses direct the flow of events in the individual’s life depending upon the wishes of the individual.
At first glance it might seem like this is the birth of the ability to choose but it is not. The ability to choose happened outside of time, before creation occurred. The choice was to believe in the observer, the individual. The individual is the original mistake and that led directly to the world of today as we observe it to be.
What follows, to close this chapter, is an attempt to describe extension, the truth that expansion reflects. Remember, words are a tool to separate what in truth is always unified.
Listen and see with your mind’s eye as we take a quick tour of the ego’s world.
Picture a slimy bog in which swim or wiggle, numerous ameba-like critters. The bog is teaming with various life-forms all scurrying about.
Imagine a giant insect, with an enormous and bulbous, hairy body supported by long, oddly jointed legs. See its multi-faceted eyes focused beyond the massive jaws below it, searching for food, its antennae waving to and fro. It steps into a spot of water and takes a sip, sucking up the world of the amebas.
Now see that, in fact, this insect is but a tiny tick riding atop the real monster. This bug has huge mandibles gouging into its food, tearing hunks of flesh free and using little hand like appendages to insert the food into the gaping hole of its mouth. It walks on stout, rather stubby legs and has great armor plating all over its projectile-shaped body. Watch as it descends right into its prey and disappears within it. Only a slight moving bump on the surface of its prey marks its passage beneath.
Watch as the scene pans wider and the bug's prey turns out to be a small rodent, scurrying along. It is searching for food in the trash cans and bins down a long dark alley. It finds something interesting and begins gnawing away at the plastic bag it is in, unaware of the alley cat about to pounce upon it. And as the cat settles in to eat the rat it just caught a skinny old dog runs around the corner, spots the cat and lopes over, barking madly. The cat takes one more bite, swallowing amebas and tick and bug and rat meat, and scurries away, the dog chasing it down the alley. Someone yells out an open window to shut the dog up, but to no avail.
Now the scene pans again and the alley becomes a