In The Beginning Part 1
ENTERING THE ILLUSION
Imagine,
if you will, a realm in which there is no height, width, depth or time –
imagine an entity who lives in this realm – an entity called Llixgrijb. Imagine
that poor Llixgrijb is trapped by some sort of extra-dimensional cave-in –
there is no escape. But Llixgrijb cannot die. The consciousness will continue,
all alone and completely paralyzed for eternity – or whatever the equivalent of
eternity is in that realm. How would you deal with this situation?? Perhaps you’d choose to create worlds in
your mind, worlds within yourself
– Llixgrijb chose to create a
universe.
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Slowly,
Llixgrijb thought about it. It thought of a concept called ‘place’, and it
chose to set about creating one - then another - then connecting them together.
Llixgrijb created a vision in which everything was connected to everything
else.
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Now,
outside of time and space, Llixgrijb started working on its greatest
achievement: a universe with height, width, depth and time – a universe with
the illusion of chronological history. And then it chose to create imaginary
entities for its entertainment – imaginary entities like yourself, gentle
reader. But Llixgrijb was afraid. “Suppose my creatures discover they are only
phantoms,” wondered Llixgrijb – “suppose they learn that I am the only
reality...”
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Outside
of time and space, Llixgrijb was still dissatisfied. “I have created a world
full of imaginary creatures”, said Llixgrijb “and yet I am alone. How can this
be?” Despite the populousness of its illusion, Llixgrijb could only watch its
lovely universe from the outside. It had not forgotten its own suffering and
loneliness. It was not fully a part of the creation it had made. “I must become
part of my illusion”, considered Llixgrijb, “and to do that, I must don a
costume; I must wear a mask. I must forget myself forever. But what, or who,
shall I become?”
Part 1 adapted from Coleman & Perrin –The
Jamais Vu Papers
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In the Beginning -Part 2
According to an
ancient Greek creation myth, originally Mankind was one, that is to say
- there was no diversity in our world – the creation gods, at their dawning
state of wisdom, seemingly thought that with all of us as one there
would be no possibility of misunderstanding nor dissension entering the world.
So it was chosen that mankind was to be one;
there was no diversity – and thus there was no dissension.
{the analogy is that of mankind as a hand with all
5 fingers extended but held tightly together - 'hand' in name, but
not 'hand' in function.
Eventually,
it was realized by the creation gods that there was a problem with this
humanity 'one-ness' concept. While there was certainly stability, there was no
flux and hence there was no possibility of learning, since learning is
an outgrowth of comparisons, time and patience. And if mankind was not learning
and evolving, then the gods themselves were deprived of learning through
mankind’s experience.
And
so it was that the creative gods, themselves, learned from their first, faulty,
'one-ness' humanity design. And, having learned, eventually they created
diversity, bringing out revised models of mankind – the most recent being that
which is with us today.
{The
'hand' of mankind best functions when the fingers are all spread open, with
each ‘finger’ comprising, in effect, a separate sentient self – each finger
palpating reality and all, together, grasping as a hand the ideas and thoughts
derived from the sensed reality.}
So
diversity arose. And whom does this diversity
benefit? Well, firstly of course, it benefits all the members of our
race, as we choose to use our individual wills to touch and understand our own
and each other’s reality and communicate our respective perspectives. Thereby
we teach and learn from each other through our separate sensing. Ultimately
though, the highest benefit accrues to the Owner of the hand - the Owner that
created the sentient instruments and who lives through Its creatures.
Yet
why?? you might ask, gentle reader - Why this
gloriously complex, evolving multiversity? Now there is the Question.
But the answer to that question, according to the ancient creation myth,
is said to be only elicited after much humble wonder. The answer is said to lie
nested within another realm – a vast reality buried deeply within the
potentials of our questing Hearts. And that reality becomes revealed to each of
us in turn as we choose to deeply ponder the wonder of life and, with the aid
of time and using much patience, we each learn for ourselves life’s ineffable
answer to our awe-filled “why?”
In The Beginning – Part 3
AND THE TWO WERE AS ONE
Now, gentle
reader, there was an intermediate stage in the ancient Greek creation
narrative – a transitional epoch between original ‘one-ness’ and the present
creative multiversity. The narrative for humans goes along the following lines:
Man
and woman were initially created as one unit, physically. At that time we were
called - as a race - “Androgyne”. Anatomically, we were similar in many
respects to what we now are. But we were attached to each other – man
and woman – fused back-to-back. Each androgyne unit hence had four arms and
four legs, two torsos and heads – with the male and female facing in opposite
directions. For locomotion, the androgyne unit turned cartwheels and could
cover distance quickly assuming, of course, that the minds of the coupled unit
had a common sense of goal. If you can imagine the male/female back-to-back
configuration, it follows that the human race was, by necessity, quite
pre-occupied with social interface. The creatures were very social and,
more often than occurs now, loved their neighbours, and the resulting
population growth rate was phenomenal.
And
as the race multiplied, the androgynes’ already boisterous sense of confidence
magnified –to the point that collective over-confidence - or hubris - set in.
So much so that one day they all, as if with one mind, chose to storm the
mountain home of the chief god, Zeus, to take over the whole shooting match.
Cart wheeling and caterwauling up Mount Olympus they went, making such a racket
that Zeus awakened from his siesta, and old Zeus was not amused at the sight
before him. Seeing what was afoot He picked up his quiver of lightening bolts
and started throwing them at the oncoming cart-wheeling mob, eventually
striking each androgyne.
As
each coupled unit was hit by Zeus’ bolts, a strange thing happened – the
electrical charge ‘de-fused’ the couples – it split them asunder into two
separate entities – man (animus) and woman (anima). And then the individuals as
they sought cover lost track of their former counterparts in the bedlam of
milling men and women and all of them forgot their lofty Olympian goal.
This
is the reason why - according to the ancient myth - to this very day each of
us, deeply sensing our individual incompleteness, is impelled to search for and
find our other half – the mythic soul-mate – and thereby recover our whole
potential.
Keith and Marnie
Elliott’s “REMEDY” Site
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