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Things in the universe, though they may seem to be separate and very different, may all be reflections of a larger whole. However, most of us were educated to perceive via fragmentation. Even most of the top scientists of the world currently tend to dissect things and look more at the parts… not so much at the whole. The mind can intelligently perceive without merely seeing via standard patterns and images (that were instilled within it, formulating its constitution). For many of us, even self-images consist of fragmentary concepts and images that were accumulated from learned paradigms. Even when we look inwardly, we see fragmentarily… we see learned symbols/images. Undoubtedly, there would be less wars and less indifference towards nature if more of us would go beyond the norm and perceive more holistically. The right arm will not robotically wage war against (and try to vanquish) the left arm if it clearly sees the reality of the whole.
True independence is going beyond conditioning; it is going beyond the dependence upon old patterns and systems that were implanted by others (who absorbed and became them themselves). If one remains in circumscribed patterns, one can’t go far; and, interestingly, such a “farness” is beyond distance and separation.
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Perpetuity (1). Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2015
Perpetuity (2). Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2015
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If we saw the world as a whole rather than as individual countries, maybe we wouldn’t destroy it so much?
Love the effect in the second photo 🙂
Yes! (Individual countries are, to a large extent, a manmade fiction.) 🙂
And yet how fiercely we proclaim, and defend, our nationality.
Man you said it perfectly!! I was just making a post this morning on this topic and how our direct perception becomes numb to the strange present by obsessing over all of the information and details we read line by line over and over. Great to read your words!!
Thank you, Travis! 🙂
I agree with Travis! Thank you for sharing your insights. 🙂
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Great pictures and words.
If we can dissolve barriers in our minds, then we can work on external barriers obstructing our free passage …