An infinite ocean of freedom and possibilities

A couple of days ago, I sent an email to my cousin Francois back in Paris, to share with him the incredible experience I just had. His response has an interesting Orwellian slant to it: progress and industry are evil, man has subdued to machines and order, nothing is sacred anymore, violence is our only way forward (to tear down materialism, consumerism and capitalism). He says: "how could you think of your after-death when all is matter, that you mold according to your desires?" He concludes though: "what we need [to solve the global warming problem, etc] is to believe in it, what we need is more sacredness". I continue with my "just back from the mountaintop" style:

"I don’t understand all of what you say. I do not understand violence. My thirst for the absolute is naturally quenched in my spiritual life (I am just at the beginning of the trail but I clearly see the light).

As I said, there are two "dual" worlds: the material/mortal world, and the spiritual/infinite world. In the former we take the form of separate individuals, in the latter we are a collective consciousness. The two worlds are dual, i.e. they are just two ways to look at the same thing – one is not more valid than the other one as they are one. But some problems you cannot solve in one you can go solve in the other one (like in mathematics), hence the handiness of having access to both. I think this is what the Buddhists are after (as well as other yogis and religious people). This is what I am after now. Life "here" is not of much interest if one does not understand life "there" (as we have this unquenched thirst) and I think that life "there" is not of great interest without life "here" in the material world: it actually explains why and how much every little thing "here" so profoundly matters. Each one of these "worlds" gives meaning to the "other". What peace one feels in this world when one is familiar with that world! And how everything, all of a sudden, makes sense! It’s as if life was finally taking on depth, meaning, colors. Huge.

There is no after-my-death: there is the mortal/temporal world in which I exist for a finite time (70 years?) and the spiritual/infinite world in which I’ve always existed and will always exist, as part of the "big all", of the timeless and infinite consciousness. I don’t have the words yet – actually what I want is learn to express all this in a way that people who are not familiar with that world can understand, i.e. using words from this world. I’d like to start by helping people ask the right questions.

Now I know there is an answer. I live much better since :-). It eliminates fear, gives courage. I feel I do not fear anything anymore (why fear?), I am learning to detach from things that seemed so important. Immense joy!

I try to avoid words like "moral", "sacred", "values". These words have no meaning for me – they lead to discord. These things are extremely subjective, i.e. they don’t correspond to the reality that I perceive that we are all one and the same thing…

Global warming is no drama – the same way having a cancer is no drama. The solar system, the earth, humans: all that is material is mortal. We accept this. Now we feel that it is good to have a longer life and we aim for this. In the same way, humanity is slowly awakening and will take care of the problem of atmospheric emissions… the collective survival instinct. I am not worried, in fact (given that the earth will disappear, like we and our children will). I sense a duty for me to contribute to raise people’s awareness about that problem. I love that problem because it is so vast, so global. It is a good topic to engage and make people thing about the cause and effect concept, etc. Everything is cause and effect.   

True, you have to believe in it. Every negative thought turns into negative action (or lack of action). Negative thought serve no purpose. EVER. If you believe in something, in general, that thing gets realized. If we believe strongly enough that we will stabilize the climate, we will manage. This is how it works. This is how EVERYTHING works. One must learn to master one’s own thoughts. Like one masters one’s body or one’s reasoning faculties. This is what I’m striving to do now. It is fascinating learning! It opens an infinite ocean of freedom and possibilities."

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[DF]

Spirituality is about releasing the ego. Guess I've got a long way to go. Since I came here only to read what my cousin had wrote about me, about my messages to her actually.

They say in order to forster communication, one should always start by summarising what the other said. Good test. I know they use it in couple's therapy, some times it takes hours before one single message can be summed up correctly by the other partner ...

I guess potential readers know where I'm hinting. I never said progress and industry are evil. I did say Violence is our only way forward (in some way).

What I said is phrased by Ken wilber as us living in "flat land", where descendant movement is so great that there's no spirituality any more, no bound, just materialism. (I'm just starting to read him, I like his ascendant descendant concept, but I'm not sure descendantism is the best description of where we are now... I've got to read on ...)

My cousin has a "problem". She, may be because she is a woman, or lives in this spirituality, does not thing violence is necessary. She seems to think violence is evil. All violence is evil.
I've tried to explain her how violence is good and necessary, very often, from forbidding dangerous stuff to children, forcing them to sit and learn, hunting, harvesting, processing, arresting vilains, organising strikes and revolutions, waging wars against tyranny...

Guess violence is one of the roads we have to walk down in this world, and I guess it's especially hard for western women leaving in a civilised environment and a spiritual community.

This from a non violent male, knowing the path and still watching it, not so much walking and being it.