Yesterday, I tried to respond to 2 questions posed by an historian: “How will we get people more active? What is fundamental to our sense of self?”

“We need to have poets, seers who will render to us an experience of the transcendent in terms of the world in which we’re living.” Joseph Campbel, Sukhavati: Place of Bliss (video, 1987).

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Dear David,

Thanks for your e-mail and thoughts about “connecting the drops”.

Best Regards,
Diane Horn

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, David Parker wrote:

> Dear MOM,
> I love the phrase “connecting the drops. It’s far more evocative
> of water melting into water.
>
> When water drips into water
> What is it that gets wet?
>
> When We, the people, express our power
> What is it that stands up?
>
> We were already the very source of the Ocean of Being
> Before we thought we were a drop in need of dissolving.
>
> You’re not “just” a drop.
> You were
> Before time was invented.
> You are
> Beyond time, names, and forms.
> You will be
> Present in this moment now for all eternity.
>
> We won’t get people more active by atomizing us into umpteen
> different Newtonian cellves.
>
> We will get people more active by helping them escape their
> cellves by realizing
>
> There is no self trapped in a cell to begin with.
>
> “I am he as
> You are me and
> We are all together.
> Googoogajoob!”
>
> Science explicitly chose the atomic point as its basis. Psychology
> adopted the atomic point as its model for the self.
>
> We use our minds like nuclear-powered lasers instead of
> solar-powered floodlights.
>
> The “unitary executive” is just a fancy name for
> the biggest, most fortified, nuclear-powered ego on the planet.
>
> Once you name something, it becomes a “thing.”
> Where were you just prior to using words?
>
> You’re aware right now of ineffables.
> You are using words to package, label, and ship
>
> Your ineffables into Others.
>
> That’s where We come from.
>
> See the space between the lines?
>
> That’s where We Are.
>
> Identifying with either the The Word or its contents
> Unneccesarrily limits us. We are both and
>
> We are neither. We are the source of all things
> Before they are named.
>
> Only by acting out of this nameless source that the Upanishads
> call
> “that from which words turn back
> having not obtained” will we be
>
> Adequate to the tasks of our day.
>
> We will
> Burst our bonds
>
> From
> Within.
>
> All else is mere rearranging of those infamous
> Titanic deck chairs. And the scraping of their feet on the deck
> is getting on my nerves!

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