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ONE DAY, I CHOSE MEANING AND….

A Post-Thanksgiving Reflection

One fine day I Chose, And Remarkable Things Followed…                                  

We all choose knowledge before we learn.

Some years ago, I chose an epistemology in which I honored the information provided by my conscious being, in itself, and in relationship with a larger reality.  

This yielded the discovery that other conscious beings exist with me in a universe whose organization is discernible by the rational mind and whose overall organizing structure is one of coherence and unity within teeming interactive diversity.

I then chose a metaphysical framework in which both aspects of the larger reality that contains my life-- its non-material aspects, (the form, organization, latent and expressed, hidden and visible, and my very thoughts about these matters), and its material aspects (the flow of energy, matter, time, events, and all the separations and interactions of “the world”)-- are but two related and ultimately integrated realms of the greater whole. 

Both realms are real.  Each, as I discovered as a result of my choice, are mutually integrated.

I then discovered that my conscious being, and by extension, all conscious being, is an integration of these realms, a bridge state between two realms of existence. So I was led to discover that I exist with one part of my being submerged in the physical, and one part emerged into the non physical. This, I concluded, is a fundamental aspect of conscious being itself.  I chose to honor the evaluation which is at the core of my chosen epistemology and metaphysical stance: that these two realms are integrated; therefore that the integration is not only in me, but in all existence.

Because my thoughts operate within the non-physical realm, I noticed there the presence of the archetypal form of all conscious being.  After reflection, I chose to identify that archetypal being as the center, as its unifying enthrallment, as the “great attractor” at the core of reality.  And I was immediately rewarded in this choice with a discovery:

I am in relationship with this center.  I then made a second choice: I chose to enter this relationship. 

Immediately, from this decision, I reaped the unmistakable sense of being in relationship with meta-personality.  In the relationship, I sensed the presence of living meta-being, and gained the insight that this relationship is not mine alone, but is shared with other conscious beings. 

My core epistemological choice was the choice to awaken.  As if the scales fell from my eyes, as if awakened from a profoundly disabling trance, the universe and my place in it began to make deep sense. My choice instigated a powerfully heuristic and life-sustaining process, a cascade of life illuminating insights. 

“In the Beginning there was the divine word and wisdom.  The divine word and wisdom was there with God, and it was what God was.  It was there with God from the beginning. Everything came to be by means of it; nothing that exists came to be without its agency.  In it was life, and this life was the light of humanity.  Light was shining in darkness, and darkness did not master it.”

(John, from The Complete Gospels, The Scholars Version)

JBG