[MD] Boromir's Journey

[gav]

yes. as small self evolves it becomes more transparent to big self. like huxley's analogy of lsd as a means of opening the 'reducing valve' of individual consciousness to let more of Mind through.

--- On Tue, 29/9/09, Steve Peterson <peterson.steve at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Steve Peterson <peterson.steve at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MD] Boromir's Journey
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Received: Tuesday, 29 September, 2009, 3:31 AM

Hi Matt,

> ... i tend to think
> that, just like leibniz trying to fit evil into the truism of the
> perfection of god, i tend to think it's best to stand aside
> from thinking of anything as a "perfection," as opposed to a
> "perfecting," a good sense which can be--but is not the
> only--sense to be attached to "betterness" being "perfection."


This on-going "perfecting" that we can participate in is what I mean when I say that the world is perfect. From the dynamic perspective, the world is always already perfect, or rather, perfectingness. It is more perfect than anyone's static conception of perfection. It is not the world that needs to change, it is "small self," my static patterns, that needs to change. The prospective of faith is identifying with "Big Self" or dynamic quality. This perspective helps me realize that it is "small self" that needs to change. "Small self" has hope that things can get better--that "small self" and all things are evolving toward "Big Self." "Small self" can tell a story about the evolution of value patterns to give evidence that the world already has gotten better than it once was which gives me hope for the future, but for "Big Self" there is always only now in all its perfect perfectingness.

These two perspectives of faith and hope, while contradictory, can be held simultaneously. For example, a mother cries with a smile on her face as she consoles her daughter who has just had her heart broken for the first time. Everything is wrong in the world, but will get better. Everything always is exactly as it should be.

Best,
Steve


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