Diagram 017

Re Talk: 39

      Picture a continuous line like a fence.  On one side of this fence is everything that connects to "I" within everyone.  Call this side the positive side of the fence.  It's whatever mechanically enters your consciousness.  It is that which would appear to be "good" or "significant".  On this side of the fence there would be good number one -- which would be laterally tied to good number two -- and so on.  Good number one might be tied to "true"; good number two could be tied to "proper".  This is a web of rational connections which you do not normally think about but which includes everything that "I" says is correct, true or proper.  It is "that which I agree with."

     Ordinary people do not even notice that there is another side of the fence, other than the fact that whatever does not fit in over on this side of the fence obviously is wrong.  Ordinary people "know" other people's beliefs are false, improper or evil.  But if ordinary I's consciousness were called upon to explain why this is so, it would be at a loss.

     I can explain it for you.  Suppose I point out that there always has to be another side to the fence.  On the positive side is everything that seems to fit acceptably into your mind.  Inside that loop, it all connects. It all must fit.  You're wasting your time to try to reason with any person's positive side.  It would not change anything to point out to someone, "Look here, you say everyone should love their neighbor, but at the same time you think all Republicans are idiots."  Inside the consciousness of that person, it all connects perfectly -- and it has nothing to do with any rationality.

     What the ordinary nervous system cannot conceive of is that there has to be an absolute negative reflection of the positive side.  Over on the other side of the fence, there is likewise a perfect web of connections.  But if an ordinary person could even entertain the notion of the "other side of the fence", he would view it as a sort of junkyard where everything he had rejected lay around in disconnected piles. Over there is a heap of garbage that's "evil".  And another pile of "improper" things.  And maybe on top of that one would be a smaller pile of stuff he believes is "false".  I would be a junkyard.  An ordinary person might admit that everything he thinks of as evil, improper or false has to go somewhere.  But he could not see how all these are connected, and how they are a reflection of the "positive" side of the fence wherein resides the good, the proper and the correct.  The other side of the fence is an absolute, mirrored reflection, an anti-web of connections; a complete set of opposites.

     Something in this description of the other side of the fence might strike even an ordinary person. People might be inclined to theoretically agree:  "That must exist.  It's like antimatter in physics."  Yet it is impossible for ordinary consciousness to actually see over the fence and benefit by experience as you here must learn to do.  Assuming that this anti-world literally exists, you cannot turn on your nervous system and say, "Look at that!  Look over at the other side of everything!"  Because, from the point of view of your ordinary consciousness, the anti-world is wrong.  It's a junkyard of the evil and insane.  It is inherently the mechanically rejected "junk" that ordinary consciousness cannot deal with.  Ordinarily, you have no view over the fence.  But by learning how to use the map to enhance your vision from above Line level, you'd be able to marry these opposites.  You'd see Life and all its forms as an interconnected living process.  There'd be no fence -- or, you'd be on both sides of it omnitaneously.

     This, by the way, is part of the secret hidden in the attempt to withhold judgment -- to find out that you can be aware something and not think about it.  Because once you have judged something, it becomes isolated on one side of the fence.