Diagram 060
Re Talk: 181
Diagram # 060 photo
See if you can perceive any connection between such apparently unrelated ideas as, 1.) the Three Forces that comprise every phenomenon; and, 2.) the unrecognized partnership into which everyone is born.
The Three Forces can be represented, by this diagram:
As the symbols indicate, one might ordinarily refer to the three parts of the circle as positive, neutral, and negative, but I will refer to them as C, E, and D, respectively. Everyone believes he already understands C and D. Be assured, nobody does. But at least everyone knows of the existence of those two forces. I want to draw your attention to the part we have called E. Although I have referred to it as being somewhat neutral, there is really no word for what it represents. No ordinary consciousness is equipped to perceive what I'm labeling "E".
Ordinary consciousness would immediately try to construe the middle section of my diagram as some kind of indifference. It might even relate it to some imagined ancient eastern teaching of a "middle path", some state where a person is not completely subject to the ebbs and flows of carnal life. Such teachings, once they reach the common level of Life, cease to be seminal; but those who are attracted to them, expect great benefit if only they could understand and experience this "indifference". They desire immunity from fear of impending death, or freedom from a fear of humiliation and disrespect. No matter how they might doctor it up, their thoughts would hinge on "indifference"; but what I am talking about, no words adequately represent. Any word that exists already has its own connotation derived from Line-level consciousness. So I am left with either using one of those or playing an endless game of making-up-words. But, the fact remains, I'm not talking about "indifference" or anything else you ever heard of. "It" is an unplotted dynamic!
When ordinary consciousness looks at anything alive, it sees only two possibilities: the processes of growth, or the process of decay. Whether consciousness is looking at a business, a political party or a biological phenomenon, it is always limited in its perception to one of those two possibilities. (Consciousness vaguely senses a third possibility, but usually labels it "stagnant".) JC talk 181
