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Soulmate, Myself:
Omega Point
| Krishnamuti spoke of a living energy field, 'the immensity' or 'the state of creation itself' or 'that which is beyond the mind'. Kairissi and Elenchus discuss how this relates to true love. |
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Editor's prefatory comment:
The entire area of ultimate reality, of consciousness, and true love, is hard to talk about with any degree of exactness. But let’s see how close we can come to some sort of an answer.
Allow me to begin by referencing an item from the Krishnamurti page. I’ll say a few words, and then leave it to Karissi and Elenchus to expand the discussion.
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there is a hidden reality, unperceived by the five senses, Krishnamuti called it 'the immensity' or 'the state of creation itself' or 'that which is beyond the mind'; in each of his 1000+ lectures, directly or indirectly, he refers to this realm of ultimate truth
Kant was on to this 250 years ago. He used terms like “phenomena,” things as mere appearances, images in the mind, not real in themselves; and “noumena,” things in themselves, as they truly are, the actual essence of reality.
With common human sensibilities, said Kant, we can never know the noumena but only phenomena. Professor Kant instructed that space and time, grand examples, are merely representations of the mind, have no existence independent of human perception.
Over 100 years later, Einstein made all of this famous with his pronouncements on the “space-time continuum.” It’s not made of space, not made of time, not a combination of the two, but an underlying matrix of reality, something unknowable to us, giving rise to what we merely perceive as space and time.
The noted physicist David Bohm, too, posited "the implicate order" as the unseen spawning ground of visible reality.
Only several years after Einstein published his 1915 paper on General Relativity, Krishnamurti began to speak of 'the immensity' or 'the state of creation itself' or 'that which is beyond the mind'.
if you understand this, then you’ll see what K is trying to put forward
Almost everyone is unaware of the hidden reality. So many of us are materialists, and do not truly accept the existence of an unseen spiritual realm.
The five senses cannot access it. In fact, the thinking mind itself gets in the way. We have to learn how to shut down or circumvent the censoring apparatus of the physically-oriented brain. We want this because ultimate reality is a domain offering a higher level of intelligence, far beyond that of rationality and logic.
These, of course, have their place; with them, we can build bridges and skyscrapers, make poetry and paintings, go to the Moon and Mars; and, while all this is good, the thinking mind short-circuits the process of accessing “the immeasurable.” It doesn't work for that.
Krishnamurti’s lectures tell us how to get to where we need to go.
The good news is that we were made to apprehend this higher dimension. We can do this. We just need to learn how to upgrade our software.
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sea of diamonds
Editor's note:
In the article featuring the “winter wonderland” song, Elenchus offers an experience useful to our topic:
E. In the song, they talk about being in the “meadow.” I was walking in a meadow once. It was March. There’d been a recent snowfall, and it had frozen into a bejeweled crust. I could walk on it, slide on it, and the hard surface didn’t break.
K. Oh… I wish I could have been there with you.
E. It was unusual and wonderful. Snow naturally reflects sunlight, but this was different. The frozen albion mantle had created a lustrous prism, enhancing the sun’s reflection, causing common radiance to issue as a sea of diamonds.
K. (sighing)
E. I’d never seen anything like it, and I’ve often been around snow. The entire meadow had been repainted as a vast carpet-expanse of twinkling “stardust.” I stood aghast at the beauty. And as I observed this marvel, a phrase came to mind – “glistening, shimmering, sparkling”…
K. (smiling)
E. -- and in that moment… I thought of you.
Elenchus. The incident of “the sea of diamonds” occurred many years ago now. But it affected me so deeply, I still vividly recall. And it presents a thought-picture to help us discuss what Krishnamurti called 'the immensity' or 'the state of creation itself' or 'that which is beyond the mind'.
Kairissi. I’ll tell you what I’m being led to see: Krishnamurti spoke of higher levels of consciousness as a general goal of all humankind. But those three phrases you just presented also speak to the magical-stardust of true love. I’m not sure what I want to say, but we need to talk about this.
E. I think the comparison you just made is a very important insight. Let’s look at some of Krishnamurti’s teachings and see how they might also apply to the romantic love.
what is love, really
K. For one thing, just as the realm of the mind and spiritual growth is mysterious, nobody really knows what love is. We’ve been exploring this topic for years but can we give a crisp definition? Yes, in the “Wedding Song” we said it was a perception of an underlying, unifying life of God pervading all of creation, but especially discerned by Twin Souls.
E. I still like that definition, but I think we can go deeper now.
K. Krishnamurt’s area of human evolvement strikes me as coming very close to our favorite subject. And maybe true love and human development are really the same things, viewed from different angles.
E. That’s a worthwhile hypothesis. And I think my “sea of diamonds” can help us.
K. What’s coming into view for you, Elenchus?
E. Just bits and pieces, but I’ll say this: I think people like Kant and the others were really close to a home run. I think they were right to say there’s a hidden reality that we can’t really get to. And we feel this, don’t we, with true love. We know it’s a powerful force, but it’s not something you can touch or see.
K. We can’t see the wind, either, but after a storm we might see the effects of it everywhere.
at the foundation of reality
E. I’m convinced that true love is a big example of the “noumena.” I think it’s a “thing in itself,” something real and at the foundation of reality, and not just an appearance or some mental image. I would say it’s a force. A force of energy. But not energy like sunlight or electricity, because they’re part of the 3-D universe, and the “noumena” seems to exist in higher, hidden dimensions.
K. But some kind of force of energy, nevertheless.
E. I’m sure you’re correct.
K. Tell me what your “sea of diamonds” means with all this.
E. That shimmering-glistening-sparkling carpet of stardust really had an impact on me. And I don’t think it was an accident that I thought of you in those moments. Because, I immediately sensed that somehow this was associated with you.
K. Say more on what this means.
E. The reality behind true love is not a sea of diamonds. It’s nothing physical. But what I was left with is that my feelings for you, what we have together, what you are to me – is like a splendiferous expanse of pulsating, vibrating, throbbing energy.
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true love, ultimate reality, the truth - they're all related
K. People speak of finding the truth.
E. Do we need to make pilgrimage to a monastery in Tibet?
K. The scenery and mountain views would be spectacular, but I think the truth is very close, all around us.
E. What is reality, what is the truth?
K. Well, this is the big question, isn’t it. What is truly real, what is true at bedrock? Is it part of the “sea of diamonds”? Tell me what you think.
E. In times past I would have said, “the truth” is having the right set of religious doctrines, the right patron saint or savior-god. With this view, “reality” or “the truth” is always out there somewhere.
K. And that’s why they go to Tibet to find it.
E. Or as some in Summerland believe, you have to go to the seventh level of heaven.
K. Truth has an elite zip-code.
E. And the right curb appeal. But what if ultimate reality or the truth is not “out there,” not external, but part of one's deeper person?
K. How would this work?
E. Krishnamurti speaks of 'the immensity' or 'the state of creation itself' or 'that which is beyond the [human] mind'.
K. And what would this signify?
E. I think true love, ultimate reality, and the truth are synonyms for The Mind Of God.
K. Or a higher level of consciousness.
E. This would mean that “the truth” is close at hand, part of the soul, not far away.
K. Accepting this, we already have the ultimate things. No need to trek to Tibet or reincarnate or beg a savior-god to give us something. We already have it.
E. Our part is to “bring it up from the depths” of the soul, to activate, to open our eyes, to make it functional at the level of personality.
K. This would mean that we are “the truth.” The enlightened mind, fully attuned to the mind of God, is the truth.
E. It’s all the truth we’ll ever have, as per our level of consciousness.
K. Did you meet the truth in that bejeweled meadow, that “sea of diamonds”?
E. I suppose I did. And I also learned that “the truth” has a local representative, one “made in the image.”
K. (small smile) mmm... Truth has a face, maybe with regular office hours.
E. “You're quite early for the appointment, but she will see you now.”
K. (laughing)
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K. I think we need to say that this energy field is alive.
as Krishnamirti said, ‘the state of creation itself’
E. It’s more than alive. I feel it to be the essence of life. It is the core of all creation. Consciousness itself is the matrix of life.
K. And I’m reminded of another descriptive phrase of Krishnamurti. He said that “Love is its own eternity, it has its own action.”
E. Tell me what this means.
K. I think it means… if Love were a living entity, it would not be just one more element of the universe, but a source of life, an autonomous and directing source of life, a heart and heartbeat, of all reality.
E. That’s very beautiful, and isn’t this close to what we mean when we use the phrase “what we stay alive for”?
K. I think it’s a parallel thought to what I just said.
why one and not another 'pretty fish in the sea'
E. Consider this, too, Kriss. If Love is a living force, a cosmic energy, this helps to explain our old question “why one and not another?”
K. That’s an old puzzle for you: two girls, two perfect girls, very similar, but you’re drawn to one and not the other. There might be physical attraction to both, but one leaves your spirit feeling empty.
beautiful body, but no spark
E. We've talked about this for years, but it seems clearer now.
K. What this really means is that, in true love, the lovers are not primarily attractive bodies to each other. They are energy fields to each other. Living energy fields of the force and power of Love, living energy fields expressing hidden soul bonds.
E. If the beautiful body has no matching energy field of Love, you’re not going anywhere in the relationship.
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here’s why Mary cannot truly love John
Editor’s note: A long time ago in “The Wedding Song” Kairissi came very close to identifying the real action between two, but not enough importance was placed on her words:
K. In order to quiet and satisfy
the universal “calling of the heart,” one must not
turn to materialism. The playboy will not feel more
satisfied with a thousand girls as opposed to bedding
a hundred, or ten, or two. It doesn’t work that way.
The problem has to do with “structure” not “content.”
Even unlimited “content” of endless sex will not
satisfy the neurotic “structure” of the needy ego. The
hunger within is fundamentally a spiritual hunger, and
it cannot be sated with anything physical, no matter the quantity. It is only the “union of spirits” that finally makes us feel whole and complete.
E. (silence)
K. And I would like to say something to the “Marys” of the
world. My Dears, you will not find that for which you so
earnestly seek by the methods you’ve allowed. That
inner “call,” which yearns to satisfy the womanly
unfulfilled heart, cannot be addressed by anything
material and physical. Your true mate, “somewhere
out there,” as the song goes, is not primarily a physical
body to you. But John is. And that’s the problem
with John; to you, he’s just part of the materialistic
world. But that true one, just for you, is primarily in love
with your soul, not just your body. The true marriage is
a “union of spirits” not a union of anything physical.
The physical element, fundamentally, impacts the
true marriage not at all. How could it? – we’re headed
for “the real world,” Summerland, wherein common
“flesh and blood” no longer exist. You must prepare
for that coming real world. And you must prepare
yourself to find that true one who, to you, is primarily
a spiritual entity, and no mere mortal body.
E. It’s a powerful concept – “Your true mate is
not primarily a physical body to you. But John is.”
K. I find it very comforting to know that the boy God
meant for me to be with is in love with my soul, the person I
really am on the deep inside, and not just the external packaging.
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what the world calls love is just a fleeting bio-attraction experienced by all mammals
but real love is something else, part of a higher order
K. Elenchus, I’m beginning to see a new or expanded definition of Love. See what you think – Love is part, probably the main part, of 'the immensity' or 'the state of creation itself' or 'that which is beyond the mind'. Love is the name we give to a feeling, a feeling of sweetest harmonized oneness, all of which is undergirded by hidden energies of matching soul essence.
E. I thought it was my job to be the philosopher. What you’ve said is wonderful.
K. Do you think you’ll be able to forgive me now?
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