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“Many things we take as particular and significant are only contextual and relative. The problem at every level of complexity save the last, is the universalizing of particulars. In a level without heads, hats would make no sense, but still the concept of hats could. And one of the great spiritual challenges is glimpsing potentials that are not part of your complexity. Easy looking back along the scale, sometimes with a smile, but looking ahead is harder. For example, look ahead to a level without sight. Would you be able to look ahead at that level? Only if you can reframe looking out of physical terms as you know them and... wait for it!... the sight that is possible at a more complex level beyond eyes may not be any more universal than what you have.
"Every level has its equivalent of the physical representation of the embodiment of the spiritual, but which is not the spiritual. Always and forever, cul-de-sacs of understanding which are not part of the holistic universal but which appear so in terms of that level.
"Transcend the particular if you are looking for universals–even if the present particulars seem universal. Just because something is true to all of human nature, does not make it universal. It just makes it human
"Not figuring it out, because all solutions are particular, but finding a radical openness that what appears universal may not be, but at the same time may be offering glimpses beyond the present particularity. It’s not to be solved but experienced at the spiritual level.
"Dealing with great loss is not a problem to be solved or figured out, but a set of situations to be experienced.
By Randy and Elissa Bishop-BeckerHere is the text of this episode:
“Many things we take as particular and significant are only contextual and relative. The problem at every level of complexity save the last, is the universalizing of particulars. In a level without heads, hats would make no sense, but still the concept of hats could. And one of the great spiritual challenges is glimpsing potentials that are not part of your complexity. Easy looking back along the scale, sometimes with a smile, but looking ahead is harder. For example, look ahead to a level without sight. Would you be able to look ahead at that level? Only if you can reframe looking out of physical terms as you know them and... wait for it!... the sight that is possible at a more complex level beyond eyes may not be any more universal than what you have.
"Every level has its equivalent of the physical representation of the embodiment of the spiritual, but which is not the spiritual. Always and forever, cul-de-sacs of understanding which are not part of the holistic universal but which appear so in terms of that level.
"Transcend the particular if you are looking for universals–even if the present particulars seem universal. Just because something is true to all of human nature, does not make it universal. It just makes it human
"Not figuring it out, because all solutions are particular, but finding a radical openness that what appears universal may not be, but at the same time may be offering glimpses beyond the present particularity. It’s not to be solved but experienced at the spiritual level.
"Dealing with great loss is not a problem to be solved or figured out, but a set of situations to be experienced.