Neu Visions

A Greater Self

In climbing mountains … climbers sometimes report the experience of a ' white wash ' … which is a foggy condition so dense that its impossible to see where to take your next step. In such conditions … Neu would make the perfect guide … for he knows every step on that trail. Amazing! … but it has to be said of the experience … that it can't be memory … that its a sense of being related to the mountain … like a father … who guides every step that Neu takes.

That I hope serves as a guide to the mystery of Neu … an instrument of the passions … that relates consciously to the earth as Gaia and the sky as Father Ptah. Its a phenomenal suggestion to make about anybody or anything … and I'm not feeling that sense of relation to earth or sky. However I am responding to a past recollection of the experience as a kid … and making an attempt to study an experience that is lapsed … but allows the memory of itself for examination and study … to the logical mind.

We see a similar application of the principle in the way … a community … projects itself as its personality. Each and every individual we meet in that community … draws from a world impression of the community's common identity … and portray themselves as an individual in that experience. In Indic literature it is referred to as the individual self … Atma and the greater self … Paramatman.

In much the same way that a person would guide themselves on the slopes of mountains … in a ' whitewash ' … we bring ourselves to relate to another … in the same society … via the workings of both the individual nature of self and the greater community self. It works on the basis of the commonality of the human experience … and includes such slogans … symbols … history … and significance … as is commonly held about the community.

In the course of civilization … the Indic … Arab … Greco-Roman and the Brit … have each brought a perception of the Paramatman … that endures in some way today … as a mix of the global personality … we view in our world experience. However if we took away the vain percepts of patriotism and national glories … we realize that we all perceive the same Paramatman experience … as universal suffrage … without any divisions. It may be true to say that such a representation … is a far more accurate view … than what we bring to ourselves as national pride.

Its a melting pot of vanities … and an experience that is fast approaching our provincial views of our greater self in the world. It leaves behind a grappling sense of fondness … for something we feel was there … but is no longer in the shape and form of possession … we thought it would be. Such a grappling sense … appeals to us to make sense of our new experience … and to introduce to its self-possessiveness … the experience of a new Paramatman … that is a true reflection of the world's experience. Its Neu … fallen and risen … and he might bite if we don't.

Hence we bring a very careful review of what we perceive as our own complaint … in the experience of life's possibilities. And it offers many options. We can bring a studious review of the world's experience … and refine our understanding of the complementary nature of life … and the way that it contributes to the cultivation … of our final experience as man … in the form and shape … that might take …. in the future.

Alternatively … we may bring a faith about the oneness of the human experience … and without recourse to willful study … create the acceptance of the world's diversity … as experiences of the one. We may also offer to pledge our will … to the regaining of the experience of life's oneness … as a promise for future endeavor and effort. In all such ways do we communicate our will in the matter … for the life's energies within to view and to create such opportunities for our present experience of its possibilities.

In the experience of the world's Paramatman … we view the peculiar pressures in nationalistic societies … as a curious game of manners … to pay due respect to its national and cultural pride … but at the same time … retain a shred of common sense about the commonality of man. Such continued practices may run deep in many societies … and represents a formidable physical force … that must be viewed delicately … for its historical significance … of experiences.

Until the day of Paramatman … we are as humans … in the greatest practice of human civility … combining the many qualities of social manners … understanding … and to engage them in a play of life … that reflects our aim for the achievement of universal oneness … in body and mind. It is not expected to be without its glitches … in each life … and we'll have to fend that for ourselves … until we are released from the burden of ignorance. Well … actually … that sounds a lot like the way things are now.