I have decided to stumble, or wobble through this disease with as much dignity as it will allow, and bear with me as I discover my own philosophy and meditation process, with assistance from my fellow Multiply-ers. Slowly, you might see my words and spelling skip a beat, that will now happen even as my heart joins in with these ticks. Play on words there. Ni

This is an observation and reply to a blog by a friend. She lives on a white rooftop with red/orange trim. You might pass her way, and if you do, you will know...

I was observant of the word Transpersonal. How it reminds me of the word transparency, which is used widely in computer art programs, the steps or code of a program allow one to make something behind an object show through. I think this is what I am hearing you say, that the enlightenment of our whole as thinking beings is to make what is behind a problem become clear. However, there is always a judgement call as to what is or is not a problem. With the diversity of people and how they think or are raised up to think, become paramount in the judgement calls that our world makes under different circumstances. For example, the word murder as understood by most cultures is considered wrong and unacceptable to civilization. But then we break he word in fractals and start to give different circumstances for killing someone and giving different value judgements based on the circumstances. But, all things considered, there are basic or almost instinctual judgements. In the words, "Thou shall not kill", there is an ending to that thought that is left unsaid. Many people fill in the left over words with extreme judgements, such as, "or you will be killed." Some cultures chose to "shun" those that would harm another in such a way. Still other cultures would send the person committing the crime out of the village and sometimes out of the country. Murder even seems alright if it is done for specific reasons. If someone kills a family member, it become right in that families thought and feelings to kill the killer. If someone attacks a persons village and kills people, it brings on the feelings that killing back is the right thing to do.
So, feelings come into being in our clear judgement of a committed act. It is clear from the time of infancy, that feeling are unpredictable. One day an infant may wake with a feeling of joy and thus smile, while it is known that without a reason seeming to be present, the same child under the same circumstance can wake up feeling upset and unreasonable in their actions.
So, this alternating of feelings seems to go throughout childhood until it peaks at the teenage. Something strange has been happening all along a child's path of life, they are being influenced by others. They are reacting to others and unless there is a sound of reason in the background of these children, then their feelings may go to extremes. This can and is controlled until the person reaches the size and experience that can now dominate their own existence. Then, the rules change. This becomes the time that a person is considered to have a thought pattern that should be able to control the impulses of childhood feelings and thoughts and we are abruptly put into a position of making sound judgements. This brings us back to judgements again, and each culture has its own set of judgements based on that cultures background. It is not a country as a whole that holds one set of values and this further complicates the choices made by whole nations.
This is what I would like for the world as a whole to understand; it is not probable that every person or community or area of a country hold with the values and judgements of all other persons, community or area of that country. For in this knowledge it becomes uncomfortable to go to war with a whole country instead of challenging the ideas, feelings and thoughts of the specific individuals that have violated a law that another person, community or area hold dear. In that understanding there is a way to work toward peace by slowly changing the ideas that change the feelings of those that feel right or wronged. Not an easily obtained peace, but a start to peace.
Ni