All that glistens, is not always gold…
Thursday December 4, 2008 at 12:47 AM
I have been searching for something; Something more than human, more than the things I have, or the things I see in front of me. I’ve been in search of something that has no physical substance, no liquidity. You cant touch it, and you cant smell it, taste it, or even see it. You can however “feel” it; feel its presence hovering about you, around you, and through you. The relative theory behind this is that we are all living beings full of radiant electrical energy. Much like modern day circuit boards, we carry a signal from one place to another, knowing that that’s the way it has to be in order for the “process” to perform properly. I recently sat down with my son to watch the movie “Wall-E”. In this movie there is a part where Wall-E follows his new friend EVE back to the mothership after returning from Earth. Once EVE has arrived, she (it?) undergoes a thorough process and analysis by the other robots. One robots job in particular is to clean all the foreign contaminant off of the robot returning from Earth (EVE). Once the process and cleaning is over, the cleaning robot begins to return back to its quarters, when suddenly it realizes that there is some dirt on the ground. Now mind you, this robot is programmed to stay inside of these guidelines that control the flow of traffic for the robots; only one way there, and only one way back. The dirt on the ground is outside of that line of traffic, and the robot realizes this. He has now come to a dilemma that he has never had to encounter before. On one hand he is bound by the guidelines and programming established inside of his circuits that say “stay within the lines of traffic, and never go outside of it”. However on the other hand, that same programming and purpose designate him to clean, and decontaminate any substance that could be harmful.
What do you do? Do you stay within the guidelines and confinements of your programming, or do you dare question, and venture outside of those confinements in hope that your “purpose” is more important than the regulations built into you? What an extraordinary display of what it means to have a “choice” as a human! So what does the little robot do? He jumps off the track, closes his eyes, and hopes that when he lands, nothing terrible has happened to him. Within a split second, he has changed his own programming (programming = our thoughts and perceptions), and has begun to carry out something new. Everything of the old, is no longer relevant… everything he knew prior to that, is non-existent. His life changed in a matter of a quick moment; imagine the new world he will be able to explore now that he’s no longer bound by those confinements of his own programming.
Sometimes I ask myself about my own programming; about what I’ve been taught. I’ve been witness to see others so hardened by their own programming, that when truth came to slap them upside the head, their programming said “error” in big bold, red letters across their forehead. As a result, nothing was learned or gained from said scenario, and things continued on as normal. We all live on the same planet, and yet we are light years away from one another. Its extraterrestrial to think about, but is it really so far fetched? To think, that we all live and interact in one common place (Earth), but live and perceive things from a totally different planet (our minds). I try everyday to embrace the perceptions of others, and although it can be difficult at times (sometimes VERY difficult), its never impossible.
I’m in search of something…. something more. Im in search of more than understanding my own perception, or my neighbor’s perception. I want to find that “collective” conscience, so that I can be more understanding, more patient, and more accepting of others and who they are. I have a feeling that this is something the oldest, and wisest of men on Earth today still try to grasp the concept of. Will we ever truly be able to do it? See ya on the next go’round.