Origin

As our awareness heightens

we begin to understand

what we are

who we are and

why we are

Viewpoint

In our lives, we have developed very set (rigid) viewpoints. Those viewpoints do not only give us an optical impression as to how we ‘see’ things, but also give us associated feelings as to our likes and dislikes. They form our belief structure, in other words, our opinion of how WE believe things to be, our value of right/wrong, good/bad etc. So we observe issues the way we were conditioned by our surroundings and by our early learning experiences.

For example, our parents may have preferred one automobile maker’s product over another. We were conditioned to accept that as a correct decision, but furthermore, experienced and enjoyed the comforts and all other proclaimed features of that particular car. Once we are grown-ups, our choice is very strongly influenced by this early learning, whereby we may follow in our parents’ footsteps and buy the same make of car.

It is essential to our development that we carefully look at our viewpoints. We don’t have to totally overthrow them, but primarily loosen their rigidity. In doing so, we actually remove our ‘blinkers’ and our eyes are opened to a totally new world. We open our mind to a whole new reservoir of ‘food for thought’. There are no conditions as to what we are expected to accept, as long as that which we do, lays easy with us.

Eventually, our rigid ‘conditioning factors’, will undergo subtle changes. Unless we are ultra-rigid, we will need to admit, that our viewpoint on an issue is different now, than what it was one or two years ago.

By altering our perspective (viewing point), the same observed object appears vastly different, yet the object itself hasn’t changed.

We would instantly recognize our own written description of the front view of our neighbor’s house. Yet, a description of the same frontage from a ‘Bird’s Eye View’ (above, looking down), or a ‘Frog’s Eye View’ (ground, leaking up), would give us an entirely different picture. The only thing that has changed, however, is our viewpoint, or how we see things.

Let’s look at printed matter, or whatever impression man leaves on paper, or other surfaces. We believe and accept that since man put an effort into the mark he made, it must also have meaning.

We open a book and look at a page. What do we focus on in effort to find the meaning, the message? Do we focus on the paper itself? Do we focus on the white spaces between the symbols (letters)? Of course not! Our conditioning has taught us to go straight for the ‘black stuff’. Why? Because we were taught that the printed letters on that page contain the message that has meaning. That is what we focus on.

Looking at the illustration on page #64, what message do we get from it? If we can make no sense from it, let’s see if we can change our viewpoint, or perspective of it. Eventually, we will see the WORD on that page. We could resemble that to the TRUTH, which has always been there, but our conditioning prevented us from seeing it.

With a higher state of thought, a higher awareness, a higher state of consciousness of our surroundings, we can look at life from a slightly altered viewpoint (perspective) and thus see a slightly altered reality. Simply, this infers that we not only look at the ‘black’ for meaning, but also, at the ‘white’.

By extracting meaning from the obvious (the SEEN) and the non-obvious (the UN-SEEN), we increase our information intake manifold. Too many of us live in a sterile world, where only the obvious and tangible has meaning to us. In other words, what we cannot hold in our hands and feel, does not exist and hence, has no meaning.

What happens, when we hold a handful of air, or light? We can’t feel either of them by touch! Does that mean that neither exists? We know the answer to that!

Still, however, we tend to focus our attention on solids and liquids. We only accept as reality that, which we can sense (see, hear, smell, taste or touch).

LIFE is our school and EXPERIENCE is our teacher. It has been that way for a long time, actually, since the dawn of evolution. That is, until someone institutionalized learning and commenced ‘academic education’.

Surely, in our society, academic learning is essential. Yet, the problem is that we are being ‘drip-fed’ only such information, as has been decided to be appropriate for us. Academic learning deflects our attention from life’s important issues, such as - WHAT we are, WHO we are, WHY we are, the relationship to our SURROUNDINGS, the UNIVERSE