Identification Is Error

Once we see ourselves as part of a group, we callously judge outsiders and rally to the cause of foolish insiders. Have you not noticed this in yourself?

Once we see ourselves as part of a political whatever, part of a social whatever… it begins tainting what we think and feel. Left to continue, it poisons us against other identities.

I’m not talking about simple, cooperative groups, mind you: those we feel free to jump in and out of; there’s not much identification involved.

In practice, identification produces a free-for-all, each identity battling the others for whatever can be fought over. Consider that we already know how to feed and house every person on the planet, to provide them with reliable transportation, medical care and so on. And what keeps this from being delivered? You know what it is; we all do. It’s the never-ending fights between identities and their champions.

Please understand that we are, by nature, far more than this. We don’t have to climb the highest mountain or crush the greatest foe; we’re already better than the life of identity battles, we’re simply afraid to believe it… afraid of the groups and their punishing hierarchies.

As it so often does, this connects back to Jesus, whose opening statement was this:

The way of the better realm is with you now. Change your thinking and believe this wonderful news.

So, stop thinking the old way and start thinking the new way. Humankind isn’t merely an Earth species. Our ultimate connections and flows are of the greater universe, not of a single planet. The better parts of the universe and the beings in it are waiting for us to open our eyes, to recognize our unlimited nature, and to believe what we see.

Life is recognized by its ability to reverse entropy. Trees take in gases, light, water and minerals. They organize, concentrate, and harmonize them, producing fruit. Animals take the nutrients of the world and become majestic creatures. And yet the lion cannot bring forth fruit and the tree cannot run. Each is as they are, and no more.

Man, however, can reverse entropy in infinite ways. And man’s reversal of entropy is chosen… is willful. The human, if and when he or she wills it, creates. And to this creative ability there is no fundamental limit. And so humankind is, by its nature, a species of the greater universe, not merely of a planet.

Humans have their being in the creator, not in the created. Identification with the created, then, leads downward, being contrary to the nature of our actual self.