Dear Unborn Kin,
In these times from which I write, everyone wears a thought helmet. Hardly anyone gives a thought about it. The thought helmet firmly and seamlessly encompasses one's head. One's thought helmet not only determines what one sees but what one is capable of seeing. This has drastic consequences. Especially since thoughts are not dry and dusty but are juicy with emotion.
Thought communities are formed by wearers of similar thought helmets. Each community thinks that other thought communities are composed either of idiots (the harsh view) or the unenlightened (the soft view). Each thought helmet wearer believes s/he is not wearing a restricted-view helmet but is helmet free and sees Reality clearly. As, of course, do members of one's thought community. It is the other unenlightened idiots whose minds are firmly encased by blinding structure.
The helmet wearers of any given thought community band together in groupings both formal (political, religious, business, enforcement) and informal (social clusters). In doing so, they tighten each other's helmets and regain energy to wage war and wrest power from those other idiots.
Efforts have been made by a few over the centuries and continue even now to learn to release one's heart mind from this helmet. These learnings and teachings have been cataloged by helmet wearing scholars under the code names of meditation, contemplation, yoga, mystical experience. One has to be careful that each of these ways of being do not harden into a brain cast and thought communities are formed once again.
Perhaps by the time you read this, the helmets will be museum pieces and everyone will be riding helmet free. In any event, blessings to you and I hope we have not left the planet in too ravaged a condition for your survival and enjoyment.
Your Loving Ancestor
In these times from which I write, everyone wears a thought helmet. Hardly anyone gives a thought about it. The thought helmet firmly and seamlessly encompasses one's head. One's thought helmet not only determines what one sees but what one is capable of seeing. This has drastic consequences. Especially since thoughts are not dry and dusty but are juicy with emotion.
Thought communities are formed by wearers of similar thought helmets. Each community thinks that other thought communities are composed either of idiots (the harsh view) or the unenlightened (the soft view). Each thought helmet wearer believes s/he is not wearing a restricted-view helmet but is helmet free and sees Reality clearly. As, of course, do members of one's thought community. It is the other unenlightened idiots whose minds are firmly encased by blinding structure.
The helmet wearers of any given thought community band together in groupings both formal (political, religious, business, enforcement) and informal (social clusters). In doing so, they tighten each other's helmets and regain energy to wage war and wrest power from those other idiots.
Efforts have been made by a few over the centuries and continue even now to learn to release one's heart mind from this helmet. These learnings and teachings have been cataloged by helmet wearing scholars under the code names of meditation, contemplation, yoga, mystical experience. One has to be careful that each of these ways of being do not harden into a brain cast and thought communities are formed once again.
Perhaps by the time you read this, the helmets will be museum pieces and everyone will be riding helmet free. In any event, blessings to you and I hope we have not left the planet in too ravaged a condition for your survival and enjoyment.
Your Loving Ancestor
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