Violence of Transformation
God and man ‘work with’ each other, aspiring to transform human consciousness into the perfection (compassion) of the One. MORE
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The deepest ecology is the radical trust of that which arises from within and the trust of that which one finds without. To move toward harmony is the goal. To move forward while not doing violence to ourselves or others opens the deep universe to us. To trust that deepest part of you and that deepest part of me is really one, then consensually moving forward opens the secret or community. It is not so much avout violence but trust. If there is violence it is to the fraud that we have perpetrated against ourselves. We must move forward with ever greater trust and love. We must assure ourselves that the violence is over. We are safe now, safe to be.
Comment by Marty Kraft — February 16, 2007 @ 2:40 am
Marty, thank you for your comment on “trust and love” which I also see as primary. When we love someone, we want them to trust us; and conversely, when we trust someone, we want them to love us. When we are not “open”, we have, in yours words, committed a fraud against ourselves, experiencing what Nietzsche called ‘fallen power’, requiring that we overcome ourselves.
The “move forward” of which you speak does require that we realize that we have committed a fraud (we are living a lie), which is dread. We must be ‘brought into question’, asked to be more than we know how to be, transformed (radically changed from external, ego-adaptive mentality to what you are calling radical trust. The persona (sham personality) must come apart, which is very scary for most, and learn to live from what you are calling the ‘deepest part’.
This transformative process is not something our ego can do; it requires that we undergo a radical change, requiring the power of the deeper Self. This radical change, when seen from the point of view of the ego/persona is violent (which is to say that it is total change, whereby we undergo what Kierkegaard called “infinite resignation’.
Comment by fred — February 17, 2007 @ 6:58 am