Points and more Points of View
Have you seen Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11? The
fantastic lesson in this movie, as I see it, is the opportunity
to see how many ways you can write history while an element of
truth is still present in each story and point of view. For
example, after watching this film, I can easily say how much of
a dope President Bush is, yet if someone who liked the President
would make a film, the story would be completely different.
Selective use of "information" is what creates the story either
way. It is important to keep this in mind because this is the
same method we use to create the story of our lives!
President Bush may have gone to that elementary school the day
the bombing occurred, but did he really sit in there like that?
Where did that clip come from and who filmed it? Is that really
the bigger picture of what happened? Who knows? I certainly
don't. He is sharing a piece of information which may be truth,
but the context is gone. Even if we could have been there to
actually see what happened in the classroom itself, would there
be agreement amongst us as to what "really" happened? I think
not!
I imagine us all as computer programs that are constantly in the
process of qualifying, analyzing, pigeonholing, and assessing
everything we perceive with our senses. The mind is a wonderful
gift of being human, yet we do not put this gift in the "proper"
context. Just because we run something we perceive through our
mind/computer doesn't mean the conclusion the program comes to
is the truth. The conclusion is simply the result the multiple
permutations the program goes through based on learned formulas.
In other words all the stuff you "know" and what you believe you
have experienced (from your point of view of course) is
qualifying what you are currently seeing and experiencing in
every moment! How can the conclusions of a slanted computer be
accurate? It simply cannot.
Based on this, I recognize that everything I perceive and run
through my program is no longer the truth. It is truth from my
point of view of course, but not "the truth." By "the truth" I
mean simply "what is," without the world of concepts
superimposed upon it. Once you put concepts upon the "what is"
you distort it and make it into something else - a story. Of
course, the cleaner the information in your program is the
easier it will be to move through your life seeing what is,
rather than seeing what you want to see! I am guessing right
about now that you are wondering how you can possibly walk
through the world without your mind telling you what's going on,
but you can do it!
If you can practice just seeing, without the judgment and
commentary from your mind (better known as thinking), you will
find that you must use your feelings and heart to interact with
the world. The trick to doing this is having total detachment
from the mind; otherwise you will feel all kinds of emotions
based on what is in your subconscious mind even if you "think"
you're not thinking! To gain clarity about your life, it's
necessary to see all points of view for what they are. Detach
from all the concepts and agreements you've made about
everything in your story or anyone else's story. Go ahead - take
a chance and experiment with perceiving life from a different
point of view!