Dispassion

[Ian Goddard]

 At 03:27 PM 6/10/96 GMT, egodust wrote:
 >>
 >> When we "circumscribe," or draw a circle, and call the area inside it
 >> "area A," we've defined area A. Yet in so doing we also define the
 >> complementary external area ~A that surround the internal area.
 >> A <=> ~A. We cannot define internal A more than we
 >> simultaneously define the external ~A.
 >
 > This analogy can only work if your talking about drawing a circle on an
 > infinte plane of space or [hypothetically] some singular and homogenous
 > substance.
 > Otherwise it fails--at least from the wholistic perspective.  That is,
 > although the Particular Effect is never anything intrinsically segregated
 > from the Universal Cause, to consider that it is the Cause *unto itself*,
 > whole and complete, is erroneous.  If that were the case, the ego Effect,
 > *unto itself*, could be relied upon unreservedly.


IAN: I am not sure I follow what you mean by "cause" as it's used above,
or what "it" is when you say "..to consider that it is the Cause..."

A thing, A, is not a cause unto itself in that it cannot arise
independent of ~A, but I am not sure that addresses your point.


 > My only point of contention [in this debate] is that logic, being a
 > product of thought, cannot have an ultimate value (viz.: that it functions
 > as a strategic *means* to an end; that once it's accomplished its mission,
 > it has no further 'executive' purpose.  And furthermore, that upon one's
 > a rriving at the threshold to the final Release {renunciation of ego},
 > it may actually prove to be an obstacle!).


IAN: The only obstacle is the thought "there are obstacles."

An obstacle can stand between distant points (if we assume a
point is confined to its internal area), but I Am is always
right here right now, never over there and then. 'Obstacle'
implies separation and duality -- that is the fallacy.



Law of Identity: A is A, relative to not-A. A = {A, ~A}

Law of Nonidentity: If there is 100% A, there is 0% A. A = ~A

absolute reality: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/reality.html