(10-09-2024, 10:06 AM)UltraBudgie Wrote: I was just reading The Gospel of Thomas, and with this thread in mind, was finding new interpretations. For example, if we consider the masculine/feminine dichotomy in terms of the differing left-brain / right-brain personalities and worldviews within us all, this is very telling:
When we are young, the corpus callosum that separates and differentiates the two halves, allowing them to inhibit each other and establish their different worldviews, is not as developed. It takes many years to grow the self-conflict that makes us who we are. Then, the path is, as Lao Tsu and Jesus both said, the path becomes one of returning, towards unification, towards to the unconflicted unity of childhood. Inner harmony.
The projected conflicts we see, and in fact require, in the world then become unnecessary -- true change in the world begins within. We need to cloak ourselves in righteousness to hide the inner conflict within. That's why Jesus said the poor and suffering will always be with us -- because they're a manifestation of the split-brain suffering within us all, that humanity writes large upon the world, generation after generation. "Clothing" here being a metaphor for the self-hiding inhibitory activity of the corpus callosum that allows each half of our brains to pretend its The One and Only:
It's a strange topic and one that's easy to get lost in but it's just a simple truth. We only have to look around.
I once wrote a poem about it, ending with...'all expressed in our everyday lives, as we navigate the external world'....'once seen it is seen in everything'.
Jung called it 'The Conjunction of Opposites'.
Anyway that was interesting Ultra! Thank you.
