10-09-2024, 10:06 AM
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:
Quote:(22)
(1) Jesus saw infants being suckled.
(2) He said to his disciples: “These little ones being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.”
(3) They said to him: “Then will we enter the kingdom as little ones?”
(4) Jesus said to them: “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside and the above like the below —
(5) that is, to make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female will not be female —
(6) and when you make eyes instead of an eye and a hand instead of a hand and a foot instead of a foot, an image instead of an image, (7) then you will enter [the kingdom].”
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:
Quote:(37)
(1) His disciples said: “When will you appear to us, and when will we see you?”
(2) Jesus said: “When you undress without being ashamed and take your clothes (and) put them under your feet like little children (and) trample on them,
(3) then [you] will see the son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid.”
