Posted September 16, 2013

Becoming human, incarnating as a subject that weaves together scores of individual variables (see paper on individuality), is one of the ways God celebrates the incomprehensible aesthetic of adventure. The mandala below suggests the surrounding aura, that Shakespeare's character Hamlet said, contemplatively:
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel!
in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!" --( Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2).

It is so that consciousness offers a potential to move in our dimension, to become either more enlightened or more base. This is where lessons are learned: And so we incarnate to work out our stuff.
The funny thing is that what incarnates is an oversoul, not us, plays out on the stage of life yet another dance, and is thus foolish or wise, wicked or good, and so it goes. The unfolding of beauty, truth, and goodness may take aeons more, and perhaps a little less if we can know more explicitly what the game is and how to play it. Thus this series, witnessing to one way to appreciate our unfolding as a species and in the cosmos.

It's hard to appreciate, humans being as impatient as they are, and given that they have only a century or less---often much less---to "do their thing"---to appreciate that the great "More-Yet" or "Becoming Everything" or scores of names of the god that can be imagined by all the religious groups is really trying to get us to evolve and at the same time, is infinitely patient. It is we who are liable to be impatient. The unfolding of humanity has been going on for tens of thousands of years---indeed, if you include its beginnings, hundreds of thousands. Patient is the "middle name" of this process, and it may go on for many thousands or tens of thousands more.

Really opening to or appreciating this, the idea that your "self" that feels so close to you is what lasts forever is like saying that waves in the ocean should last forever. But then what lasts? The Great Becoming, of which you're an integral part, even if you pass.