How
clever can you get? A pair o’ dogs is a paradox. Two shiny dimes is the
Cockney way of saying “new paradigms.” So this is “paradox and new
paradigms” time, folks!
Quantum
physicists report that electrons are both particles and waves; even
coined a word for this paradoxical condition – wavicles!
Electrons are
fundamental to our everyday world. They swirl around the nuclei of our
very atoms, generating currents as they flow as electricity, and pass
through integrated circuitry to produce the bedazzling wonders of
electronics. Electrons are like people.
How so? Look at
any big modern city from the air. The higher you go the more it
resembles a microchip, but as you zoom back in, it transforms into one
big printed circuit board with all these capacitors, resistors, diodes,
and semiconductors sticking up like tiny erections: highrises, office
complexes, shopping malls, sprawling suburbs, road networks. All these cables,
tubes, and colourful wires transporting electrons hither and thither,
generating the humdrum hum of rush hour traffic.
The moment you
make the connection between micro and macro, you begin to comprehend
this modified and updated adage: “As within, so without.” The esoteric
insights gained by magicians and quantum physicists DO apply to our
everyday lives, and the sooner we get comfortable with paradox, the
less rigid our mindsets become. I’ve never known anybody to suffer from
an overly flexible mindset, but those who cling to rigid perspectives
and beliefs certainly cause a great deal of suffering, especially to
their own loved ones.
Take the classic
EITHER/OR stance for example. When you hear some buffoon saying,
“You’re EITHER for me, OR against me” – watch out! He or she is
attempting to box you in, leave you with another Hobson’s choice –
which is really no choice at all. In life, it’s never black OR white,
there’s always an entire spectrum of greys in between – not to mention
the possibility of spontaneous rainbows of vivid colours from which to
choose!
The antidote to
either/or is BOTH/AND. Most times it’s BOTH this AND that, not
either/or.
You can apply this to just about any situation. Take the hullabaloo
surrounding the issue of “moral policing”: you hear arguments on both
sides, some advocating strict control over what young people do for
fun, and others defending the individual’s right to define his or her
own concept of “morality.”
I personally
LOATHE the very idea of allowing the State to dictate social behaviour;
but that doesn’t mean I like the idea of my own teenaged children
frying their neural circuitry and thwarting their own potential with
stupid-making drugs. So the real issue isn’t whether moral policing is
okay or not okay – but, rather, why do we keep resorting to FORCE when
attempting to deal with any situation? Who was it who said: “When you
think like a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”?
I find it
unfathomable that there are so many who actually believe they can
change people’s behaviour from outside - through coercion,
intimidation, and threats. Sure, point a knife at someone’s throat and
they’ll give you their money or do whatever you say – but when the
State legitimizes the use of brute force, it reinforces the Criminal
Element and compels it to retaliate even more brutally.
Most times there
is really no solution required beyond looking hard into the mirror and
acknowledging that we’ve not been giving our kids enough attention,
affection, and appreciation – which is why they don’t enjoy hanging
around the homestead. I’ve seen so many parents justify their
workaholism by saying it’s all for their children’s sake; they want to
accumulate as much as possible, so they can give their kids the best
education money can buy, and so on. But what they’re overlooking is
that every kid essentially wants their parents to love and befriend
them – everything else follows from that; and “education” itself can
easily be shown to be merely another profitable racket run by
know-nothings who actually don’t give a hoot whether your kids can
think for themselves, as long as they pay their tuition fees on time.
“It’s a
competitive world,” I hear parents parrot, “and we want to equip our
children with everything they need to compete successfully.”
First of all, when you have even the slightest understanding of quantum
mechanics and the concept of the superconscious plenum, you would know
that this is indeed an “observer-created” universe. Which, in plain
words, means we see what we believe – not the other way around!
In effect, if
you BELIEVE the world is “competitive” you project around yourself a
hostile, unfriendly environment... and then you pass that holographic
hell to your children as a legacy. Now, if you LOVE your kids, WHY on
earth would you want to inflict such a bleak scenario on them? After
all, the “future” is really just a bunch of different scenarios we’re
collectively scripting with our present beliefs and perceptions.
Disaster,
catastrophe, eco-apocalypse, Armageddon, and the New World Order are
only scenarios generated by the old paradigms of Darwinian survivalism
and Malthusian not-enough-to-shareism. They have absolutely no basis in
reality... never mind what the Experts say.
To become an
Expert you have to embrace and extol and perpetuate the old paradigms. However, by
consciously opting to create entirely new paradigms wherein all life
can blossom into greater joy, freedom, and limitless abundance –
without doing so at the expense of any other lifeform – you are
effectively bypassing all possibility of doomsday, futility, and
despair. Ask yourself now, isn’t that something worth putting your
energy into, rather than gossiping about other people’s sex life?