[OSList] Reality Itself, self-organization, and peace

[Julie Smith]

I smiled as I read this, Don.  Adi Da spoke very beautifully about His intentional entanglement here, and His conscious disentanglement.  But the point of what you shared is the nuanced understanding of entanglement described by Karen Barad that there is no separate existence, and therefore no "joining" of "separate" entities.  Nicely said.  

And wow, "individuals do not preexist their interactions."  That reminded me of this:

Every apparently (and conditionally) arising "object" is "known" as "object" only by an apparently (and conditionally) arising "knowing-subject" (or mode of egoic "self"-identity) that (itself) arises (as "knowing-subject") only in the instant of the "known-object"--and not previous (or otherwise prior) to the "known-object."

From the essay On The Intrinsic Transcending of The Fault of Subjectivity in The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries: The Revelation of The Preliminary "Perfect Knowledge" Teachings of His Divine Presence The Divine Avataric World Teacher Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

Love,

Julie

The heart has a question. The Heart must be Satisfied. Without that Satisfaction, which is necessarily Transcendental and Spiritual in nature, there is no True Happiness.

Adi Da Samraj



On Sep 8, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Don Vande Krol wrote:

> Not only self-organized, but mutually created.  From the perspective of a quantum physicist:
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> This book is about entanglements. To be entangled is not simply to be intertwined with another, as in the joining of separate entities, but to lack an independent, self-contained existence. Existence is not an individual affair. Individuals do not preexist their interactions; rather, individuals emerge through and as part of their entangled intra-relating. Which is not to say that emergence happens once and for all, as an event or as a process that takes place according to some external measure of space and of time, but rather that time and space, like matter and meaning, come into existence, are iteratively reconfigured through each intra-action, thereby making it impossible to differentiate in any absolute sense between creation and renewal, beginning and returning, continuity and discontinuity, here and there, past and future.
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> Karen Barad. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning <BR> . Kindle Edition. 
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> Don Vande Krol
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> We are on a downward spiral as the more we become alienated from one another, the more we fear relationships, and the more fear we experience, the more we become alienated. 
> Our survival depends upon reversing the downward direction of this spiral.
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> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Julie Smith <jsmith at mosquitonet.com> wrote:
> Dear all ~
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> My inquiry into self-organization continues.  Last night I found the essay I've attached here.  It begins with this line:
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> The Self-Characteristic (or Intrinsic Self-Nature) of Reality Itself Is Self-Organizing and Acausal.
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> I thought that might be of interest to some here.  The entire essay is included in the attachment.  This essay is one of many from The Aletheon: The Divine Avataric Self-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
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> Adi Da's Teaching about what humanity must do to become truly human at all scales from personal to global is contained in Not-Two Is Peace.  In all I've encountered related to the human condition, this book is unique.  Utterly radical, and rings entirely true.  So many conversations here are about what to do and be to help the world, to participate in making humanity better, saner, happier, more human.  In this book Adi Da speaks again and again about prior unity, self-organization, everybody-all-at-once, and so much more.  Understanding Not-Two Is Peace would enrich the conversations here immensely.  (Not-Two Is Peace is written in language that is simpler and more accessible than the language used in The Aletheon.  The book is freely available online: http://www.da-peace.org/.)
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> And Harrison, intrepid leader and inspiring force, this for you:  
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> Like Sufi dervishes who raise one arm to the sky to receive God's grace and point the other arm down to earth as a symbol of giving that grace to the human world, dance for Grace.  Like the gopis in their dance around Krishna, dance the lovely circle of human love made Divine and Divine love for humankind.  Like the Paiutes in their Spirit Dance, dance as a community, dance together that all people may live in peace.  
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> Dance down the Light.
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> Adi Da Samraj
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> Love,
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> Julie
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> Avatar Adi Da Samraj:  You are going to die sometime, and you tend to think that you are not going to make a difference.  You are alive at a critical time, and what you do does make a difference.  Only people such as you can make the difference, by rising up and refusing the impulse to non-cooperation, by manifesting the principles in your Spiritual practice or in your religion in relation to all other forms of Spirituality and religion, by manifesting the principle of compassion, cooperation, love.  Manifest that in your personal life every day, or you are supporting the destructiveness that is going on all over the "world".   Spoken Communications, December 12, 1992
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