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Series: Layers & Levels Introduction

The following series will gradually explore an idea which has been steadily emerging of late namely that experience, aka ‘reality’, is never really just one thing, rather many things at once. This is not an especially original or earth-shaking notion, but it keeps coming up because so often people express opinions or make plans as if it were not the case, that reality all happens on one level, that there is one single, definable, perceivable, understandable reality without different layers and levels.

Article 67 The King’s Two Bodies

In the age of monarchy, kings justified their right to rule through some form of the argument that they were simply born to do so. A king was not just an ordinary human, but in some sense a vessel for a divine principle of sorts. As such, there exists cases in medieval jurisprudence where the legal issue at stake was whether the king in his human form or his metaphysical form had signed a particular contract.

Article 66: Tethered to Form

Now – and more importantly – look at what happens to our minds when using terms like yin and yang. Our minds immediately want to make them into something definite, tangible, measurable even though in our mountain example they are changing from moment to moment and in any case aren’t really measurable things at all, rather relationships.

Article 60: Promoting Goodness as over-arching Intention.

SUMMARY: You are procrastinating. Your conscience demands things be acted on and the hour is growing late. Don’t find excuses to keep you from speaking and acting as you should. Now is the time to channel your righteous indignation into creative acts that touch others’ hearts. Rage not against injustices done to you, but against the injustices done to others. The momentum is with you.