"All we communicate are metaphors—and we do this through signs that have been redefined by countless languages and generations. Yet we move throughout in a space where we believe that we understand one another. The problem is that we can never know if we understand or are understood. Although this phenomena is made most clear in the discourse of philosophers (where often the most crucial component of the argument is defining one’s terms), it is the case with all writing—from the simplest greeting, the most obscure literature, and the most psychodelic abstract painting. Communication — expressing the contents of our mind — is at the same time the most essential part of what makes us who we are and the essence of ourselves that we are furthest in our capacity to disclose in its absolute unity."
Trey Suttle, The Universal Paradox
reprinted with permission
"There is no end of horizons, no end of universes, no end of process, in the same way that there is no end to the detail of fractals in the Mandelbrot set. Let us enjoy our illusions. Let us play in our realities. Every universe is yours. Choose your beliefs with care. Love without restraint."
"Two states of mental and emotional functioning, new to the
human race, were observed in Germany about 100 years ago.
Nietzsche recognized the emergence of a new human he called
an "Uebermensch," a new, better human with personality qualities far beyond those of the ordinary
person of that time. As described by Nietzsche, this
higher, advanced person was a self-created person who was
emotionally "harder" than the average person in
part because of having synthesized many contradictory
personality dimensions. In addition, such "free
spirits" were morally stronger and easily resistant to
external social controls because of the development of
their own individual values for living.
At the same time in Germany, Kraepelin observed the
emergence of a new, spontaneously occurring mental disorder
in young people which he called "dementia
praecox." A few years later, Bleuler named the
phenomenon "schizophrenia" (a splitting apart of
the personality) to make the diagnostic term reflect the
primary symptom of the condition.
The picture drawn from the long term study of people who
are life's best survivors is similar to Nietzsche's
description. Such persons are seen as deriving their
flexibility, resiliency, and psychological strengths from
the successful assimilation of many major paradoxes into
their ways of thinking, feeling, and functioning. In
addition, people with survivor personalities are above
average in operating independently from external social
forces, in successfully defending themselves against
negative, judgmental reactions to their way of existing,
and in resisting efforts by others to control or change
them."
"We are in the age of Aquarius. The Pisces era of good verses evil is passé.We are all things, dark and light, and it is time we found balance in both."
