Copyright 2016 Don Ray
Imagine what existence would be like without fear and pain.
Imagine human behavior in the absence of fear and pain.
I ask this with a broad, broad definition of fear and pain,
including hunger, need, insecurity, loneliness, disapproval, survival, aging,
dying.
Imagine walking into a life with none of that. Imagine existence as pure consciousness,
sharing life with other elements of consciousness, and entering that life with
nothing driving you, only security
and safety and embrace and love pulling
you.
What would our existence be without something driving
us?.....without cold and wind driving architecture, without social strictures
and the need for acceptance driving our acceptable behavior, without hunger and
war driving technology.
Upon erasure of the manifold motivations derived from fear
and pain, we find remaining the distilled essence of humanity. That seems a most curious comment,
considering that most characterizations of humanity entail a long list of the
behaviors and creations associated with fear and pain. From agriculture and architecture to
zeppelins and zippers, our need for food, shelter, weapons, clothing, and
commerce drove most of our creativity.
But interspersed within the breakthroughs of plows and seed
types were creative recipes that evoked not just nutrition, but pleasurable
taste. Interstitial with development of
crenelated fortifications were soaring cathedrals. After rising into the air to drop our bombs,
we kept going, reaching into the space beyond the air. The animal furs and armor eventually laid a
foundation for the sartorial arts.
There we see
humanity! There we see the children of the Source and Creator!
Perhaps the terrible transit from Garden to Kingdom has to
pass through this realm of fear and pain in order to ignite the spark that
defines “human” and “higher than the angels”.
But once ignited, once Love and individual human spirit are given birth,
then the fear and pain, and the resulting scars and injury that hide that human
spirit, can be discarded and left behind, following the example of the
butterfly, soaring skyward, no longer encased in worldly restrictions.
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