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Human Attempts at Understanding

This image shows a block with sides of different colors with puzzle pieces falling out, representing the inevitable gaps that are revealed in human understanding when we analyze, as our analytical minds tend to do, in a grasping way, in order to gain an understanding of the world. When we allow the pieces to fall away, the boundaries that exist in our minds fall away, and we are able to open to the light of understanding. The universe would be boring if the pieces fit; nothing could change. And what I believe the picture is showing is that the universe is conscious of itself. We are part of the universe, and as such we are constantly exploring and manifesting the universe as being conscious of itself. New realities, new understandings, evolve through us. Our task is to let the pieces fall away, to let go of linear thinking in order to open our minds to a solution beyond our normal mental operations. If we look at things separately and isolatedly, we can't understand. But if we use a truly conscious way of thinking, we are drawing on a larger source informed by the the workings of the unconscious,  represented by the magical-looking orb, an order in which everything is infiitely interconnected and inseparable from everything else, hence the prismatic array of light and colors. It is then that we suddenly get an understanding out of what appears to be nowhere. The orb is fluid, flexible, and reveals divine creative intelligence informed by our consciousness, whereas the pillar of separate colors is rigid and fixed.

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